Navy Raising 1904 Immigration Ferry
The sunken ferry Ellis Island, on which 12 million immigrants reached the shores of Manhattan and New Jersey, was outfitted with pontoons Tuesday but sprang a leak before it could be refloated.
A Navy crew pumped out the ferry and attached the pontoons, a spokesman for the National Park Service said, but an 8-by-12-foot plywood patch collapsed over the engine room and water rushed back into the boat. The pumping was to be resumed today.
Work began in April to refloat the vessel, which sank in 1968 in a slip between the northern and southern portions of Ellis Island.
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