1,613 Comments for Staten Island Boat Graveyard

To FB Jim: You mention the Ferry Astoria. It's currently about a mile south of witte's, near androvette street. Do you know anything about it?

i'm not one with an eye for art but i will say this '' it feels as if im in the ship

the insulance of some people. why did you expect guns? i mean really

i wonder if any of these boats and or ferries are steam operated

i was wandering the same thing as merissa. were you standing in that defiled water? or were you on your stomach on the peir? that seems to me the only ways this picture was possible

is this the other side of the ship from "Metallic whale"? because the colors are the same

i see where you draw the term whale from

i wonder if it was a steamboat it reminds of a game i play alot

how do you do it? the pics are awesome

Proper translation for Javier:
"They are the tears of the sea"

just found this site...great

It's an ASDIC unit. The brits came up with them to hunt U-boats before the US got into the war. They would place them on merchant ships and anything that could float. A type of early passive sonar.

its mounted at the back of the bridge and at one point would have hung over the deck so it could not have been used for an anchor

firstly what a great site every thing is spot on i have found the pictures slightly emotional to see once great vessels left forgotten....which i think is sad to say the least ... i know everyone is entitled to there own opinion but it seems unanimous carl your opinion was not only wrong in judgement but also not warented........tw-t....keep up the excellent work with this amount of global backing for your site you cant go wrong

DUTCHESS and her sisters were doomed because they built a bridge, from Beacon to Newburgh or somewhere near there. Why wait for a ferry when you can rush across a bridge.