1,613 Comments for Staten Island Boat Graveyard

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Very creepy.... in the best way. :) Love this one, you can almost see the water moving!
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An amazing series...one I found to be extremely captivating. Well done...no matter what "Pro Photographer says. ;]
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That is pretty well eaten out. Dang, what a cool and creepy set of shots you have here...I can't imagine what it would have been like to actaully be here taking them.
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For FB Jim

Any truth to the notion that the ferry best depicted here is indeed th"Beacon" of Groton CT manufacture.?
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There is a machine shop in our town that displays a diesel engine crankshaft out front that is about 20 feet long.
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This is an absolutely incredible view of the dessicated guts of an old tanker. I love it!
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How aabout it being a davit for handling the anchor?
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i love this shixt
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i keep posting here hoping for an answer..do you ever take the printed word that you find out there with you?
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its a lifeboat davit
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HILA EX USS Atr 89 Single screw , wood, oil fired, 155 ft. long 34ft. wide, draft 17 ft. 8 3/4 inches. built by Kruse & Banks Shipbuilding Co. North Bend Or. Oct. 1944. one Prescott 4 cylinder triple expansion engine, two foster wheeler boilers.
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For FB Jim,

Thanks ever so much for all the information. I worked hard through online sorces to unmask some of these vessels and did not come up with a tenth of the info you have generously provided. Motts has provided quite a vehicle for us all to learn.
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it is too bad that they just left these ships/boats here to rot away, the pictures definitaly tell the story.
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This is another photo of HILA a former US Navy ATR Rescue tug. Built for WWII they went out and fought fires and did repairs and salvaged ships that were damaged. This is wood with steel bow which allowed it to push against other ships, break ice and operate out in the ocean versus a harbor tug that was not built to take the rigors of the sea. There were at least three of these in the yard, Hila in the Northern part and two side by side down in the Southern part of the yard. The other two were damaged by the big fire there in July of 77. The yard had 10 double ended ferry boats at one time. Most were NYC ferrys and others were from Beacon Newburgh run and one of them was a former Boston to East Boston ferry, I think it was the Lt. Flarity in Boston. Also there were the DUTCHESS< POCONO< LACKAWANNA< GREENWICH VILLAGE, ASTORIA, SEWELLS POINT, JAMESTOWN, AMERICAN LEGION, ROCKAWAY, BEACON.
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Thats kinda sad. Its so old to which is totally cool