Almost three years ago, I used suspension as a title, using a foto from Bill Benson of a Donjon crane lifting a Donjon tugboat . . . for maintenance. It seemed appropriate for this post, given that this vessel below, below foto taken in August 2009, wandered onto dry land six weks back and yesterday was finally
brought back into its element
by possibly the same crane.
Of course, before she would float
along this rocky Staten Island shore, divers most likely needed to apply some patches before she would float to . . . possibly the scrapyard.
At the same moment, along the southwest corner of Manhattan, another DonJon effort is underway to transfer the WTC antenna segments from the water, which has borne their conveyance down here from Canada,
onto land and from thence into the sky. These last two fotos come with many thanks–again–to l’amica dalla torre .
Fotos 2, 3, and 4 above I use with many thanks to Carter Craft and Outside New York, LLC. All fotos, not otherwise attributed, by Will Van Dorp.
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December 12, 2012 at 10:51 am
walt
Channel 7′s Michelle Charlesworth said it would take two tugboats and an astronimical high tide to get the John B Caddell underway. However, They also needed a barge crane similar to the railroad crane from: The Train starring Burt Lancaster. Oh well!
Next stop: Nigeria for the John B Caddell?
December 12, 2012 at 4:43 pm
tugster
maybe. i’m thinking it’ll be scrapped . . . but that’s just speculation.
December 13, 2012 at 9:57 am
Roger Prichard
The crane lifted with just that one big cable? What the heck must it have been secured to, that a single point could hold so much of the vessel’s weight??
December 13, 2012 at 11:56 am
tugster
roger– i wasn’t there, but it must have been donjon’s Chesapeake 1000: http://www.donjon.com/ches1000.htm