Almost two years ago, Chris did this guest post about an experience he had sailing in the Mediterranean in this ride. The vessel below, now threatened, was on the hook off Palma, Mallorca, in one of her last years of service.
On that same deployment, he caught this foto of SS France, speeding past his vessel toward the Straits of Gibraltar.
Here’s another of Chris’ fotos, Sac Badalona (see #113) . . . at that time not long to be afloat and intact.
Here’s Chris’ ride low and dry and cold in Boston Naval Shipyard’s Drydock 4, winter 1969-70. What shrinks ASR-16 Tringa once accommodated Leviathan.
During that drydocking, Chris had a chance to get fotos along the Boston waterfront. You can read the restaurant sign as Anthony’s Pier 4. Can you identify the steamer and the schooner? Answer follows . . .
This foto taken some time between December 1969 and March 1970 shows two tugs afloat and one sunk at the dock near Rowes Wharf in Boston . . . now a very different place. Can anyone identify? Chris has no clues other than the time and places info. I’m grateful to Chris for sending along these scans, although both he and I will rely on some group-sourcing to know more about these vessels. Enjoy.
Disintegrating in Noank in the 69-70 time frame, it’s the remains of once-four-masted schooner Alice L. Pendleton.
Moving south to New London, it’s W. H. Welch.
Also in New London . . does that say Spaigo Carroll?
Also in New London . . . it’s ferry Martha’s Vineyard.
And this is the Thames River boneyard a,
b,
and c.
And finally, identification on the vessels at Anthony’s Pier 4 . . . steamer Peter Stuyvesant (victim of the Blizzard of 1978) and –a real coup in terms on an identification by eastriver and his “new englander” shipmate”–it’s 1863 Alice S. Wentworth, who went victim to a storm in 1974.
Many thanks to Chris for sending along these fotos, which belong to him.
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May 14, 2013 at 9:31 am
mageb
Stunning and fascinating stuff. Thanks for the “Wows!”
December 11, 2014 at 6:05 pm
Jim Gallant
The three Boston tugs were owned by the Ross Towboat Company of 18 Northern Avenue, at the mouth of the Fort Point Channel, located in the former Boston Fireboat Engine 44 Fire House and pier complex. The sunken tug is the GLEN THOMAS, (ex: FRED W. CATTERALL) built 1942 in Galveston, Tx., and sunk for the fourth and final time of her career in late 1969 just a couple of months before the photo was taken. The white superstructure tug is the 1933 vintage JULIE J. (ex: JOSEPH GOLDBERGER), a former United States Government towboat purchased by Ross in 1964 to replace their old 1905 vintage tug BETSY ROSS, which had been sold that same year to Quincy Fuel Barges, Inc. The black and red tug is the SADIE ROSS, built in 1904 at East Boston by the Atlantic Works as the new Ross Towboat Flagship, for company founder Captain Joseph R. Ross, and named for his then 19 year old daughter, Sadie. The SADIE ROSS served in the United States Navy during World War One as a Section Patrol Vessel, before being returned to the Ross Towboat Company in 1920. SADIE ROSS sank in Newburyport, Massachusetts in the early 1970’s while waiting to become part of a waterfront re-development project that never came to fruition; she was subsequently scrapped – Jim Gallant, Norwood, Massachusetts.
August 9, 2015 at 8:49 pm
tugster
i finally figured out photo #9 here: it’s MV Sprigg Carroll, built 1903. Here’s the rest: http://sshsaimageporthole.org/index.php?route=product/product&qs=carroll&product_id=21619