New York Watercraft: Working With Freight
Covered barges were once heavily employed in the New York port areas to lighter (i.e., load, transport, and offload) various non-bulk, perishable cargoes from and to ship or shore.By the mid-nineteenth century, covered barges with boat-shaped hulls were present in New York State ports, including Plattsburgh, Whitehall, Buffalo, Troy, Albany...










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