Frederick Hihn constructed a pier at Capitola in 1857 to ship lumber and produce. While initially referred to as Soquel Landing and only 450 feet long, it was extended in 1860 to 1,200 feet to ...

San Diego’s Ocean Beach pier, a nearly 2,000-foot (609.6-meter) concrete structure built in 1966, has been repeatedly battered since 2019.

Big waves, just a few months prior, had shredded two pilings below the boat hoist. Even the concrete ballast broke. Officials scrambled together $25,000 for emergency repair work to keep the pier ...

It’s one of those places that’s kind of multigenerational. People have been going there for a long time.” The ship and pier weren’t the only structures at Seacliff to be reduced to rubble.

The concrete ship, built during World War I and never used in wartime service, was permanently sunk in the 1930s as Seacliff became one of California’s first state beaches in 1931. The pier was ...

In the distance, the S.S. Palo Alto, a World War I-era concrete tanker ship beloved by local residents, who know it as the Cement Ship, had been badly damaged by the storm, and part of the pier ...

Half of the park’s wooden pier fell into the ocean, and the 1920s era “cement ship,” wrecked by storms in 2017 and before, was further battered. The road into New Brighton State Beach nearby ...

Santa Cruz residents shared videos of the region's beloved Capitola Wharf pier being completely leveled and split in half by the 25 feet high crashing waves.

CAPITOLA, Calif. (KRON) — California beach town residents woke up Thursday morning to collapsed ocean piers, massive 35-foot waves, tide surges, and widespread flooding. An atmospheric river ...

The concrete ship at Seacliff State Beach is nicknamed “cement ship” by locals. (Photo by DFS Photography) The iconic cement ship broke away from the Seacliff State Beach pier on Jan. 5, 2023.