Behold ex-LST-510, USS Buncombe County, preparing for a routine landing over in Connecticut.

Bowsprite drew it, so it drew me . . . I had to go see again, even though some years ago I’d ridden her.  If you look at her peers launched at JeffBoat in  late 1943 and early 1944, you’ll agree she’s a survivor.

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She follows the route that could have been a bridge from Long Island to Rhode Island!

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I believe this lighthouse, passed here by MV John H,  is still for sale . . .

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Click here to see frogman’s encounter with Plum Gut between Orient Point Light and

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Plum Island.

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Meanwhile . . .  here’s 495  . . . the water way.

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All photos by Will Van Dorp.

Click here for more info on the Cross Sound Ferry, mentioned here on tugster a few months back in connection with a certain 2003 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.

Finally . ..  unrelated but very important, vote here as often as you can given all your devices and browsers to get funding for USS Slater, about to come downriver for repairs.