Here was 2.
What kind of fotos does one get on a dark and drizzly morning? Well, through a fence I snapped this one of the virginal Evening Star . . . in the boro less than 24 hours! And less than a year and a half after keel-laying down in Louisiana.
Alice Oldendorff came in this morning . . . the first moving vessel I spotted today AND the subject of my first ever post nearly six short and long years ago. Alice shuttles aggregates between Port of Bayside, NB and Brooklyn Navy Yard.
And even more virginal than Evening Star, here’s DDG-112, to be commissioned in the sixth boro next Saturday.
USS Michael Murphy is named for a fallen SEAL and built at Bath Iron Works.
Here’s Alliance St. Louis, a US-flagged RORO with
a smudge on her bow that resembles smudges I’ve seen on other ROROs. Anyone explain the origin of what appears to be primer paint over damaged coating?
Here’s the Kirby barge Pacific, which
has this unusual feature midships.
Moving her eastbound was Amy C McAllister. The tanker in the distance off Amy‘s stern is Lia.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Soon-to-be commissioned USS Michael Murphy will be open for tours tomorrow.
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September 29, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Harold E. Tartell
Nice photo of the EVENING STAR Will. This is the first photo that I have seen of her, & probably won’t be the last. I was correct in stating to everyone that she was going to resemble the ELLEN S. BOUCHARD. The RHEA looked like this until they changed her stack after repowering her to 5100 hp in 2006. It won’t surprise me that a few more of these will be built quite soon. FREDERICK E. BOUCHARD & MORTON S. BOUCHARD are both 37 years old. I remember when they were both brand new like this one. EVENING TIDE is 42 years old. She was Bouchard’s first & biggest twin screw tug when they bought her from Edwards Towing, New Orleans in 1971 as CAPTAIN GEORGE EDWARDS. EVENING MIST is now 36 years old. Considering the weather conditions and the position that the tug is in, this photo is better than NO Photo.
September 29, 2012 at 4:02 pm
tugster
thanks, harold. what surprised me was how similar the appearance is to ellen. but i guess, like they say . .. “if it aint broken, don’t fix it.”
September 29, 2012 at 7:30 pm
eastriver
Smudges on the roro? Maybe anchor chain scuffs.
September 30, 2012 at 7:06 am
bowsprite
it looks like a tar wave rolled by. Did it steam through Macondo Field?