Arthur Kill Ship Graveyard 4K LOWEST TIDE OF THE YEAR! With history about the Ships
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- I charted this trip well in advance to get footage at the lowest non winter tide of the year, Took off from the New Jersey side of the kill, enjoy.
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Thanks, the history tidbits made the video. I did not notice them at first, I was only 1/2 paying attention.
We’ve got scrappers here that would have all that cleaned up in a week using an S10 pickup and a harbor freight folding trailer.... you’d never see them doing it either.
That’s why you don’t see that over here in Los Angeles. My guys are fast
Yep, if yo send in the scrap boys from Baltimore it'd be done by the end of the week. Just as fast as they can illegally strip a vacant house.
Haha love to see them try.
@@ls6-ss413 landlubbers , glub ,glub .
An S10 would have broken down before the first load!
Nice video.
The governors of NY and NJ should clean up their own backyards.
Too busy groping chicks, apparently!
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yeaa better time to clean up ships to metal recycle center
Lol, the 2 governor's are totally corrupt.........Both sent sick people into nursing homes and they died. Only N.Y's one is now getting in trouble but N.J.'s did the same thing.......Nothing on MSM about N.J. ?? be well.
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both musts be working together time to CLEAN UP all danger dirty ships and send to metal recycle center...
hurry up
@@bestamerica , I have run up the "Kill" with my boat a few times and there's a lot more junk than on this video. I can say 100% that the Jersey side is much cleaner this is just the tip of the iceberg :-( Both governors are nut jobs n will never clean up the waterways in the lower bay of the Hudson River.................Be Well.
Just a suggestion. Use a bolder typeface so it is easier to read.
Green. It’s easier to pick up quickly. It was a great video but the music? I would have had narrated the video.
I agree. Straining to read the text, only to have it disappear before I could finish.
That said, it was a fascinating video, and I thank you for doing the research and producing this video.
Yes, and the music is quite grating as well.
I was halfway thru the video before I realized there was text!
1:20 I ONCE KAYAKED WITH A GROUP THROUGH THAT FERRYBOAT!! We then crossed the Kill to the Graveyard. Someone painted S.S. MEOW MAN on one of the wheelhouses. Until now, I only knew the Tugs names as my own....the Red Tug and the White Tug. Glad I found this vid!
A photog's Fantasy!!
Imagine some of the stories those ships, both military and civilian could tell? Lansing craft of far away battles, ferries taking happy people to and fro, subchasers racing across the seas like greyhounds after the enemy. Tugs moving ships around. They all deserved a better fate than being left to rot in the mud.
So do we, but that's how it goes.
it looks like nature takes back the things we forgot..♥
"Takes back the things we forgot" -Ummmmm, no, not really - translation: nature
hides the societal garbage of that oceanic dumping ground in the mud - until
the NEXT low tide. Ten thousand years from now that skeletal garbage will still
be there in that dumping ground - showing up yearly in low tides.
@@clambroth1923 In a salt water environment, it's highly unlikely any of this junk will be recognizable a hundred years from now. Large metal housings and scraps of wood maybe.
Look at pictures of this place in 1973. Nature has taken back 80% of it since 1973. 10,000 years?
@@clambroth1923 Lol there won't even be rust left. the ONLY material that lasts the rigors of time is stone. for example How long do you think it's been since this city the size of the ENTIRE State of NY was above water? 10,000yrs? 100 thousand? Stone is all that remains. www.google.com/maps/@31.2384352,-23.9402426,336824m/data=!3m1!1e3
This is the site that got me into naval history 30+ years ago. It looked a lot different then. Awesome video thanks 👍🏼
"I saw which nearly broke my heart
A tramp lay dying
In the park
I knelt beside him to hear him speak
And the words that
He spoke were very
Weak
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He told me a story of
Long since past
Of a gallant ship with it's long grey mast
Of his captain's cap
With it's shining braid
And the wonderfull voyages that he made
3
Oh silent annie was that great ships name
Like a token of love
He spoke her name
She sailed round the horn
Ay'e more than once
She could cut through
The waves
Like a sharpen'd lance
4
Oh believe me he said
As his eyes filled with tears
Like a drunk on the corner
Remembering his years
He reached out his hand
And he took it in mine
I believe you i said
And he gave a sad smile
5
Then came the day when they towed her away
Her sid'es they were sore
From the sea's angered spray
He said she's unfit to
Sail out once more
They tugged her more windward
All around sandyshore
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As they broke silent annie
I watched with a sigh
I remembered her beauty
When i was a boy
She was my one love my
Lifes only dream
When we sailed out together
As captain and queen
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It started to rain i
Felt my hand tight
He squeezed even harder
As he ended the fight
The people they gathered
And watched with dismay
The ambulance men came and took him away
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I got to my feet and i
Walked through the park
The sun it had gone but
It was not yet dark
My body was wet my
Clothes were not many
My thoughts were around
By the ship silent annie..."
