Given the number of posts I’ve done on names, you’re right to assume they fascinate me. Of course, the names are just placeholders, but much preferable these names to numbers. This recent salt ship, for example, could be called Ever Lion . . . if Evergreen had chosen to use animals rather than qualities for their “L” class. I suppose “ever lion” might be misunderstood for “ever lying,” not a great name for several reasons. Ocean Lion used to be called Ocean Lyra, in fact.
I was planning to do a whole series of these Evergreen ships, but I missed Ever Liberal, Ever Legend, and a few other ones that recently called in the sixth boro.
Leader surprised me . . . the hull was black . . . but maybe that was a primer coating.
Global Andes . . . an intriguing name.
Genco Warrior . . another one of their ships is called Knight . . .
Grouse Arrow seems to assume the opposite perspective, not predator but prey or rather projectile to render a being prey.
Tugela is a river in South Africa. That fleet uses place names all starting with T.
Obsidian . . . well, a mineral name seems appropriate for a mineral carrier.
The best name I’ve seen this fall is El Babe. I’d pronounce it as one syllable, even though it’s probably intended as two.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who accepts the fact that it’s okay to miss a lot of traffic.
But here’s one more from Alaska, New General, thanks to Bob Heselberg. She’s in Skagway Alaska, loading ore for Asia. Taken Dec 02 2017. Thanks, Bob.
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December 31, 2017 at 12:34 am
George Schneider
Evergreen started out by buying an old Japanese breakbulk cargo ship and renamed it EVER GREEN. It just grew from there. I was in Hokkaido for the launch of EVER ONWARD, one of their last breakbulk ships, and if I remember correctly, she was later converted into a cellular container ship. At one time they had a training ship of their own, called EVER TRAINING.
Entering the harbor of Noumea, New Caledonia, I got a shot of the breakbulk ship EVER PROSPERITY aground and abandoned on a reef near there. She had grounded in 1970. Oddly, an old ex-American Liberty ship with the same name had grounded nearby 5 years before. For more strangeness, see http://www.artificialowl.net/2009/04/story-of-captain-who-wrecked-twice-same.html
When producing their “U” class container ships, they had an EVER UBERTY. It always looked like EVER LIBERTY from a distance, but the “L” class didn’t come until later. It was a long time before I found out there was actually an English word “Uberty.”
When they came out with the “E” class, I was really hoping they’d have one named EVER ENDEAVOR. Think about it.