Let’s start with one that I can’t identify, other than by its name . . . Charlie E, I believe. I took this photo in Port Colborne.
I was wrong when I thought McKeil’s Sharon M I was an ex-Candies tug like Na Hoku or Greenland Sea. It turns out she was built in Japan.
I can’t ever remember seeing a heaping load of coal like this . . .
Petite Forte was docked also along the Welland Canal with barge St. Mary’s Cement.
I’ll put up a pilot boat post soon. Meanwhile, can you identify this pilot boat?
Jaclyn is a 41′ tug built in 1967.
Joncaire, it turns out, is an important name in Niagara history.
Eagle is a 57′ tugboat built in 1943 and operating out of Cleveland. Here she heads for the outer harbor.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who is unpacking as quickly as possible, and preparing to repack soon.
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July 22, 2016 at 9:45 am
ws
The coal pile’s steep height is based on the of coal’s Angle of repose.
-PSE&G’s Hudson Plant takes Aerial shots of their coal pile, measures the projected area of their anthracite supply. Knowing the angle of repose,
calculates the volume of their inventory!
PSE&G’s anthracite comes from Indonesia. It’s
lightered onto barges, and shipped to the plant via the Hackensack River.
Alas, PSE&G Hudson is a load following plant, and doesn’t use too much anthracite.
https://www.pseg.com/family/power/fossil/stations/hudson.jsp
July 22, 2016 at 11:57 am
William Lafferty
The Charlie E. was built as the fish tug Kolbe by W. F. Kolbe & Company, ltd., at Port Dover, Ontario, for Carl F. Kolbe, sold 1951 to William Siddall of Lowbanks, Ontario, and later his son, George. It was sold for use as the dive boat Lois T. out of Toronto and later Port Dalhousie until Nadro Marine Services, Ltd., of Port Dover acquired it 1999 and rebuilt it into its current configuration. It is now owned by International Marine Salvage, Ltd., Port Colborne, whose demolition yard you passed, but is registered in Canada as a recreational vessel. It originally had a Detroit 6-71T Diesel, but I don’t know if it still does.