Red & White Fleet is the business name for a vessel tour company operating in the San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas...

 of California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

.

Red and White Fleet is San Francisco’s original sightseeing provider and has been cruising the Bay since 1892. The family-owned fleet is located at Pier 43 ½ in the heart of Fisherman’s Wharf and offers daily sailings under the Golden Gate Bridge and around Alcatraz narrated in 12 languages. Red and White’s bay tours are a spectacular and convenient way for visitors to discover the City by the Bay.

The company offers a variety of scenic daytime and sunset tours of San Francisco. Red & White Fleet also offers some land based tour packages in concert with other suppliers and offers a number of charter packages, as well.

Tour packages include the Golden Gate Bridge, views of Alcatraz and sunset buffet cruises.

Commuter ferry

In the early 2000s the fleet ran commuter ferry service between the San Francisco Ferry Terminal and the city of Richmond

Richmond, California

Richmond is a city in western Contra Costa County, California, United States. The city was incorporated on August 7, 1905. It is located in the East Bay, part of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is a residential inner suburb of San Francisco, as well as the site of heavy industry, which has been...

's Richmond Ferry Terminal

Richmond Ferry Terminal

Richmond Ferry Terminal is a former ferry terminal located in the Marina Bay neighborhood of Richmond, California.-History:...

 in the Marina Bay District

Marina Bay, Richmond, California

Marina Bay is located in Richmond's protected Inner Harbor. It was developed in the mid 1980s in an effort to clean up what had been up to that point the defunct WWII-era Kaiser Shipyards. The has been planned as an upper-scale residential waterfront community with apartments, condominiums,...

, however the service was discontinued due to low ridership. This created a large conflict between the Richmond City Council

Richmond City Council (Richmond, California)

Richmond City Council is the governing body for the city of Richmond, California.-Background:The council consists of the Mayor of Richmond and six other city council members, one designated Vice Mayor. The council members are all elected from the whole city; no members are elected by district or ward...

 and the R&W Fleet. A vocal opponent of dissolving the service was Green Party mayor Gayle McGlaughlin.

See also

• The General Frank M. Coxe
  General Frank M. Coxe (ship)
  The General Frank M. Coxe is a steam ferry which was built for the United States Army to provide transportation services among several military facilities which ring California's San Francisco Bay....
  
   was a former United States Army
  United States Army
  The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...
  
  ferry which was later operated by Golden Gate Scenic Steamships as a tour boat.