Kodiak . . . is ex-Vane and Allied.
Hunting Creek is Maryland-built for Vane.
Charles A has carried at least four previous names.
Specialist, I believe the oldest in the set today, . . . has low sleek lines for an almost 60-year-old vessel.
When this Pegasus came into the sixth boro, she lacked the upper wheelhouse.
Atlantic Salvor has for some years–since this one left–been the largest tugboat in the sixth boro. Rivaling Atlantic Salvor a few years back was the rescue tug turned super yacht called Lone Ranger.
And finally, for today, it’s Eric McAllister passes Ultra Colonsay, discharging salt over at Atlantic Salt.
All photos over the last few days by Will Van Dorp.
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April 27, 2015 at 9:15 am
Daniel Meeter
Speakin’ a which, Will, do we New Yorkers have any of the big ocean-going tugs that the Dutch have? Like Jan de Hartog’s? En ook een fijne Koningsdag.
April 27, 2015 at 10:41 am
Klyde
On the theme, of the link, to a previous photo of Donjon’s Powhatan.
I observed, a week ago, via AIS, the sister ship to Powhatan, Narragansett, also operated by Donjon, is in Little Creek, outside Norfolk, Va.
She is away from her usual haunts of San Francisco Bay, California.
Could the next destination for Narragansett be a stop in the sixth boro?
April 27, 2015 at 6:33 pm
tugster
Dan– Atlantic Salvor is the biggest based in NYC, but for the watery parts, that means she might go to the Caribbean–as she just did–or across the Atlantic, as happened a few years ago. Recently, a disable ship hundreds of miles outside NYC was towed here by Robert E. McAllister, here: http://www.tugboatinformation.com/tug.cfm?id=516&fs
Klyde–Interesting. Thanks for keeping a watch.
April 27, 2015 at 9:26 pm
William Lafferty
The Specialist is quite familiar to me. It was built as Waverly in 1956 by Parker Brothers & Company, Inc., Houston, hull number 22, for the Sioux City & New Orleans Barge Lines, Inc., Houston, for primarily gulf towing, although it traversed the whole river system from New Orleans to Pittsburgh. 84 x 26 x 9.2; 131 gt, 41 nt. Originally it had twin Enterprise DMN-36 Diesels, 1000-bhp. Great Lakes Towing Company of Cleveland acquired the vessel in 1971 when Chicago’s Crown family, who controlled SC & NO, took control of GLTCo. Rebuilt by Crown’s Lemont Shipbuilding Company at Lemont, Illinois (owned by the Crown’s Material Service Corporation), GLTCo intended to use the vessel, mounted with gigantic push knees on its bow, to transfer barges between the ports of Northern Indiana and South Chicago. That service never materialized, and the Waverly reverted to SC & NO in 1973 and was renamed Brother Collins the next year. Its pilothouse was propped into its upright position, and its shuttled barges at St.Louis. In 1977 Captain Ed Barnaby bought the vessel and slowly (very slowly) rebuilt it at the wharf of his Calumet Marine Towing Corporation under the Skyway Bridge at South Chicago. I witnessed first hand that elongated process. He plopped in two EMD 6-278As and renamed it Curly B. after his son in 1980. When Barnaby died and CMTCorp was liquidated in 1992, Kindra Towing LLC took over the vessel (and Barnaby’s dock and several other of his tugs). Kindra for some reason removed the 6-278As in favor of dual Cummins KTA38-M Diesels, boosting horsepower to 1800. When Kindra went belly up, Lake Michigan Contractors, Inc., of Holland. Michigan, acquired it. In 2006 Otis Ritter of Mobile, Alabama, bought it and renamed it The Chief, but almost immediately resold it to New York interests where it became Specialist II. The Roman numerals have now been dropped, and with her original retractable pilothouse, she is owned out of Montauk as Specialist.
April 28, 2015 at 4:17 am
tugster
william–lots of news about specialist there for me.
also, i neglected to identify Clipper City in the background in photo #5, beyond Pegasus. Here’s the website for Clipper City: https://www.manhattanbysail.com/about-us/our-boats/ Here’s a post I did on the vessel over two years ago: https://tugster.wordpress.com/2013/01/27/clipper-city/ Ever since the demolition of Pier 17, she’s been docking at the Battery.
August 29, 2019 at 4:02 pm
Anonymous
Wrong again, Ed Barnaby from CMT renamed the Waverly for his wife Helen’s nickname the Lenny-B. Tom Paytosh replaced Curly-B’s Cleveland’s with a pair of high speed cummins a deal Tom Barnaby acquired. The Curly-B was the nickname of his favorite pilot Mr. Byron my good friend’s uncle. The only other non family named tug of Barnaby’s fleet was the O’toole becoming the Bonesey-B nickname of pilot Jimmy Ray.
August 29, 2019 at 4:05 pm
Chris Camalick
Leonard Byron was Curly