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Docks and Boats

<p>Aerial view of the Freight Pier (upper) and Passenger Dock (lower) on the shore of Fort Slocum&#39;s Quartermaster Area, looking north, late 1950s.</p>

01-Aerial 1950s CrssBrwn_1966 docks-crop
<p>Arriving at the Freight Pier, as seen from one of Fort Slocum&#39;s ferries, looking northeast, ca. 1963.</p>

02-Fort Slocum Ferry Dock circa 1963
<p>Passenger Dock with boathouse (left) and baggage room (right), which were removed in 1938. The Hamilton, an Army tugboat, is moored to the pier. View southeast, ca. 1893.</p>

03-Pass_Dock c1893 NA-RG92
<p>Passenger Dock in the mid-1930s, looking northeast. The Col. Barnett, a passenger-freight steamer, is tied up at the end of the pier.</p>

04-Pass_Dock Col Barnett 1930s postcard
<p>From 1893 until 1932, a wood trestle for unloading coal barges dominated the Freight Pier, also called the Coal Dock. View to northeast, ca. 1893.</p>

05-Coal_Dock NA-RG92-F-19-15
<p>Freight Pier after replacement of coal trestle with enclosed conveyor belt, looking southwest, August 1932. Two coal barges are moored at the end of the pier.</p>

06-Freight_Dock CoalConvey 1932 NA-RG77
<p>The Quartermaster Corps operated many different vessels to and from Davids Island over the century it was an Army post. The tugboat Hamilton was one. It was active fom 1878 until ca. 1900 (collection of the New York Historical Society, Stonebridge Photo Collection, PR 066 282).</p>

07-Tug Hamilton 1890s
<p>The Gen. Barry, a passenger-freight steamer, active at Fort Slocum in the early 20th century.</p>

08-Steamer General Barry c1910
<p>The Gen. D.S. Stanley, a passenger-freight steamer, active at Fort Slocum in the early 20th century.</p>

09-PC-FS-6 Stmr Gen DS Stanley c1910cm
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