Ace . . . never seen it before. Can you guess its location? Answer follows. I’d love to know the story. Mebbe she’s the 1949er formerly known as Oil King? And what of the collapsed rail bridge lower left?
Is that Michael Cosgrove sashayed eastbound on the East River with the 2006 Pegasus?
Here’s Franklin Reinauer headed for Erie Basin.
Note the crewman portside between the two scows as
Thomas J Brown heads for Gowanus.
Is it true that Shawn Miller pushed a barge to transport Our Lady for some R & R?
Foto of Ace was taken by will Van Dorp in the Wallabout Channel today.
And important news from Reuters, the escaped peacock has voluntarily returned to its home; my speculation is that a love match had frayed and said-cock needed some time away.
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August 3, 2011 at 8:28 pm
Jim
You have got to have the correct ACE. Size is correct. Clearly looks like a tank top up forward. I suspect the reason you have not seen ACE previously is that her documentation expired in 2008. She has probably been tied up in some backwater and not very visible as a result. It is really hard to imagine that a 1949 vintage unrestricted coastwise tankship would be profitable to operate.
August 3, 2011 at 9:25 pm
Jim
I got curious and checked out Google Earth. The current imagery is from 6/17/10 and ACE is clearly there although perhaps a bit further from the railroad bridge. Did someone move her closer to make room for something else and not move her back? So, even more curious, I checked the Google Earth “way back machine.” 9/2005 — No ACE. 7/17/06, ACE was there and is there in every subsequent set of imagery. It is pretty clear that ACE is not moving as if it was, there would be imagery where it was not present.
August 4, 2011 at 5:52 am
jeff s
ACE is indeed xOIL KING #257842 built at Qincey,Mass.
as OIL KING she spent most of the summer of 1985 (maybe longer) inactive in the Tuckahoe River at Mosquito Landing.