was:Re: [AT] Christmas Trees and Ships Plank Project now Liberty Ships

[Mike Sloane]

Up until the mid 1960s, there were about 50 Liberty ships lined up on 
the Hudson River in the Haverstraw NY area. They were not only tied up 
side by side but had massive cables connecting them with a powerful DC 
current passing through the hulls. This was the same electrolytic 
process that some of us use for de-rusting and served to keep the steel 
from corroding in the brackish Hudson River water (the river is tidal). 
For part of that time the ships were used to store surplus grain that 
the US government had purchased under one of the farm support programs. 
I suspect that the grain was eventually "donated" to some foreign 
country with starving citizens, and the ships were all scrapped.

Mike

DAVID BRUCE wrote:
> Charlie:
> I remember the mothballed ships when my family made a trip to Wilmington
> and to the USS North Carolina.  It must have been in the mid to late 60's.
> Quite a sight for this sheltered country boy.
> 
> David
> NW NC
> 
> 

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