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i wish i could see things like this! im so unfortunate :( they just knock everything down here....

My mother had polio. She got it the year before Dr. Salk invented the polio vaccine. Polio was highly contagious. Those who had it had to be quarantined until the threat of passing on it on had passed. My mother still to this day walks on crutches. She never did require an iron lung. Her paralysis was one vertebrae below the one that would have caused her to use the iron lung.

You're right Janice! A cousin of mine was only 17 and had polio, came down with it right before her senior prom. I remember my Mother telling me she wasn't allowed to see her. Thankfully my cousin fully recovered.

It's not a barge.

Maybe not. The water can get in where the propeller shaft goes through the hull when maintainence stops...

you can see the rivets

C ward has been torn down, all that is left is the water tower. The only thing that they will keep is the main administration section and one ward on each side.

I wonder if any other of the ships were salvaged?

That's an Atlas Superior. The 8 cylinder model put out 675 HP at 325 RPM, I believe. With the turbo and whatnot hanging off the front end, they're about 25 feet long. Impressive, huh?

you can almost tell how old it is look closely you can see rivets

I think thats a barge

I think its a steam dredge

old ship, rust, laying on its starboard side, grave

its wierd that all the ships there sank stern first

i think its a railroad diesel tug