Featured Artifact: Shipbuilding during World War I - Photographs

Wooden freighter built at Kingston Ship Yard on Rondout Creek during World War I. Hudson River Maritime Museum collection

The Hudson River Maritime Museum recently received a set of black and white photographs documenting the work of the Kingston Shipbuilding Corporation during World War I. Clyde Bloodgood worked at the shipyard located on Island Dock. Shipbuilding has been going on for the last couple of hundred years along Rondout Creek. William duBarry Thomas writes in the 1999 Pilot Log: "During World War I, the Kingston Shipbuilding Corporation constructed ocean-going wooden-hulled cargo steamships (the only vessels of the type ever built along the Creek)"
 
The museum is grateful for the donation of these fine photographs. They are a wonderful addition to the museum's collection and aids in our ability to tell the history of the Hudson River and its tributaries.

Wooden freighter built at Kingston Ship Yard on Rondout Creek during World War I. Hudson River Maritime Museum collection

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