Celebrity ships call in Bayonne at what’s technically called the Cape Liberty Cruise Port, one of three ocean-going passenger ports in the sixth boro.
This is a port surrounded by people known far and wide, and although I don’t look for celebrities, I’ve crossed paths with the likes of Al Sharpton in Penn Station one dawn on my way to work and Lou Reed on the westside esplanade a rainy weekend day, I suspect a celebrity must be on a vessel to merit a water display like this one last weekend as Norwegian Star exited the Narrows.
Then there are eye-catching yachts like this one. Actually at first glance I thought this one was Manhattan or Justice. But clearly, it had less sheer and more house.
Only when I got back home did I read the name S. S. Sophie and that it is or was the 1947 Trumpy owned by Greta van Susteren. I know she’s “a celebrity,” but as a non-consumer of TV news, I’ve no idea what her voice sounds like. And the S. S. ? steam? Nope.
Springer spaniel, the owner’s dog . . . if you read that link embedded in the 1947 Trumpy above. Here and here are tugster posts with yachts by Trumpy. Here’s a foto taken from the deck of Scanaro’s Manhattan.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.



















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October 2, 2012 at 7:27 pm
Anonymous
That Celebrity Summit is one ugly ass looking cruise ship!
October 2, 2012 at 9:26 pm
tugster
anon– i concur about celebrity and its appreance, but it seemed the perfect entree into the ss sophia pics.
October 3, 2012 at 1:13 am
Harold E. Tartell
They’re ugly looking on the outside, but quite nice on the inside. The one pictured is CELEBRITY SUMMIT. I took a 9 day cruise on sister ship CONSTELLATION back in 2005 from Cape Liberty. There are four ships of this Millennium class. The CELEBRITY prefix was added onto all of them a couple of years ago. CELEBRITY SUMMIT, CELEBRITY CONSTELLATION, CELEBRITY INFINITY, & CELEBRITY MILLENNIUM. By far the ugliest looking cruise ship afloat is NORWEGIAN EPIC http://www.shipparade.com/az/Norwegian_Epic/Norwegian_Epic_2.htm. These Celebrity ships are beauty queens compared to that one.