What would a name like Ecology Queen lead you to expect?
The Bayonne Bridge in upper right side of the foto should suggestion the location. Also, just beyond the yellow crane with the red unit marked 450, you can see the upper house of Lincoln Sea.
Ecology Queen is seriously boxy and equipped with a telescoping crane.
I’m guessing she started like as a government boat . . . DEP –by the name– or Corps of Engineers by the functionality, but
I don’t know.
Notice the sheltered wheel and rudder.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp, a few days ago at MHYC. Click on that link for lots of fotos.
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December 21, 2013 at 11:01 am
tugster
not everyone who reads here does Facebook, so let me add some info I learned via FB: this is one of the “sweeper” boat that NY Dept of Sanitation used at the former Fresh Kills landfill. i’ve not been able to learn such info as where built and when? how many if there were others? and disposition of others . . . here’s a huge PDF on NYC Dept of Sanitation landfills over the years: http://freshkillspark.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/marty-bellew-lecture-112911_lowrez.pdf
December 21, 2013 at 4:34 pm
tugster
here are some links to relatives of this ecology queen: http://www.trashskimmer.com/nyc.htm#2 and http://www.trashskimmer.com/index.html thanks to Chris Roehrig on FB.