Speaker Series: Mothball Fleet on the Hudson with Tony Musso
Thu, Oct 27
|Town of Wappinger Town Hall
Discover the purpose and fate of the fabled “mothball fleet”, which many locals referred to as “the ghost ships”.
Time & Location
Oct 27, 2022, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Town of Wappinger Town Hall, 20 Middlebush Rd, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590, USA
Guests
About the event
As part of our speaker series, the Wappingers Historical Society presents Tony Musso, local historian and author of the “ Discover the purpose and fate of the fabled “mothball fleet”, which many locals referred to as “the ghost ships”.Mothball Fleet on the Hudson:The Post-World War II National Defense Reserve”.
In 1946, the National Naval Defense Reserve Fleet was established and eight sites around the nation were selected to store ships from World War II, and keep them ready for action in the event of a national emergency. One of the locations chosen was the Hudson River. Hudson River Defense Reserve Fleet (also known as the Mothball Fleet) remained active at Jones Point, just south of the Bear Mountain Bridge, from 1946 through 1971. At its peak, 189 vessels were anchored there, side-by-side in neatly arranged rows that spanned the river for several miles south. Tonywill discuss his new book, ,…