Finbar & Eddie Furey Lyrics
There is an Old Whalers saying, which went along the lines of;
“In the 50s (Latitudes) there was no laws, in the 60s there was no hope, in the 70s there was no God.”
"The freight trains will thunder on; the airplanes will roar but the wind will not sigh again gently in the rigging of an old sailing ship. Beauty will be gone from the ocean and an art form lost to the world."
Alan Villiers, “Last of The Wind Ships” 1936
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The Video was sad enough, now I got something in my eye. : )
@@fredgervinm.p.3315 “The Portuguese call it saudade: a longing for something so indefinite as to be indefinable. Love affairs, miseries of life, the way things were, people already dead, those who left and the ocean that tossed them on the shores of a different land - all things born of the soul that can only be felt.”
Anthony De Sa, Barnacle Love
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Please Be Well My Friend, and Stay Strong, Will
Oh my... Fran
The footage is amazing, and it's great that you have historical information on what these were.
It's too bad we can't read it because of that ridiculous typeface 🙁
It’s sad to see once hard working ships abandoned to rot. Can you imagine the stories their crews cold tell of hard work, days at sea or on the rivers keeping society moving. Towing barges, transporting commuters, fighting wars keeping ports open. I wish they could interview the crews to hear these stories, bring these ships and their crews back to life
Great video work, but I couldn't read any of the ships identification info (font needs to be larger, bolder, and up for a longer time). The people speaking was confusing since it was drowned out by the music. Overall, its a good video, and the music was appropriate.
Outstanding. As a VFW life member both Post and District historian and a fellow Brooklynite who was raised in the shadow of the Brooklyn Navy and a former Cold War era carrier sailor this is awesome. Drove by the outter bridge often recall seeing the ship but was not aware of its history six USN ships noted.
I love abandoned places. This is such a poignant video.And the music so suits the decay of once living things, human or otherwise.You fill in the history the way you like it. I grew up on the waterfront and we had one old pier that was partially abandoned and there was an old barge that we used to climb over. And the hull of a 19th cetury sailing ship that became a coal hulk and has now been restored and sits near our main city. The Polly Woodside in Melbourne Australia. So much effort by man and a few decades sends it back where it came from.Thankyou for posting..
very depressing sight to be honest... all those memories and storys that noone will tell or remember rotting away ☹️
I wonder how many bodies have been dumped there.
At least 1 ex wife can be confirmed.
the fresh kills landfill is a stones throw away, Lucky Luciano is one of the few to make it back from a trip out there. ( that’s where he got his nick name)
Its Staten Island and nobody cared.
Surprisingly everybody still wants to move here while many of us countdown to leave..
A lot of people are calling the site a "mess"...but I think they're just a bunch of magpies. To me, the site is a work of art. And yes, I subscribed to this channel.
Yes, a garbage dump has so much hidden imagery. You just have to “feel the message”!
I'm surprised all that iron didn't get scrapped a few years back when scrap prices were high. I would love to go picking some of them ships.
I'll bet the permit process is horrendous.
Yeah, it is kind of dumb actually. The wooden boats I completely understand will break down. The metal needs to be recycled.
@@mattf1229 There is very little scrap value left here compared to the hassles "they" would put you through to get it.
@@mattf1229 - actually, they have been. The original owner of this "Witte Scrapyard", John Witte, was acquiring ships to strip and scrap, but mostly didn't. He accumulated 400.
When he died, the next owners have reduced the count to about 30.
@@scdevon I would counter that comment with this. The majority of that metal is highly valuable because it's cast or forged and very different than what is commonly available elsewhere. Ship salvage has always been a huge business for this reason.
Brings back a lot of memories, I grew up a few blocks away from there.
Fantastic photography, but man makes such a mess of the planet . It's a crime to leave old ships to rot like this !!
“America, America, Man sheds his waste on thee”.
Pretty sure they purposely sink ships in order to make artifical coral reefs that harbor wildlife
theres no coral reef here but rotting wood dont hurt nothing.
