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In Capitola, a storm-damaged wharf reopened earlier this year after $10 million had been sunk into repairs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

The Minerva Gloria is docked at a wharf in the Mississippi Sound, not far from the US's vast oil reserves in the Gulf of Mexico.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026

City hall, the slave market, and town pillory were all there, and the wharf on the East River “made it a rendezvous for pirates,” writes Sobol.

From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026

The crew blow-torched the fasteners and released the cables that held the crane to the ship, while workers on land laid temporary rails across the wharf.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025

Ma Costa looked half-blindly over the little group of children and turned away to stumble through the crowd on the wharf, bellowing for her child.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

Later that decade, Avery befriended Rothko and then Gottlieb, and by 1932 all three were summering in Gloucester, spending their mornings sketching or painting the harbor, the wharfs, the sea, the beach and the bathers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

It lurks in the halls of famed institutions and the parking lots of dreary, run-down wharfs.

From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2025

A major fire is still raging at the site and pictures show huge, billowing black clouds over the wharfs.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2025

The system of floaters attaches directly to preexisting structures — like breakwaters, wharfs and jetties — and produces energy from the constant motion of the waves.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2024

Docked at the North End waterfront, it was a fireboat, ready to spray tons of ocean water on the many fires that often took place on the wharfs that extended out into the harbor.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

Shaking from a quake could damage wharves, piers, buildings and roadway above the seawall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

The port, with the help of federal and provincial funds, is spending 609 million Canadian dollars dredging the river and building new wharves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025

A neighborhood near the wharves is still known as the Irish Channel.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2024

“The waves came up under the wharves, picked them up and dropped them somewhere else,” Ms. Coombs said.

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024

Only once or twice in a summer—on days of unendurable heat, teachers dismissed school, masters closed shops, and the boys ran down to the wharves to swim.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes