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34-833: (Redirected from Sherman Apartments ) The Sherman may refer to: The Sherman, a ship and restaurant, formerly the Army ferry USAT  General Frank M. Coxe , in San Francisco, California The Sherman (Batesville, Indiana) , a hotel on the National Registry of the Historic Hotels of America The Sherman (Omaha, Nebraska) , a historic building in Omaha, Nebraska See also [ edit ] Sherman House (disambiguation) Sherman Historic District (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

68-561: A mission and a presidio . To protect against encroachment by the British and Russians, Spain selected Punta del Cantil Blanco , a promontory with a high white cliff ( cantil blanco ) located at the narrowest part of the bay's entrance, to construct a fortification. The Castillo de San Joaquín was constructed in 1794, subordinate to the nearby Presidio de San Francisco. It was an adobe structure housing nine to thirteen cannons. Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821, gaining control of

102-483: A regular service between Fort Mason , on the north coast of the San Francisco peninsula, and Fort McDowell on Angel Island, with periodic stops at Alcatraz. The Alcatraz service continued after the Army relinquished control to the Federal Prison Bureau in the mid-1930s. Alcatraz Prison almost lost one of its boarders when John K. Giles , aged 50, a mail robber and four-time convict, stole an army uniform from

136-658: Is a masonry seacoast fortification located on the southern side of the Golden Gate at the entrance to San Francisco Bay . It is also the geographic name of the promontory upon which the fort and the southern approach of the Golden Gate Bridge were constructed. The fort was completed just before the American Civil War by the United States Army , to defend San Francisco Bay against hostile warships. The fort

170-563: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages USAT General Frank M. Coxe The 144-foot (44 m) ship's keel was laid on July 16, 1921, launched March 3, 1922, and delivered December 1, 1922, to the War Department by Charles Ward Engineering Works. Coxe and sister-ship USAT  General John McE. Hyde were designed and built shortly after World War I to ferry army personnel to island bases in strategic harbors, in answer to

204-615: Is now protected as Fort Point National Historic Site , a United States National Historic Site administered by the National Park Service as a unit of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area . It is now popular as a tourist viewing point of the Golden Gate Bridge directly over top of it. In 1769 Spain occupied the San Francisco area and by 1776 had established the area's first European settlement, with

238-763: The Coxe was bought by the Golden Gate Scenic Steamship Line, which now operate the Red & White Fleet of ferry and tour boats on San Francisco Bay. The Coxe operated as the SS Frank M. Coxe as a local cruise ship and tour ferry until the 1950s. After retiring as an active vessel, the Coxe was converted to a floating restaurant called the Showboat in Stockton, California . The restaurant went through several leases and

272-654: The General Frank M. Coxe was a vacant hulk, until local restaurateurs bought the ship from Mr. Robert Sherman, where it remained berthed in San Francisco Bay in Burlingame, California , just south of San Francisco International Airport . The new owners obtained an extended lease from the City of Burlingame and renovated the vessel. The name of the vessel was changed from the General Frank M. Coxe to The Sherman in honor of

306-411: The 1930s called for the fort's removal, but Chief Engineer Joseph Strauss redesigned the bridge to save the fort. "While the old fort has no military value now," Strauss said, "it remains nevertheless a fine example of the mason's art.... It should be preserved and restored as a national monument." The fort is situated directly below the southern approach to the bridge, underneath an arch that supports

340-697: The San Francisco Port of Embarkation, became a critical processing center of the for US troops heading to the Pacific theater of battle with U.S. entry into World War II . The early troop processing was substantially divided between Fort McDowell and Fort Mason, and despite the new bridges and highways, ships and ferries were the only connection between the locations. During World War II, the Coxe made as many as eight scheduled trips per day between Fort McDowell and Fort Mason. After activation in May 1942 of Camp Stoneman ,

374-586: The Stockton Marina. The Sherman was towed to Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, CA and broken up for scrap. The work was completed on January 10, 2020. 37°35′30″N 122°20′18″W  /  37.591677°N 122.338267°W  / 37.591677; -122.338267 Fort Point, San Francisco Fort Point , known historically as the Castillo de San Joaquín ( Spanish for "Saint Joachim 's Castle")

