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First, bravo to Lee Rust who puzzled out 2 of the 3 photos from IS1. And I’ll just paste in his concise answers here: “#1 is Colleen Kehoe passing under the Bear Mountain bridge southbound sometime around the late ’70’s or early ’80’s. Since 1996 this vessel is has been part of the Axel Carlson scuba diving reef off Mantoloking NJ. And #2. Red, right, returning… Northbound towards Kingston-Rhinecliff bridge under construction… 1956-ish.”
Let me add a bit: #1, click here to see Coleen–and Budweiser banner– about to be reefed in 1996. And #2, the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge opened in February 1957. #3 Paul Strubeck helped me, “That’s the Lester J. Gillen of Gillen Lighterage.” The Gillen company is mentioned in this NYTimes article about a South Street Seaport Museum exhibit from 1977. Thanks much, Lee and Paul.
Below, that’s Ingrid’s father–the photographer for most of this series–in 1957 sitting on the bollard in front of MV Sunoco.
Mystic Sun and Maumee Sun here raft up to a dock in Port Newark in December 1959. Both date from 1948 and had cargo capacity of roughly 15,000 barrels. Anyone know who the buyers were when they were sold in 1969 and 1966, respectively? Mystic Sun appeared in this blog previously here.
Finally, here’s Sunoil, launched in August 1944 as Waxhaws. The T2-SE-A1 tanker was scrapped in 1972.
Mr. Staats worked on ships for almost 50 years.
Many thanks to Ingrid for sharing these photos. More to come.
ENDS THIS AFTERNOON . . . I had planned something else for today, but this auction ends in just a few hours. Impulse buy anyone?
taken October 2010 at Mystic Seaport
As of this morning, high bid is just under $10,000. Some details here: “1962 Gibbs Corp. Growler Harbor and icebreaking tug. HIN: WYTL-65606; Length: 64~11″; Beam: 19~1″; Draft: 9~; Builder: Gibbs Corporation, Jacksonville, FL; Machinery: 3,690 mile range; Electronics: SPN-11 detection radar. Vessel is listed in salvage condition. Vessel is not taking on water.”
taken September 2011 at Sixth Boro’s tugboat race
Photos by Will Van Dorp, who’s NOT bidding. For a previous Growler post with links, click here. For another WYTL breaking ice on the Hudson a few years back, click here.
Back to Ingrid’s photos tomorrow.
Recall that I refer to the sixth boro of NYC as the water, which has served to create and develop the city’s other boros and to connect it via waterways to places near and far. Also, on this blog, fifth dimension is time, a vehicle to ride backward in it to where the nature is the same but the machines and structures are mostly gone or changed. “IS” here refers to Ingrid Staats, who has been digitizing her father’s photos and is sharing them here. Her father worked on a Sun Oil coastal fleet vessel. So let’s have some fun. I know a bit more than I’m telling about some of these photos, and will share that tomorrow or soon. Here’s your chance to identify and/or speculate.
Photo 1: What tug? Which location/direction?
Photo 2: Location? More? Date?
Photo 3: Tug? Company? Anything else on any of these photos?
Ok . . . more soon along with the info I know.
Here’s a link to a book that deals with an aspect of Sun Oil I’d never considered but which has NO relationship with the photos Ingrid has passed along.
Many thanks to Ingrid to sharing these.
Just to reiterate . . . random in the sixth boro these are. And the other day, I felt blessed for reasons you’ll understand by the end of this post. Here Atlantic Enterprise emerges from the Arthur Kill and heads for home in Newark Bay. That church, “a scaled down copy of the great cathedral at Cologne,” makes this seem quite a European-inflected image.
I took all these photos that weather day last week . . . note how the rain in downtown Elizabeth washes out the Union County Courthouse tower.
A bit later Mister Jim enters the east end of the Kills and then
feigns a ship assist.
The mighty Patricia travels east for a scrap run.
as Janet D moves in the direction
of her base.
Why did I feel blessed . . . ? In the same but of morning, I saw both Atlantic Enterprise and Atlantic Salvor
although not in the same frame, they must have met up in the DonJon yard over in Port Newark.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
A surprising feature of the sixth boro in winter is the fishing, dragging for clams. And many thanks to Steve Turi for sending along this article about this fishery from north jersey.com.
Here are some previous winters’ posts about these boats. And right about exactly eight years ago, I saw the greatest concentration of fishing boats here.
Successful fishing relies on knowing habitat; famous statues have nothing to do with it.
The other day I thought about the irony of fishing here: might be hazards near a tanker named
for a fierce reptile, Densa Alligator.
But it must have been a productive location.
Next time you enjoy a delicious bowl of clam chowder, think about these fisherman.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who wonders whether there are more crude tankers like D. Alligator coming in this winter than usual.
