Government Boats 66

Cape Vincent, part of the MSC’s Ready Reserve Force fleet, showed up in the boro a few days ago under her own power.  

Not long after anchoring in the Upper Bay, she was escorted over to Bayonne Dry Dock & Repair, where she’s

currently getting some TLC.  

USACE surprised me with a vessel I’ve never seen–

Frederick Skene, named for a New York civil engineer.

Is she new?    As of this posting, it appears to be headed up the Hudson.  Might she be assigned to the CHPE project?

A quite recent addition to the USCG’s fleet of 50+ Sentinel class Fast Response Cutters, WPC-1152 Maurice Jester came into the boro the other day.  Much more on the WPCs can be found here.  Jester’s namesake was one of six USCG members awarded a Navy Cross during WW2.  Find the story here.  The first of the class launched in 2011 here.

This NYPD  fast SCUBA support boat is named for Detective Dillon Stewart, killed in the line of duty.  See the story here. 

This is another new boat to me.  It’s one of the special units of the Palisades Parkway Police.  I caught it heading into the east end of the Kills.

And after a year and a half, I finally see it, harbor survey vessel (HSV) Piping Plover.  Previously I’d posted a photo of the boat here but I had never seen it until this past weekend.

All photos, any errors, WVD.