Meanwhile on the Thames 2

This follows on a post from 2017, and that post reminds that “thames” here rhymes with “games” and begins with a tongue-on-teeth “th.”  New London is always worth visiting, a small city with a lot going on, like here. Bowsprite caught a sub in the the port here some years back.

Anyhow, I came through here on Amtrak way back in October, snapped the next three photos, and have thought about returning ever since.

What you’re looking at in these first photos in offshore wind farm prep as seen from a slowing southbound NE Corridor train . . . hence some of the blotches on the photo from stained train car glass.

See the turbines above, the towers and three Thames Towboat Company vessels below.  

A few days ago, I finally made it back and took a look from the Groton side.  Has I gotten there a few hours earlier, I would have seen these Crowley 455 barge come in

moved by two unusual tugboats.  Aware, in the foreground, is one of three:  Alert and Attentive are the other two.

Her Alyeska origins are visible in her port of registry.

Ocean Sky, the newest of Crowley’s Ocean-class, is barely visible beyond Aware.  The other Ocean-class boats are Wave, Wind, and Sun.

All photos, any errors, WVD.

I checked on the location of the sibling vessels of these, and what I found was as follows:

Alert is currently in Jacksonville, and Attentive, Lake Charles.

Ocean Wind is in the Gulf of Mexico, Wave, crossing the Atlantic for Europe, and Sun, in the Med.