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The Andrew J. Barberi was the first of two Staten Island Ferry boats in the Barberi class, which also includes MV Samuel I. Newhouse (built 1982). [2] Each boat has a crew of 15, can carry 6,000 passengers but no cars, is 310 feet (94 m) long and 69 feet 10 inches (21.29 m) wide, with a draft of 13 feet 6 inches (4.11 m), a gross tonnage of 3,335 short tons (2,978 long tons; 3,025 t), a ...
New York and renamed Alabaman. Operated under the management of American-Hawaiian Steamship Company. Sold to her managers in 1949, then sold in 1952 to Coral Steamship Co. and renamed Seacliff. Sold in 1954 to Seven Seas Steamship Corp., New York. Sold in 1956 to Liberty Navigation and Trading Co., New York and renamed Josefina. Operated under ...
She was allocated to South Atlantic Steamship Lines, Inc., on 8 August 1945. [4] In March 1947 Connolly was specially converted for the transportation of United States' war dead at the Hoboken Shipyard of the Bethlehem Steel Company. [5] On 26 October 1947 she arrived at New York carrying the first 6,248 war dead from Europe. [6]
Liberty Downtown Historic District is a historic district located at Liberty in Sullivan County, New York. The district includes 112 contributing buildings and comprises the village's commercial core. It subsumes the Liberty Village Historic District listed in 1978, which had 12 contributing buildings. [2] [3]
Statue Cruises - Lady Liberty. In 2007 the company was awarded a concession from the National Park Service to operate ferries to Liberty Island and Ellis Island, the only public access to the national historic sites in the Port of New York and New Jersey. This replaced Circle Line, which had operated the service since 1953. [7]
The Liberty Ship Building Company had their headquarters in Wilmington. She was built for service between New York and the West Indies. [4] The Atlantus was used to transport American troops back home from Europe and also to transport coal in New England. [5] After two years of service, the ship was retired in 1920 to a salvage yard in Virginia ...
SS John W. Brown is a Liberty ship, one of two still operational and one of three preserved as museum ships. [6] As a Liberty ship, she operated as a merchant ship of the United States Merchant Marine during World War II and later was a vocational high school training ship in New York City for many years.
SS James Longstreet (Hull Number 112) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II.Named after the Confederate general James Longstreet, she entered service in 1942, but was wrecked in a storm on 26 October 1943 and was subsequently used as a target hulk by the United States Navy.