Yeah, that was probably the Holder. She was an Edsall class DE (DE-401) that caught a torpedo from a german plane in 1944. They transplanted her stern to the USS Menges (DE-320) and sold the bow to Witte in 1947. I was just curious because I saw her in some old undated aerial photos of the yard. Thanks, Jim!

Nevermind. Nothing beats the aerial views that Live Search has.

by that I mean, was she finally scrapped or moved or ?

Jim, do you know when and what happened to the bow of the USS Holder that used to be in the yard?

Hey Motts, any chance you got some shots of the steamer that's just the other side of this ferry? That one's called the New Bedford and she's got a fascinating history of service in WW2.

My grandmother used to press records at Decca. I still have her collection of 78 albums of theirs from the 1940s and 45s through the 1960s. I didn't know they made players too.

If anyone's interested, you can get nicely detailed satellite view of the boatyard here:

http://maps.google.com...497&t=h&om=1

be sure to click satellite)
For those of us who'll never make it in person, it helps to picture the scene when you can pick them out from above.