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

charlie hill chill8 at cox.net
Tue Dec 6 14:28:53 PST 2005


Mike I suspect the ones in Wilmington were protected that way too.  That 
area is tidal, brackish water and the creek they were in was lined with salt 
marsh.

Charlie
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From: "Mike Sloane" <mikesloane at verizon.net>
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Subject: Re: was:Re: [AT] Christmas Trees and Ships Plank Project now 
LibertyShips


> 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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