1,613 Comments for Staten Island Boat Graveyard

can you imagine the stories these ships and barges could tell us about there lives aye aye captain full ahead :)

a little spooky but neat

all aboard next stop deep sea fishing cool pics

I found a neat map of the area on google.

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.5 .... 010343&t=k&hl=en

Hehe. You're either brave or foolish to enter these sinking wrecked vessels. But you're a wonderful photographer.

Wow? You actually went inside one of the ships? You're braver than I am for sure! ;)

i love all of this. all of these photos are so awsome

this vessel is a ww2 pc boat or subchasher. new version then the ww1 type. this is probably one of the last of it,s type in existance and should be salvaged and restored to it,s former glory.it initially had a 40mm cannon forward of the bridge or a 3 inch cannon. some actually had a 3 pounder ww1 type cannon on the fordeck /the wings just behind the bridge had two 50 caliber machine guns or some other equivalent weapon.pc boats were 125/150feet long. also carried a medium cannon astern with stern rack depth charges. many actually went across the atlantic to england in the early part of the war. a sorry fate for such a historic vessel.

only in the great USA would so much good steel be left to rot into the water

Yeah....smug biaatch, aint she?

This hath is so its cool

if you walk just to the left of the main entrance you will find acres of ship fittings lined up and waiting for sale around the world. all of the anchores / fitting are huge and breathtakeing. all the fittings are from the beaced vessels.check it out.

I LOVE THIS PHOTOGRAPH! The ship is largely intact, so it's too bad it couldn't be saved, or salvaged...whatever it is you do to a ship.

I totally concur with Radical Ed! Mott's site is indeed addictive due to those particular niceties. The comments bring so much to the photos, which in themselves articulate volumes.

At least, Twug, don't go in wave pools where people in double intertubes are floating about. Not fun to mistime a jump over the wave, and then try to get back up but discover you can't because two people in a large intertube are floating above you! To quote Dane Cook "How dare you float above me while I am drowning in the abyss!!!"