Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
This smaller, higher pitched whistle was the emergency / distress whistle from Hudson River Day Line’s ALEXANDER HAMILTON of 1924.
This clip, taken August 16, 2026, captures the first time the whistle have been heard since ALEXANDER HAMILTON was retired after her final voyage September 6, 1971. (See CBS news coverage including the whistle blasts from that day here): youtu.be/tMCu_xpN62Q.
We owe a debt of gratitude to Randy Snow, president of the New England Wireless and Steam Museum in East Greenwich, Rhode Island for hooking the whistles up to steam once more — nearly 55 years to the day from when they last sounded.
This smaller, higher pitched whistle was the emergency / distress whistle from Hudson River Day Line’s ALEXANDER HAMILTON of 1924.
This clip, taken August 16, 2026, captures the first time the whistle have been heard since ALEXANDER HAMILTON was retired after her final voyage September 6, 1971. (See CBS news coverage including the whistle blasts from that day here): youtu.be/tMCu_xpN62Q.
We owe a debt of gratitude to Randy Snow, president of the New England Wireless and Steam Museum in East Greenwich, Rhode Island for hooking the whistles up to steam once more — nearly 55 years to the day from when they last sounded.
