Coral Queen

Thanks for today’s fotos and text go to James Ash, port captain for Poling & Cutler.     “I took [these fotos of Coral Queen]  about 12 years ago from the Boston Post Road Bridge in Eastchester ( Mt. Vernon).

The “Rock Cut” is one of the most challenging transits as lining up for the turn around the last corner under the B.P.R. Bridge is a widow maker in a single hull, single screw, tanker built in 1920.

Probably a highlight of my career [is] the 1,200 trips up the Hutchinson River in my time on this vessel.

There was a time when she made two trips per day up this river,

one on each tide.   Master mariner Tony McDonald is at the helm on this trip.

I came in for crew change.”

Thanks much, Jim.

Here are my fotos of Coral Queen, which began rebirth through the scrapyard portal a few years back now.