I hope you’re enjoying this time warp as much as I am.
Foto #1. Princess Bay northbound through the Old Bay Draw.
Foto #2. When I first met this vessel, she was known as Kristin Poling. Click here and here for fotos including some of her last month before scrapping.
Fotos #3 and 4. Reliable II northbound and . . .
showing the sculptural beauty of her house.
Foto #5. Here’s another YO turned tanker turned reef, A. H. Dumont. I’d love to hear about the condition of these reefed vessels from anyone who’s dived the Jersey offshore.
Foto #6. John J. Tabeling doing what tug/barge units do today . . . . bunkering. Tabeling was scrapped in 2005; Statendam was scrapped in 2004.
Foto #7. Another shot of Tabeling, here exiting the east end of the KVK. Foto is taken looking toward Richmond Terrace, current location of the salt pile.
Foto #8. Question . . . is this Mary A. Whalen? Here and here are fotos of the ambassador vessel of PortSide NewYork. Many more can be found by adding the vessel name in the search window upper left.
All fotos taken by Seth Tane around 30 years ago.
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June 4, 2013 at 6:55 am
Bill
Do you have any pictures of the old moranio abaco?
June 4, 2013 at 6:59 am
tugster
bill- sorry. i don’t i hope someone out there does, though.
June 4, 2013 at 7:13 am
tugpower
Tanker A.H. DUMONT was built by RTC Shipbuilding Co., Camden, N.J. in 1940, as Hull # 129 for the Spentonbush Fuel Transport Service Co., Inc., New York. She was transferred for wartime service in 1941 to the U.S. Navy, & renamed BAILER YO-54. After the war the Navy transferred her back to Spentonbush where she was once again renamed A.H. DUMONT. I spent many happy teenage days aboard this vessel during the Summer of 1961. In 1977, Spentonbush, Red Star Towing, Sheridan Towing & all of the other assets owned by the Bushey Family were sold to the Amerada-Hess Corp. Weeding of vessels started immediately, and the tankers were some of the first to go. On June 10, 1986, she was sunk off of the Jersey Coast as an artificial reef. http://njscuba.net/reefs/site_nj06gn_ah_dumont.html
Photo No. 8 is not the MARY A. WHALEN. The tanker pictured is the MORANIA MARLIN owned by the Morania Oil Tanker Corp. She was also a product of the RTC Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N.J., being built there in 1956 as Hull # 235. In the late 1980’s, Poling Transportation Co. bought her, and she was renamed BONNIE B. http://www.tugboatinformation.com/tug.cfm?id=897. She was later sold in 1998 to unknown foreign interests in the Honduras, & renamed ALISA A. More at this link: http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=103353
June 4, 2013 at 7:15 am
tugpower
I have photos of both the MORANIA ABACO & MORANIA MARLIN. I will send them off to Will by e-mail, and you can get them from him.
June 5, 2013 at 2:34 am
Bobby
The photo that you ask if it is the Mary Whalen is the Morania Marlin or Abaco…As for the Princess Bay one of her old captains bought her (Doug Hovercamp) and took her down south to St Lucia I believe and she ended there.
June 5, 2013 at 6:30 am
jeff s
which tanker did Hess paint allmost all green? looked like a John Deere tractor.