David Hindin alerted me when this voyage started on November 8 . . . departing San Francisco, sixth boro bound. I’m very happy to share some folks fotos of Tradewinds Miss Lis‘ arrival at the Narrows this morning. Many thanks to Peter Michael Patrick Codd, who sent the first two.
Here . . . as seen from the Brooklyn side.
John Skelson caught these next ones. Click here for larger versions on his Flickr photostream.
Note a new-to-NY assist tug here . . . Pelham. I hope someone on Pelham got some good pics.
Many thanks to Peter and John for letting me share their fotos here.
And David . . . while I was driving my way back to NYC through central NJ, he got this record of the last mile of the voyage . . . image thanks to marinetraffic.com
This bargeload is support equipment for the herculean (oops . . . that’s just a storm?) Left Coast Lifter now heading south from San Francisco to the Panama Canal to work on the Tappan Zee bridge project. Here’s a link to Tappan Zee Constructors.
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January 2, 2014 at 11:05 pm
David Hindin
What a team.
Thanks to Peter and John for grabbing images of LIS.
I like this link better to see John’s photo set “Miss Lis in New York”:
“Tradewinds Towing, Miss Lis, arrived in a COLD New York Harbor this morning with a barge tow loaded with material for the new Tappan Zee Bridge.”
and
Both clearly show the bow of the barge marked “OC 262”
Here is spec sheet for Deck Barge OC 262 as built:
Click to access OC262_DeckBarge.pdf
O.C. 262 Deck Barge
REGISTRATION
Official No 639521…
The following is only for fanatics:
http://www.navigationdatacenter.us/veslchar/veslchar.htm
Waterborne Transportation Lines of the United States
A three volume annual product, Waterborne Transportation Lines of the United States, Volumes 1-3, provides both an inventory of vessel companies and their American flag vessels operating in the transportation of freight and passengers and a national summary of all vessels. An alphabetical listing of each vessel company name, address and telephone number is included as are characteristics of each vessel listed by vessel operator name.
Volume 1 – National Summaries(2011) (size ~ 526kb)
Volume 2 – Vessel Company Summary(2011) (size ~ 643kb)
Click to access wtlusvl2_11.pdf
ABF BARGE, LLC (3908211) 375 BURMA ROAD OAKLAND CA 94607
Volume 3 – Vessel Characteristics(2011) (size ~ 2m)
Click to access wtlusvl3_11.pdf
ABF BARGE, LLC
OC 262 CG# 639521 …
ABF is American Bridge / Fluor Enterprises, Inc. a joint Venture
January 3, 2014 at 12:22 am
tugster
david– thank you for getting this ball rolling.
January 3, 2014 at 2:46 am
David Hindin
Arcane Lesson Learned:
A link at the previously noted
http://www.navigationdatacenter.us/veslchar/veslchar.htm
Search Vessel Characteristics
http://www.navigationdatacenter.us/veslchar/veslcharsearch.htm
yields two choices:
SEARCH the US Coast Guard Vessel Data Base
By Vessel ID (639521)
http://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/st1/CoastGuard/VesselByID.html
or
By Vessel Name (OC 262)
http://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/st1/CoastGuard/VesselByName.html
each yield
Vessel Name: OC 262
USCG Doc. No.: 639521
IMO Number: *
Call Sign: *
Hull Number: 1348
Vessel Service: FREIGHT BARGE
Trade Indicator: Coastwise Unrestricted, Registry
Hull Material: STEEL
Ship Builder: BERGERON INDUSTRIES INC
Year Built: 1981
Length (ft.): 240
Hull Depth (ft.): 15
Hull Breadth (ft.): 72
Gross Tonnage: 1828
Net Tonnage: 548
Hailing Port: SAN FRANCISCO CA
Owner:
ABF BARGE LLC
375 BURMA ROAD
OAKLAND, CA 94607
Documentation Issuance Date: June 04, 2013
Documentation Expiration Date: June 30, 2014
Previous Vessel Names: No Vessel Name Changes
Previous Vessel Owners:
ABF BARGE LLC
OTTO CANDIES LLC
CANDIES TOWING CO LLC
I am done.
January 3, 2014 at 12:13 pm
newenglandwaterman
Pelham looks like the old Tucana, ex constellation, ex FOSS.
January 3, 2014 at 1:41 pm
tugster
that’s right. she’s just starting to go online here.
January 3, 2014 at 1:47 pm
tugster
regarding miss lis– here’s a link to her on Dec 12 going through the gatun locks: https://tugster.wordpress.com/2013/12/18/random-tugs-118/