Here’s a first-timer for me in the sixth boro . . . Miss Emily, a saltwater member of the huge Marquette Transportation fleet. Look carefully and you’ll see she sports equipment not commonly seen here.
One of my favorite harbor vessels . . . now called Ellen McAllister, used to do gray-work in Holy Loch, Scotland. Here’s more on Holy Loch and its role in the Cold War.
Zachery Reinauer was built upstate at Matton 42 years ago.
Kristy Ann Reinauer, 51 years old, offers some style hints of 1960s trucks like this one.
I’ve no idea how long Harry McNeal has worked the boro, but she was launched in Louisiana in 1965.
Ditto my question on history of Robert IV . . who launched in Louisiana in 1975.
Ruth M. Reinauer is the mother of facet tugs launched in Rhode Island around a half decade ago.
Discovery Coast might be the newest tug in this installment. It’s the creation of Frank Basile, whose bio as written by Brian Gauvin can be found here. For a portfolio of his work, click here.
JoAnne III Reinauer, a 1970 vessel with a 2008 aluminum tower is one of the more unusual tugs in the sixth boro. For a before-after look on tugster, click here.
Finally, a 1980 Oyster Bay, NY built vessel . . . now called Siberian Sea.
And that equipment unique to Miss Emily . . . it’s this knotted rope escape system. To see this in use, look at fotos 7 and 8 in this tugster post from three years ago.
All fotos taken–with icy fingers–by Will Van Dorp, in the past few days.
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March 4, 2013 at 10:03 am
tugpower
TUG MISS EMILY is no stranger to the sixth boro. She was formerly EMILY C. CHERAMIE https://tugster.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/random-tugs-63/ owned by Huey J. Cheramie Marine, Inc. All of the tugs owned by Cheramie were recently sold to Marquette Transportation Offshore LLC.
Vessel Name: MISS EMILY USCG Doc. No.: 1104495
Vessel Service: TOWING VESSEL IMO Number: 8987383
Trade Indicator: Coastwise Unrestricted, Registry Call Sign: WDC3527
Hull Material: STEEL Hull Number: 202
Ship Builder: RODRIQUEZ BOAT BUILDERS Year Built: 2000
Length (ft.): 79.6
Hailing Port: GALLIANO LA Hull Depth (ft.): 11
Owner: MARQUETTE TRANSPORTATION COMPANY OFFSHORE LLC
5525 MOUNES STREET
JEFFERSON, LA 70123 Hull Breadth (ft.): 28
Gross Tonnage: 149
Net Tonnage: 101
Documentation Issuance Date: July 16, 2012 Documentation Expiration Date: July 31, 2013
Previous Vessel Names: EMILY C CHERAMIE
EMILY C CHERAMIE
Previous Vessel Owners: MARQUETTE TRANSPORTATION COMPANY OFFSHORE LLC
HLC TUGS, LLC
INLAND MARINE MANAGEMENT COMPANY LLC
HUEY J CHERAMIE MARINE INC.
Tug ROBERT IV was built in 1975 by Terrebone Shipbuilders, Inc., Houma, La.
Vessel Name: ROBERT IV USCG Doc. No.: 563841
Vessel Service: TOWING VESSEL IMO Number: *
Trade Indicator: Coastwise Unrestricted Call Sign: WDC3892
Hull Material: STEEL Hull Number: 6
Ship Builder: TERREBONNE SHIPBLDRS INC Year Built: 1975
Length (ft.): 55.7
Hailing Port: NEW YORK NY Hull Depth (ft.): 9.1
Owner: HENRY MARINE SERVICE INC
12 CRAIG AVENUE
STATEN ISLAND, NY 10307 Hull Breadth (ft.): 22
Gross Tonnage: 103
Net Tonnage: 70
Documentation Issuance Date: June 11, 2012 Documentation Expiration Date: July 31, 2013
Previous Vessel Names: No Vessel Name Changes Previous Vessel Owners: HENRY MARINE SERVICE INC
March 4, 2013 at 10:25 am
tugster
tugpower– she fooled me. here’s a foto i took of emily c. cheramie a few years back: https://tugster.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/random-tugs-63/ thanks for your thoroughness.
March 4, 2013 at 11:13 am
eastriver
Hmm. The link for Miss Emily’s line seems not to work, but this is used for a measure of security for transferring from tug to dock or barge.
Another 6th borough vessel had something similar when doing daysails in Baltimore harbor: Clipper City had a line off the starboard course yard-arm which a deckhand would use to swing from the bulwarks to the dock when arriving, turning the deckhand into the mooring-line handler. When one unfortunate deckhand failed to properly judge his travel and collided with a dock piling, the line was instantly dubbed the “splat-line”.
March 4, 2013 at 11:25 am
tugster
eastriver– thanks for catching that faulty link . . . now repaired. “splat-line” could say it all . . .
March 21, 2013 at 5:14 am
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