ROSE R II, Brooklyn, NY – 1918 The "ROSE R II" from Messenger's Pier, Canarsie, Brooklyn, NY circa 1918. Built in 1913 at Patchogue, NY for Captain Gus Rau, she had a whopping 100-horsepower gasoline engine. Captains Dick Person and Ernst Edwardson operated the "ROSE R II" at the time this photograph was taken. Notice that the boat advertised she was "Inspected and Passed as Unsinkable by the U.S. Government". Yikes! (Actually, she had air tanks strapped into her hull compartments.)