Click here for previous photos from Jed. Click here for a photo of John W. Brown when she housed a high school in the sixth boro, pre-1988. Jed took these photos while he was onboard in Norfolk this past weekend. Click here for info about her September 2016 visit back to her place when she was assigned to the NYC Board of Education.
For the rest, I’ll let Jed’s photos speak for themselves.
photo date 22 MAY 2016
Steven McAllister is a 1963 YTB. John W. Brown had already passed 20 eventful years under her keel by then.
photo date 22 MAY 2016
photo date 22 MAY 2016
photo date 22 MAY 2016
Many thanks to Jed for these photos. NYC should be seeing its own wave of gray arriving today.
Below is a photo taken on June 10, 1946 showing dozens of Liberty ships anchored between where the TZ Bridge would be built (BF is correction thanks to Tony A’s comment) and Haverstraw. That looks like Ossining in the distance. This photo and hundreds of others can be found in the Digital Collections of the NY State Archives here. Who knows, Brown could actually be anchored among the others.
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May 25, 2016 at 3:22 pm
Tony A
Tugster, that is a very early picture of the Hudson River Reserve Fleet. After WWII excess ships were mothballed at many locations. Some still remain such as Suison Bay, CA, James River VA, and Beaumont TX. Right after WWII the reserve fleet was located off of Tarrytown NY. which is what you see in the background. In fact that is Tarrytown Lighthouse and the old GM plant which has been razed. In April 1946 they moved the fleet up to Jones Point. Where it stayed until 1971. There is a monument on land where the site was. Ships were taken from the fleet for the Korean War, Vietnam and the Suez Crisis. The fleet peaked at 189 ships. The Tappan Zee Bridge is not visible because it wasn’t built yet. Construction was started in 1952.
May 25, 2016 at 3:28 pm
tugster
Thanks, Tony. I’d forgotten that the TZ Bridge would not be STARTED until March 1952, six years after this photo was taken.
May 26, 2016 at 6:22 pm
Rob
When the ships were reactivated, or sent to the breakers, it was as cold iron. With no steam to raise the anchors how did they get them aboard, or is the Hudson bottom paved with iron in some areas?
May 26, 2016 at 8:37 pm
tugster
good question, Rob. anyone weigh in?