Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/18

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Last supertanker in Brooklyn - a file of B&W images
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:48:50 -0700
References: <CACcosUNDK-P5=xFz5BAPXNjsYjB693m7ZMs2=ZBPdrjtg9+ksw@mail.gmail.com>
 
Thanks for showing. I was living in NYC then, but didn't know enough
to know that there was a functioning shipyards there.

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> In 1977 Sealand built the last supertanker constructed in Brooklyn. At that
> time I was a member of the NAS Marine Board and was free to roam all over
> the construction site, Rollei35SE in hand. The reason that the ship was the
> last ?is due to the dredged draft of NY Harbor. Any bigger ship could not 
> be
> floated out to sea. When loaded with oil the tanker can never return. The
> pictures are reminiscent of an era when the USA still built stuff. Now 
> there
> is talk of turning the Brooklyn Navy Yard into a produce market.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Supertanker/
>
> Larry Z
In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] IMG: Last supertanker in Brooklyn - a file of B&W images)