You’ve seen all the brown, white, and now blue package trucks clogging the streets and roads, their drivers working ever longer hours as we take to online shopping.
These two Reynolds boats have nothing to do with that, but they do deliver foodstuffs, spares, and incidentals to ships at berths and in the anchorages.
The 1951 Twin Tube has been featured in many posts already, but when it comes to Christmas, I think of this boat, as well as
ABC-1, the other Reynolds boat. ABC-1 dates from 1941, a product of Bay Shipyard, launched as an L-boat, and subsequently T-473, Mariner, and now ABC-1.
She always seems to trudge along the waterways, but her track is steady and sure.
I wonder how many foreign seafarers have photos of the two Reynolds boats, since they and the bunkering boats might be the only sixth boro vessels they deal directly with, lifting the packages and bundles onto their ship.
All photos, WVD, who wishes you a happy day.
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December 25, 2021 at 12:17 pm
Trucker~Tim
Fantastic pictures as always! Thank you. Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year to all.
December 25, 2021 at 5:54 pm
George Schneider
Your daily reports always bring a smile, Will, but when you happen to include an old classic like L-boats and T-boats, it’s a particularly big smile.
ABC-1 was built for the Army at Sturgeon Bay SB (now Bay Shipbuilding) as L-94. When the Army turned the coastal mineplanting responsibility over too the Navy, they had more L-boats than the mineplanters needed, so those that remained with the Army had to be redesignated, and that’s when she became classed as a transport.
Thank you for sharing this with us all, even on a holiday. Stay safe and warm.
December 25, 2021 at 6:00 pm
tugster
Merry Christmas, George. What brings me a smile is your added info like this history of how a mineplanter became a transport. Enjoy the year’s end….