From Capt Nemo, a few years ago, the 2000 Mary Gellatly high and dry and before she was Mackenzie Rose. Also, I see Tasman Sea, Dace, an unidentified Bouchard, and Yemitzis.
From KP, Dace getting her upper wheelhouse . . . over 10 years ago.
From a Great Lakes Mariner, the oldest working ship on the Lakes . . . Alpena, a survivor launched in 1942, as she backs out of a Wisconsin city.
From Tony Acabono, it’s Kodi, among the smallest, hard-workingest tugs of the sixth boro.
From Bob Stopper a few years back, when Grouper was facing another no-starter season.
Another one from Bob, it’s tug Syracuse with a comatose Governor Roosevelt alongside.
From back in March 2020, thanks to Jan Oosterboer, via Jan van der Doe, it’s the world’s largest vessel by displacement . . . Pioneering Spirit. Here are tech specs and lots of images from her operator, AllSeas.
Here she enters port without an assist. Jan writes: “Moves complete oil rigs, drilling platforms, can work as pipe layer.
Has a working crew of about 400 people including sailing crew.”
If I read this correctly, she has eight 20-cylinder engines that generate 127,000 hp and can cruise at 14 kts!
And finally one of my own from almost 15 years ago, it’s tug Hackensack. As I understand it she’s now in South America somewhere.
Thanks to Nemo, KP, Mariner, Acabono, Stopper, and the Jans . . . for use of these photos.
I hope to “see” you tomorrow for my Turnstile Tours on zoom doing “Exploring the Erie Canal.” Tomorrow’s tugster post will be up early so that you can get interesting info for the zoom meeting.
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May 25, 2020 at 11:16 pm
George Robert Schneider
Did you notice the feint name above PIONEERING SPIRIT on her bow? The vessel was originally going to be named PIETER SCHELTE after the founder of the company, who made great advances in offshore technology. But his name is also associated with assisting the Nazis against the Jewish people during World War II, so to show concern for that, they used his initials and renamed the ship after him in another fashion, hence PIONEERING SPIRIT. i never realized until this picture that she is still sporting a ghost of her original name.
May 26, 2020 at 6:08 am
tugster
Thx for bringing that up, George. The Dutch are not inclined to forgive Nazi loyalties, nor should they be. I’d read that story but not included it. Here’s an article about this controversy. https://www.ft.com/content/e213d176-ae32-11e4-8d51-00144feab7de
May 26, 2020 at 6:10 am
tugster
There is a Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) company as well, although I don’t know the relationship between Allseas and HMC. https://hmc.heerema.com/