Out & About San Diego with Jim Frimmer, Your Mission Valley Realtor — Sail with Juan Cabrillo on his 1542 flagship, the "San Salvador"

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Sail with Juan Cabrillo
on his 1542 flagship, the San Salvador

You can't really sail on the San Salvador since Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo is not alive (he died in 1543), and the ship doesn't exist anymore, having met its fate several centuries ago. However, you can watch the San Diego Maritime Museum build a replica of this 200-ton ship from the sixteenth century.

A team of historians and naval architects have spent more than a year coming up with the renderings necessary to start building the ship. They did not have the benefit of drawings or archaeological findings to indicate what a sixteenth century galleon might look like, so the ship will be based soley on what those historians and naval architects think it might have looked like.

Cabrillo was a noted Portuguese explorer although he explored the western part of North America for Spain in 1542. He died about a few months after discovering San Diego Bay in September 1542. None of his journals from the expedition survive.

The San Salvador will be built right here in San Diego Bay at Spanish Landing Park on North Harbor Drive:

Visitors will be able to visit the building site with their paid admission to the San Diego Maritime Museum, which is located in downtown San Diego and includes many ships from the past, including the Star of India, which is both the second oldest ship that still sails regularly (twice a year) and the oldest iron hulled merchant ship still floating on the waters. When the San Salvador is completed, expected to be sometime in 2012, perhaps it will be the flagship of San Diego!

Also located at the San Diego Maritime Museum are these historic ships:

• the Berkeley, an 1898 ferryboat that plied the waters in San Franciso bay.
• the Californian, built in 1984 and currently the official tall ship of the State of California; a replica of the C.W. Lawrence, an 1847 cutter.
• the Medea, a 1904 steam yacht that served in both World Wars.
• the Pilot, a 1914 harbor pilot boat.
• the HMS Surprise, a replica built in 1970 of a Royal Navy frigate and the ship used in the movie, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
• the B-39, a Soviet Foxtrot-class submarine.
• the USS Dolphin, a 1968 diesel-electric submarine that was decommissioned in 2007.

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