Name/Title
B+W aerial photo of tanker M.V. Dan Boström & freighter Overo in drydock, Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, 1969.Entry/Object ID
2012.007.0063Description
Black-and-white aerial photo of tanker M.V. Dan Boström & S.S. Overo in dry dock at Bethlehem Steel Hoboken Shipyard, March 1969.
8" x 10" high print. Issued by Bethlehem Steel Corp.; photographer not indicated. Reverse is blank except for image file number inkstamp: 51926A 3. With: photocopy press release.
View is northwest from above the Hudson River of the two ships at docks between 13th and 14th Streets.
Text of press release:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RECORD DOCKING. The largest tanker ever dry docked in the
Port of New York, the 57,700-deadweight-ton Swedish motor vessel
DAN BROSTROM sits high and dry at Bethlehem Steel's Hoboken, N. J.,
ship repair yard. Docked stern inboard, she overhangs outboard end
of the dock about 100 feet. The tanker struck an obstacle off
Port Newark March 3, 1969, wrecking her steering engine and damaging
some of her stern shell plates. The tanker has a length of 773 feet
11 inches, beam of 105 feet 8 inches, and depth of 56-1/2 feet. Her
docking in a commercial facility in New York Harbor was possible
only because Bethlehem has widened this dock from 100 to 110 feet
in a multimillion dollar modernization program. It's length is
685 feet. The ship in dry dock at the left of the tanker is the
Argentine freighter OVERO, a former Victory ship with a deadweight
of 10,600 tons. The yard's other two dry docks can be seen at the right.
From: Max L. Brown, Press Relations
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
375 Park Ave., New York, N. Y. 10022
Phone: MUrray Hill 8-5522
Photo No. 51926A3
962130
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A detail image of Fourteenth Street west of Washington Street is shown (top, left of center) where an industrial building at 158 Fourteenth St. has painted lettering just below the roof: XZIT; BRICKSEAL; and one other only partially legible, SER___. The sign was for products of the Brickseal Refactory Coating Co. who used this building; 1969 telephone directory gives office as 56 Newark St. (Earlier address in Hoboken was 1029 Clinton St.) Affliated company was Xzit Brickseal Co. (Brickseal has also been seen as Brick-seal.)
Note Esso gas (service) station at northwest corner of Bloomfield and 14th Streets.Acquisition
Accession
2012.007Source or Donor
Lukacs, ClaireAcquisition Method
GiftCredit Line
Museum Collections. Gift of a Friend of the Museum.General Notes
Note
Original or Copy: Original
Status: OK
Status By: West, D.
Status Date: 2012-03-23
