Photo: Hudson River Park Trust
The Hudson river docks in New York harbor were once elegant terminals that greeted the arrival of passenger ships in the 1900s. Several were designed by the same architects that designed New York’s Grand Central Station. By the 70s, when I first arrive in the New York, they were largely abandoned – urban nightmares, known for violence, drugs and illicit sex. In the eighties and nineties, many of the old sheds were torn down, leaving bare concrete piers jutting into the river. Now, the Hudson River Park Trust is seeking proposals for the long term docking of historic vessels on at least one surviving pier, the newly refurbished Pier 25.
Hudson giving berth – River park will host historic ships
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An interesting followup to a 
This Thursday, January 13th, the three ships of the 
A disturbing report published yesterday in the
Two hundred years ago today the USS Revenge, under the command of Oliver Hazard Perry, sank in the waters off Rhode Island. On Friday, divers, Charles Buffum, Mike Fournier and Craig Harger, announced that they believe that they have located the wreck. In the wreckage they have found four 42-inch long cannons, an anchor, canister shot, and other metal objects that make them confident that they have the right ship. They do not have a positive identification however and some have noted that the Revenge was originally armed with 6 pounders with a length of 72″. Whether the ship was subsequently rearmed with carronades is the subject of discussion as well as whether the published photographs of the guns show trunnions indicating a conventional gun or lugs indicating carronades.
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A Ukrainian sailor, on a Dutch ship in international waters steaming toward Houston, Texas, got into a fight with a fellow crew member New Year’s Eve and the next morning was found dead in his cabin. An autopsy is being performed to determine the cause of death as the various authorities discuss the jurisdiction if it is determined that a crime has been committed.
