This “fleetless” 2013 fleet week in the sixth boro is an ideal time to look back at previous fleet visits, using these vintage fotos taken almost a third of a century ago by Seth Tane. Here’s my “fleeted” fleet week fotos from 2012.
Foto #1. USS Mount Whitney arrives in town with airship escort. Which lightship might that be off LCC-20’s port bow? My thanks to Jed for identification of LCC-20.
Foto #2. Victory ship USNS Twin Falls as campus for Food and Maritime Trade high School rafted up along the North River with Liberty ship SS John W. Brown, a floating nautical high school. Which pier# or street were these docked at? Can anyone share fotos taken inside these unique school vessels?
Foto #3. Comparing with this foto of Wire WYTL 65612 taken less than a year ago, it appears changes have been made over the past 30 years to her house. Also, notice the “previous” version of the Staten Island ferry terminal off her starboard.
Foto #4. Seatrain Lines vessel Transindiana after some altercation. Transindiana was initially built as a WWII USN transport vessel. Enjoy these other Seatrain fotos.
Foto #5. Intrepid initially arrives in the North River to begin service as a museum ship. The foto is taken from a vessel on Pier 9 in Jersey City.
All fotos thanks to Seth Tane. And, I again invite your comments and reminiscences. If you missed it, here was the first installment of this series.
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May 28, 2013 at 4:18 pm
Les Sonnenmark
Photo 2: JOHN W. BROWN was docked at Pier 42 (no longer in existence) at the foot of Morton Street. When we towed her out of the James River Reserve Fleet to Baltimore in 1988 she still had the lockers, etc. from her days as a high school. All that has been removed in the interest of restoration to WWII configuration, but someone at Project Liberty Ship must have pre-restoration photos. I’ll see what I can dig up.
May 28, 2013 at 4:48 pm
Anonymous
First Photo can’t be last year. Helen H has been on Cape Cod for years.
May 28, 2013 at 9:31 pm
bowsprite
isn’t she lovely…our harbor!!!
(I do prefer the ‘before’ pictures of grassy, weedy piers with rusted junk everywhere, pre-HighLineization.) Skies still look the same: smoggy.
May 28, 2013 at 10:01 pm
tugster
dear anon– sorry if i was confusing. foto #1 of helen h was taken in 1984. the last sentence of the first paragraph has a link to fotos from 2012.
May 30, 2013 at 7:37 am
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