Here’s a stranger in the harbor . . . OSG Courageous. Winter does seem like the time to see the larger units moving oil products. Crowley’s 16,000 hp Legend is in the AK as of this writing. If anyone snaps a photo, I’d love to see it. Back in winter 2012, I posted photos of Legend here still on the hard as a new build.
OSG Courageous, 8000 hp, is married to this 200,000 barrel barge OSG-244. Click here for my first view of an even larger OSG tug, Vision, 12,000 hp.
Lincoln Sea was the largest tug I’d ever seen back 10 years when we crossed paths near Mariner’s Harbor.
This was her arrival from somewhere in New England yesterday.
At the same moment, Dylan Cooper was lightering a tanker I’d seen before as
Navig8 Stealth II, now intriguingly renamed Aquadisiac.
Eric McAllister assisted Glorious Leader . . .,
which these days sounds like it refers to a dictator.
To close, the venerable Frances moves cold stone through cold water,
but it’s winter. Crank up the heat and put on some extra layers. Click here and scroll to see photos of Frances I took in 2010 when she still had the Turecamo wood grained colors.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Here are the previous weather posts. Below . . . that’s easy: it’s a local shower; Evening Tide and Evening Light were in the rain, and I was not, yet.
But a half hour later at the opposite end of the KVK, the clouds were truly wild. Is there a word for these conditions? Again, it wasn’t raining at my location.
Air currents swirled beyond the busy waterway, l to r, Stolt Loyalty, Stone 1, Phoenix Dream, Kimberly Turecamo, and Hoegh Seoul assisted by Bruce A. McAllister.
The Stolt tanker passes Graecia Aeterna before meeting the wild swirl head-on.
Add one more tug to the mix.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who’d like to know what you call this type of fast-moving dispersal of fog.
That’s twelve hundred feet of France heading into Bergen Point. Note the scale of 108′ McAllister Sisters near the bow. Of course, this group of ships set a record back last summer and that was then eclipsed by early September with the arrival of CMA CGM T. Roosevelt. But it is my first time to photograph a ULCV; previous arrivals and departures were at night, or I was distracted or traveling. Does ULCV apply to vessels of this size?
And if OOCL France looks a drab shade of grey, well, she left China on Christmas day and this is her first port since then.
Tailing straight back is Capt. Brian A. McAllister . . . until
she gets the signal to
initiate the rotation, assisting the twin bow thrusters on the ship and
the other tugs:
Sisters, Marjorie B., and
and Alex.
That makes over 19,000 hp of ship-assist spinning OOCL France clockwise in front of Shooters Island. For the record, this is my first time to catch one of the largest box ships in the Kills. Details: 1200′ x 157′ and 144,044 summer dwt; launched 2013 as NYK Hercules and 13,208 teu, i.e., over 1000 teu fewer than CMA CGM T. Roosevelt, photos of which I’ll post soon.
All photos yesterday by Will Van Dorp, who keeps watching the names and numbers in hopes of catching a larger vessel or an autonomous one.
Sea Power has been lurking in and around the sixth boro the past few days, and I will continue trying to get some good photos of her, but on 9-22-16 Jack Ronalds up at the Canso Canal caught these photos of her as she headed into Lake Erie to pick up her barge constructed in Erie PA.
Remember, if you need photos of a vessel traveling between the Great Lakes and the west Atlantic Coast from the Maritimes southward, Jack’s your guy. See some of his work (2440 photos) here.
4-24-08 Dean Reinauer passes NYK Daedalus. This Dean left NYC for Nigeria in June 2011.
6-16-08 Juliet Reinauer pushed oil a decade ago. She’s still in the harbor working as Big Jake.
6-23-08 Odin . . . no longer has an adjustable wheelhouse and may be laid up, and ITB Groton, single-hulled tanker, . . . was sold in later 2008 to Nigerian interests first to ship grain and then returned to petroleum trade. It was sent to Alang and scrapped in late 2013.
9-13-08 Viking seen here out of the notch has made its way to Kirby and is currently very busy on the Hudson.
9-05-10 Here’s another showing Viking out of the notch and all gussied up, and (it seems) terrifying W. O. Decker.
And finally, another from 9-22-16, a shot of Sea Power heading north through the Canso Canal and ultimately to Lake Erie to pick up its mated barge. In the background is the 60+ year-old quarry now operated by Martin Marietta Materials in Aulds Cove, where vessels like and including Alice Oldendorff pick up the aggregates. Last year, four million tons worth of rock was shipped from here.
Many thanks to Jack for use of his photos. All others by Will Van Dorp, who has learned that as of this morning, Sea Power is sailing for Charleston SC.
For a 2015 coyote on ice, click here and scroll. If a coyote came up behind these critters right now,
there’d be movements in the cycle of life. Benjamin Moll took this amazing series of shots a few days back on the Hudson.
I was wondering whether these deer approach the open water to drink. Anyone conjecture?
I’m wondering . . . was there a whistle involved?
Many thanks for use of these photos to Benjamin Moll.
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