Matthew Turner built a shipyard near here in 1882. At some point, he grounded the whaling bark Stamboul for use as a work platform. It is said that the Stamboul's skeleton is visible at ebb tide, but when I visited on a drizzly, winter's day, the tide was at the flood, and only a solitary gull on a fallen tree was to be seen.

A bark is a sailing ship with three masts, square-rigged on the fore and main masts and fore-and-aft rigged on the mizzenmast. In the mid-19th century, this rigging became popular for whaling vessels because it required fewer men to handle the sails when the boats were down for whales.

The name Stamboul is a variant form of Istanbul widely used by English speakers in the 19th Century.

I could find no surviving images of the Stamboul, but it probably looked much like the 305 ton bark Morning Star which was built in Dartmouth, Massachusetts in 1853, ten years after the Stamboul.

Also see California Landmark 973: Turner/Robertson Shipyard.