… will be the minigolf pier, the beach volleyball pier, and the historic vessels pier. And the first of three arrived there today. Lilac, ex-WLM-227 . . .
launched at Pusey & Jones on May 26, 1933. Since her steam plant must for now remain idle, Vessel Traffic Service classified her today as a “dead vessel” as she made the almost mile-long transit from pier 40 to pier 25, where
she will soon be open for visitors. Move today was made by Miller’s Launch, who had two boats on the scene . . . tug Catherine C and workboat Cecilia.
As she got backed into the site, I noticed
Ed on Lilac and . . . bowsprite catching lines!!
But she was much too
busy catching lines to
deal with a blogger like me, who intrinsically would much rather catch lies lines, too, but realizes that if I did, no one
might be taking these fotos.
More from pier 25 soon. And some day, ot so soon, wouldn’t it be nice to hear Lilac’s engine purr like this . . . .
tugster: a waterblog 
9 comments
Comments feed for this article
May 25, 2011 at 8:20 am
Buck
I especially love the atmosphere of the penultimate photo. The last one is a perfect closing. Thanks for taking the photos!
May 25, 2011 at 8:33 am
tugster
thanks, buck
May 25, 2011 at 10:56 am
Mage Bailey
I so admire her, and thanks for recording all this for us.
May 25, 2011 at 2:44 pm
paulb
The Blue Marlin doesn’t have DPS- I hitched a ride from a tugboat today, and the mate had been running a ship assist boat a few years back when she was carrying container cranes to Newark… they used a couple of tugs to pin her to the dock and waited for the tide to fall until the height of the railways on the ship matched the receiving railways on the dock. Going to post a few pics I took this morning as I passed the boat just after sunup.
May 25, 2011 at 3:10 pm
Fjorder
http://portsidetanker.blogspot.com/2011/05/mary-whalen-gets-new-and-national.html
May 25, 2011 at 4:51 pm
Bill Miller
Nice to see Bowsprite doing a hell of a fine job catching lines. You know what they say in Hollywood, “You can’t hide talent!”
May 25, 2011 at 9:05 pm
bowsprite
yay! I didn’t fall in!
July 4, 2011 at 11:30 am
Walrus
Diesels purr, steam reciprocating engines pound. And those engines will never run again on steam. The boilers are shot, the pumps are rotted out, the piping is rusted through and the generators are frozen.
Not to mention what the condenser tubes look like.
There are only a few guys in NY that have run a real triple expansion engine so take it from one who knows,This one isn’t going anywhere.
January 22, 2016 at 12:00 pm
Tug ‘n Tender Real Estate | tugster: a waterblog
[…] Lilac. Great. Maybe I could call it Pegasus/Lilac Real Estate. […]