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408-529: The anti-submarine net that spanned the Golden Gate. New quarters and administrative buildings were constructed on the higher ground, behind the new Endicott batteries, moving Fort Scott to this location. In 1926 the American Institute of Architects proposed preserving the fort for its outstanding military architecture. Funds were unavailable, and the ideas languished. Plans for the Golden Gate Bridge in

442-520: The area, which was recognized as commercially and strategically valuable to the United States. Military officials soon recommended a series of fortifications to secure San Francisco Bay. Coastal defenses were built at Alcatraz Island , Fort Mason , and Fort Point. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began work on Fort Point in 1853. Plans specified that the lowest tier of artillery be as close as possible to water level so cannonballs could ricochet across

476-515: The cannons. Sometime during the Spanish and Mexican eras, the Punta del Cantil Blanco came to be known as the "Punta del Castillo" ("Castle Point"), which was carried over into the era of U.S. sovereignty, in rough translation, as "Fort Point". Following the United States' victory in 1848, California was annexed by the U.S. and became a state in 1850. The gold rush of 1849 had caused rapid settlement of

510-476: The elements. In 1869 a granite seawall was completed. The following year, some of the fort's cannon were moved to Battery East on the bluffs nearby, where they were more protected. In 1882 Fort Point was officially named Fort Winfield Scott after the hero of the war against Mexico. in 1886, it reverted back to its original Fort Point name with the establishment of a new fort within the Presidio of San Francisco that

544-569: The first troops to the fort. Kentucky-born Johnston then resigned his commission to join the Confederate Army ; he was killed at the Battle of Shiloh in 1862. Throughout the Civil War, artillerymen at Fort Point stood guard for an enemy that never came. The Confederate raider CSS Shenandoah planned to attack San Francisco, but on the way to the harbor the captain learned that the war was over; it

578-493: The increasing military importance of the Pacific ports. Prior to the availability of the current system of bridges and highways in San Francisco Bay, mobility on the water was critical. It is estimated that the General Frank M. Coxe carried six million passengers during her military service. The Coxe was not a navy ship; it was among the thousands of vessels owned and operated by the US Army for specific logistical purposes. It

612-466: The largest troop staging area on the west coast, Fort McDowell continued as a center for processing unassigned enlisted personnel and prisoner of war camp. After satisfying the exigencies of the war, Fort McDowell was eventually phased-out after World War II, and was closed as a processing center prior to the Korean War . By 1947 the Coxe was obsolete and was decommissioned. After her military service

646-556: The only one on the West Coast. In 1854 Inspector General Joseph K. Mansfield declared "this point as the key to the whole Pacific Coast...and it should receive untiring exertions". A crew of 200, many unemployed miners, labored for eight years on the fort. In 1861, with war looming, the army mounted the fort's first cannon. Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston , commander of the Department of the Pacific, prepared Bay Area defenses and ordered in

680-457: The previous owner, and then was operated as a restaurant of that name. In 2008, the owner had taken out a loan to repair her, but the loan defaulted and The Sherman went into foreclosure. The State Lands Commission, who owns the land The Sherman rested upon, asked for the vessel to be moved. On Sunday, June 15, 2014, The Sherman / Coxe was removed from her location in Burlingame and towed to

714-400: The prison break. Giles was returned to Alcatraz to serve-out his sentence. There was some controversy over whether this constituted a successful escape and a recapture, or a foiled plan. Officially, Alcatraz retained its perfect record as "escape proof" until it closed in the mid-1960s, since it was assumed that all other missing prisoners had drowned. Fort McDowell, after 1932 a facility of

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748-463: The prison laundry and jumped aboard the Coxe just before she departed for Angel Island. Although a count of both the soldiers on the Coxe and the prisoners working on the docks alerted the authorities to an escape, an error in communication and forged documents allowed Giles to land at Fort McDowell. However, a discrepancy in his uniform brought him to the attention of an officer, who then recognized his forged documents and arrested him not knowing of

