Off New London USCGC Coho and a 45′ response boat take part in training off Race Rock Light and then later off
Little Gull Island Light, with the 87′ towing the 45′ boats.
A regular in the sixth boro is USCGC Beluga.
The 29′ patrol boats monitor lots of activities in the harbor; here they board a small fishing boat.
Of the many USCG aids-to-navigation (AToN) boats, this is 49′ BUSL.
Small USACE survey boats seem constantly at work in the harbor.
NYC DEP has a monitoring boat, Sandpiper. Another one of their boats is called Osprey.
Another DEP vessel, this one is called Oyster Catcher.
NYPD has its own navy; here is one of their bigger boats, the 55′ Det. Luis Lopez.
Here’s another NYPD patrol boat, drawled dwarfed by a ULCV bow wave. [I like that new word “drawled,” sort of like swamped but not quite maybe.]
One of the four carriers (yes, they carry, and for which the demand never stops) of the DEP fleet is Rockaway.
Any guesses on this speedy black vessel?
It’s a marine unit of the same folks you might be talking to if you’re speedy on roads inland.
All photos, recently, WVD.
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July 10, 2021 at 10:34 pm
George Schneider
SANDPIPER appears to be a duplicate of the Coast Guard 29-foot class from Metal Shark Boats, or possibly one of the early units the CG has discarded. OYSTER CATCHER appears to be a Munson, but I can’t locate her on my laboriously-compiled Munson list.
I enjoy the Government Boats editions maybe more than any others, since these are obscure vessels that usually are neither licensed nor documented, they’re simply “below the radar” and rarely recorded. Thank you for your service to the “bottom feeders” (not my term) of the public.