I should rename this post “Time Warp.” I started it in May 2008 and this morning–in response to some Facebook exchanges–resurrected it. Maybe I will begin a series called “Time Warp,” though, and any photos no more than 20 years old–to pick an arbitrary boundary and to keep the series from becoming ancient time warp which could be its own thing– . . . any photos you wish to contribute no more than two decades old would be welcome. Maybe I gave up on this post six years back because I had too many unanswered questions.
Anyhow, to plunge back in . . . Robert Silva and Harold Tartell provided foto of Manhasset from way back, when it sported a flying horse on its stack . . . . I assumed this vessel was long ago scrapped. I’m also assuming the location of this shot can be pegged by the two LNG tanks in the background.
Here’s another shot of the vessel (1958) (or 1952) in transition, I presume, sent along by Robert Silva.
Here’s a photo I took in 2008: a different small tankship Mostank (1950) maneuvers close to a tanker. I don’t know if Galahad is still in service, and
Here in Arthur Kill to resupply, I suppose, Mostank . . . M O S being Marine Oil Service. Mostank shows up as registered until at least a year ago. Emma Miller now serves the sixth boro.
Here’s where the time warp impinges on this post. Great Gull was around still six or seven or eight years ago. Time flies. The Gull has flown south.
Back then, John B. Caddell was still working. Is she still intact?
Nathan E. Stewart was still in town and here moving Mary A. Whalen to the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
The unique Odin still worked here, and
Weddell Sea was still known as Scott C.
All photos here by will Van Dorp unless otherwise attributed.
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March 30, 2014 at 10:32 am
Bobby
The Manhasset is still intact and is sitting at Plaza Fuel (Goethals Bridge) laid up at the dock. I don’t believe she is still trading. In the photo of her with the two tanks as you know is off Port Socony SI…
March 30, 2014 at 10:34 am
tugster
thanks, bobby.
May 3, 2014 at 8:45 pm
brian b
the great gull was originally built for exxon corp, and was named ” exxon Connecticut”