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55-724: The Coast Guard unveiled the system in February 2005 at the Coast Guard Integrated Support Command in San Pedro, California . The Ship Protection System ( SPS ) is a ship-based underwater threat detection system manufactured by FarSounder, Inc. Based on FarSounder's 3D forward looking sonar, their SPS offers 360° coverage of underwater threats to vessels at anchor or at dock. This is a commercial product suitable for mega yachts. SAES has developed an active diver detection sonar DDS-03 that has been specifically designed for

110-535: A four-year degree in 2000, about average when compared with the city and the county at large, and the percentage of those residents with more than a high school diploma was high for the county. San Pedro is served by the Los Angeles Unified School District . The area is within Board District 7. As of 2023, Tanya Ortiz Franklin represents the district. San Pedro High School , Mary Star of

165-468: A major waterfront food hall and park under development, slated to open in 2024. Warehouse 1, the largest warehouse west of Chicago at the time it was built in 1917, is now a California State Historical Landmark, while a historic naval warehouse built in 1944 houses Crafted at the Port of Los Angeles , a permanent craft marketplace. The Frank Gehry –designed Cabrillo Marine Aquarium had its origins in

220-521: A major city in Southern California. San Pedro was a township in the 1860 census. The township consisted of the present-day South Bay communities, Compton and western Long Beach . Census records report a population of 359 in 1860. The township was renamed Wilmington Township for 1870. In 1906, the city of Los Angeles annexed the Harbor Gateway , a long, narrow strip of land connecting

275-404: A particular wealthy village — a location eventually to be referred to by later settlers as Malibu — that he named it pueblo de las canoas or "town of canoes." Another explorer recorded the brotherhood doing boat carpentry in another village, and named it Carpinteria . Some scholars report that sewn plank technology may have been introduced by early Polynesian navigators sometime late in

330-649: A sub-base of Los Angeles Air Force Base , serves as privatized housing and an administrative annex for Department of Defense service members and dependents under the management of Tierra Vista Communities. The United States Coast Guard 's Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach is based at Coast Guard Base LA/LB on Terminal Island in San Pedro. Base LA/LB is home to many tenant commands including Aids to Navigation Team LA/LB , Maritime Safety and Security Team 91103 , Port Security Unit 311 , CGIS Pacific Region DET , CG Motion Picture Office, 4 Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutters,

385-433: A vibrant Japanese immigrant community of about 3,000 people who lived in what had been described as a "typical Japanese Fishing Village" on Terminal Island (East San Pedro). These Japanese immigrants pioneered albacore fishing out of San Pedro Bay and harvesting abalone off White Point, thus leading the way in establishing a viable fishing industry in San Pedro. The 48-hour forced expulsion of these San Pedro residents and

440-506: Is a United States Coast Guard underwater anti-diver ultrasound weapons system. IAS includes:- It can track underwater objects, similarly to an air traffic control radar . Like other systems, such as the Cerberus or DDS-03 are semi-intelligent and can distinguish humans from marine animals, partly because of their different shapes and typical movements underwater. This is not impeded by darkness or fog or low underwater visibility , and

495-399: Is a great improvement on scanning the water surface by eye from above. Various test attempts by MSST divers to trick the system did not work. In most cases the detected diver would be warned by the underwater loudspeaker; after that, the shockwave emitter would be fired once as a warning, before it is fired to stun or kill. (There is no discussion of other conceivable situations, such as where

550-566: Is a neighborhood located within the South Bay and Harbor region of the city of Los Angeles, California , United States. Formerly a separate city, it consolidated with Los Angeles in 1909. The Port of Los Angeles , a major international seaport, is partially located within San Pedro. The district has grown from being dominated by the fishing industry, to a working-class community within the city of Los Angeles, to an increasingly dense and diverse community. The peninsula, including all of San Pedro,

605-534: Is a public charter high school, fusing a college preparatory program with elective coursework in International Business and Maritime Studies. Such studies reinforce the significant impact of California's ports on the global economy and international trade. As of 2012, test scores tended to be higher in the area's elementary schools than in its middle and high schools. Under certain specific circumstances, residents of San Pedro may be admitted into schools in

