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Gramma Lee T Moran, 2002
Jay Mchael and Mister Jim, 1980 and 1982
Mister T, 2001
Mister T again
Brandywine and Viking, 2006 and 1976
Kimberly Turecamo, 1980
Red Hook (a first on this blog) and Severn, 2013 and 2008
B. Franklin Reinauer, 2012
Shelby Rose, 1963
Hubert Bays, 2002.
All fotos taken in the past week by Will Van Dorp.
After these were taken down from along the paths of Central Park eight years ago, it was reported they were “industrially recycled.” I’d not til now thought to ask what recycled meant, but yesterday I saw this:
do you suppose . . .
reused was the solution . . . ?
All these were on a single outbound ship yesterday . . .
Maersk
Ohio, here escorted around Bergen Point by Gramma Lee T Moran.
Top foto by Elizabeth Wood. All others by Will Van Dorp.
At 0630 today . . . this vessel was still in Gravesend Bay, flanked by two tugboats. I recalled it’d been there for about two days.
As the tide turned, one assist tug switched out and others added.
Three hours later . . . it was Margaret Moran, Joan Turecamo, and Marion Moran . . . and
then Gramma Lee T Moran hooked into the bow, totaling over 16,000 hp if needed. Pretty World looked like a dead ship.
Towing stern first,
Gramma Lee T brought her into Upper Bay by noon and then on to GMD Bayonne. It looks like time to pop the hood on Pretty World.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Deira is to Dubai Creek as Richmond Terrace is
the KVK. See fotos of that Creek today and a half century ago here.
Deira is one of 10 4000-teu containerships operating for UASC since 1998. Many of that fleet call here regularly. Dammam is the capital of the eastern province of Saudi Arabia.
Here’s Al-Mutanabbi a while back. I’ve yet to see any of the UASC fleet launched in 2012, with more than three times the capacity!
Margaret Moran was returning from another job while Gramma Lee T Moran
escorted Deira in, passing Brendan Turecamo on the way.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Check out Elizabeth Simenstad’s blog here, just added to my blogroll.
Here was 1 . . . from about a year ago. But what’s this . . . hoops at a food emporium?
Basketball with new floor markings and maybe new rules? By the way, assisting along the starboard side of the RORO is Gramma Lee T Moran, the same tugboat featured in Back in the Sixth Boro 1.
No . . . an entertainment and fitness adaptation of RORO Asian King. Click here to visit a ship. Click here for the numbers . . . including how many cars this vessel can carry.
And although I lack clear photographic evidence, I did see
two dolphins swimming off Bergen Point, off the starboard side of Asian King.
Happy to be back . . . all fotos by Will Van Dorp, this morning.
Such great names on steel vessels that . . . ply our waters
Indefatigable vessels like Hyundai Grace, which left Shanghai on 6 February, entered the Narrows on 2 March–when I got these shots–and by 1 April will
be back in Korea! And what bright orange tanker could ever carry claim for being stealthy . . .
this one with a stack logo like this wedge.
I’m starting to get a hankering to travel . . . to follow FSL Tokyo out the Narrows,
drawn by places like these . . . Handytankersmarvel of Majuro!
While I still have the stamina, I’m going to put my gallivant shoes on and follow Hellas Endurance.
I’m especially intrigued by this one . . . Grande Guinea is a Grimaldi Line RORO, this one named for a sub-Saharan city whose history is linked to that of Timbuktu, a place until recently I’d always hoped to get to, a place that later served as namesake for a coin.
I’m not sure when next I’ll post. All fotos in the past month by Will Van Dorp.
Taken about 10 days ago . .. Lyman headed south towing Sea Shuttle.
Lyman used to sport a red star on its stack.
Harry McNeal (1965) escorts Clyde, whose vintage I don’t know. Here’s a very similar scene (foto 4) from almost four years ago.
Atlantic Coast dates from 2007.
Perennial “repeater” on this blog, Gramma Lee T Moran, waiting to retrieve the pilot.
