Random Ships *1

* here means  . . . in freshwater.  Actually there’ve been 50 posts under this title, but this is different.  And note the color of the water, brown in the case of Isolda below because it’s steaming out of the muddy, clay-suspended Maumee.

In the blue waters of the St. Clair River with Sarnia on the far side, it’s Lee A. Tregurtha.

Headed unbound not far from the same location, it’s Victoriaborg.

Down in an ocean port along the Indiana coast and shot from a speeding Amtrak, it’s James R. Barker.

Over in East China–East China Michigan, that is–it’s Lubie making her way to the ocean, well over a week away.

Upbound out of Detroit, it’s Hon James L. Oberstar, 

a downbound Algonova,

and to close it out today .  . Philip R. Clarke.

 

Clarke (Ohio) was launched 1951; Algonova (Turkey) in 2007; Oberstar (Ohio) , 1958; Lubie (China) 2011; Victoriaborg (Netherlands), 2001; Lee A. Tregutha (Maryland), 1942, as USS Chiwawa–and you need to click here to see her initial configuration!!; and finally Isolda (Japan) in 1999.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.