John Gladsky is the definition of a colorful old salt. He is a marine salvor and the principal of Gladsky Marine and has an old-time Long Island accent. His oral history expresses nostalgia for the Todd Shipyard and criticism of public policy that...
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...
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
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
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....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
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...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
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...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
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...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
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...
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
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....
By The Red Hook WaterStories team
Workers fixing a ship propeller at Todd's Shipyard, Erie Basin, Brooklyn ca. 1950
