NYCkayaker Graveyard of Ships With A History Buff

[bonnie13 at earthlink.net]

This must be relatively new, or you would have found it when you looked!  

http://wikimapia.org/15602964/Ex-USS-YOG-64-M-T-Francis-Reinauer


-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Schiffner <chris at schiffner.com>
>Sent: May 4, 2010 10:35 AM
>To: 
>Cc: nyckayaker <nyckayaker at rockandwater.net>
>Subject: Re: NYCkayaker Graveyard of Ships With A History Buff
>
>Nice shots! I got out to the graveyard for the first time last summer. 
>Any chance your friend knows a little history on the navy fuel tanker at 
>the top end of the graveyard? When I googled the ship the only 
>information I could find for the numbers on its hull was from a 
>declassified paper about testing atomic bombs.
>
>Here is a shot showing the hull numbers "YOG64":
>http://www.schiffner.com/image_gallery/index.php?g=cschiffner_0.87433400_1252814949&i=IMG_2000.JPG&a=vi&cp=5
>
>Here is a picture of the ship:
>http://www.schiffner.com/image_gallery/index.php?g=cschiffner_0.87433400_1252814949&i=IMG_2018.JPG&a=vi&cp=5
>
>Sincerely,
>Christopher Schiffner
>chris at schiffner.com
>http://www.schiffner.com/
>
>
>On 5/4/2010 9:43 AM, bonnie13 at earthlink.net wrote:
>> I've been trying to get my friend Will, who writes the Tugster blog I'd linked to earlier this year, to the Staten Island "Graveyard of Ships" for a while. We finally pulled it off on Sunday. I'd been wanting to get him there partly because he would really enjoy it, but also partly for selfish reasons - every time I go there I wonder about the history of those old hulks, but I'm too dang lazy to do my own research. Weather, tides and our schedules finally harmonized this weekend just past, so I asked a special favor of our fleet captain (thanks so much, Minh!) and off we went.
>>
>> Will is a pretty good amateur historian&  his readers tend to be quite knowledgeable about such things too, so by getting Will there I was figuring on finding out a lot more about the place&  the boats without having to figure out how&  where to start digging. We've both been having some fun posting about the trip&  the ships, and both he&  the commenters on his blog have come through with the flying colors. I've learned more about the place&  the ships there in the last 2 days than I'd learned since I first went there in 2005. I know that's a pretty popular destination&  I thought others might enjoy reading some of our findings, too.
>>
>> his blog - www.tugster.wordpress.com
>>
>> mine - www.frogma.blogspot.com
>>
>>
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