Pile driver barge, with ships at anchor behind. At right, steam schooners "Bowdoin" and "Wellesley", home port for both was San Francisco. Both Bowdoin and Wellesley were built in 1907 in Prosper, Oregon, and in 1912 Bowdoin's owner was the Bowdoin Co. and Wellesley's was the Wellesley Co. (W.G. Tibbits). Both were active in West Coast lumber shipping. Both had compound engines and a lumber capacity of 750,000 (Wellesley) and 800,000 feet (Bowdoin). The Bowdoin was wrecked November 6, 1917, on False Cape, Nicaragua. In 1920 the Wellesley was sold to the Mexican Fruit & Steamship Co., New Orleans, but in 1925 came back to San Francisco under the ownership of J.R. Hanify. She was laid up at San Francisco in August, 1928, and was still at Sausalito in 1941. See wnp71.0342 [G810 SH-590] (GGNRA