Salt 8b

I could have called this a “scale” post, but I wanted to keep the thread.  The next two fotos were taken over a hundred years ago;  I used them back in 1989 in a now out-of-print book called Incomplete Journeys.  It was about shipwrecks in or near the mouth of the Merrimack River in Massachusetts.  The fotos show not salt but sand being loaded onto a schooner.  The vessel would be run onto the “sand pile” bank at high tide, loaded, and then floated off the next high tide.

These ships were called sand droghers there, although that usage doesn’t seem very widespread.   But I digress.

Let’s return to Port Newark, United Challenger, and salt.

61,000 tons of salt arrived on this ship.

Two men in cranes emptied the ship in about five days.

That involved an additional eight men driving trucks to the mountain.

Time lapse photography might be fun.

Notice the spiral staircase into the hold.  Also, this hatch is midships;  the bridge is quite a distance away.

Double click to enlarge (most fotos) this foto and just to the left of the Newark Bay Bridge, you’ll see WTC1.

This is taken from just forward of the first hatch, counting from the bow.

This is the bridge view.

This parting shot is from the starboard bridge wing.

Safe driving on icy roads.

All fotos (except the first two, of course)  by Will Van Dorp.   Many thanks to Brian DeForest of Atlantic Salt.