''Mary A. Whalen'', known as the ''S.T. Kiddoo'' from 1938 to 1958, is a historic
oil tanker
An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship designed for the bulk transport of oil or its products. There are two basic types of oil tankers: crude tankers and product tankers. Crude tankers move large quantities of unrefined cru ...
located in the
Red Hook neighborhood of
Brooklyn
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...
,
Kings County, New York. She is the home of the non-profit PortSide NewYork, and the group runs programs aboard her. She was built in 1938 by the John J. Mathis Company, of
Camden, New Jersey Hull #124, and measures 172 feet long. She is a rare surviving example of a "bell boat," a ship controlled from the engine room with telegraph signals sent from the bridge.
What's a bell boat?
/ref> The tanker shipped various fuel products along East Coast and was at center of ''United States v. Reliable Transfer Co.
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'', a pivotal 1975 Supreme Court decision in maritime law after she ran aground in Rockaway Inlet
Rockaway Inlet is a strait connecting Jamaica Bay, wholly within New York City, with the Atlantic Ocean. It separates the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens from the Floyd Bennett Field (formerly Barren Island) in Brooklyn.
Rockaway Inlet is bounded b ...
in 1968. She was in active service until 1994.[ ''Note:'' This includes ''See also:'' ]
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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in 2012.
References
External links
Red Hook WaterStories
Ships on the National Register of Historic Places in New York City
1938 ships
National Register of Historic Places in Brooklyn
Museum ships in New York (state)
Ships built by John H. Mathis & Company
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