1,613 Comments for Staten Island Boat Graveyard

thanks

FB Jim, Any info you have would be greatly appreciated-Thanks!!

You cant cut these boats up, they are fish habitats and protected by the US Govt. That is a fact.

See next photo of DISPATCH to get a little history of this senior citizen!

OK< here is my best shot. This is the DISPATCH, formerly the NEPCO DISPATCH< formerly RICHMOND< formerly TEXACO 147. A single screw tanker, 147 feet long 30 feet wide. Built by Texas S.S. Co, Bath Maine in 1919, had a 400 horsepower McIntosh and Seymour engine in it. I finally found this in the 1950 edition of the, "RECORD" of the American Bureau of Shipping . That is my best guess, size, age, riveted hull all fit and the NE before Dispatch would work as well.

She was all there, in the 70s there was still the engine order telegraph in the wheelhouse. It was a small tanker but I cant find out any definate data on it, sorry

I am quite sure this is one one of the WWII submarine chasers that was in the yard.

In the 70s there were still some of the tattered signal flags there, they had one piece bronze hooks, call admiralty snaps thet hooked the flags together to send a message, you had to turn them 90 degrees to each other the hook them together, I think a Navy skivvy waver would know what I mean.

Hi Geekspeek, I use to roam the yard back in the 70s when the boats were easy to identify and there were a lot more of them. You could walk from the land to the far end of the yard just going boat to boat. The silt there is about 10 feet deep, if you ever fell in you would be a goner. I once pushed a plank into the mud and it went in about 10 feet before it hit any resistance. It was a very dangerous, but interesting place!

Hey Ed, if you want more info on the North Bend boat let me know.

These are Pennsylvania RR tugs, I think the CHESTER and OLEAN, inboard of these were the WILMINGTON an HARRISBURG.

too small for that, look at the relative size of the dials/switches. Looks like an old ASW-style sonar

thank you, fb jim. Somehow, knowing their names and some of their history just makes these ships seem......different, somehow.

er...that's "picture ', not "picrue". Sorry for the double comment.

weird.....it looks a lot like she's broken about midway back. Must be the angle of the picrue.