3.0 Sources Consulted

WSA conducted an extensive literature and records search, and reviewed the side scan sonar and sub-bottom profile records obtained during the project’s geophysical investigation (Sea Surveyor, Inc. 2001) to assess the potential for shipwreck remains and other submerged cultural resources in the vicinity of the five survey areas.  Records and literature searches were conducted at repositories and local archives within the greater Bay Area.  These include the National Archives, Pacific Sierra Region; the San Francisco History Center of the San Francisco Public Library; the J. Porter Shaw Maritime Library; the Oakland Public Library; the Bancroft Library and the Doe Library of the University of California; the California Shipwreck Inventory (CSI) of the California State Lands Commission; the CSI records that have been updated by the Institute for Western Maritime Archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Automated Wreck and Obstruction Information System (AWOIS) of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. 

 In addition, Wreck Reports of the San Francisco Customs Office retained in the National Archives in Washington, D.C. were consulted through staff contact by phone and mail, and historic maps and nautical charts were consulted at the University of California at Berkeley’s Historic Map Center.  Both the U.S. Coast Guard station in San Francisco, and the San Francisco Port Authority were also contacted in an effort to identify one of the remote sensing targets.  This report presents the results and conclusions of the maritime archaeological research and the remote sensing surveys that were conducted on the project’s behalf.