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                                                                                                                         1940s
                                                                 1906                                                    First uses of
                                                                                                                         the name “Red
                                                                 The Great Earthquake strikes San                        and White
                                                                 Francisco, and the business works                       Fleet” appear
                                                                 around the clock to ferry stranded                      in company
                                                                 residents out of the city.                              brochures.
              THOMAS                                                                                                                                                                THOMAS B.                                      THOMAS B.           THOMAS
              CROWLEY                                                                                                                                                               CROWLEY                                        CROWLEY JR.         CROWLEY
              FOUNDER, 1892–1970                                                                                                                                                    PRESIDENT, CROWLEY                             CHAIRMAN, CEO       ESCHER
                                                                                                                                                                                    MARITIME, 1970–1994                            CROWLEY MARITIME    OWNER, CHAIRMAN        2018
                                                                                                                                                                                    1970                                           1994–PRESENT        RED AND WHITE          Launch of Enhydra, the first 600-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       FLEET, 1997–PRESENT
                                                                                                                                                                                    Thomas B. Crowley had                          1994                                       passenger hybrid-drive vessel
                                                                                                                                                                                    been president of the                          Thomas B. Crowley Jr.   1997               operating in the United States.
                                                                                                                                                                                    company for some time                          becomes CEO of Crowley   Tom Escher purchases
                                                                                                                                                                                    when his father, Thomas                        Maritime when his father,   the Red and White
                                                                                                                                                                                    Crowley, passed away at the                    Thomas B. Crowley,   Fleet tour business from
                                                                                                                                                                                    age of ninety-five.                            passes away.        Crowley Maritime.
              1892                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               LOOKING TO
              Thomas Crowley buys his first                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      THE FUTURE
              Whitehall boat and begins                                                                                                                                                                        1989
              working on San Francisco Bay.                                                1939                                                                  1960                                                                                                            2019
                                                                                           Golden Gate International Exposition                                  Thirteen-year-old                             Red and White Fleet runs                                          Anticipated launch of Water-
                                                                                           opens on Treasure Island. Start of the                                Thomas Escher                                 emergency ferry service the                                       Go-Round, in partnership
                                                                                           Golden Gate Bay Cruise, the longest   1950s                           begins working at                             night of the Loma Prieta                                          with GGZEM.
                                                                                           continuously running tour.      Business increases with               the company as a                              earthquake and for several
                                                  1915                                                                     the purchase of and tours             sweeper on board the                          days after.                                                       2025
                                                  Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in                         to Paradise Cove. Ticket              ships, then joins the   1973                                                          1999                      Goal of zero emissions,
                                                  San Francisco and the company begins running                             booth moved from Pier                 Inlandboatmen’s Union                                                                                           a return to the company’s
                                                  its first passenger tours.                                               14 to its present location            (IBU) as a deckhand    Red and White Fleet wins the first                             Captain Joe Burgard joins   origins of zero pollution.
                                                                                                                           on Fisherman’s Wharf.                 for tugboats.      contract to begin running tours to                                 the Fleet, and implements
                                                                                                                                                                                    newly opened Alcatraz Island.                                      new tours and multilingual
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       audio guides.
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