The Peter Stuyvesant was a well-known boat that was once docked beside Anthony’s Pier 4 Restaurant on Northern Avenue.

In 1960 Anthony Athanas bought land south of the Fort Point Channel, across that industrial waterway from downtown Boston, and created a restaurant that was to become part of the city fabric, with people of all walks of life dining in its elegantly appointed restaurant.

He added to the cache by adding a boat.

Originally built in 1927 as a 269-foot passenger steamer that plied the Hudson River in New York, the Peter Stuyvesant was purchased in 1963 by Athanas, called "one of the great restaurateurs of the 20th century," and docked it next to his famous restaurant.

Seen here the inimitable Judy Garland is saluting the crew from the gangway of the Peter Stuyvesant, the two jack tars in their striped jerseys with a sailor’s cap bearing a ribbon stating “the Peter Stuyvesant” after she had performed for a function on the ship.

Athanas was quite the marketer and often had functions on the ship with celebrity guests, but it also served as a cocktail lounge for those waiting for a seat at the very popular restaurant.

During the Blizzard of 1978, the boat broke free from its permanent docking cradle and sank beside the pier in Boston Harbor. Old-time Bostonians remember seeing the half-sunk boat as you went to Pier 4. It was not scrapped until 2017, by which time even Anthony’s Pier 4 had become a part of “Lost Boston.”