Corporate, Private, Special and Dockside Event, Private Cruise,
and Film and Television Production Rental Info
For more rental info, availability, and fees, please contact:

Christopher Buttner, President
PRThatRocks.com
Tel: 415-381-8647
email: chris@prthatrocks.com 		David Perry, President
David Perry & Associates
Tel: 415-693-0583
email: news@davidperry.com

To view a wide range of S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien interior and exterior pictures, click HERE

ATTENTION EVENT PLANNERS AND FILM PRODUCTION PROFESSIONALS: Download deck plans of the S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien. Click on either thumbnail below to download high-res deck plans.

S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien Top View Deck Plans (simplistic)
S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien Side View

 
 
 
 

Special Events, Corporate Functions, Private Cruises, and Dockside Rentals:
The S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien is available for lease for six-hour – or longer - themed-cruises around the breathtaking San Francisco Bay for up to 800 passengers, as well as ‘moored' day, evening, and weekend events for corporate, veteran, military and government functions, conventioneers, radio station and general entertainment functions, and even weddings.   Interior areas can host sit-down dinners, standing receptions, and dance events for 200 to 300 guests, and dockside (IE: moored), events, such as The San Francisco Brewers Guild ‘Brews on the Bay Weekend,' can accomodate up to 1,200 guests.  

One reveler attending a recent Silicon Valley technology company party, held in the massive Cargo Hold #2, lauded the venue and event planner's production skills, stating the modified lighting and decor appear like a ‘cross between The Hunt for Red October and Blade Runner.'

A savvy event planner is only limited by their imagination as to what kind of memorable themed events can be hosted aboard the S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien, whether she's plying the gentle waves of the San Francisco Bay or moored to her home Pier 45.

Special Holiday functions for Christmas, Independence Day, Halloween, Memorial and Veterans Days, and others, are available for 2008 and beyond.

 

Film and Television Productions:

The S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien offers unprecedented film, television and photography location opportunities, with stunning views of the San Francisco Bay, city skyline, Alcatraz, and Bay Bridges.  

The 441 foot S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien was an integral participant in helping James Cameron's major motion picture Titanic take home 3 of its 11 Academy Awards, including Best Sound, Best Sound Effects, and Best Visual Effects.

Many interiors, sounds and visuals for Titanic were captured aboard the S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien , including her fully-operational triple expansion marine steam engine, which provided the dramatic massive and churning metallic parts of the famed White Star liner's engine room.

A wide range of Jeremiah O'Brien Academy Award-winning sound effects were also captured for Titanic , including metallic door closes, hatch openings, distant engine rumbles (which run throughout the film, to give the sense of movement), bells, clangs, etc.   The O'Brien also was taken out into San Francisco Bay so Cameron's sound team from Skywalker Sound could capture a tremendous variety of bow wash, mid-side wash, propeller wake, hull laps, and other water movement sounds, which occupy much of the movie's first 11 reels before Titanic 's iceberg collision.   The O'Brien's crew even threw the engines into full-reverse about 20 times, simulating the climactic iceberg collision moment, which provided a wealth of creaks, groans, distant rumbles, perspective shifts, and countless backgrounds used to re-create the factory-like ambience of the steerage compartment.  

Other interiors and exteriors were shot for others movies, including Sphere and Inflammable.   In addition, entertainment industry gala events, such as the mini series premiere of The War by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, were held aboard the S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien in her expansive cargo hold.  

The O'Brien 's expansive exterior deck areas can accommodate historical scene recreations for film and television productions, with casts of up to 800 extras, while the ship is moored or underway on the San Francisco Bay or Pacific Ocean.   The massive metallic, industrialized cargo areas can easily accommodate scenes involving 200 to 300 extras.   Location scouts will also appreciate the historical accuracy of 1940's-era crew and captains quarters, the bridge, radio room, galley, and antiaircraft gun, and canon emplacements.

The O'Brien draws from a highly trained, Coast Guard-approved crew and staff of 300 engineers, mariners, deckhands, and docents that can be employed to assist in any production.

 

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