By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The tanker MARY A. Whalen, homeship of PortSide NewYork was built for Ira S. Bushey. Ira S. Bushey started his work life driving mules on the Erie Canal in the latter half of the Nineteenth Century. After trying various jobs he returned to the...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Here's a story about a color that involves our oil tanker, high fashion, interior design and Egypt. Yes, we said that. The MARY A WHALEN, originally the S.T. KIDDOO, was launched in 1938. In the many years since, her walls (bulkheads in ship...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
All day and into the night Captain Benn made his rounds of Brooklyn's piers supplying newly arrived vessels with something that he said could keep sailors sane and captains ethical: reading material. Benn had been spreading words for 11 years by...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Tugboats were developed in the 1810s, soon after the invention of steam powered ships. They have been, and continue to be, an important part in the workings and successes of Red Hook's working waterfront. Beginning in the 1840s, and most...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
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A History of Red Hook Norman Brouwer, noted maritime historian - the man who basically wrote THE guides to historic ships and some of our national preservation standards for them - graciously wrote this maritime history of Red Hook for...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
The Mary A. Whalen was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 2012. The National Park Service 's National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation's historic places worthy of preservation. It is part of a...
