page_title: Matthew Turner (shipbuilder)
section_title: Notable ships built by Turner
hierarchical_section_title: Matthew Turner (shipbuilder) / Notable ships built by Turner
caption_attribution_description: English: View of the brigantine Galilee on her first cruise as a magnetic observatory, chartered to the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution, in 1905
context_page_description: Matthew Turner was an American sea captain, shipbuilder and designer. He constructed 228 vessels, of which 154 were built in the Matthew Turner shipyard in Benicia. He built more sailing vessels than any other single shipbuilder in America, and can be considered "the 'grandaddy' of big time wooden shipbuilding on the Pacific Coast."
context_section_description: Anna, a schooner with a ten-day run from Honolulu to San Francisco in 1886, and eight round trips, San Francisco to Kahului in 357 days 
  Amaranth - Four-masted barquentine that broke the record for the Astoria, Oregon to Shanghai run (23 days). Wrecked at Jarvis Island on August 30, 1913.
  Ariel - Four-masted schooner built by Matthew Turner in 1900. She was wrecked at Inuboyesaki, Japan, in 1917.
  Benicia, a barquentine with a fast passage from Newcastle, New South Wales to Kihei, Hawaiʻi, of 35 days 
  Equator - Schooner that was chartered by Robert Louis Stevenson and helped inspire his book The Wrecker
  Emma Claudina, 126 ft., 266 ton brigantine, the first ship of the Matson Line, named for the daughter of John D. Spreckles
  Galilee - Brigantine that holds the record for the Tahiti-San Francisco run in a wooden-hulled sailing vessel (22 days), converted to magnetic observatory when under charter to the Carnegie Institution of Washington Department of Terrestrial Magnetism for three years
  Geneva, a brigantine with a passage of 2 days between Launceston, Tasmania and Newcastle, New South Wales 
  John D. Spreckels, a 266 ton brigantine with "at least three ten day voyages on the San Francisco-Hawaiian Island run" 
  HMCS Karluk - Brigantine whaler that was acquired by the Canadian government as flagship to the Canadian Arctic Expedition
  Lurline, a 135-foot brigantine made for Claus Spreckels in 1887, who sold immediately 75% to William Matson as an expansion of Matson Lines. They resold the vessel in 1896. The brig was lost in 1915.
  Nautilus, 104 t., 173 ton brig, fast passage from Tahiti to San Francisco of 20 days 
  Papeete, schooner with a 17 day passage from San Francisco to Tahiti 
  Pitcairn, schooner built by Turner for the Seventh-day Adventists
  Solano, fast passage from Shanghai to Port Townsend, Washington of 24 days in April 1902. Wrecked on North Beach (the ocean side of Long Beach Peninsula), February 5, 1907.
  William G. Irwin, a sugar packet built in 1881 for J.D. Spreckels. Launched as a brigantine, later re-rigged as a three masted schooner. Fast passages from San Francisco to Kahului, Hawaiʻi, 8 days 17 hours, 1881, Honolulu to San Francisco, 9 days 
  W.H. Dimond, a brigantine with a 9-day, 10-hour passage from San Francisco to Honolulu
caption: Galilee, while under charter to the Carnegie Institution of Washington Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
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