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660-559: Is a system manufactured by CodaOctopus and consists of the unique Echoscope Real Time 3D Sonar that is used to scan the underwater environment in zero visibility waters. The UIS system can be mounted on a small boat to scan harbor walls, piers, bridges for an underwater threat and can be used to complement long range diver detection systems by classifying the threat in 3D in real time. The same system can be mounted on remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to create 3D ship hull scans detecting small mine size objects. The Integrated Anti-Swimmer System

715-453: Is considered highly diverse ethnically, with a diversity index of 63.0. In 2000, whites made up 44.2% of the population, Latinos were at 40.8%, blacks at 6.1%, Asians at 4.8% and others at 4.1%. Mexico and Italy were the most common places of birth for the 24.5% of the residents who were born abroad, considered a low percentage of foreign-born when compared with the city as a whole. The $ 57,508 median household income in 2008 dollars

770-404: Is that each pull of the oar is a prayer. And this year, I prayed for my loved ones, as well as everyone else in this world. I prayed for strength and healing for all people, wherever they may be on their path in life. Historically, we are water people and our medicine for the world can be found in the sacred and life-sustaining power of water." Cindi Alvitre, co-founder of Ti'at Society, described

825-593: Is the Battleship Iowa museum and attraction, the Los Angeles Maritime Museum (the largest maritime museum in California), and the museum ship SS Lane Victory (a fully operational Victory ship of World War II and National Historic Landmark ). Ports O' Call Village , a tourist destination, which provided shopping venues, waterfront eateries, was demolished in 2019 to make way for West Harbor ,

880-515: The Dalmatia (especially the islands of Brač , Hvar , Vis and Korčula ) region, has been present in San Pedro since the settlement began more than 200 years ago. The City of Los Angeles even named a stretch of 9th Street "Croatian Place" in honor of the city's old Croatian community. The Norwegian presence can be felt at the Norwegian Seamen's Church . Until February 1942, San Pedro was home to

935-663: The Emergency Shipbuilding Program , including the SS Lane Victory , now a designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark museum ship in San Pedro. The neighborhood is bordered to the north by the fellow Los Angeles City neighborhood of Harbor City and the city of Torrance , to the east by the Los Angeles City neighborhood of Wilmington and the city of Long Beach , to the south by the Pacific Ocean , and to

990-465: The Hawaiian Islands to deter Japanese aggression until the attack on Pearl Harbor . The fleet post office , supply depot, fuel depot, degaussing range, ECM repair facility, and naval training schools for small craft, fire fighters, merchant ship communications, and anti-submarine attack remained at San Pedro through World War II; but the battle fleet never returned. San Pedro was selected as

1045-953: The LADOT DASH San Pedro line travels up and down Western, and the LADOT Commuter Express travels west to Downtown Long Beach. Line 950 of the Los Angeles Metro Busway 's J Line terminates in downtown San Pedro. The line runs north to Downtown Los Angeles following the Harbor Freeway (I-110) and Harbor Transitway before following the El Monte Busway along the San Bernardino Freeway (I-10) east to its northeastern terminus in El Monte . Heading south from Harbor Beacon Park & Ride along Beacon Street,

1100-487: The Pacific Northwest and Caribbean . The boats could take up to 500 days to be constructed by an experienced boatmaker. Tomols are propelled with kayak-like paddles with the user in a crouching position, unlike kayaks where sitting is the norm. They are highly maneuverable. Eva Pagaling ( Santa Ynez Chumash ) described the process of paddling in 2018: "During the crossing, a deep memory that’s shared among paddlers

1155-597: The Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District located in the neighboring Palos Verdes Peninsula ; specifically they may attend Miraleste Intermediate School and Palos Verdes High School . This admittance is only granted if a student's parent or guardian is enlisted in the US military , has a parent or guardian employed within the Palos Verdes Peninsula, has a grandparent residing within

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1210-760: The Spanish Crown deeded Rancho San Pedro , a tract of over 75,000 acres (300 km ), to retired soldier Juan José Domínguez, who helped explore California with the Portolá expedition in 1769–1770. Rancho San Pedro was the first land grant in the Alta California portion of the Province of Las Californias in New Spain . When New Spain won its independence from the Spanish Empire and Alta California became part of Mexico,

