Do you recognize this ship?
Well, actually, Petroleum Producer is a barge, not a ship. And Galveston is a 12,000 hp tug.
And in port she needs assistance . . . here Freddy K Miller (I think . . . on starboard) and Pegasus.
This generation of ATB units replaces ITBs that were still in the sixth boro when tugster started to pay attention back in 2006. Back then, there was a fleet of ITBs, now waiting the scrapyard. Click here and here for closeups I did of one of them, ITB Philadelphia, last known to be laid up in Great Bitter Lake in Egypt. Anyone have followup news?
The last time I caught closeups of Petroleum Producer and Galveston it was here (scroll through) in the Cape Fear River over two years ago.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Unrelated: Check out this 450’+ mutation here.
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