1,613 Comments for Staten Island Boat Graveyard

seems like home to me

nice and quit right

YO Matt!
How do you know all this? It is Fantastic that you could fill in so much unknown!!! Thanks.

This ship was originally built by DeFoe Shipbuilding, Bay City, MI in 1921 for the U.S. Army and comissioned as the steel-hulled Junior Mine Planter (JMP) MAJOR ALBERT G. JENKINS. The vessel and crew were assigned to the Fourth Serivce Command during World War II and homeported at Fort Barrancas, Pensacola, FL . She was decomissioned in 1951 and sold to the Oil Transport Company, New Orleans, LA. Renamed BAYOU PLAQUEMINE [Coast Guard registery 261281], she was rebuilt as a tug. In September 1966 she was sold to the Nickerson Marine Towing Company of Tampa, FL, retaining her name. McAllister Brothers, Inc. of New York, NY purchased trhe vessel in June 1968, renaming her COURIER. She was scrapped in 1972.

old ny central tugs. were pale green at one time

Likely the Jamestown- old diesel ferries that worked the harbor routes

chrisFDNY,
I too have been captivated by that ferry... after some quick internet research I found interestingly enough that it is a late 1930' Staten Island ferry named "The Mary Murrar." Even more interesting is what sits next to her... read on: http://www.itsnewjerse...ship/marymurray.html

For some reason it made me think of "All over you" by Live. Might just be the way she is being held up, but it made me think of the line: "Our love is like water. Pinned down and abused for being strange."

Dulcinea_Lady: That's why Motts carries a flashlight! He may be lost, but at least he can see that he's lost! :D

Wow, you've managed to make even the water look sinister! Amazing photo...
~Me: If you didn't use it for 90 years, I think it would quit functioning! It would probably rust away... We are still talking about this lovely ferry, correct? ;)

This was a "steam lighter", a small ship with a derrick used to carry cargo between shallow-water wharves and deep-draft ocean-going ships moored or docked in deeper water. I believe they were nicknamed "stick boats", so called because of the derrick boom. The very tall stack implies that this one was a coal-fired steamer.

looks like the ship is in pain

We like Puddleboy...

My bedroom after a rainstorm!

I think I saw this one on E Bay.