1265-590: The USCGC Argus Offshore Patrol Cutter, USCGC George Cobb Coastal Buoy Tender, CG Boat Station LA/LB, as well as supporting marine units of U.S. Customs and Border Protection , Los Angeles County Lifeguards , and LA Sheriffs . The Federal Bureau of Prisons operates the Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island on Terminal Island and in San Pedro. Just 23.8% of San Pedro residents aged 25 or older had completed

1320-411: The first millennium , who had constructed sewn plank boats and had been known to have reached South America . Scholars state that "three native Californian boat terms are argued to be Polynesian loans: Chumashan tomol(o) , and Gabrielino tarainxa (or taraina ) and ti?at ." Some modern Chumash and Tongva/Kizh state that “this is something we have always known happened." This was further explained in

1375-886: The tomol as the "House of the Sea" for their reliability. Double-bladed kayak -like paddles are used to propel the boat through the ocean. Some sources suggest the boats may have origins at Catalina Island and have been in use for thousands of years. Others suggest an origin on the Northern Channel Islands during the first millennium CE. The tomol has been described as "the single most technologically complex watercraft built in North America" and as being unique to "the New World ." The boats are still constructed by Chumash, Tongva/Kizh, and Acjachemen people today. Tomols were preferably built out of redwood that had drifted down

1430-585: The Pacific Coast and beyond aboard cruise lines such as Royal Caribbean and Crystal Cruises , as well as a ferry to Catalina Island via the Catalina Express . San Pedro anchors the southern end of Los Angeles City Council District 15 , which has long been represented only by residents of San Pedro. The neighborhood, according to the Los Angeles Times, "despite accounting for less than one-third of

1485-494: The Palos Verdes Peninsula, or if the student simply lives in a closer vicinity to a PVPUSD school than any other LAUSD schools. Private schools in San Pedro include: The Los Angeles Public Library operates the San Pedro Regional Branch Library at 931 South Gaffey Street. The late Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley attended its opening in 1983. San Pedro News-Pilot , a newspaper, closed in 1998. San Pedro

1540-643: The San Pedro Bay in 1542. Santa Catalina Island , named after Catherine of Alexandria , was claimed for the Spanish Empire the next day, on her feast day, November 25. In 1602–1603, Sebastián Vizcaíno (1548–1624) officially surveyed and mapped the California coastline, including San Pedro Bay, for New Spain . The anglicized pronunciation is "san-PEE-dro". European settlement began in 1769 as part of an effort to populate California, although trade restrictions encouraged more smuggling than regular business. In 1784,

1595-407: The Sea is a prominent landmark with a steeple-top statue overlooking the harbor. On 28th Street, between Gaffey Street and Peck Avenue, is a steep section of public roadway. For about 50 feet (15 m), the street climbs at a 33.3% angle, although the rest of the street is less steep. Ethnically diverse San Pedro was a magnet for European immigrants from various countries for years, reflected in

1650-585: The Sea High School , and the Port of Los Angeles High School are the primary high schools within the region. San Pedro High School is home to the protected landmarks in the form of The English Language Arts and Administration Buildings (c. 1939, 1936, resp.). The school celebrated its 100-year anniversary in 2003. It is home to both the Marine Science and Police Academy Magnet programs. Port of Los Angeles High School

1705-519: The Tongva today and retain a cultural significance. First contact with Europeans occurred in 1542 with Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo , the Spanish explorer who noted the extensive presence of the plank boats of the neighboring Chumash . San Pedro was named for St. Peter of Alexandria , as his feast day is November 24 on the ecclesiastical calendar of Spain, the day on which Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo discovered

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1760-499: The boat and functioned as a seat. Another coat of 'yop' was used to waterproof the boat, followed by a coat of red ochre paint , followed by a final coat of sealant . Shell mosaics were often added as decorations. This style of boat is unique in the Americas, though researcher Yorem Meroz notes that a simpler plank boat is found in Chile and strakes were sewn onto dugout boat bases in

1815-426: The boat in 2019 as "a vessel that allows humans to connect to the underworld." According to an Indigenous worldview, as Alvitre describes: "You have the underworld, which is watery existence, those deities that live underneath the ocean in their caves, the middle world, that's the existence of human beings, to the upper world, that's ancestral space. The ti'at is like an observation point, it's like you're hovering over