34-year-old Emerald Coast used to answer to the name Maggie Swann.
Calusa Coast first appeared here six and a half years ago.
Jill Reinauer and Kimberly Turecamo westbound in morning light.
As I went into work this morning, there was no more than 10 minutes of spectacular dawn light, before the clouds dulled it.
“Excessive wind” . . . i.e., a constant 20+ mph describes Wednesday’s weather quite well. The following fotos all come thanks to Capt. Fred Kosnac, who was on one tug of three accompanying the Weeks crane barge to the right. Farther up the dock, notice the blue/green hull of a container ship, MOL Destiny.
Two hours later, notice our perspective relative to MOL Destiny. The tugs with the crane barge were asked to move to make room for passing traffic . . . the black hulled container ship. The next fotos all transpire in a three-minute period as docking tugs struggle to safely get MSC Nerissa to the dock on the opposite side of the channel.
Count the tugs wrestling the MSC vessel over. There’s Joan Turecamo, Gramma Lee T Moran, and
Resolute. The other two container vessels are Zim Luanda and Ever Respect. And the Weeks 533, see her here lifting locomotives a few years back and an Airbus 320 –now in a Charlotte museum–before that.
These are the hidden dramas that routinely happen in the context of moving our goods into and out of the port.
By now . . . a mere 48 hours later, these behemoths are hundreds of miles from here and from each other, the docking tugs have finished at least a half dozen other docking assists, and the Weeks barge and tugs . . . at work on other projects. Again, thanks for these to Capt. Fred Kosnac.
Unrelated: Does anyone know whether whether any wooden 64′ USCG tugs still exist?
Also unrelated: I found the incident I recalled reading that involved M/V Cosette, mentioned a few days ago. Here’s the article. I still don’t know if she’s scrapped or sunk or still sailing.
Totally related foto from summer 2009, the orange Fred K II.
First, thanks to Birk Thomas . . . Ice River currently in Philadelphia. Here’s the reefer fleet list.
And thanks to Mike Abegg, Alice Oldendorff, currently in the sixth boro, the vessel that started this blog over 2000 posts ago.
Also, still in port, Asopus.
And just out of the repair dock, it’s Stena Primorsk, having spent weeks in or around the harbor.
And finally . . . NYK Joanna leaves town yesterday. Watch between tug and ship, starboard side,
here, for what has to be one
of the more dangerous jobs on the water.
It’s the docking pilot leaving the vessel as it heads for sea.
Perusal of the NYK fleet shows names like Mark Twain and William Shakespeare. I’d love to see them come to town.
Unless otherwise attributed, all fotos by will Van Dorp. Thanks here to Birk Thomas and Mike Abegg.
Labor Day, my father used to say, was a time to labor. We did, and lots of people do. When I was out this morning from before moonset until 9 a.m., ample evidence of ongoing work presented itself, work that had started hours before I was able to get fotos. I love the light at daybreak. Here’s Freddie K Miller north of me and
northeast of me a few seconds later.
Here’s Margaret Moran before sunrise east of me as she returned from assisting Saudi Hofuf into port, and
here’s Catherine Turecamo about a half hour later (exactly 07:33 . . . remember that) exiting the KVK west of me.
Here’s Atlantic Salvor towing dredge spoils out as Mary Alice returns with a scow, and here’s
the bigger picture as Salvor moves east of me. Vessel in the distance is Titan.
Here’s looking north at Weddell Sea at moonset, and
looking southward at Rosemary Miller parading a pair of pickups around the same time.
Here are Gramma Lee T Moran, Siva Sincerity, and . .. again . . . Catherine Turecamo arriving from the east. Time is 08:51, almost an hour and a half later than the previous shot of Catherine.
And two more of the trio, mere
minutes later.
Here’s a mystery . . . I’d swear that was Taurus, but AIS says Taurus is in Louisiana. Can anyone identify the Kirby tug here?
Happy Labor Day, and if you have to work, I hope you at least enjoy it, as I did as a kid.
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