Staten Island Boat Graveyard

Dingfod · #1 10-10-2005, 03:42 PM

I figured Abdul Alhazred would be interest in this photo gallery. When I looked at the photos I wondered why hasn't someone recycled the scrap metal in these tubs.

Abdul Alhazred · #2 10-10-2005, 06:04 PM

I know the site. Not the website, the site.

Thanks for the link. :yup:

cappuccino · #3 10-10-2005, 06:41 PM

Pretty cool! I've seen those boats, half sunk in the harbor and rotting away every time I fly into Newark or NYC. I've wondered about them and why they were abandoned. Thanks for the link, Warren.

TomJoe · #4 10-10-2005, 06:45 PM

About the only usefulness Staten Island has ... is as a garbage dump.

Dingfod · #5 10-10-2005, 06:54 PM

I'm sure that at least some of the island's 440,000+ residents would beg to disagree.

livius drusus · #6 10-10-2005, 06:55 PM

I find graveyards of any kind inevitably compelling. The dimensions of these hulks makes their graveyard particularly eerie and cool.

The Abram Hewitt has before and after pictures.

TomJoe · #7 10-10-2005, 07:00 PM

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I'm sure that at least some of the island's 440,000+ residents would beg to disagree.

Probably, but the residents of the other four boroughs would beg to differ with them.

Dingfod · #8 10-10-2005, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by livius drusus

I find graveyards of any kind inevitably compelling. The dimensions of these hulks makes their graveyard particularly eerie and cool.

The Abram Hewitt has before and after pictures.

That looks just like Tugboat Annie's tug, the Narcissus.

livius drusus · #9 10-10-2005, 07:39 PM

I haven't seen the movie, Warren, and Google is not exactly replete with images. That's cool, though. I want to know what those wheel things are fore and aft.

TomJoe · #10 10-10-2005, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by livius drusus

I want to know what those wheel things are fore and aft.

Hoses?

Dingfod · #11 10-10-2005, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by livius drusus

I haven't seen the movie, Warren, and Google is not exactly replete with images. That's cool, though. I want to know what those wheel things are fore and aft.

Towline winches? Tugboats both pushed and pulled ships in and out of port.

ETA: There's one midship too.

Dingfod · #12 10-10-2005, 08:26 PM

Tugboat Annie, 1930, starred Marie Dressler, a veteran silent film actress as Annie, owner of the Narcissus, a run-down steam powered tugboat, with Terry, her alcoholic husband played by Wallace Beery. Their son Alec, played by a very young Robert Young, got a job as captain of a ship, and basically turned up his nose at them because his drunk father embarrassed him in front of his fiance, the daughter of the shipping firm's owner. Annie got hired to tow garbage scows (probably out to State Island). One very stormy night, Alec's ship ran into trouble when it sheared a propeller shaft. He put out an S.O.S. Annie and Terry were in the middle of a job, heard the S.O.S., cut the garbage scow loose and with Terry piloting the Narcissus, saved Alec's ship, his life and his job. In the end, the shipping firm restored the old tub and hired Terry as captain. The end. Annie's decrepit old tugboat looked much like The Abram Hewitt.

TomJoe · #13 10-11-2005, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Warren

Towline winches? Tugboats both pushed and pulled ships in and out of port.

Possibly, but it was an old fire boat. Did fire boats also serve as tugboats?

Dingfod · #14 10-11-2005, 03:20 PM

I doubt it. I didn't know it was a fireboat. Those reels were probably for firehoses then.