AMERICAN Advertising Card, Point Pleasant Beach, NJ – 1954 A 1954 advertising card for Captain Lou Nyhammer's "AMERICAN" sailing from Broadway Basin in Point Pleasant Beach, NJ. Captain Nyhammer was previously a captain for the Bogan family in Brielle, NJ. He purchased the "AMERICAN" in 1953 from Captain Jack Bogan Sr., who had recently built a new vessel named the "SHAMROCK".