1,613 Comments for Staten Island Boat Graveyard

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Fantastic Pics!
You must have had a ball taking them,well done.
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All these pics are so facinating, you just wonder what the names of the vessels are? and their History? and how they met their fate!
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The Pictures are great!
Maybe one day I might get their too!
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JAMES DUANE was at other end of yard. Is this Harold Knox of M-6 fame?
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nice comments baby jim.
Where's the Duane ?
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Kind of redundant though, dont you think? The mooring line to keep that hulk from floating away?
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This is a very touching scene. its looks as if they were friends, and Abram Hewitt's friend tried to keep his friens up while he departed.
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This ship surved a very purposeful life and so i guess it needs to let other ships in on the glory of that.
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It's like it knew it reached its prime and just gave up and started to slowly lay to rest.
Very touching scenes.
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I used to see this when I was a kid and it always seemed kind of spooky to me. I imagined great shipwrecks.
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PY-8 was the USS Despatch. Photo here
http://www.history.nav...-usn/usnsh-d/py8.htm
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estoy de acuerdo con huevas vallanse todos los de aqui a la re verguisima
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It is either JAMESTOWN or SEWELLS POINT, both of which were Diesel electric ferrys. They started their lives running from Jamestown to Sewells Point in Virginia I think, later came North to work in New York harbor.
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I am quite sure it is USS PC 1217, a Navy sub chaser from WWII