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Lightning is here and has been for at least four years, and Thunder is on its way.
From 2014 and therefore two years newer than Lightning, Adeline Marie, previously Denise A. Bouchard, was heading over to the Industry Day on Wednesday. I caught a few photos of her as Rubia in between her original and her latest livery.
The 2006 Kristin Poling first came to the sixth boro as the 5000 hp 111′ x 36′ Chesapeake. Here was my first good view of her as a Poling/Cutler tugboat.
Atlantic Enterprise has been keeping busy with runs with dredge spoils from the North River passenger terminal out to the dump site aka HARS. For a day’s worth of reading, click here for a July 2022 report on HARS.
The 1981 Susan Miller pushes a small deck barge through congested waters here. She’s been working in the boro for as long as I’ve been doing this blog.
The 1968 Marie J. Turecamo has worked in the Moran livery for over 20 years.
Scale is clear from this side-by-side photo of the 2007 Saint Emilion (105′ x 38′ and 4800 hp) and the 1982 McCormack Boys ( 74′ x 26′ and 1200 hp), both hauled out over at Bayonne Dry Dock.
The 2007 Normandy (79′ x 27′ and 1900 hp) has been in the boro since 2015.
The 1981 Navigator (64′ x 24′ and 1200 hp) has to be one among the busiest boats in the harbor and the region.
The 1975 Mary Emma (100′ x 31′ and 3900 hp) has worked under this livery since 2021. I caught her transformation here about a year ago.
All photos and any errors, WVD, who thanks you for continuing to read this blog.
and that would be in order of appearance.
But check out this lead photo, a scene no longer so common in the sixth boro, a ship being escorted in the direction of Manhattan and
then turning into the East River.
When you see that, it likely means aggregates, cement, or shipyard.
I was fortunate to follow Bruce A. McAllister and Meloi as they made their way toward the Brooklyn Bridge earlier this week. Here’s info on the Japan-built, Panama-flagged, and Greek-owned bulker.
I’m supposing the name is Greek, but other meanings of that word, that spelling in other languages, exist.
I’ve been unable to determine where the aggregates originated, but where they’ll reside for the next century is in five boros’ construction.
All photos, WVD.
The whale happens to be a 2007 1284-teu container ship previously called Beluga Constitution and CMA CGM Corfu, but has carried the “whale” name for almost a decade now. I’ve seen other Warnow–named for a river in NE Germany– vessels in the sixth boro, but never posted any of them until now.
Some time ago I saw Warnow Dolphin and was intrigued, but I never followed up.
So I felt fortunate the other day
when I passed Kirby Moran assisting the Whale into Red Hook container port.
Light and color and composition all came together as
her crew eased her in.
She’s left port now and is currently heading for the Panama Canal.
All photos and any errors, WVD.
All day long, one ferry or another crosses the harbor, and one tug or another
travels light from point A to
point B and
makes up to another vessel
to move it to where it’s needed.
I was fortunate to see this vignette
of one part of someone’s day play out.
All photos, WVD.
Crushed stone is a commodity indispensable for construction. Previous commodity posts can be seen here from 2010, here 2011, here 2013, here 2017, and many other instances not identified as such, like this one.
Here was the post I’d planned for yesterday, put together in a moment when I thought a single focus was too elusive, random scenes, like a container ship anchored off Stapleton, elusive detail in a set all diverging from usual patterns.
Or seeing a Mein Schiff vessel in town after a hiatus… with Wye River passing along her stern?
Or this bayou boat discovering it offers solutions all over the boro and beyond, here passing a lifting machine?
How about this speedboat chasing a tugboat, or appearing to, with lots of hulls in the distance?
Or a single terrapin crawling out of the surf in a non-bulkheaded margin of the wet boro?
Two pink ONEs at Global terminal?
A ketch named Libra or Libre heading south with a scrap ship at Claremont?
Two commercial vessels out at Bayonne?
Two Ellens?
And finally two elongated RIBs with
camouflage-clad Coasties aboard?
All photos, seen as slight deviants from existing patterns, WVD.
I had a different post and an entirely different morning planned, until I looked at AIS, and saw that after almost exactly four years, Big Lizzie (HMS Ro8) was inbound. So whose was this when
these were coming into view?
More specifics in the link above the first photo, but check out the info here.
“But sir, I’ve been fighting this trophy striper . . . !”
Notice Stockham (T-AK-3017) in the distance?
Why eight?
