1,613 Comments for Staten Island Boat Graveyard

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Easy to dock my bass boat,long dark hulls
to hide in and I can fish off the back.I like
this one.Im moving into it next week.Now
my dream of being a ship wrecked castaway
will come true....
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Also when any of you visit me you bring me
cold beer ,understand...
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I packing my belonging,which is not much,
other than 30ft bass boat and moving into
one of the resting ,rusting,wrecks.With my
food stamps ,disability check and mg42 I
will do good there.
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I got completely absorbed in this album - thank you so much!

And, amazingly, I'm not as freaked out by decaying ships as I was when I opened the first photo. As we say here in Wales - 'Diolch o'm galon!' :)
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Wow, for once I'm actually saddened to see a shipwreck (instead of covering my eyes, curling up into the foetal position and gibbering like a wuss).

That's incredibly moving. Thanks for the new perspective.
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**Has fainted**
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I think I've just turned 4 shades paler...
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I do a lot of kayaking, and the thought of straying anywhere near that is blindingly pertifying. Great job, Motts!!
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Oh dear lord...I flinched away the moment this photo loaded! This is giving me a great cardiovascular workout :p
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What a beautiful poem. Thanks, Riverhousebill!

Still hasn't stopped me freaking out at the sight of these rotting hulks though...
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This photo absolutely terrifies me...therefore, it's brilliant. I have a deep-seated fear of shipwrecks (well, anything man-made in the water, really), so I knew this album was going to freak me out. The thought of getting close to that rusting hull whilst being in the water is enough to give me a panic attack on the spot.

I have no idea why I'm so mortally afraid of things like this. Let's hope that looking through the rest of this album desensitises me somewhat. Though I doubt it will... ;)
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This engine has to be started on locomotive batteries.
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I have worked on a 1963 400KW white superior in line 8 diesel set like this one. This engine just chugs along at about 700hundred RPM. Makes the ground shake!
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400 KW
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It is an white superior diesel inline engine.Probably built in the early 1960s.
This type of engine was also used as a standby generator producing KW.