Liberty Dry Dock
Brooklyn NY
This shipyard was originally started by James A. O'Boyle, who sold it in the 1920s to the Russells of Newtown Creek Towing. It was located at the foot of Quay Street, in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, on the site once occupied by Continental Iron Works, builder of the Monitor. The company closed in 1955. From the known hull numbers, it must have had more of a production record than is shown here.
O/N | Name | Customer | Type | Tons | LOA | Built | Notes | |
36 | 239270 | J. Raymond Russell | Newtown Creek Towing | tugboat | 137 | 78 | 1939 | later Muriel McAllister, Kinsale |
37 | 239289 | Russell 20 | Newtown Creek Towing | tugboat | 137 | 78 | 1940 | later Mark Casey |
38 | 240365 | Edward Card | Card Towing | tugboat | 132 | 78 | 1941 | later Peter B. McAllister, Groton, Bertha M, Dianne Richards |
39 | 241416 | Russell 19 | Newtown Creek Towing | tugboat | 132 | 78 | 1942 | |
40 | 243458 | Russell 15 | Newtown Creek Towing | tugboat | 142 | 78 | 1943 | later Dennis McAllister, Carmen A |
SC-736 | US Navy | subchaser | 136 | 110 | 27 Feb 1943 | to the Philippines 1948 as Mountain Province (P-15) | ||
SC-737 | US Navy | subchaser | 136 | 110 | 20 May 1943 | to the FLC 1947 | ||
44 | 251600 | Harold Reinauer | Reinauer Transportation | tanker | 950 | 223 | June 1947 | later Recovery III (Panama) |
50 | 263194 | Russell 14 | Newtown Creek Towing | tugboat | 190 | 1952 | later Roberto G. Maquero (Mexico) | |
51 | Y-487 | US Army | tanker | 1,200 | 1955 | served in Vietnam | ||
52 | 267604 | Sanita | NYC Sanitation Dept. | tugboat | 76 | 66 | 1954 | later Soo Chief, Susan M. Selvick, Nathan S, John M. Perry, Zuccolo, Carla Selvick, Terry D |