Five years ago I did this post about barge names. Here are some bows I’ve looked at recently, including this one that speaks to winter in the sixth boro. When I started looking up vintage, I was surprised. RTC 61 launched from Rhode Island in Sept. 2010.
RTC 103, same provenance, June 2009.
RTC 502, Texas, March 1976. Notice the Vane barge with yellow trim between RTC 502 and the red ship?
Coincidentally, Magothy is pushing Doubleskin 502, July 2008 out of Jeffersonville, Indiana.
Doubleskin 31 . .. Baltimore 1999.
DBL 140 . . Wisconsin December 1999.
The hull looks different full v. empty.
Scrap scow SMM 203 . . . I have no clue.
All fotos taken in recent weeks by Will Van Dorp.
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February 21, 2013 at 4:20 pm
Joe
I wonder, do the Doubleskins wander inland, I’ve never seen one on the Big River or the Ohio?
February 21, 2013 at 5:00 pm
tugster
given their provenance, they obviously have floated out the mississippi watershed once . . .
February 21, 2013 at 8:45 pm
eastriver
Joe, they’re too deep-draft to come to the Ohio. Head of seagoing navigation in the Big River is essentially Baton Rouge. I may have seen a Vane unit in the MR a few years ago, during Deepwater Horizon.