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this needs to be a wallpaper

This reply is for MARGIE from03 05 2007 The boat in the picture is the BEACON NEWBERG FERRY DUTCHESS Please read above comment by me. Thanks

this boat is theDUTCHESS I scraped the ORANGE in black tom Jersey City in late 1970s these boats were steam powered Beautyful boats. After removing the upper decks and engines &boilers & over hanging side decks and all remainging wood The rest of the main deck and hull were steel in good shape. I than put the boat up for sale as a barge. I also removed the two six foot propellers. I ALSO locked the two rudders in place. After a few years i finaly scrapped the boat. I have many pictures of the boat being scrapped. I hated to scrap the poor boat

i dont know much about engines, but this one looks like a bitch no matter what kind it is.

oh well its just a boat

Sorry for your lost.

Are there any other PC 1217 crew or descendants of crew around?

My father served on PC 1217, as a Pharmacist Mate. He just passed away on 6/16/07. Are there any other crew, or crew families, around?

boat was built in 1926 in camden nj, and it is pretty cool inside

The boat is the "Seawells Point" of 1926: one of the original Electric Ferries. When traveling on the expressway in Staten Island to the Outerbridge Crossing, I used to just be able to see her resting offshore. She has been sitting there since the late 1960's.

close the door!!! you're letting all the water out.

This actually the TOOTH FERRY.

" that"s fantastic house "

ships hulls nearto and below the waterline tend to be treated with different paints to those above the waterline. below water they get treated with antifowling paint, this has a chemical in it that prevents growths of weed algae and limpets etc, this paint tends to be more hard wearing that ordinary rustproofing paint used above the waterline. most hulls tend to get treated about 2metres or sometimes more above the waterline.

Every ones talks about horsepower, but for one moment just think of the day this beast was working in the hull of some large ship and a dedicated engineer was walking around keeping it turning over. You can almost see him now.