@@TheDJLionman These aren’t reefs, those are always scuttled out at sea. These ships here came here to be scrapped, but no one ever did the deed.
An interesting perspective about this specific site, one of the ships is spewing something particularly nasty. The mud near these ships at low tide was enough to begin dissolving the rubber feet on my tripod and completely sloughed away the adhesive holding the sole of my sneaker to the shoe.
-Source: My own channel, a video from several years back.
Otherwise Shipwrecks do make fantastic hard-substrates on a normally sandy bottomed ocean for Corals and other ocean life to build a habitat on.
-Source: Google some scientific papers on the matter.
I enjoy watching the videos over the years and watchin the vessels be reclaimed.
Fantastic! I’ve wanted to see detailed footage of the Arthur Kill Ship Graveyard for years. I was hoping to see some abandoned ferry boats and now finally my suspicions are confirmed. Beautifully shot and just amazing to see what’s there up close. As a 60 year old, I remember ferries that would leave from St. George Staten Island bound for Brooklyn, New Jersey and of course to this day to Manhattan. Thanks so much for posting this!
USS PC-1264 was the Navy’s first all African-American crewed vessel. The exemplary performance of her crew in WWII played a significant roll in the movement to integrate the armed forces after the war.
Saw a pink tugboat like that tied up in Benicia CA one time, found someone at the yard and asked if it could be sold. His response: "If the termites ever quit holding hands, it's going straight to the bottom!"
For so many years Wittes Marine Salvage had the maritime history pass to it and sometimes through it. The place was rigidly controlled and very few marine historians ever could have access. The Schooner “Meteor” was built in 1902 on Shooters island for the Kaiser of Germany. The launching in February was attended by President Teddy Roosevelt and his daughter Alice at the Townsend and Downey shipyard. The great irony was after 2 Wars and the boat being all over the world, it ended up here just a few miles from where it had been built. It was totally scrapped there however because my family was Downey, that built the boat, several of my uncles went there and were actually able to purchase various items from Witte which are still in the family.
What a great film...nice work.
It's amazing how old some of those ships are, the tales they could tell!
Thank you for this rare low tide footage! The subchasers are in really bad shape. I thought they might be salvageable based on photos from a while ago but no way. Found photos of them back in 1990 and even then they have rust holes in the hull.
The water depth at the remains of those commercial piers would have been 15 to 20 feet at low tide long ago. Amazing how much this place has silted in.
You are so lucky. Not only are they visible, they're positively ancient. And mostly intact, despite being wooden ships. What a catch! This whole place needs to become an outdoor museum. Restore the best ones, and let the rest Rust In Peace. I want to camp out in that ferryboat wheehouse.
Lots of history right there .
Some see wrecks, others see history.
Edit : Great that the names of the boats were added as the video went on, great video.
Exactly!
That was wonderful, thank you good sir
What always gets me about old machines, wrecked or restored, is that once upon a time, these were part of everyday life. They were once brand new, clean and gleaming, the best modern technology had to offer, like the Toyota Prius or the Space Shuttle. Over time, they suffered the usual scratches, dents, and rust, eventually becoming obsolete and too old to be worth refurbishing. No matter what era, all technology will become obsolete, and be discarded by all but dedicated enthusiasts. It's eerie.
One of the most atmospheric videos I've seen.
This video was just incredible. I have fished at the graveyard for blackfish. It is definitely a cool and interesting place to go. I'm headed up there on Wednesday
When I was little there were a lot more ships/boats there. Used to be clipped ship hulls that had been de masted . Landing craft were stacked one on the other in big piles. A fire burned most of them many years ago
Correct ! I grew up on Staten Island in the 50's and that area had many more steel barges, ships, relics of WWII. The Arthur Kill and Kill Van Kull seperates N.J. from Staten Island NYC. A wasteland then and now.
Great work. I never knew this mess existed
great video ,,,, ive been there by boat several times
the owners should be made to clear that mess up.
I'll bet that pretty much all of those were government owned vessels. They were dumped there due to obsolescence. At the time of their disposal the area was a garbage dump.
That’s history, why would you want it cleared up? You wouldn’t t have this video to watch for a start if they had!
@@AnAmericanDodo It was common practice last century to haul worn out boats to a salvage yard like this to be stripped. A boat was a tool. When it wore out, you discarded it. There was money to be made and mouths to feed. People didn't have the Hipster attitude of "restoring" everything back then.
They have been. A few decades ago there were almost 400 ships here iirc. Now there’s about 30
Great job!
