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This is one of your million dollar shots. The perspective is excellent, the colors are great, and you get an overall feeling of life in this old hull.

I'd love to clamber up on one of those anchors for a killer photo opp...

WOW, I LOVE THIS SHOT!

only in the great USA would so much good steel be left to rot into the water

Why not reuse the anchors on new ship?

yea in other countries guys with chains and hand tools would risk life and limb to salvage every scrap from this ship. i think that it is a prime example of our waste.

Throwing away human lives to salvage the last 5% of value from this ship is what I'd view as a prime example of waste! But maybe the way the railings come together to form a small cross image at the bow is just getting me into too much of a respect life mood. Quite a shot indeed that it can present such varied perspectives to different people.

um these ships are sitting in a scrap yard. If that doesn't tell you something i'll point it out, that means they are being salvaged. There goes your waste theory, the metal that's beyond salvaging is what's just sitting there....

Man this one is crazy, I am seeing fighting ninjas instead of the holes in the hull.

Disagree with Dirk, above. These ships do not seem to be in a scrap yard. They have been abandoned for so long that the hulls are literally rotted through. A scrapper would have yanked those anchors immediately.; a choice chunk of #1 Heavy Melting scrap is gold to a scrapper -- those anchors and much of the other visible scrap is hardly "beyond salvage". Scrappers don't wait until a sea chest carries away and the ship sinks at its mooring to cut things up. If these photos were taken in the Falklands or the Aleutians I could understand. New York???? Amazing!

For some odd reason this picture reminds me of the Titanic...

I think these are in a scrapyard. With the far east getting into the steel business and the cost of oil going up, it's not worth the energy it would take to melt these into usable steel again. I believe this is a place off of Arthur Kill Rd, Staten Island called "Wiite Marine". Nearby are two gargantuan LNG tanks rotting away as well. An interesting place to visit. Thank you for the photos.

fighting ninja's? thats some other dude's site!!! ;-)

I dont like the perspective, makes it look too ordinary and symetrical, not quite perfect...

wat een bonk roest

a Liberty Ship perhaps?

WOW!!! and all that rust goes in the sea??? it's sad to see the world as it is today :(( :((

anyone know approximately how old this ship is?

these pictures are really beautiful. but just imagine being in the ocean after falling out of the ship, and finally reaching the surface to see that about to run over you.... that would suck,

See next photo of DISPATCH to get a little history of this senior citizen!

I was born in NYC. When I was a little blue eyed, blonde haired angel, my dad used to take me down to the docks when the Queen Elizabeth (the first one) and the Queen Mary docked at the piers. I would stand on the pier, holding onto my dad's hand, and look up at the ship at the front (is that the aft?, I dunno) Well, looking at this shot reminds me of those long ago times. I guess I'm aging myself, but as I told Tom Tom, I'm older than dirt, so that will suffice. But I feel sadness looking at these derelicts. The Queen Elizabeth went down somewhere in the Pacific and the Queen Mary is berthed in Long Beach, Ca. , which I have been on. These vessels have some stories to tell!

Reminds me of the movie Ghost Ship.

One word. Bohemoth.

wicked

One word WALLPAPER

You can almost make out the ship's name on the starboard bow, just below the railing.

I've looked at that picture 4 times, and it STILL looks like it's throwing up a two-handed devil-horns sign.

The line of the bow is straight, or at least close to. That puts it somewhere between 1915 and 1930-40. After that you started seeing the forward swept curvy bows because they were more efficiant at cutting through the water.

This was probably a tramp steamer or tanker, probably about 80 years old. If it were a scrap candidate it would've been broken up back in the late 60s.

The Queen Elizabeth sank after catching fire in Hong Kong Harbour in the early 1970s.

I would love to stand at the top of there, if there is a place left to stand on.

looks like its proudly showcasing its sheer size and construction, ignoring its current commission, still showing pride and dignity !.

These photos are amazing. I can't help but think about the work that went into building these ships. Those anchors alone must have taken so long to make. All that time, rusting away.

Sad to see them sit and rot, thanks for giving them respect and a new lease on life through your photos!

this looks like a monster about to open his mouth and gobble you up, nom nom nom!

**Has fainted**

I really do not like boats and these pictures really creep me out but I had to make one comment on this one.... wheres kate & leo? shouldn't they be there at the front! with celine singing that god awful song!