Heroes of New York Harbor : tales from the City's port

Heroes of New York Harbor : tales from the City's port / Marian Betancourt ; foreword by Captain Brian McAllister and Edmond Moran Jr.

Today the Port of New York is where container ships and tankers park while waiting to reload and be on their way around the world. Long black tankers support layered white wheelhouses. Bright orange freighters with pink hulls and white cabins support deck cranes sitting like giant grasshoppers. The...

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Main Author: Betancourt, Marian (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Guilford, Connecticut : Globe Pequot, [2016]
Subjects:
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.) > History.
New York (N.Y.) > History.
New York (State) > New York
United States > New York Harbor
History
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Table of Contents:
  • The Bay Ridge anchorage: an ever-changing canvas
  • Jonathan Williams, keeping us safe from enemies
  • The Irish Navy, part 1: the Moran family
  • The Irish Navy, part 2: the McAllister family
  • Dynamite Johnny O'Brien: a captain unafraid
  • John Newton: the man who opened Hell's Gate
  • Emily Warren Roebling and the Great Bridge
  • John Wolfe Ambrose: bringing in the biggest ships
  • Lighthouse Kate Walker: single working mom
  • Irving Bush's "folly"
  • Malcolm McLean: thinking inside the box
  • Admiral Richard Bennis, Captain of the Port, 9/11.

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