782-573: The region and the fort, but in 1835 the Mexican army moved to Sonoma leaving the castillo's adobe walls to crumble in the wind and rain. On July 1, 1846, after the Mexican–American War broke out between Mexico and the United States, U.S. forces, including Captain John Charles Fremont , Kit Carson and a band of 10 followers, captured and occupied the empty castillo and spiked (disabled)

816-694: The rivers which bisected the region from San Jose to the Sacramento River Delta. However, this region was heavily populated by the Army personnel who garrisoned and maintained the ring of fortresses and ancillary facilities from Fort Point and Fort Cronkite at the mouth of the Bay, to the Benicia Arsenal at the mouth of the Delta. There were two island fortresses: Fort McDowell ( Angel Island ) and Alcatraz , with each of these becoming special purpose facilities by

850-441: The roadway. Preservation efforts were revived after World War II . On October 16, 1970, President Richard Nixon signed a bill creating Fort Point National Historic Site. Fort Point is designated as California Historical Landmark #82, officially listed under the site's original name, Castillo De San Joaquín. The rocky point north of the fort produces waves, in the winter months, that are popular with surfers. Fort Point

884-419: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Sherman . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Sherman&oldid=1212804645 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

918-446: The time of the Coxe . By the 1920s, Angel Island and Alcatraz were considered obsolete as artillery positions, with their purposes supplanted by larger coastal guns and extensive electronic mines as the primary coastal defenses. As aircraft developed, these also became irrelevant. Angel Island developed as a processing center for inductees and recruits, and Alcatraz developed into a maximum security military prison. The Coxe provided

952-455: The water's surface to hit enemy ships at the water-line. Workers blasted the 90-foot (27 m) cliff down to 15 feet (4.6 m) above sea level. The structure featured seven-foot-thick walls and multi-tiered casemated construction typical of Third System forts. It was sited to defend the maximum amount of harbor area. While there were more than 30 such forts on the East Coast, Fort Point was

986-594: Was August 1865, months after General Lee surrendered . Severe damage to similar forts on the Atlantic Coast during the war – Fort Sumter in South Carolina and Fort Pulaski in Georgia – challenged the effectiveness of masonry walls against rifled artillery. Troops soon moved out of Fort Point, and it was never again continuously occupied by the army. The fort was nonetheless important enough to receive protection from

1020-645: Was designed by the New York firm of Cox & Stevens , who were renowned Naval Architects specializing in yachts and small commercial and military craft. The Coxe was built in 1922, along with the General John McE. Hyde (built 1921), to Cox & Stevens design #244 by Charles Ward Engineering Works of Charleston, West Virginia , located on the Kanawha River , a firm which specialized in shallow draft vessels such as ferries, riverboats, and tugs. (The Hyde

1054-518: Was operated under several names in various locations. At one point it was a dance club catering to the “under 21” patrons. In the 1960s and 1970s it was berthed at Jack London Square in Oakland, California , and then moved to Burlingame, California and operated as the Pattaya Princess, a Thai restaurant, in the 1970s and 1980s, closing in 1990. From the closing of the Pattaya Princess until 2006,

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1088-456: Was sunk by Japanese artillery at Corregidor on April 15, 1942, during World War II.) The Coxe was an active military vessel on San Francisco Bay from the 1922 to 1947, being decommissioned and sold for surplus in 1947 after the end of World War II. Prior to the building of the Golden Gate and Bay bridges in the mid-1930s, ground transportation in the Bay Area was hampered by the Bay and

1122-404: Was then named Fort Winfield Scott. In 1892, the army began constructing the new Endicott System concrete fortifications armed with steel, breech-loading rifled guns. Within eight years, all 103 of the smooth-bore cannons at Fort Point had been dismounted and sold for scrap. The fort, moderately damaged in the 1906 earthquake , where the fort was used as a temporary refugee camp by the U.S. Army,

1156-468: Was used over the next four decades for barracks , training, and storage, however, in 1913, part of the interior wall was removed by the army in their short-lived attempt to make the fort the army detention barracks using soldier and prisoner labor . The detention barracks were later built on Alcatraz Island and was used until becoming a federal prison. Soldiers from the 6th U.S. Coast Artillery were stationed there during World War II to guard minefields and

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