Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/18

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Last supertanker in Brooklyn - a file of B&W images
From: scleroplex at gmail.com (scleroplex)
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:16:46 -0400
 
quite a memory!
if you tell people today some of the things we took as normal they say "no
sah".

precious shots indeed.
beautiful!
bharani


Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:14:42 -0400
From: Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>
Subject: [Leica] IMG: Last supertanker in Brooklyn - a file of B&W
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In 1977 Sealand built the last supertanker constructed in Brooklyn. At that
time I was a member of the NAS Marine Board and was free to roam all over
the construction site, Rollei35SE in hand. The reason that the ship was the
last  is due to the dredged draft of NY Harbor. Any bigger ship could not be
floated out to sea. When loaded with oil the tanker can never return. The
pictures are reminiscent of an era when the USA still built stuff. Now there
is talk of turning the Brooklyn Navy Yard into a produce market.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Supertanker/

Larry Z