Port of Havana 1

Click on the photo below to learn more about it, taken in late January 118 years ago.

Here’s that same location last week.  Sorry about holding the camera crooked;  if I straighten it out now, the 1845 lighthouse disappears.

The guys sitting on the seawall to the extreme left are tour bus drivers.  Did you notice the two tour buses on the central ridge line in the photo above?

A little farther into the port I saw Sea Wolf A, 72′ x 23′ built by Damex in Santiago in 1996, and in spite of this info, not laid up. You can find more info here by using the “find” feature.

Alnair . . . I have no information on her. Anyone help?

And a pilotboat . . . is a pilotboat, not to disparage pilots and their skills in any way whatsoever.

Can you guess the white ship whose hull dwarfs the pilot?

 

Find the answer here.

All photos by Will Van Dorp, who was on a journalistic mission.

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