Thank you!
I visited this graveyard on occasion some 40 years ago. I would tie off my speed boat and we would go exploring on the wrecks. It is nothing like it was back then.
There were whole intact cargo ships and ferry's you could actually walk around on. There was even a WW II Navy Destroyer almost fully intact. I wish I could recall the name.
I seem to recall that one of the fire boats that went to the assistance of the General Slocum is still in there somewhere. Terrific video. Great drone work and good editing. I’ve subscribed.
i heard that as well. An old picture clearly showed it and made mention of the General Slocum
Well done! Sad, but well done.
Mans and women hard work over the years in making things of history now
Nice work! Consider the higher angle of the sun in the summer time when getting drone footage. At noon in the summer, you'll get the light penetrating straight (for this latitude) into the water. In addition to the angle, the strength of the light will be much greater.
He did this at the low tide. Not the optimum light angle time.
America the Beautiful. YEAH, RIGHT!
I can’t believe what a mess that whole area is and how many boats are there
All that area completely unusable
Questo e' rispetto per la natura!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The silt alone there is ten feet thick. There are more ships under the water that you cannot see also.
It is next to a landfill and a power station, so the land was pretty worthless.
I used to drive past it every month. I always wondered if anyone would try to clean it up.
This property obviously had commercial piers at one point. If it's still zoned that way, it has value and you might see it cleaned up some day. You'd need salvage barges with huge deck cranes picking it all out and dredging. You would eventually get it all out no matter how much is down there. Expensive, but not much different from demolishing and improving other waterfront properties from scratch.
My favourite was the Bloxom. What a cute little boat. Shame it's too far gone to consider a rescue.
I though it was the "Buxom" when I first read it! LOL I was like I'd like to be the only guy who served on it! LOL!
As a young teen, my friends and I would go around there and crab off some of the barges.. Never ate any thing we caught but some of the neighbors did and they are still alive. I wouldn't trust the heavy metals, and Petroleum products that were being dumped in the Kill before the 1980's. Now the shore line just south of there is all Condo's and the barges are gone.
Nature will re purpouse what we build, then reclaim it.
She only needs time to do her work.
Anthony Williams - Slowly but surely 🧐
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Nature runs at her own pace.
This is amazing! Thankyou for doing this and posting this!!
The excellent drone footage early on was spoiled by the artsy editing that did not allow the shot to establish, just cutting away just as the shot got interesting. The piano music is ok, the captions are not suitable for viewing on a phone or tablet, and what are the annoying voices all about? Other wise interesting
like a disembodied spirt flying about checking things out
Fantastic video of a long forgotten shoreline of abandon marine working craft.
All of these old pre- and war time vessels had zero value by the 1950’s or before.
See how many docks and warfs were once there in service, now only stub piling.
@6:21 as near as I can tell, this is the area where the steam American Legion was, with the steam ferry Rockaway on one side and two more ATRs on the other side. The American Legion was gutted by fire in 1977 and several vessels around it burned as well. The fire was supposedly started on July 4th, when people in pleasure boats, celebrating the 4th of July shot fireworks into some of the wooden boats. The fire burned pretty well across the yard and took three days to put out. There were wooden barges filled with steam gauges, steam pumps ("hundreds of them"), fire extinguishers, and other machinery. When they were burned in the fire, their contents fell into the brackish water of the Hudson River and sank into the mud, most of it never to be recovered. The paths between the hulks were gone as well; making their salvage all the more difficult.
Time to clean it up.
@5:48 in the space above the HILA (ATR 89) used to be the NY FD fireboat ABRAM S. HEWITT, 1908 tugboat Transfer #21, and 1904 tugboat Transfer #16. The ABRAM S. HEWITT served from 1903 until 1958; it was one of the fireboats that attempted to put out the fire aboard the NORMANDIE, and resulted in the ocean liner's capsizing at her moorings and later being scrapped. It was built by New York Shipbuilding Corp in 1903, and was the last coal-burning fireboat used. It had a triple expansion four cylinder engine.
I'm betting La Cosa Nostra has done some "planting there".
I think they like cement overcoats
Good place for a super criminals laboratory.
wonderful content!!!
Thank you!
Drove a NYC Transit bus on Staten Island for 22 years. Used to pass that place all the time .Knew it was a ship graveyard didn't realize how big it was. There is also a human graveyard there between Arthur Kill Rd and those ships.
Blazing Star.
This is stupid, let's recycle the metal and let these ships live again. We also would be helping old Mother Earth to become cleaner. It's really a win-win choice, LET'S DO IT.
