Here was Atlantic Star approaching the Narrows on Saturday, still a half hour outside the Narrows. She was launched at the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard almost a year ago, and this maiden cargo voyage began in Hamburg on December 9, 2015. Note the FDNY escort boat just forward of her bow.
That’s the Verrazano Narrows Bridge off her bow and a fog-beshrouded WTC off her stern.
The generation 4 (G4) Atlantic Star followed a G3 Atlantic Concert into port. Here and here are views from different perspectives of other G3 ACL vessels, all dating from the mid-1980s.
More photos of the arrival tomorrow.
For a comparison of the G3 and G4 vessels by the numbers, click here and here. For more detail on the vessel, click here.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, protected under creative commons license. Also, conveyance would not have been possible without the NY Media Boat; thanks Bjoern.
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January 11, 2016 at 2:02 pm
JS
Mr.Noble knew & liked the CINDERELLA & her master. They’d flip over a G4.
January 11, 2016 at 2:22 pm
tugster
JS– Good to hear from you. For those of you who don’t catch the CINDERELLA reference, here’s an article on the vessels–with their pluses and minuses–of previous generations of ACL boats: http://shipfax.blogspot.com/2014/10/acls-almost-new-names-and-some-more.html
And JS, there’s a little ambiguity in yr last sentence about Mr. Noble: you mean he’d flip . . with joy, for example . . . or he would flip over one of the G4s? OK, I know what you mean and am just messing with you.
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January 11, 2016 at 3:34 pm
Sean
When I worked for Norton Lilly out of Elizabeth the ACL boats were probably my favorite call. Nice accommodations, excellent and professional crew.