Government Boats 14 was here, from over a year ago. A subtitle here might be navy vessels future and army vessels present. Like this vessel below, sent along by Rod Smith of Narragansett Bay Shipping, where you can savor more shots of the same vessel. Can you identify it? Does “FSF 1″ stand for “frighteningly sci-fi 1,” which this truly is? More below.
Now onto army vessels. Oxymoron? Nope, Enjoy these two, contributed by Joe Herbert: LT-2085 Anzio (US Army tug built in 1955) , and
a Nathaniel Greene class tug, LT-801. More of the Nathaniel Greene class here.
For scale of the afterdeck, check out the size of the barbeque grille relative to the winch.
For a list said to be all Army vessels, click here. More here. For a close-up of LT-806 in Kuwait, click here. More Army tug fotos here.
For a frighteningly sci-fi US ARMY vessel prototype built in Australia, click here.
Here’s a full-vessel shot of cement-gray FSF 1 aka Sea Fighter passing Fort Adams in Narragansett Bay.
Again, thanks to Joe (here are fotos he previously contributed) and Rod, whose Narragansett Bay Shipping blog –on my blogroll–chronicles the diverse traffic on that body of water; check it out.
Any errors in the above info can be blamed on Will Van Dorp, aka tugster.
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April 23, 2011 at 11:10 am
Cold is the Sea
Wild and controversial. Great shots of the sci-fi stuff. Love those tugs too.
April 23, 2011 at 1:03 pm
Buck
At first I thought Sea Fighter was in NY! Nice guest photos. Always cool to see ships from… well, everywhere!
April 23, 2011 at 5:07 pm
D Merritt
The LT-801 afterdeck and winch looks positively Darbyesque (Atlantic Salvor), without the house.
April 23, 2011 at 7:08 pm
Justin
Yes. Sea Fighter- prototype built at Nichols Bros. Ship in Washington State
April 23, 2011 at 7:19 pm
Bill Miller
You can tell what caught Will’s attention, he’s got the heavy eye on what’s being grilled on the stern deck. A true merchant mariner, “What’s for lunch?”
April 23, 2011 at 11:00 pm
Joe Herbert
Will, Just a quick update, without ever going to the 6th Boro Sea Fighter and the rest of the Littoral Combat Ships have joined the Peking in Purgatory for Ships. They are being decrewed and inventoried for storage, their fiscal souls lying on the Budget Committee’s Gun Deck. (Reported in the News Column of Procedings, Mar. & Apr.) ~ Joe
April 24, 2011 at 6:30 am
SeaBart
Will…you just provided me with some new cannon fodder!
April 24, 2011 at 6:55 am
tugster
always a pleasure, bart
April 25, 2011 at 4:41 pm
jcoifman
Seafighter is in fact off Long Island at this very moment, along with a support vessel of some sort, and just made a turn toward NY Harbor.
http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default.aspx?level0=100
April 25, 2011 at 5:01 pm
tugster
thanks much . . . we’ll keep our eyes open, but it may just be zagging and zigging in the test area.
April 26, 2011 at 1:06 pm
bowsprite
“army vessels,” an oxymoron? like “adult male.”
Why are PSTs or landing crafts called “mike boats”??