The Arkansas
The Arkansas, a three-masted ship, sailed into the bay in 1849 only to be blown aground on Alcatraz by a storm. It was towed to the beach at what is now Pacific Avenue and Battery Street, where it served as a rooming house and then a hotel built on top of the vessel after the masts and top decks were dismantled. Now it lives on as the Old Ship Saloon in the Jackson Square neighborhood.