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.
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January 23, 2018 at 4:58 pm
Allen Baker
Re: Tug “Odin” and “ITB Groton”.
The barge segment of “ITB Groton” was the very last vessel to be launched in the traditional manner of sliding down the ways. The tugs were built down south at Halter Marine I believe.
She was built, as were the other 4 barges, in Baltimore at the big Sparrows Point yard of Bethlehem Steel Co.
My father, knowing this was the end of an era, allowed me to skip school that day and got me (at great peril to his job) into the yard to witness history.
Unfortunately, I have no photos of the launch, as a camera would have brought unwanted attention and gotten me pinched inside.
January 24, 2018 at 9:34 am
tugster
Great story. It reminds me that I recall very few days of high school, but I clearly remember the ones my father told me to stay home because he needed help on the farm . . . eg., silo filling