I could have called this “other peoples fotos,” but these are also quite unusual. Foto below comes many thanks to John Watson. According to John, it anchored off Bay Ridge for less than 12 hours yesterday to bunker. The last time this blog touched on livestock of the bovine sort was the post Cows in CATS. What I know about the vessel follows at the end of this post.
Foto below comes thanks to Capt. Stig Samuelsson. Take your guesses and locate the info below. I cropped Stig’s foto slightly to obscure a giveaway.
Finally, I put in this foto that I took on Sunday: this is a classy little cabin cruiser out of New Jersey. I posted a foto of it last year as well . .. I have no idea about the name or manufacturer, but my guess is that it was built within a 30ish mile radius of the sixth boro.
Answers: John’s foto shows Shorthorn Express; as of this writing, it’s headed up Delaware Bay, probably to Wilmington. And it’ll load cows for Turkey. Anyone get fotos along the way to Wilmington? Shipspotting offers a dozen fotos, including several showing the vessel–scrapped 20 years ago–that previously bore this name. What’s clear on those fotos is the elaborate ventilation system needed to keep the “shorthorns” happy during the passage.
Stig’s foto shows Harry, a tug built in 1887 as steam tug Stora Korsnäs 1. According to Stig, Stora Korsnäs 1 was typical of tugs used to tow lumber along the coasts of northern Sweden. She currently runs as a museum with a volunteer crew. If you can’t read this, you can at least look at fotos. It’s based halfway between Oslo and Goteborg and right across the water from the northern tip of Denmark. Click here for a youtube of Harry underway.
Sad news: Lady Jane MAY be not long for this world.
Lady Jane is 1963-Belgium built North Sea trawler looking a lot like Wanderbird and Cape Race. Tim Zim (whom I met when he visited the sixth boro a half year ago … see seventh foto here) has been restoring her for seven years, but recently hauled her and learned the hull was more corroded than he had thought. He wants to give up . . . he says in the post. But, I’m wondering if you could get a second opinion. A friend who read Tim’s July 25, 2011 post recalled that LV-118 aka Lightship Overfalls was in worse condition and was brought back. Details in that link about the “restoration miracle.” Please drop Tim an email with encouragement and (even better) technical advice.
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July 26, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Tom
A Livestock vessel in NYC? wow! I regret missing (seeing/shooting) it, but thanks as always for sharing in your blog!!! Tom
July 27, 2011 at 5:07 am
jeff s
livestock ships call regularily at Wilmington,Delaware….for some reason this one opted to bunker in N Y
i imagine they load cattle from the vast ranches in southern Chester County.
July 27, 2011 at 11:21 am
Fjorder
that ‘classy little cabin cruiser’ could likely be a Pacemaker, built near Egg Harbor, NJ. She has some earmarks of some Pacemaker models, although I don’t remember too many of this style with the planked fiberglass hull…that is fiberglass, right?
July 27, 2011 at 2:11 pm
tugster
i assumed she was all-wood, but never got within 500′ of her . . .
July 28, 2011 at 4:23 am
Phil P
The Shorthorn Express was in the Sixth Boro during Fleet Week. They only stopped here for a few hours for bunkers.
This kind of ship is called a walk on, walk off WOWO for short. These cows will be walking off in Turkey, because it is the only EU country that will accept US Livestock without a quarantine. One they walk off in Turkey they have access to the entire EU, until they close the loophole.
All of the cows exported are cows (dairy heifers), no bull (pun intended) they are all pregnant with bull calves. This arrangement maximizes the economy of the herd. It fetches the best price for our livestock which eventually trickles down to the rancher.
The Port of Eastport Maine, is now the latest special port of embarkation for livestock.
July 26, 2016 at 10:50 am
Harris Gruber
Will………..that classy little cruiser could be a Jorgensen…….or maybe a custom Zobel skiff (wood) out of Keyport NJ?….I enlarged the foto as far as it would go to see if those ovals at the top of the transom might be the trademark chrome-plated Zobel logos….but still couldn’t read anything. In any case, it was likely built in NJ, as it most resembles that genus (the NJ shore surf boats of old)……..Don’t recall that Egg Harbor or Pacemaker ever built in the lapstrake fashion, but the other two mostly did. There were also a number of south shore LI builders who built similar-looking boats (CMA???)…..Harris