Excuse the dried water droplet!@#@. Workers at far end of the floating drydock show the scale; two days ago, Peking occupied this space.
McAllister Responder appears just before noon.
Before 1 pm Peking has left KVK for the Battery.
I’m thrilled to experience Peking moving as the ship she is. Here’s a great time to watch the 9 -minute YouTube clip of Peking 79 years ago pushing through a storm on the English Channel. Great statistics on Peking in this clip. Thanks to Peter Mello of Sea Fever and the podcast Messing About in Ships for putting up a link to this Irving Johnson footage.
Toward the Battery . . .
we leave the Statue astern . . .
while Elizabeth captures a view from Pier 17.
Elizabeth McAllister serves as assist tug
as Responder finesses Peking back into the slip beside . . . a McAllister of another era. It’s now a little past 2 pm. Come see at South Street Seaport. More on Peking later.
Unless otherwise stated, photos, WVD.
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January 15, 2008 at 10:17 pm
mageb
Thank you so much for documenting this so carefully. Great shots.
January 16, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Brian
Wow! What was it like to be on Peking underway? That must have been something. Did you climb aloft like Irving Johnson?
January 16, 2008 at 2:27 pm
will
it was fantastic to be on peking as a creature of the open water albeit protected harbor water. she’s so huge. as i stood at wheel on stern, i couldn’t make out who was standing near the bow. imagine relaying calls/commands in an era before radios: projection projection! jesse climbed 20 or so feet into the shrouds at one point. if rigging were in verified condition, it would have been fabulous to foto from aloft. i hope the flickr fotogrfr named cicadajet was in one of those helicopters. at one point off the battery, tug 1 cast us off to shift from starboard to port to allow docking at pier 17, but before tug 2 tied on, we were freefloating for about 10 minutes while the tugs took fotos from the right angle relative to the light–i was envious–but for those minutes, peking came alive!
January 18, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Peter A. Mello
Great post/photos Will. Sounds like a kid in a candy shop experience. Keep up the great work!!!