Saw some LCIs too.
The New England passenger vessel of 1928 in the film is the New "Bedford," which operated around Nantucket Island and Martha's Vineyard for the Eastern Steamship Company. In World War II, she sailed across the Atlantic in a convoy of similar ships that did battle with German U-boats and survived to reach the U.K. She was used as a hospital ship and was involved in evacuating wounded personnel from Omaha Beach during the Normandy Invasion. She returned to the U.S. after the war and ran as an excursion boat until abandoned in the Arthur Kill.
@2:12 in the center of this frame is the Navy tugboat HILA (ATR 89), built in 1944.
Cuantas historias en esos barcos que nunca se sabrán...Seguro que los ferrys y remolcadores tal vez puedan ser vistos en imágenes de películas y noticieros de época. Todo lo que va a quedar de ellos para su recuerdo.
Surprised the EPA does not have anything to say about this site...
This was a legit salvage yard when these boats were brought there so most fuels and oils were most likely removed although there are always residues and paints, etc.
All of the damage that is going to be done to the environment has already been done though. A long time ago.
Incompetent Agency useless
Plus, I don’t think there’s much pollution here anyways. I doubt there are enough toxins left to worry about at this point
Best place to go crabbing for blue claws!
Amazing
Great shot on Wikipedia of this area in 1973.
I see lots of good firewood, love the old vessels, at least some of these old hulks are former steamers, so very little pollutants, unlike a more modern ships.
500th subscriber!
Thanks man!
I’m going to start making more videos now that the channel made it to 500!
This place totally gives me the creeps. Yet I can’t look away.
Wow, hard to believe,that so much is wasted and left to rot
@2:51 the curved and badly tilted wreck at upper left is the 1928 New England steamship New Bedford. Some parts were taken from it to restore it's sister ship the Nobska; unfortunately, the drydock the Nobska was in was needed for the U.S.S. Constitution, and because it could not be floated out, it was scrapped.
To the left of the New Bedford is the remains of the steam ferry Seawalls Point. The 1928 ferry Greenwich Village is to the right of the New Bedford. The Navy tugboat HILA (ATR 89) is in the middle of this frame; the tugs Harrisburg and Walter Meseck are above it, and the three landing craft next to PC-1264 are at the bottom. The tugs Sacum and Susan Moran, and the tanker Transoil may be to the upper left of them. Another salvage derrick with it's boom is at upper right.
@3:17 In 1998, the MAJ. GEN. WILLIAM H. HART was sold to a private investor, who had requested it to be towed down to this point on the Jersey Coast. After the boat had arrived at the predetermined spot, the tug waited for several hours for pickup to no avail, and the boat was left docked at this pier, where it sits half sunk today. Of special interest, the boat was put onto the National Registry of Historic Ships, not far after her abandonment.
Graveyard of giants
Very cool, I used to work on a harbor tug in the area, we passed there all the time. I wonder if those wreaks of the tall ships are still over by Hess Bayone?
Arthur Kill is a deep draft channel isn't it? I see some big stuff passing through there in other videos. With those ruins of heavy piers on this property, it would have had to have been deep in that basin for a turning basin and at the piers long ago.
It has a maintained depth of no less than 35ft at low tide, the channel is to be dredged to a depth of 50ft for heavier traffic.
@@justgotohm4775 Thanks. There's a shot of this place on Wiki from 1973 if you haven't seen it. Lots of boats stuffed in there and mostly floating.
Kind of sad really, all of these were someone's boats, someone enjoyed these, worked on these, some probably even lived on some of these. These were someone's livelihoods, and now they stand as the relics of the past, slowly being torn away piece by piece until there is nothing left but the memory. It's quite poetic when you think about it, how we who go throughout our lives work, build, live, and carry on will eventually pass and be left with a shattered husk, destined to wither away until only the memory remains.
@2:15 at the lower right is the remains of the steam tug Walter Meseck. It was built in Tottenville, NY in 1931, and had a 250HP steam engine. To it's right may be the remains of the steam tug Wilmington, built for the PRR in Wilmington, DE in 1900.
