A laker (or ex-laker) in salt water . . . now that’s a thought that delights me, although I admit the foto is less than mediocre, but it’s Pioneer. Quite a few salties ply the Great Lakes. Note the characteristic self-unloading gear midships. She looks to be a sibling of M/V Ambassador, which last appeared here about two years ago. Since I took this foto, Pioneer has shuttled up to Halifax and is now southwest bound again, for Portsmouth, NH.
Eddie Carroll, one of the scow’s transporting spoils from the dredging at the north end of the Arthur Kill looks in need of some paint, although the scaly rust does give character.
Here’s the first of recent sights to behold: Meagan Ann towing scow Witte 4001 all the way through the KVK.
Witte 4001 has the cubic yard capacity of at least 40 dump trailers. Mary Alice . . . near the Bayonne Bridge . . . moves a scow alongside.
Weddell Sea pushing 2004 Senesco-built DBL 83 (ex-The Patriot),
sternview of the classic 1967 YTB-793 known to most around the sixth boro as Ellen McAllister,
at least three tugs (I believe . . . Margaret Moran, Laura K. Moran, and Ellen McAllister) and two container ships (Italy Express and MOL Endowment) entering port. As I pot this, MOL Endowment is passing St Pierre et Miquelon, and Italy Express–also Europe-bound–is not that far behind.
another stern view, this one of 1980 USACE Gelberman, built in Arkansas,
Maria J moves a barge over toward the Gowanus, while Lucy Reinauer awaits departure for Baltimore,
The list could go on, but I’m out of time once again.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Click here for some not delightful at all statistics about losses in sixth boro ports as a result of Sandy.
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November 16, 2012 at 6:59 pm
tugboathunter
Nice to see Pioneer… she is indeed a near-sister to Ambassador
November 16, 2012 at 7:58 pm
PaulB
I can’t imagine running the Gulf of Maine and North Atlantic in those things! My truck has more beam.
November 19, 2012 at 12:07 am
Ken
Don’t be dissing my lakers…..
I can’t imagine some of your salties coming through the Lakes in November and December…so nyah.
November 16, 2012 at 9:42 pm
tugster
speaking of pioneer leaving halifax, my friends in halifax at shipfax caught her about to depart with her load of gypsum: http://shipfax.blogspot.com/2012/11/pioneer-loads-gypsum-for-portsmouth.html
November 17, 2012 at 10:16 am
Harold E. Tartell
Many Of These Lakers Have Come Up The Hudson River To Unload Clinkers (Mixed With Cement) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinker_(cement) At Cementon (Just North Of Saugerties). Some That I Have Seen Up Here Or Remember In The Past Are: SAUNIERE http://www.flickr.com/photos/naturepainter/2146466267/, ATLANTIC SUPERIOR http://www.boatnerd.com/pictures/fleet/atlanticsuper.htm, ATLANTIC HURON http://www.boatnerd.com/pictures/fleet/atlantichuron.htm, ATLANTIC ERIE http://carlzboats.blogspot.com/2012/07/csl-atlantic-erie.html, HON. PAUL J. MARTIN http://duluthshippingnews.com/ship0277/, & Several Algo Transport, Ltd. Ships.
It Is Also Interesting To Note That MELVIN H. BAKER II, Was Formerly ATLANTIC HURON. She Also Was Seen By Me In The Early 1990′s In The River. ATLANTIC ERIE Was Renamed MELVIN H. BAKER III. They Replaced MELVIN H. BAKER Built In 1956, http://shipfax.blogspot.com/2009/12/oldie-from-shoeboxmelvin-hbaker.html Which I Saw On The Hudson River From My Youth Until She Was Finally Retired.