DORA, Brooklyn, NY – 1918 This 1918 advertisement promotes Captain Louis Komereck's "DORA" from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, NY. The "DORA" was built in 1904 at Hoboken, New Jersey. In 1940, Captain Bill Ryan purchased the "DORA" and then sailed her from the Gerritsen Beach section of Brooklyn, NY. She was dismantled in 1952.