Shipbuilding inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard did not end with the Navy closing the Yard in 1967.
In 1969 Seatrain Shipbuilding began building the largest ships to ever be built inside the Yard.
Brooklyn Steel-Blood Tenacity will take the reader inside the wall of the Brooklyn Navy Yard
where the Shipbuilders of Seatrain Shipbuilding built the 2220,000 ton Brooklyn, Williamsburg,
Stuyvesant & Bay Ridge [oil tankers larger then super tankers], 8 ocean going barges,
1 ice breaker barge, 2 Ro-Ro's against all odds! The Shipbuilders of Seartrain Shipbuilding were
the last of the great Brooklyn Shipbuilders who learned their trade by way of mouth and hand.
Contents: Seatrain Lines Enters Shipbuilding, Applying for Employment, Building the Brooklyn,
Williamsburg, Stuyvesant;Economic Hell!, ABC World News Visits the Stuyvesant,
The Area Around the Yard, The Sea Witch, Ro-Ro's and the Bay Ridge, Shadow of the Grim Reaper,
The End of the Line!, The Great Brooklyn Navy Yard Today, The Royal Screwing, Along Time Coming!
Brooklyn Steel-Blood Tenacity publisher; Publish America.
ISBN1-4241-8273-5
Brooklyn Steel-Blood Tenacity Copy Right 2007 All Rights reserved.
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About the author: Graduate of Food and Maritime Trades High School [School Ship John W. Brown]
University of Southern Maine, BA in Economics. The author has worked in several major shipyards
and has also worked on foreign naval vessels in Europe and South America.
Questions, want to talk to the Author, please go to Contact Us [above].
Pictures inside the Yard
No pictures may be copied without written permission by author Frank J. Trezza Interesting Point! Why does the Brooklyn Navy Yard fail to acknowledge the years Seatrain Shipbuilding
was building these massive ships inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard? See for yourself!
Please help me in my efforcts to correct this injustice by contacting
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Historian,
Brooklyn Navy Yard Corp. Building 292
Flushing Ave. Unit 300, Brooklyn N.Y. 11205
or Phone 718-907-5900
Ask for the Seatrain Shipbuilding years be included into the history of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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