She powered herself away from the Fort Schuyler dock for most likely the final time. Click here for all the previous posts I’ve done on this soon-to-be-replaced training ship. Her replacement is already in the water in Philly for fitting out, sea trials . . . .
This morning Ellen and Marjorie pulled her away from the dock as a number of cadets waited
in the rain. Cadets and alums traded stories.
On many departures, she’d be rotated and pointed westbound on the East River, but today
she ducked under Throngs Neck Bridge, past Fort Totten, and
made for the western Long Island
lighthouses.
All photos, shortly ago, WVD.
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October 5, 2022 at 11:51 am
William Ewen
A nice looking ship, with sheer. And she is steam.
October 5, 2022 at 2:56 pm
eastriver
Where’s she going?
October 5, 2022 at 2:58 pm
tugster
as I understand it, TDY at Mass Maritime and then the scrappers. I’ve not confirmed any of that. don’t know what the TDY is? maybe a reader can help….
October 5, 2022 at 3:00 pm
eastriver
Temporary DutY. No, really.
October 5, 2022 at 4:02 pm
ws
There are less marine steam powered ships..Today’s brand New LNG tankers have tri-fuel Diesel engines..Most of The Navy’s surface combatants have gas turbine power plants..Land based power plant’s CCCT combined cycle combustion turbine plants still use Rankine steam cycles..61 Years of pitch, and roll in the marine environment, Godspeed TS Empire State VI
October 5, 2022 at 6:51 pm
Paulb
She didn’t take on much in the way of bunkers the other day before leaving- makes sense she’s not going far.
October 5, 2022 at 8:20 pm
tugster
My understanding is that she needs to be away from SUNY so that pier work–prep for the new ship–can proceed and to be at Mass Maritime so that she can be a training platform there, only for a month or so. I’m not sure where TS Kennedy is.