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Cruises from San Francisco

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Table Of Content History of the Embarcadero Seawall Learn About California Academy of Sciences Museum, Savings and More Welcome to the Waterfront Port of San Francisco Fisherman’s Wharf It is the same location where Russian ships anchored to load supplies of meat and grain. Early European visitors were the British Raccoon in 1814 and the French frigate Artemise in 1839. The sloop USS St. Louis, which arrived in 1840, was the first warship to fly the American flag in San Francisco Bay. Yerba Buena Cove swept inland from the subsequently named Clarke's Point to as far as Montgomery Street to the west, and further south and east to Rincon Point at the south of Market area at the foot of Folsom and Spear streets. Located at Pier 15 is one of the area's many museums, The Exploratorium, a hands-on science and human perception museum where you can tinker, touch and play with hundreds of exhibits in the science, technology and arts realms. You can step inside a tornado, turn upside...