Comments on: Ghost Puzzles 1

By: tugster

tugster — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 03:34:18 +0000

les– i’d love to see some fotos of her from the 20s and 30s.

By: Les

Les — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:14:59 +0000

The Major Albert Jenkins, I have pictures from the 1920′s and 30s. My grandfather was her Captian out of Fort Barrancus. Does anyone have any good pictures of her prior to her being re-fitted in the 50′s? The Jenkins towed gunnery targets in the Gulf of Mexico during the late 30′s early 40′s as well.

By: jeff s

jeff s — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:43:02 +0000

re. COURIER….i don’t think she actually worked for McAllister….some old dock rat told me she was purchased for certain machinery. probably never painted up in McAl. livery.

By: jeff s

jeff s — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:40:00 +0000

to right of 1217 is JANE McALLISTER built at John Sullivan,Elizabethport in 1918 as ALLENTOWN for N.J. C.R.R.

By: Bob Anderson

Bob Anderson — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:49:25 +0000

YOG’s were self propelled gasoline barges. YO’s were self propelled yard Oilers- NSFO (Navy Special Fuel Oil). There were also YW’s self propelled water barges and YG’s self propelled garbage scows. I served in the USS Haleakala (AE-25), an ammunition ship, during the Vietnam War. As an AE we rarely tied up to piers due to the nature of her cargo, so we received fuel, water and garbage services from these yard craft. Interestingly at Subic bay in the Phillipines the YO’s and YW’s were commanded by Chief Boatswain’s Mates but the YG’s captain was Second Class Boatswain’s Mate.
As an aside, just before we headed back to San Fran at the end of second trip to West Pac a YW tore off our port side boat boom.

By: Mage Bailey

Mage Bailey — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 02:52:02 +0000

As a west coast artist, I’m inspired by these photographs. Thanks.

By: tugster

tugster — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:40:49 +0000

harold–thanks for that info. i’ve been wondering how long MICHIGAN has been retired. i wish you and everyone had taken more fotos of traffic like MICHIGAN on the hudson back in the day. i wish i’d been taking fotos of coal ships on lake ontario in the 1960s . . .

By: tugster

tugster — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:38:54 +0000

at one point . . i suspected the navy called them “layers” and the army called them “planters”

By: Joe Herbert

Joe Herbert — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:32:08 +0000

My remark about a mine planter, I should say that that was probably just a terminology difference, becaise even with the different techniques it was probably just semantics.

By: Joe Herbert

Joe Herbert — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:28:03 +0000

Back in the Spanish American War till after WW I mines were planted because their anchor had to be set the way anchors are today, they used conventional anchors, not mushroom like are used today. That’s probably what happened to Britanic the water she was in was too deep for a planted mine, the one she hit was probably drifted free of a planted field.

The first puzzel appears to be the Stack flew and the stack of a steamship and the piston and mechanism just below the water in the left foreground look like part of the low pressure cylinder of a triple expansion engine. Its not unusual for the tops of the engine and associated parts of early metal ships of early flush deck ships to break through the deck, especially if the back is broken or distorted.

I have dove the USS Delphy at Honda Point in the seventies while stationed at Dago both of her low speed engines were broken through that way.