Danmark, owned by the Danish Maritime Authority, is simply called that; although a naval training ship, it does not go by Margrethe II. More photos of Danmark appeared own this blog earlier this week.
Note a second helicopter now?
Wednesday and Thursday the “Atlantic Future Forum” will occur no doubt right there.
Kirby has the stern as they Ro8 enters the nUpper Bay.
HMS Richmond (F239) escorts Queen Elizabeth in.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
This series goes back more than a decade to here.
But this is only the second time the 2019 NYNJR200 (rail) carfloat is identified. Metal Trades of Yonges Island SC built it less than a half dozen years ago.
The previous time the carfloat appeared here, it was handled by the Brown boats, now history. James E. Brown is now Kayla T. Any updates on Thomas J. Brown?
The contract to move cross-harbor rail is currently with McAllister, and Marjorie B. does that and other jobs daily. Click here and here for more on this car floating operation.
There’s also a NYNJR100 float here.
All photos this week, WVD.
Cormorant and I talk sometime; yes, the one on the piling and not the former DEP boat. Anyhow, cormorant prompted me to get these three photos.
So, evidence here is that I did. A red . . . Freightliner Summit Hauler was preparing to tow an odd bundle off M8001 barge held in place by Michael Miller. Might those be bundled barricades? Any idea where this post is going?
Then another Hauler backed onto the barge to tow off another oddly loaded trailer. This was Monday, I believe.
Then last night, I was messaging with some friends and learned about this . . . to the right side of this photo . . . a building on Governors Island. Know it?
It appears that this week, in addition to being UN Week, is New York’s leg of a global show jumper tour, and if not the horses, then certainly all the bleachers and everything else arrives on the island . . . by barge. I’m not knocking anything in this post, but the fact that Governors Island hosts such an event boggles my mind, although you’d think that after living in NYC for 20 years now, nothing would surprise me. Buffalo Bill Wild West Show, it’s not, and Staten Island hosted those horses over 130 years ago!
Three top photos mine, WVD. Previous Governors island posts can be seen here. Hat tip to cormorant.
Millers Launch pushes a lot of interesting cargo around the harbor, like this one (scroll) from July 2014, this one I missed in September 2018, and the five boros sometimes spill out onto the sixth boro with their show business pursuits. And consumer side of show business, I think this 2020 concept was nixed because of Covid?
The previous 70 “something different” posts can be seen here. Not included is the 2006 “floating island.” Recall any other odd barges in the sixth boro?
I’ve done “new hulls, new names” and “old hulls and old and new names” and “new hulls, lines, and liveries.” Sorry I could not have come up with more streamlined nomenclature.
But I hope, as always, you enjoy these photos all taken on an ideal last day of summer. If summer has to end, this is the way to see it . . . no wind, low humidity, and clear skies. Polar Circle came in two days ago here, and I was too far away and detail was lost in the early afternoon haze, but yesterday I caught her before she returned to the Long Beach anchorage.
I’m guessing she took on supplies here after an almost seven-week voyage from Busan.
She’s big but Cape Wraith tempers that size.
Miss Madeline came in on Prometheus just over a month ago, although she had a different name then.
As I said, yesterday was the perfect time and place to see her close up.
Welcome, Miss Madeline and crew.
All photos, last day of summer 2022, WVD.
Danmark, a 90-year-old full-rigged ship, is in town again. She first came here in 1939 for the World’s Fair.
South Street waterfront of Manhattan then was a very different place, as of course was the whole city and world.
I’m not sure where she berthed back then. A year later, after her homeland was invaded, she stayed in the US (Jacksonville FL for starters) because she had no homeport to return to. In 1942, she was temporarily commissioned as a USCG vessel.
The brightwork is impeccable, as
is the gilt work.
Rigging like this is dense as a jungle, yet it’s all functional.
And many of the current crew of Danish cadets, four of whom are mostly hidden but busy in the image below,
were busy polishing the brass.
I’d love to see how the figurehead is polished. This figurehead has appeared on this blog once before back in 2007. To see Danmark underway sail-powered, click here. For a guided tour of the ship, click here.
Meanwhile, I recently spotted another sailing vessel, one I’d not seen before, S/V Red Sea. Thanks to Michele McMurrow and Jaap Van Dorp for the identification, although they called it by different names, they were both right. For some backstory on this well-traveled schooner, click here.
She’s arrived in the sixth boro from the Wisconsin side of Lake Michigan.
Some Danmark photos, thanks to Tony A; all others, WVD. Enjoy the last day of summer 2022.
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