Sometimes along the road, I see things I don’t understand. The first two fotos here, though, I can identify but just won’t right now. Hazard guesses about this fish?
. . . and the current usage of this vessel? Answers soon.
This is a poor foto shot from the roadway where I couldn’t stop, but it looks like fishing weir tenders removing trapped fish? Click to enlarge.
Here, from a place I could stop is a weir with nets visible. I call them weirs, but maybe other terms are used along the mid-Atlantic coast
Here was my northbound conveyance . . . ferry Twin Capes, which I saw in the sixth boro here (fotos 4 and 5) two years ago. Nah . . . it wasn’t lost or in fugitive mode; it was headed for Caddell Dry Dock.
Now . . . I kid you not, but let me say I saw a ray in Delaware Bay (sounds like the beginning of a song?) but didn’t even try to take a foto. Maybe that’s a ray’s mouth motif on the bow of that pilot boat, which just
retrieved the pilot from Fivelborg, Quebec-bound. You need to see this foto of her on shipspotting!!
Following Fivelborg was this container ship, and I have no idea who she is. Any ideas . . . 10 to 15 miles behind Fivelborg outbound Delaware Bay?
Here’s the Cape May Light with the wreckage of SS Atlantus off Sunset Beach.
If this is a second life for this vessel parked on the shellrock surfaced marina, what was first life?
Two roads diverged in the New Jersey bayou (and I don’t mean that pejoratively) , and my GPS had no idea where I was or where I should go, and squadrons of tabanus nigrovittatuses aka greenheads knew exactly where their blood food was. Squadrons of squadrons!!
But I braved them to sneak a quick look at 1927 FV Louise Ockers!
All fotos by Will Van Dorp. More on the two unanswered Qs at the beginning soon.
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June 30, 2012 at 8:05 am
JED
I’m guessing it’s a torpedo retriever of some sort and the tics are confirmed recoveries
June 30, 2012 at 9:25 am
walt
Salvia: former buoy layer, and the colloquial fish are the torpedoes No glass makes it look like a shock proof non-combatant surface ship, maybe the colloquial fish, are live torpedoes
June 30, 2012 at 9:27 am
Chris Williams
The fish is the same as we used to carry on the bows of the ASRs. The vessel is not an ASR, however, at least not a member of the Chanticleer class I served on, and the tick marks remain a mystery. The vessel reminds me a great deal of the diving and salvage tender we used on the “duty wreck” in diving school, which each class needed to dive on, locate and patch holes, pump out and raise, and re-sink for the next class. In 1968, when I did my tour as a student there, the duty wreck was in Oxen Run Cove just South of the I-95 bridge over the Potomac. The wreck was a former LCI that sat with decks submerged at high tide. The tender we used was attached to the diving school, and was a former yard lighter or YF. I wish I could remember the hull number, but not today. We used the cargo boom on the YF to lift diesel salvage pumps from the YF’s hold and place them on the wreck prior to pumping. These days the school has moved on to Panama City, FL, and the state of diving gear technology has moved far past what we used at the time. There’s still a duty wreck, though, but it’s alongside a bulkhead now and there are no more hot summer nights standing duty on the YF in the DC summer heat.
June 30, 2012 at 11:27 am
eastriver
She looks to me like a retired and repurposed USCG buoy tender of the old Tree class, maybe Great Lakes service?
June 30, 2012 at 4:21 pm
Jim
On the east end of Long Island, the term they use is “pound nets” for the weirs that you show in the 4th photo.
Oh, do I know greenheads. They take out a 2 pound hunk of you! No quarter pounders for them.
June 30, 2012 at 6:48 pm
David Hindin
They were also called “pound nets” inside Sandy Hook Bay when I was a kid. They were tended by family-run operations located in Belford, NJ. The “fishman” would come once a week (Thursday) to our small farm in Holmdel with fresh whole fish on ice. A little quick work with his knife and voila, fillets for dinner. He also clipped the tails of the occasional terrier pup as part of a full service operation.
July 1, 2012 at 5:17 am
jeff s
outbounder MIGHT be CAP ISABEL coming out from South Philly.
LOUISE OCKERS was built in 1927 in Connecticut.
September 24, 2012 at 4:19 pm
Ron Newell Wilkins
The second photo is of the decommissioned 180-foot U.S. Coast Guard Cutter SALVIA, WAGL/WLB-400 (19 February 1944 to 4 October 1991). She served in Mobile, Alabama for 47 years. Presently she is being used at Little Creek, Virginia by the Military Sealift Command as a training hulk in recovering beached or grounded vessels by the salvage ships USNS Grasp (T-ARS 51) and USNS Grapple (T-ARS 53). If you are a CG veteran of a 180′, 189′ or 225′ Seagoing Buoy Tender I invite you to join us on the web at the Coast Guard Channel Community. Nice photo of SALVIA .. BZ
December 21, 2018 at 9:35 am
Ralph Corsini
Where exactly is the Louise Ockers
I would like to visit her
December 21, 2018 at 9:40 am
tugster
In the aptly named Bivalve NJ: http://www.hiddennj.com/2011/12/only-slightly-clammy-towns-of-bivalve.html . . . That’s where I took the photo back in 2012.