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New twin house arrangement with complex logo on forward/back stacks?
Nah! Just Patapsco assisting Peter F. Gallatly with turn to port while backing off the dock. Note the twin circlers in the sky with one witness.
Peter (94′ x 34′ x 14′ and 4200 hp) was launched three years after Patapsco (96′ x 34′ x 15 and 4200 hp) ; hull 141 to Patapsco’s 124. And the barge is blue-house GCS 238.
Looking at shapes, just basic externals, I’d call Peter F the 16th Vane Brothers vessel of that class.
Two peas
in a pod; yellow
stripe among green. At least for now.
Jed caught this foto even more recently, blue-house GCS 235 moved on the hip by green stripe by Sassafras (90′ x 32′ 13′ and 3000 hp) built at Chesapeake Shipbuilding.
Green with blue and yellow . . . almost like courtship this spring. Foto was taken at the head of Gowanus Bay. Ship in the background was subject of post a month back; foto then also taken by Jed.
All fotos, except the last one by Jed, by Will Van Dorp.
Jack Newman has appeared in this blog before here, but guess the port. This foto comes courtesy of Guy Pushee. Port info comes at the end of this post.
The newest–I believe–tug in the harbor is Timothy L. Reinauer, less than a month on the job . . . in its current incarnation. Timothy L was Bridget McAllister and Ocean Star before that. The upper house “stalk” seems pitched at some unusual angles relative to the waterline.
Welcome! er . . . welcome back, Timothy.
Now this tug had me a bit mystified as it approached. Its windowless superstructure has something in common with stealth ship like John Dark aka Jeanne d’Arc’s stealthy sidekick, now back at sea.
Remember most fotos enlarge with a doubleclick. Try it and you’ll clearly see the stacks of Jennifer Turecamo.
OK, I’ve said it before: Adriatic Sea roars that makes her seem larger than she might measure, so large–in fact–that she does not fit in this foto.
Here’s another fairly new vessel: Laurie Ann Reinauer.
And fleetmate, Nicole Leigh Reinauer.
Closing out this edition, it’s Justine McAllister. Note the Empire State Building in lower right corner of foto. And, given the summer-like burst of temperature, the haze (and fog) have moved in.
All fotos but Guy’s by Will Van Dorp.
The port is Wilmington, North Carolina . . . the Cape Fear watershed. Here’s a link to more of Guy’s fotos. Guy, thanks for sending the foto along.
Also, check out Cruceros Glenans post on the Robbins Reef Light, which just happened to creep into so many of these posts. I don’t recall having seen the derivation of the name info here before.
Unrelated but really important, check out this unofficial poll from the US Naval Institute on historic vessels/monuments to save if triage is called for.
What I would like to know is how widely known is “seaspeak,” or SMCP. Or, how much have seaspeak principles been morphed–voluntarily or by regulation–into common VHF practice?
Most large ships look alike, allowing for differentiation into groups like container ship, tanker, RORO, pure car truck carrier, and then sub-groups with military vessels. Explanation: physics, global standards related safety, and the dictates of efficiency.
But within a tank, any of a range of fluids might live; within a container, a limitless number of goods might be moved. So it’s not surprising–given the diverse points of origin of sixth-boro traffic–that a need exists for a simplified but unambiguous standard language.
As to signs of this diversity in shipping? Check out Al-Mutanabbi. That’s not “al” short for “Allen” or “Alberto” either. More on the “al” at the end of this post. I’d no idea until I looked it up that
Al-Mutanabbi was an Iraqi poet who died more than 1000 years ago. In the foto above, vessel in the distance is MSC Dartford.
Elixir suggests magic for me, until
I learn that Yang Ming, a Taiwanese company with a history that dates back to the Qing dynasty (the last dynasty before the “republic”), has a whole set of container vessels with “e” names like Efficiency and Eminence. Give me elixir any day. By the way, that’s Vane’s Sassafras passing port to port. By the way, sassafras was once a major ingredient of that great elixir called root beer.
Lian Yun Hu . . . I’ve not much clue about, other than that it’s owned or managed by Cosco, conjuring up thoughts of Cosco Busan and Shen Neng 1, of San Francisco and Great Barrier reef notoriety, respectively.
Most watchers of the boro would be clueless here without
a little help elsewhere on the exterior of the ship.
In Hindi, I’m told, “jag PLUS prerana” means “world” AND “inspiration.” Now, I wish they put an asterisk there with a translation painted just above the waterline somewhere. I’d want to know that!
A large number of ships in the harbor are constructed in Korea. And their names are straight-forward English although generally hangul writing coexists with English. Tug is Amy C McAllister.
An interesting fact about hangul is that its invention gets credited to a Korean king named Sejong, a Renaissance man on that peninsula a half-millennium ago.
All of which I use to illustrate my point: if I didn’t read or understand English, I’d be helpless. And I’m really just a shore-watcher. Without an international language, communication on the sea–as in the air–would be worse than garbled.
Finally, here’s a gratuitous shot of Flintereems, from the land of my mother tongue. Spelling notwithstanding, I believe the “eems” in this Flinter vessel refers to the river whose estuary forms the border between the Dutch and the Germans. I set Goldman Sachs atop the Flinter deck to mimic the last Flinter vessel “borg” appearing on this blog here.
All fotos, Will Van Dorp.
For a perspective on some verbal and non-verbal communication in the harbor, check out bowsprite here.
Oh . . . Al the prefix in Arabic means “the.” You know it from such English words as “algebra, alchemy, algorithm” and –believe it or not–”elixir.” Here’s more on that.
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