Excuse the teaser, but I’ve a lot to process here. I’ll identify this vessel tomorrow, and give proper thanks, but for now, can you guess the vessel bearing this cryptic text?
This house has been on this blog before, as seen from outside.
I’d never imagined a pushbutton version of an engine order telegraph.
If you’ve paid attention to sixth-boro traffic, you may–like me–never have noticed this bell.
And protected by the bulwarks, this deck hardware never caught my attention.
Keep these threads slathered in grease and they might just operate for a century or two.
What lies behind this porthole cover?
Answers tomorrow.
And here . . . I apologize for dropping a ball. Remember these panels (scroll all the way down) from almost a month ago? I asked if anyone recognized them? And there was an identification from “a tugster fan who lives on the East River and remembers when Union Station was a crumbling hulk.” Union Station it was, and here’s another panel.
East River fan and rememberer, thanks for the answer.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
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October 14, 2011 at 6:01 pm
Harold E. Tartell
I think that from looking at the photos the mystery vessel is KRISTIN POLING. Nice to see a photo documentary of “a special girl on borrowed time.” She was built for Mobil Oil Corp. as POUGHKEEPSIE SOCONY. I remember her well after renaming as MOBIL NEW YORK, and later when Poling bought her as CAPTAIN SAM. I went aboard her a few times as CAPTAIN SAM.
These tankers which were a common sight for me growing up on the Hudson River, are now only memories. They were “workhorses” in their time. MARY A. WHALEN was a lucky survivor. I remember going aboard her in my hometown of Milton in the early 1960′s as S.T. KIDDOO. Many companies owned these tankers. Spentonbush, Poling, Morania, Oil Transfer Corp. (OTCO), Mobil Oil, Lakes Tankers, Sun Oil to name a few. They may be gone, but to me not forgotten.
I have many fond memories going aboard various Bushey and Poling tankers calling at Shell Oil Milton, and my very first as a young boy, the LAKE CHARLES owned by Lakes Tankers Corp.