What’s prompted the reappearance of the past here is that I’ve been sorting my archives.
So let’s start in April 2008, and this vessel will reappear tomorrow. I miss that orange in the harbor.
This is November 2009. Where is McAllister Brothers (built as Dalzelleagle) these days?
This is what Eagle Service (now Genesis Eagle) looked like in March 2010.
Here’s a closer up of the vintage Horizon ship. Is she still in lay up?
Ivory Coast, headed into the KVK here on a foggy morning, appeared almost to be floating on air above the water’s surface.
And here, a mysterious swimmer, Edith Thornton (now in Trinidad as Chassidy?), and a Hanjin ship.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who wonders who says things stay the same.
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November 5, 2016 at 12:15 pm
Robert
McAllister Brothers, according to AIS she was latest seen on 26th of june 2015 in Mariners Harbor, New York. http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:442549/imo:0/mmsi:367370674/vessel:MCALLISTER%20BROTHERS . Regards, Robert
November 5, 2016 at 4:11 pm
Allen Baker
Will,
Last I saw the Brothers visually was in July of this year at McAllister’s yard. She is buried in there, either astern or alongside the old Helen. I believe her clutch was burned up some 5 or 6 years ago.
For the record, I ran McAllister Brothers as mate and captain a decade ago. She was often used as a “Zone Boat” when they were digging the Kills and around Bergen Point in addition to docking and sailing ships around the harbor.
Straight up, 12 cylinder EMD and pneumatic clutch, around 1800hp I venture.
She was fun to run and still had a decent push for her age and condition.
If I am not mistaken, the McAllister Brothers might have been the very last single screw tug in NY Harbor regularly docking ships.
November 5, 2016 at 4:26 pm
George Schneider
HORIZON DISCOVERY was sold in 2014 to Bay Bridge Enterprises, who normally scrap ships in Chesapeake VA, but was reported to have arrived in Brownsville TX for scrap in October of that year. A number of the Horizon ships have been revived under their same name for PASHA group, or with Matson names (such as MATSON CONSUMER) for Matson Lines.
November 7, 2016 at 12:30 pm
glen
The orange of Freddy Kosnacs boats and floating derrick brings back lots of memories for me. Kosnacs Floating derrick operated just below the tiered bldg in the photo of June K. Freddies Jr. and Sr. hauled our hydrofoils in and out on a regular basis as we tore the foils up with the debris in the 6th boro. Our American Hydrofoil offices were in 120 Wall St, the tiered bldg. All of this in the mid 1960s for the worlds fair.