For info on where the canal is, see this post from last year. The distant red tug you see in that link is the 1907 Pegasus recently in drydock but now getting springtime service. I visited this area of Jersey City and posted fotos a year ago here.
So yesterday seemed ripe for a revisit–as well as an ideal time to help with the springtime chores on Pegasus. Here, from near to far are Little G, Sandy G, Katherine G (featured here), Pegasus, and a bit of Patriotic.
In the same order, this shows a closer view of Little G, and
as seen from Pegasus, this view of Patriotic as
well as this one.
Shooting back toward the east, a classic 43-footer, Linda G, and
Annie G II (whom I’d imagine as Littlest G) . That’s the lower Manhattan skyline in the background, exactly the location from which I shot the first foto in the first link of this post.
Here’s Cape Race, featured here, still on the south side of the Canal.
Some details on these:
Sandy G (1962), Katherine G (1981), Patriotic (1937, a Bushey formerly known as Rainbow), Linda G (1943), and Annie G II (2000). Cape Race is Quebec-built, 1963.
All fotos, Will Van Dorp.
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April 11, 2010 at 8:25 am
Les Sonnenmark
PATRIOTIC is gorgeous! Look at how the sheer of her boat deck matches that of the main deck. Today’s builders make them nearly flat (just some camber so rain and spray roll off), but it costs more to add sheer. Do you have any history on her? Engines? The heater below the double-vented stovepipe? And what is the nautical name for that stovepipe?
April 11, 2010 at 11:01 am
Jed
Les.,
would you be referring to Charlie Noble?
From Naval Historical Center:
Charlie Noble
Charlie Noble is an “it,” not a “he.” A British merchant service captain, Charles Noble, is said to be responsible for the origin, about 1850, of this nickname for the galley smokestack. It seems that Captain Noble, discovering that the stack of his ship’s galley was made of copper, ordered that it be kept bright. The ship’s crew then started referring to the stack as the “Charley Noble.”
April 11, 2010 at 6:37 pm
Les Sonnenmark
Jed–Thanks, but a Charlie Noble is a little different, being more compact and traditionally shiny, and ventilating the galley. This one serves the same purpose–lets out smoke, keeps out rain and spray–but it’s clearly connected to the tug’s heater (is it a Way Wolff?) located in the machinery space. I’ll bet there’s another interesting name for this double vent; if not, we can call it a “politician vent” because it seems to spout from both sides of its mouth.
April 11, 2010 at 11:34 am
Mage B
Not only is the entry interesting, but so are your notes.
April 12, 2010 at 8:01 am
tugster
les–good to hear from you. i’m working on getting more info on patriotic.
April 12, 2010 at 11:01 pm
bowsprite
so, Cafe Pace is still there, hm?
April 13, 2010 at 10:39 am
Steve Oravets
Patriotic looks like an old Ira Bushey & Sons tug. A canal tug. Do you know what the original name of Patriotic was?
Does Pam still own the Pegasus?
April 13, 2010 at 3:43 pm
tugster
hi steve– i am working on another post sooon about patriotic. drop pam a note.
April 14, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Robert
I missed the posts from last year — Followed the assorted links; can’t believe Cape Race is here. Had the occasion to survey her in Lunenburg, NS some years ago at Scotia Trawler. A very stout vessel.
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