The story
The Blue & Gold fleet was founded in 1979 by Roger Murphy, beginning excursion service from the West Marina of Pier 39 with three vessels. The company became the operator of the Alameda/Oakland commuter ferry (under contract with the City of Alameda) in 1991, the Vallejo ferry (under contract with the City of Vallejo) on July 1, 1994, and ferries to Sausalito, Tiburon, Angel Island, and Alcatraz (all acquired from Red & White Fleet) in 1997. In 2006 the contract for the Alcatraz service was lost to Hornblower. In 2011 Blue & Gold won the contract to operate the consolidated San Francisco Bay Ferry system, which subsumed the Alameda/Oakland and Vallejo routes and over the following decade grew to include four other cross-Bay commuter routes. The company ended commute-hour service to Tiburon in 2017 and all service to both Tiburon and Angel Island in January 2022; these services were subsequently taken over by Golden Gate Ferry.
From Wikipedia’s article on Blue & Gold Fleet, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4