1,613 Comments for Staten Island Boat Graveyard

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Ever see the little building with the tower just south of the Brooklyn bridge on the Brooklyn side? That was a Marine firehouse and was home to the Hewitt. Hewitt as built had two smoke stacks one in front of the other, in the 1930 she got new boilers and the two stacks were replaced by one large one. In the wheelhouse were two steering wheels, a small one that operated a steam steering engine and a big old one behind the small one that had a drum attached and the rudder was manually moved by the big wheel. Fireboats and boats in general have back up systems on almost everything. Even back in 1903. Just think when Hewitt was new the streets of New York were still filled with horses and carriages. She saw a lot of history around her!
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There lie the remains of the USS PC 1264 quite a famous little WWII sub chaser. If you have the time look up its history.
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DEFINITELY Sonar. I have a history textbook from my college in my lap that has a photo of a sonar rig almost identical to that one in the book.
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Here's this one in better days!http://www.nafts.net/i...ics/ATR/19Sept44.jpg
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I sailed past these wrecks all the time in 2004 when I took time off from college to take a job as a tug and barge crewman.......... if they could only talk.
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Ned Moran, I didn't know she was built as the Apollo - I didn't know that Mescek owned the Apollo, Since the Ned was formaly the Fredrick T. Mescek, but then again the TES and Steven Lang could be wrong. No Matter what name she was she still is a Lady and yes she did help dock some of the great liners, I very sure she helped dock the Queen. Didn't mean to step on any toes.
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It is a door that leads in to something: Not letting me out of a sinking ship, but into something disturbing, that is behind it. I would not like to open it.
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This ship looks like it has such a story to tell of the many seas it has traveled.
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Bit o'paint and she'll be like new!
Arrrrr!
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Thats a whopper of an engine! Somebody restore it !
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this ship should be saved to be truned into museums.
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the ship gots beuity under the rust.
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I think is very said to see those ships rusting away.
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You should see them from a small boat as a kid, you'd wonder where you were and what had happened here, I know I did in the 1960's
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