1,613 Comments for Staten Island Boat Graveyard

Just a passing internet denizen.

Your use of color vs. b&w in various shots really shows off your talent. As for the shots themselves... they're amazing. You really should put these together in a book.

Definitely toasted!

I love this boat! It's so quaint! *wants it in her backyard*

This is a fantastic set. I've always been fascinated by shipping. Dead ones are not something us landlubbers often get to see at close quarters.

I was fascinated by this page:

http://members.aol.com/ssus2/more3.html

It would be so cool to see your take on a really, REALLY big wreck, like this one...

100 years old! Makes me wonder if this ever tugged anything glamorous in her day - the Titanic or Queen Mary for instance? To think she's probably been sitting there for a good proportion of that time too...

These tugs are a sad sight - I've seen pictures of really big ships abandoned or awaiting scrapping, which are sombre in themselves, but somehow little tugboats are 'cute' in a way that no liner or frieghter can ever be.

I'd love to see shots of an airplane graveyard. Though I can't imagine that in the post 9/11 paranoia, they're especially easy to gain access to, and I suppose if you were caught sneaking around one you'd be looking at a lot more than a telling-off from a security guard.

Here's a couple I found:

http://www.modern-ruins.com/ruins/boneyard/
http://www.surrealcoco ... herncal/mojave.htm

Wow Bakelite city!

Looks like Katrina.

waaaaa -- next to the last pix and I want to see 5,000 more of them. Great job Motts. See you in Nevada one of these days!

I'm pretty sure Nick is right -- an early WW II sonar set, This must have been taken inside the sub chaser.

Old wooden hull tug boat -- this one has to be close to 100 years old -- if not older. I don't think they made any tugs with wooden hulls after the 1930s. Too bad this antique is beyond restoration.

It's amazing that the bow has rusted completely through so that you can see right inside the ship. This one must have been built with very poor steel -- possibly a wartime rush job.

Hey Mr. Motts, I love your building pix, but these ship shots to me are the greatest you have ever done. I've seen other series of this place, but you have them all beat. Still wish you would get to some of the old Nevada mines. Oh yeah, was there any way to tell who built this big old straight-eight diesel. Woodward only made the electrical controls.

JHC, I am gasping with claustrophobia after reading your comment! =8-o

Ah yes, you can enter the 'belly of the ship' but can you EXIT the belly? Perhaps, once crossing the threshold, a steel door slams shut behind you and you're trapped, lost in complete darkness of this listing, groaning hulk, stumbling blindly over the bones of the poor souls who came before you and with each fall, you are reminded that you will never leave the belly of this beast...
But I digress- Great pictures, by the way...

No, I didn't see The Astoria; it was most likely scrapped