By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Ira S. Bushey and Sons, for three generations was a nationally significant business located in Brooklyn’s Red Hook. Moreover, the tanker MARY A. Whalen, homeship of PortSide NewYork was built for Ira S. Bushey. Ira S. Bushey was born in...
Michael Gallagher, last General Manager of New York Shipyard, successor to Todd Shipyard, interviewed two weeks before selling the site to IKEA, talks about the shipyard, its history and final days. Gallagher represents the 5th generation of his...
John Gladsky is the definition of a colorful old salt. He is a marine salvor and the principal of Gladsky Marine and has an old-time Long Island accent. His oral history expresses nostalgia for the Todd Shipyard and criticism of public policy that...
When interviewed at a vigorous 82 years of age, Hank Dam laughs hard remembering the WWII slogan of Todd Shipyard “the difficult we do every day, the impossible takes a little longer.” Hank is clearly proud of the ingenuity and hard work of his...
Beard Street, south side, between Richard and Otsego Streets. At the left is a view of one of the many buildings of the Robins Dry Dock and Repair Co.
Street address: Beard Street & Richard Street, Brooklyn, NY
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The racing yacht VALKYRIE , was the unsuccessful British challenger of the ninth America's Cup race in 1895 against American yacht DEFENDER. While in dry dock in Erie Basin, being redied for the race, she was a popular attraction....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The 1903 America's Cup was won by the American sloop Reliance , who won all three races against the Irish challenger, Shamrock III . This was the 12th America's Cup. Reliance was designed by legenday Nathanael Herreshoff, and skippered by...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
America's Cup sloop Shamrock III . Shamrock III was entered in the 1903 America's Cup by Scottish selfmade millionaire Sir Thomas Lipton, founder of the Lipton tea company. The 12th America's Cup was the third consecutive Cup to be unsuccessfully...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Advertisement for Todd's Shipyards in 1921 editions of The Marine Journal , " America's Leading Marine Weakly ". Todd Shipyards Corportaion started in Red Hook, Brooklyn and by 1921 had expanded to New Jersey and Washington State. In Brooklyn they...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Photograph of Todd Graving Dock, ca. 1928
