size to escape. Five years later, a fire consumed the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's Hoboken ferry piers. The piers immediately south of the NDL piers, owned before World War I by Hamburg America Line, were later also destroyed by fire. In 1921, two of the three piers (Hoboken Pier Nos. 5 and 6) were consumed in a fire that also scorched the . In August 1944, Pier No. 4 burned, killing three and briefly setting afire the SS Nathaniel Alexander, a Liberty ship. References External links Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. NJ-63, "Hoboken Piers Headhouse" 1900 fires in the United States Maritime incidents in 1900 1900 in transport 1900 ships Fires in New Jersey Ship fires Hoboken, New Jersey Industrial fires and explosions in the United States 1900 in New Jersey Urban fires in the United States