1870-539: The city to the northern border of Wilmington , and in 1909, the larger city consolidated with Wilmington and with San Pedro. In 1929, the city experienced the Sunken City Disaster , where an earthquake caused multiple homes to slide off a cliff into the sea. In 1888, the War Department took control of a tract of land next to the bay and added to it in 1897 and 1910. This became Fort MacArthur in 1914 and

1925-480: The coast. When supplies of redwood were lacking, local native pine was used. When splitting the wood with whalebone or antler wedges the crafters would seek straight planks without knotholes, then sand them with sharkskin. To bind the wood together, small holes were drilled in the planks so they could be lashed to one another. Finally, the seams were caulked with 'yop', a mixture of hard tar and pine pitch melted and then boiled. A crossplank at midship reinforced

1980-401: The detection of underwater threats such as divers and crewed and uncrewed underwater vehicles (SDV, ROV or UUV), offering protection and surveillance to counter the threat of underwater attacks against harbours, critical facilities, ships, offshore platforms, coastal power plants, shipwrecks, environmentally protected areas and maritime special events. The Underwater Inspection System ( UIS )

2035-610: The district's population has enjoyed outsize influence as the district's traditional base of political power." The United States Postal Service operates the San Pedro Post Office at 839 South Beacon Street and the Eastview Post Office at 28649 South Western Avenue. The USPS also operates the Seafarers Post Office at Suite A at 93 Berth in close proximity to the San Pedro Post Office. Fort MacArthur , now

2090-596: The diver has a pre-existing hearing impairment and/or where the diver merely mistakes the shockwave as originating for some other reason completely unrelated to port security.) Other Anti-Swimmer-based systems that have been invented, instead of shock-waves, use sound-waves which 'disrupt' the diver causing sickness and disorientation. This technique is considered non-lethal and has been developed using an array of underwater speakers. San Pedro, California San Pedro ( / s æ n ˈ p iː d r oʊ / san PEE -droh ; Spanish for ' Saint Peter ')

2145-637: The final home port of the battleship USS  Iowa  (BB-61) . The Iowa now serves as a museum ship and memorial recognizing "the positive contributions of this battleship and its crew at critical moments in American history". Additionally, the United States Maritime Commission commissioned private San Pedro and Long Beach shipbuilders such as the Calship to build attack transports , Liberty ships, and Victory ships during World War II under

2200-577: The generation from senior craftsman to apprentice . Only male members of leading families were allowed to own tomol . Grizzly or black bearskin identified the owners. When carefully maintained, the boats could last for decades and were passed down from one generation to the next. By 650 A.D., it is believed the tomol or te'aat was already of central importance to the Chumash and Tongva/Kizh respectively. In 1542, Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo recorded that he saw so many tomols hauled up at

2255-596: The heavens of the underworld and being able to still have that connection to that ancestral space, to the stars, to the Milky Way ." Tomols were an integral part of a widespread trading network between tribes who lived at what is now referred to as Point Conception , Santa Monica Bay , and the Channel Islands . There were designated shipping routes and signal fires were utilized on the land were used as aides for navigation. Most trade occurred between what are now two of

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2310-514: The largest trading ports, Los Angeles and Long Beach , which was about a day's paddle. The use of plank canoes would have been critical for reaching the most outlying Channel Islands including San Nicolas and San Clemente. Tomols were so useful as to give rise to a new class in Chumash society: a guild known as the 'Brotherhood of the Canoe' which was "responsible for the construction of each new tomol, its boat-building knowledge handed down through

2365-409: The line turns west along First Street, then south along Pacific Avenue down to its southern terminus at 21st Street. Heading back north, the line turns west on 22nd Street, north on Gaffey Street, and finally east onto 19th Street before once again meeting Pacific Avenue and turning north. Downtown San Pedro stops include: The Port of Los Angeles is a seaport located in San Pedro Bay and together with

2420-588: The nearby Channel Islands of California . The heavy cruisers of the Scouting Force were transferred from the Atlantic to San Pedro in response to the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria . By 1934, 14 battleships, two aircraft carriers , 14 cruisers, and 16 support ships were based at San Pedro. On April 1, 1940, the Pacific Fleet battleships sailed to Hawaii for annual fleet exercises. The battleships remained in

