I remember this ship, off the bay side of Cape Cod, from the mid 1960s.
I believe I asked my father why it was just sitting there, since it
hadn't moved from one year to the other.  I never did see any planes
bombing it--that may have been over by c. 1965.  Didn't know its name
until just now.

D. Babson

-----Original Message-----
From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John
Chenoweth
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 9:26 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: cinder block & concrete


Ron et al,
When I was a kid we used to vacation on Cape Cod.  The
bay there is pretty shallow, and in the 1950's the
Navy beached an old liberty ship (the James
Longstreet, I think was its name) on a sand bar about
2 miles from shore and use to for bombing target
practice.  My mother used to watch the planes fly over
and drop bombs on it when she was a kid vacationing
there in the early 1950's.

It was still there when I was young, and you can see a
few of the steel ribs even today at low tide, but
between it rusting away and ten years' bombing, there
isn't much left.  A local historian (and quite a
character) Noel Beyle wrote a few books on it, and one
is one the web.  Nice pictures showing the steel
construction (inside and out after a few direct
hits!), and some info on the construction yard which
was in Texas:

http://www.armed-guard.com/longst.html

There's also some information on construction, etc.

Hope someone finds this interesting/useful.

John M. Chenoweth
U of Pennsylvania


--- Ron May <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> One steel liberty ship floats in San Francisco Bay,
> but I forget the name.
>
> Ron May
> Legacy 106, Inc.
>


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