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5 days ago · An official investigation in 1997 concluded that the bow door of the ferry had failed during a storm, flooding the car deck and causing the vessel to roll over and sink. The ship went down in less than an hour, with only 137 survivors.
4 days ago · White’s Ferry represents a piece of the region’s past as an early commerce route that built and sustained local economies and remains so today. The Kuhns have already embarked on a number of upgrades to the ferry to bring more operational and environmental efficiencies to improve services and preserve a piece of history.
4 days ago · Lost Decade: The 1990s for Japan, and the first decade of the current millennium for the United States. “Lost Decade” was a term initially coined to describe the Japanese economy in the last ...
1 day ago · An enclosed 5,000,000-US-gallon (19,000,000 L) tank was used for sinking interiors, in which the entire set could be tilted into the water. In order to sink the Grand Staircase, 90,000 US gallons (340,000 L) of water were dumped into the set as it was lowered into the tank.
5 days ago · The Staten Island Ferry Memorial Museum and monument is part of an elaborate and hilarious hoax undertaken by artist Joseph Reginella, a Staten Island resident.As the story goes, on November 2nd ...
3 days ago · SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes and remains the largest to have sunk there.
4 days ago · The Ferry’s humble origins. Here’s a little Staten Island Ferry history to get you started. In the early 1800s, before our modern bridges and tunnels existed, residents traveled between the boroughs on private two-masted sailboats called periaugers. Then, in 1810, a young entrepreneur decided to start his own ferry service.
