By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The names of things on ships are different than buildings on land. Here are some key words using PortSide New York's MARY A WHALEN as the example. Ship parts: beam: width of the boat bow: front end bulkhead : wall bunk: bed cabin:...
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Aniello (Henry) D’Auria began working as a welder's helper at Todd's Shipyard in 1933-34. Learning on the job he became a skilled welder. D'Auria describes the working conditions in shipyards as poor, noisy and noxious....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Industries that would have never considerred hiring women for any sort of job quickly changed their tune during WWII. While men were overseas fighting, women of Brooklyn were contributing to the war effort, and their own financial needs, by making...
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The trans-Pacific sidewheel steamship GREAT REPUBLIC built by Henry Steers in Greenpoint being fitted out in Graving Dock No. 1 of Erie Basin. The photo was taken in 1867. The dock is one year old. The Erie Basin breakwater is unfinished and at...
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The Arthur Engineering Works was located at 21 Delavan Street. In the 1920s Arthur together with Howard B. Tickle, ran an engineering shop building and repairing ships. Texts from an ad in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle , 1946: “The Tickle Engineering...
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The RMS TITANIC fatally struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912, tragically cutting short her maiden voyage. Survivors were rescued and brought to New York by the SS CAPATHIA. Also on board were 12 or 13 of the Titanic’s lifeboats. Titanic's wooden...
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The Atlantic Lifeboat Company, located at Richards and Delevan Streets, was founded in 1914. In addition to making lifeboats—important safety equipment on ships—the company made speedy powerboats.
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In 1921, the Brooklyn Spar Company advertised in The Marine Journal that it sold wooden masts and posts for derricks and flag poles, which the company made at its waterfront facility at the foot of Columbia Street. In O.R. Pilat's 1929 article, John...
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The company of Wortman & Hunterley were in the shipwright business, the making of wooden boats, on Red Hook Point. According to Hearnes' Brooklyn Directory of 1851, Isaac Wortman lived on Wolcott Street.
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Todd Shipyards started life in Brooklyn, in 1869, as Handren and Robins. After Handren's death in 1892, it became the J. N. Robins Co. and then, after merging with the Erie Basin Dry Dock Company, which had been established by Delamater Iron Works,...
