Something Different 18

As I meander through my internal miasma, the blog stays noir–more accurately noir/blanc–with another set of screen shots from the NYC Municipal Archives, this time all 1940s  . . .Department of Sanitation tugs Spring Creek, Fresh Kills, and Ferry Point, docked in the East River.  Fresh Kills aka Miss Laura . ..  is she still operating out of Duluth?

Here’s another shot of Fresh Kills aka DS 43 off the Bellevue Hospital.  Anyone know what became of Spring Creek and Ferry Point?

Can anyone identify this 1941 tug moving coal scows eastbound into the East River off the Battery?

Undated but in Erie Basin, it’s SS Waziristan next to a floating grain elevator.  It turns out that in early January 1942, SS Waziristan–bound from New York to Murmansk– was sunk by Nazi air and submarine attack off Bear Island, Norway, lost with all 47 crew.

Help me out here . . . an unidentified tug docking an unidentified ship in Erie Basin in 1940.

Meanwhile off Tottenville, here’s a fleet of US Army transports . . . mothballed from WW!?

I believe this is a different ghost fleet in roughly the same area.  Notice the Outerbridge in the background.    Is this where all

this debris lies today?  Actually, I took this photo and the next two just “north” of the Outerbridge in August 2010.

All the vintage photos here are from the NYC Municipal Archives, where too many photos have lamentable scarcity of captioning.