@2:57 above the bow of HILA (ATR 89) in the center of the picture, from top to bottom, are the 1931 steam tug Walter L. Meseck, 1900 PRR steam tug Wilmington, 1916 PRR steam tug Olean (PRR #12). There are a couple of wooden barges, then the 1910 PRR steam tug Chester (PRR #11), what is thought to be the 1919 steam tugboat Lee, then another wooden barge. On the other side of that barge is the 1922 steam tug Shirley Keller and another unknown tug. Then, off to the left, you have side-by-side of the remains of (right to left) the 1928 steam ferry Greenwich Village, 1928 New England steamship New Bedford, and the motor ferry Seawalls Point. Above them is the Meseck Towing company Courier, LT Class steam tug Bloxom, an unknown tug, YOG 64, and tanker Michigan.
Still looks nicer than the luxury condos that will surely come later......
we have our ship graveyard at Spike Island Widnes the ships there are all ine type Mersey Flats and At Sutton Level locks on the River Weaver uk including the oldest Mersey flat Called Daresbury which was built in 1772 and was aflote till 1960 and was sunk in the lock along with 30 other boats inculding narrow boats, a steam launch and Weaver Flats
I once heard that the Alexander Hamilton from the Day Line Tour boats was in the Arthur Kill. Do you know it's location?
Many thanks for posting this, and I have subscribed to see more. I agree with Craig. The typeface could stand to be bolder, and please leave it on screen for a little longer.
Thank you for the sub! more videos coming soon.
i have received a lot of feedback about the typeface, I may redo the video to make it easier to read, as it took a lot of research to get the history and names of as many boats as I could,
as far as the Alexander Hamilton , from what i've heard she sank just off the coast of a pier in Atlantic Highlands NJ in 1977, its likely not visible anymore from the surface, I hope this helps,
That may have been the ferry that was grounded up the Raritan on the south side near the turnpike bridge. there was a ferry and a huge luxury yacht grounded there. I believe they were removed. Have to swing by there and see for myself.
I noticed what looks like old rotting docks, was this some type of port, perhaps to ship in garage for the land fill here ?
@3:53 HILA (ATR 89) is at the center. The New Bedford with the barely visible ferry Seawalls Point is at the top left edge of this frame. In front of the badly tilted New Bedford is the 1928 ferry Greenwich Village.
@1:56 another view of the 1921 steam ferry Beacon. One of the salvage barges with it's huge derrick is ahead of it. The remains of the steam tug Margaret A Moran and another unknown tug are in front of and off the port bow of the Beacon. An unknown tug, with the remains of the steam ferry Garden City are at the upper right. The steam tug Dewey may be on the right edge of this frame.
@5:09 from the bottom of the screen upwards, you have an unknown tugboat, what is thought to be the 1922 Hudson Tow Boat Co. steam tugboat Shirley Keller and the 1919 Lee Transit Corp. steam tugboat Lee. On the other side of the two wrecked barges are the 1910 PRR steam tugboat Chester (PRR #11), 1916 PRR steam tugboat Olean (PRR #12), and 1900 PRR steam tugboat Wilmington. Then HILA (ATR 89).
The 1916 PRR screw steam lighter Bucyrus and the 1914 railroad carfloat 618 used to be where those barges are at top right; I assume they are gone for good now.
Nasty part of the world
Nature will reclaim all.
The Staten Island boat graveyard is a marine scrapyard located in the Arthur Kill in Rossville, near the Fresh Kills Landfill, on the West Shore of Staten Island, New York City. The place has been recognized as an official dumping ground for old wrecked tugboats, barges and decommissioned ferries.
@3:54 you can barely see the semi-circular roof and other remains of the 1910 PRR steam tug Chester (PRR #11) next to barge at the right edge of this frame. The 1900 PRR steam tug Wilmington is at lower right, the remains of the 1916 PRR steam tug Olean (PRR #12) are in between.
Imagine if all those docks where brought back into use thats a lot of capacity for industry
just curio,are they going to clean this.good job again thank you
Wow that is sad to see those ship's were someone's pride and joy at one time ! Now just rotting away.
Nursing homes for ships. Same thing.
Nice
This should never be allowed to happen ! Make the owners clean it up !
@6:05 notice the tops of the boilers and the tops of the compound steam engines sticking up out of the three tugs on the right. From right bottom upwards, they are the Sachem, an unknown tug, tug Pentucket, Ned Moran, possibly tug Mary E Messeck, unknown barge, Margaret A Moran (not visible), unknown tug (not visible), 1921 steam ferry Beacon.
Great video, just illustrates the human 'throw away' society? Land, sea, earth orbit, moon and now Mars. Any more?
@0:39 I think the tug in the foreground is the Meseck Towing Line tug Courier. The hulk in the distance at upper right is the tanker Michigan.