1,613 Comments for Staten Island Boat Graveyard

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def a small sub chaser of the world war one era
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Very sad picture
I'm about to cry when I see that "dying" ship.
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What a shame,
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These photos are amazing. I can't help but think about the work that went into building these ships. Those anchors alone must have taken so long to make. All that time, rusting away.
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Anything around water is interesting and lovely-and sometimes a little scary.I consider myself a hydromaniac.
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It sure looks like the one I have. It's a 40SX-6 cylinder Atlas Imperial. It's on a skid mounted generator and is complete with radiator and is for sale. $8500. It was a stand-by unit I got from NASA. 207-576-1464.
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My name is Willie,I have been around Atlas/other slow turners. parts of my life... I belive that to be 675HP......If there is a 6cyc atlas superior, that Im not sure, but if there is, then the 675HP would have to apply to it. And the 8 cyc would be 100 mabey = a little HP per cyclinder......Great Engines...Anyway, thays my take on it....Sincerley Willie.....somewhere on the Tombiggbee River.....
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That is an interesting combination of materials. The photo has excellent composition in terms of depth and contrast.
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i'm surprised they just let them sit there to rot.
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I lived on Staten Island most of my life, I have seen the wrecks many times and wondered ,where how and why they came to be here. So much history rotting away....
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I have one thats a complete runner. I saved it from the jaws of death. Anyone want to try and get it started? I can email pic's. Hoping to find someone crazier than me. Have lowbed will deliver. 207-576-1464.
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It's a 40SX-8 inline 8 cylinder Atlas Imperial diesel. It has an Elliott turbocharger. These were low speed diesels probably about 1200 HP at 650 RPM. It looks to be about '50's vintage. These were used in generators mostly and Atlas Imperial Corp. from Oaklnd, CA. was bought out in 1951 by White-Superior Corp. which is probably who built this beauty. I have one complete with radiator skid mounted ex-NASA unit for sale. 207-576-1464.
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Its hard to believe that that(expressing myself with a due source of exaution and dred) was once a ferry steaming across small bodies of water.
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All for one, and one for all.Those are the words I live by.
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This is not a sub chaser, this is an ex Navy ATR , a rescue tug, there were three in the yard. The sub chaser was in front of this closer to shore. I have been on both of them. Trust me!