The Berkeley at Maritime Museum of San Diego in downtown San Diego's Embarcadero district is an 1898 steam ferryboat built by Union Iron Works in San Francisco, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1990 and a California State Historic Landmark in 2000. The vessel served the Southern Pacific Railroad on San Francisco Bay for sixty years, ferrying up to 1,700 passengers per trip between the Oakland Pier and the Ferry Building, and evacuated thousands of survivors during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake before the Maritime Museum acquired her in 1973 and brought her to N Harbor Drive alongside the USS Midway Museum on the Embarcadero. Today the Berkeley houses the museum's main exhibit galleries—Age of Sail, Age of Steam, Charting the Sea, Harvesting the Ocean, and San Diego's Navy—plus the MacMullen Library and Research Archives, a model workshop, and the museum store. A 2003 hull restoration set a benchmark for historic ship conservation and is projected to preserve the steel-hulled vessel for another fifty years, keeping her structurally viable for the waterfront visitor corridor that extends south to Seaport Village. The most ambitious use of the Berkeley is the full-vessel private event buyout, which stages weddings, corporate receptions, and collection previews across the ferryboat's restored passenger decks and exhibit halls.