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...
Robins Dry Dock & Repair Co, 1931
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
Valkyrie III [in Erie Basin], 1895
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....
Reliance in dry dock at Erie Basin, Aug. 17, 1903
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...
Shamrock III in dry dock [at Erie Basin], Aug. 17, 1903
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...
Todd Shipyards Advertisements, 1921
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...
Todd Graving Dock, Photo by John Bartlestone
Architectural photographer John Bartlestone was one of many who called for the saving of Todd shipyard in Erie Basin. For more than 140 years - until February 2005 that graving dock had been used to repair large shipping vesels. This photograph is...
Crane's Shipyard and Dry Docks
Crane’s Shipyard and Dry Docks, established in 1867, was located in Erie Basin. A history of the company is provided in George Weiss’s America’s Maritime Progress , published in 1920, and in the 1922 Pilot Lore . According to Weiss, Theo. A....
Todd Shipyards: Propeller
Workers fixing a ship propeller at Todd's Shipyard, Erie Basin, Brooklyn ca. 1950
Ramberg Iron Works buys property from failed Atlantic Dock Company, 1918
Ramberg Iron Works paid $650,000 to the receivers of the Atlantic Dock Company for eight and three quarter acres fronting the Buttermilk Channel at the foot of Coffey, Dykman, Sullivan and Wolcott Streets in 1918. The site was within the free...