Eureka arrives at Mare Island

Eureka arrives at Mare Island

There were plenty of screams along the Vallejo waterfront on Thursday afternoon as the site of a historic ship along the Carquinez Strait caused a sense of Eureka. In this case the screams actually were for the Eureka, the last of five ships that are being relocated from San Francisco’s Hyde Street Pier while it undergoes renovations. At 299 feet in length, the Eureka is reportedly the largest existing wooden ship in the world. It approximately …