Big sky and small ship?  Actually it’s among the largest ships currently serving NYC, at 1063′ loa, or almost 2.81 times loa of Peking and 3.3 times the beam.

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Actually, Hyundai Jupiter is the first of HMM’s “Earth-series” that I’ve gotten any sort of photo of.  My recent attempt of Hyundai Pluto was lost in the snowstorm a few weeks back.  As of this writing, Pluto is off western US, Mars is off western Mexico, Saturn … off western Korea, Neptune … traversing Tsugaru Straits, and Hyundai Earth … between Madagascar and Cape of Good Hope.

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She’s among the biggest in the port, 1062′ x 155.’

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Other ships calling recently include Bow Jubail, here assisted by

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Turecamo Girls.  By the way, did you even notice the assist tugs on Hyundai Jupiter above?

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Shrike loaded scrap,

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APL Yangshan and Hamburg Sud Monte Rosa transfer boxes, and

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Polaris waits at anchor.

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To return here to the tugs visible on the Hyundai ship, they were Robert E.  and Erin.

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Invisible but assisting on the starboard side was Ellen.  And as of this writing Hyundai Jupiter has tied up in Norfolk, doing a steady almost-20 its much of the way.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.