2475-564: The neighboring Port of Long Beach, is promoted as "America's Port" and consistently ranked as the top one and two busiest ports in the Western Hemisphere. The port has 25 cargo terminals, 82 container cranes, 8 container terminals, and 113 miles (182 km) of on-dock rail within 7,500 acres (3,000 ha) of land and water with 43 miles (69 km) of waterfront. The port's top three trading partners were China (including Hong Kong), Japan, and Vietnam. The World Cruise Center offers cruises up and down

2530-555: The number of restaurants representing diverse cuisines, especially Croatian , Portuguese , Mexican , Italian , Irish and Greek . San Pedro is home to the largest Italian-American community in Southern California, centered on the "Via Italia" (South Cabrillo Avenue). San Pedro is also considered the heart of the Croatian and Norwegian communities in Los Angeles. The Croatian community, originally composed of seafarers and fishermen from

2585-448: The old Cabrillo Beach Marine Museum which was located in the historic Bath House at Cabrillo Beach . The Point Fermin Light , a Victorian-era structure built in the late 19th century, is a museum and park on a bluff overlooking the ocean. The Korean Bell of Friendship is a massive bronze memorial bell donated by South Korea in 1976 to the people of Los Angeles. The church of Mary Star of

2640-594: The razing of their homes and shops, as part of the Japanese-American internment during World War II, is described in Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston 's memoir Farewell to Manzanar . A total of 80,065 people lived in San Pedro's 12.06 square miles, according to the 2000 U.S. census—averaging 6,640 people per square mile, near Los Angeles' total population density. The median age was 34 in the San Pedro neighborhood, considered average for Los Angeles. San Pedro

2695-546: The southern terminus of Interstate 110 , beginning at Gaffey Street heading 20 miles north to Downtown Los Angeles and beyond to Pasadena via the Arroyo Seco Parkway. California State Route 47 heads west from San Pedro across the Vincent Thomas Bridge, connecting San Pedro, Terminal Island, and Wilmington, to Long Beach and beyond. The LA Metro Bus 205 line travel North from 6th and Harbor up to Willowbrook,

2750-772: The trade restrictions were lifted, and the town flourished. Under United States control after 1848, when the United States defeated Mexico in the Mexican–American War , the harbor was greatly improved and expanded under the guidance of Phineas Banning and John Gately Downey , the seventh governor of California after the Free Harbor Fight . In 1868 Banning created the Los Angeles & San Pedro Railroad , Southern California's first railroad and used it to transport goods from San Pedro Bay to Los Angeles , which soon became

2805-404: The west by Rancho Palos Verdes and the city of Lomita . San Pedro, Wilmington, and Terminal Island are the locations of the Port of Los Angeles . The Vincent Thomas Bridge is a 1,500-foot-long (457 m) suspension bridge linking San Pedro with Terminal Island and named after California Assemblyman Vincent Thomas . (It is the fourth longest suspension bridge in California.) Nearby

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2860-534: Was a coastal defense site for many years. Woodrow Wilson transferred 200 United States Navy ships from the Atlantic to the Pacific in 1919 when tension arose between the United States and Japan over the fate of China. San Diego Bay was considered too shallow for the largest ships, so the battleships anchored in San Pedro Bay on August 9, 1919. Local availability of fuel oil minimized transportation costs, and consistently good weather allowed frequent gunnery exercises off

2915-405: Was average for the city and county. Renters occupied 56.1% of the housing units, and homeowners occupied the rest. In 2000 there were 3,394 families headed by single parents, or 17.5%, a rate that was average for the county and the city. In the same year there were 6,559 military veterans, or 11% of the population, considered high when compared to the city and county as a whole. San Pedro serves as

2970-511: Was declared 2017 Neighborhood of the year by Curbed Los Angeles. Te%27aat A tomol or tomolo ( Chumash ) or te'aat or ti'at ( Tongva / Kizh ) are plank-built boats , historically and currently in the Santa Barbara, California and Los Angeles area. They replaced or supplemented tule reed boats. The boats were between 10–30 feet (3.0–9.1 m) in length and 3–4 feet (0.91–1.22 m) in width. The Chumash refer to

3025-590: Was the homeland of the Tongva for thousands of years, home to the village of Chowigna along and the nearby Suangna . In other areas of the Los Angeles Basin archeological sites date back to at least about 10,000 years old. The Tongva used seafaring plank canoes or te'aats , found all throughout the coastline, to travel to and from the Channel Islands and along the coastline. The boats are still constructed by

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