They may be fading, clock ticking until they retire, but they’re still working. This 277′ x 69′ ferry with limits of 3500 passengers and 40 cars came off the ways in
1965. New ferries are currently during sea trials down south. The new ferries will be rated at 4570 passengers and no cars on their 320′ x 70′ hull.
Currently TS Kennedy, training ship at Massachusetts Maritime Academy is in a sixth boro anchorage. She was launched in 1967 as SS Velma Lykes. After that she was SS Cape Bon and TS Enterprise. Her dimensions are 540′ x 76′.
As is true for the ferry Kennedy, TS Kennedy will soon be replaced. In fact, work has already begun in Philadelphia for the first of five new training ships. The new boat, referred to as National Security Multi-Mission vessels, will be 524′ x 89′.
Of course, there’s another Kennedy here . . . . the bridge, which is certainly not fading.
All photos, WVD, who just noticed that TS Kennedy has headed into the East River and as of posting is near Hell Gate.
And then there was Robert Cobb Kennedy and his time in the sixth boro.
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June 20, 2021 at 12:37 pm
Daniel Meeter
I don’t understand the connection between the bridge and a Kennedy.
June 20, 2021 at 2:39 pm
tugster
Thx, Dan, for calling that out. That’s a bit too obscure. I’ve read that the VZ Bridge, completed a year after the Nov. 22 1963 tragedy, saw some efforts to be named the JFK Bridge. By this time, JFK’s name was already attached to too much real estate and the really obscure, and the name of the Florentine explorer VZ had been Gov. Rockefeller’s choice from the outset.
June 20, 2021 at 7:21 pm
Pete Ludlow
Another view of TS Kennedy, taken last July from opposite East 91st St:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/2W1vRtNNzzvWPvcdA
June 20, 2021 at 7:38 pm
tugster
Pete– That’s a great shot.
June 21, 2021 at 10:57 am
Daniel Meeter
And a handsome ship.
June 26, 2021 at 2:13 am
Tom Turner
TS Empire State was around a couple of days ago. I wonder if it was in the Bronx when TS Kennedy went by.
June 26, 2021 at 9:49 am
tugster
Hi Tom– TS Kennedy passed Fort Schuyler about a week before the Empire State returned. It would have made a great photo to get both of them together . . .