Here was 20. Endurance is not your run-of-the-mill RORO
design. In fact, I’ve never seen one like her.
Endurance and her eight sister vessels do government work, as described in their mission statement here. It hauled “assets” out of the Gulf when that season came. Click here to see which ports she’s visited in the past six weeks alone!
NYK Delphinus is regular NYK vessel that shuttles between the sixth boro and China (with some other stops) on a sixty-day RT schedule.
Here she left port this afternoon
bound for Norfolk and then the Canal. Approaching sailing vessel is Ventura.
Sea Lady is a bulker that follows a very different route and rhythm, spending much more time in port, loading claw-full by claw-full of crushed cars and other ferrous non-life. Scroll through that link for some of the ports she’s seen in the past year.
Given the intriguing name, I’m sorry I couldn’t catch up with this less-than-one-year old box vessel, CMA CGM Samson.
And finally, over in Red Hook today it was Baltic Mercur. Built in Germany a quarter century ago, she really does connect eastern US with the Baltic, including St. Petersburg.
All fotos taken this midday by Will Van Dorp.
Unrelated: Following up on yesterday’s post about warping tugs. Paul located and sent along these links showing almost century-old fotos of warping tug Alligator in good repair. Click here and here. Paul . . . again, many thanks.
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September 15, 2012 at 2:36 pm
johnskelsonj
Will I don’t know how I missed you, we were walking back to the car when the Endurance passed
John Skelson
September 15, 2012 at 5:19 pm
tugster
john–
i was nearer the ferry than usual, east of the salt pile.
September 15, 2012 at 4:38 pm
guidecanoe
Some sistership of Endurance shows up on my side of the pond 😉 regularly, bremerhaven in northern germany ( 2 million cars in and out last year) and the design is quite different to standard car carriers, as you mentioned. nice blog bthw, am reading for quite a while now
andreas