Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in San Diego, United States

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Number of sights 8 sights
Distance 2.3 km
Ascend 64 m
Descend 4 m

Experience San Diego in United States in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Individual Sights in San Diego

Sight 1: Californian

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Californian

Californian is a 1984 replica of the United States Revenue Marine cutter Lawrence, which operated off the coast of California in the 1850s. On July 23, 2003, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Bill No. 965, making her the "official state tall ship" of California.

Wikipedia: Californian (schooner) (EN)

47 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 2: San Salvador

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San Salvador

San Salvador was the flagship of explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo. She was a 100-foot (30 m) full-rigged galleon with 10-foot (3.0 m) draft and capacity of 200 tons. She carried officers, crew, and a priest.

Wikipedia: San Salvador (Cabrillo's ship) (EN)

42 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: Medea

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Medea P. Alejandro Diaz (Intersofia) / CC BY-SA 2.5

The Medea is a 1904 steam yacht preserved in the Maritime Museum of San Diego, United States. Named after Medea, the wife of Jason, she was built in a record 51 days on the Clyde at Alexander Stephen and Sons shipyard at Linthouse by John Stephen for William Macalister Hall of Torrisdale Castle, Scotland.

Wikipedia: Medea (yacht) (EN)

21 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 4: Berkeley

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Berkeley was one of several ferryboats of the Southern Pacific Railroad that for sixty years operated on San Francisco Bay between the Oakland Pier and the San Francisco Ferry Building. Built in 1898 by the Union Iron Works of San Francisco, she served after the 1906 earthquake, ferrying refugees across the bay to Oakland.

Wikipedia: Berkeley (ferryboat) (EN)

22 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 5: USS Dolphin

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USS Dolphin

USS Dolphin (AGSS-555) was a United States Navy diesel-electric deep-diving research and development submarine. She was commissioned in 1968 and decommissioned in 2007. Her 38-year career was the longest in history for a US Navy submarine to that point. She was the Navy's last operational conventionally powered submarine.

Wikipedia: USS Dolphin (AGSS-555) (EN)

81 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: HMS Surprise

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HMS Surprise is a modern tall ship built at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada. The vessel was built in 1970 as HMS Rose to a Phil Bolger design based on the original 18th-century British Admiralty drawings of HMS Rose, a 20-gun sixth-rate post ship from 1757.

Wikipedia: HMS Surprise (replica ship) (EN)

94 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Star of India

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Star of India is an iron-hulled sailing ship, built in 1863 in Ramsey, Isle of Man as the full-rigged ship Euterpe. After a career sailing from Great Britain to India and New Zealand, she was renamed, re-rigged as a barque, and became a salmon hauler on the Alaska to California route. Retired in 1926, she was restored as a seaworthy museum ship in 1962–3 and home-ported at the Maritime Museum of San Diego in San Diego, California. She is the oldest ship still sailing regularly and also the oldest iron-hulled merchant ship still afloat. The ship is both a California Historical Landmark and United States National Historic Landmark.

Wikipedia: Star of India (ship) (EN), Website

1952 meters / 23 minutes

Sight 8: Waldo Waterman Monument

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This is a List of San Diego Historic Landmarks. In 1967, the City of San Diego established a Historical Resources Board with the authority to designate and protect landmarks from inappropriate alterations. In total, the city has designated more than 1,000 structures or other properties as Historic Landmarks. Many of the properties have also received recognition at the federal level by inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places or by designation as National Historic Landmarks.

Wikipedia: List of San Diego Historic Landmarks (EN), Website

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