About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_1831
  • Title[Maritime Station]
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (NEIG 1830), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two interior images of Maritime Service Training Station in Sheepshead Bay. Caption (1830): "The station's engineering laboratory is the only one of its kind in the world, consisting of three shipboard main propulsion units operated just as they are at sea. Lt. Forest J. Kaylor of Baltimore, right, points out intricacies of high pressure gear turbine to 1st Assistant Englieer J. T. Bowling of Parkton, Md." 1831: "Chief John O'Brien, left, of Norwalk, Conn., instructs BM3 Mervine Steen, a Navy veteran from the Bronx, in the use and operation of a bosun's chair. The trainees and instructors hail from every state in the nation and are licensed merchant marine officers or experienced seamen."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: May 20, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title supplied by cataloger.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectMerchant marine -- New York (State) -- New York ; Merchant mariners -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Sheepshead Bay: Maritime Station