Tugle 3
Tugle 2 stumped me until I saw the label: “Matton hull 328.” That was Challenger, seen here, and solving the puzzle, an unusually challenging task. Unlike previous days’ “tugle 1 and 2,” I don’t know the story below. Raised lettering can be seen on the stern quarter, but I can’t make that out. Lower […]
Spring Giddiness 3
Spring means warming temperatures–slowly in the watery realm–and more non-work boats. Fishermen are usually first, but then I watch for the first long-distance sailors or yachters coming to the land reclaimed from snow and ice. In a bit, the harbor will be giddy with seasonal users. I watch the magenta targets on AIS, and here’s […]
East River Mystery 5
Here are the previous installments. Rare as it is to see a chemical tanker traverse the East River, there’s no mystery about this vessel’s identity… Ginga Lion. For outatowners, the bridge goes by Koch Bridge, 59th Street Bridge, or Queensboro Bridge. These photos were taken last Wednesday–October 21–by Jonathan Steinman, frequent contributor of photos from along […]
East River Mystery 4
Here are previous posts in this series. And this set comes from Mike Abegg, whose photos have been used here previously. Check this out. All I know about the yellow vessel is that it looks like a Griffon 1000TD. Anyone know the whences and whose . . . inquiring minds wish to know. Thanks to […]
Seats of Power 4
My trickster truckster hopper is filling and will dump one of these days soon, but this photo fits better in the “seats” category. But to put this back on the water, here’s the power seat on ex-Catherine Turecamo now John Marshall. I’d love to see this vessel in her current colors and working in her […]
Thanks to JG 2
Recognize the tugboat below? Answer follows. David McAllister, photo from 2013, has recently changed hands and is currently undergoing “re-power and life extension” as Tradewinds Towing Hannah. Draco, photo below taken in 2007, shows the vessel that began life in 1951 as Esso Tug No. 12. I caught her in the sixth boro as Co […]
Random Tugs 180
Random means random, and I challenge you to come up with a more random set . . . Let’s start with a Gmelin photo from 1930. I’ll give the name of the tug later in this post so that all experts of arcane sixth boro history can play. Since today is the V-Day, let me mention […]
GHP&W 27
Know this water, more of a waterway than a harbor? The distant buildings are a clue. See the one just left of the center of bridge center, needle thin? Here’s another clue . . . the structure near the right side of the photo, like an old time gas station pump? Or this one left […]
McClintic and Cotter Redux
Here’s a post I did on McClintic and another I did on Cotter. Today’s post comes out of a response I received yesterday from retired FDNY dispatcher and historian, Al Trojanowicz, who wrote, “The full photo is fire aboard SAUGUS, American Export Lines (1919) with fireboat WILLIAM F GAYNOR (1914) alongside, and a mystery vessel off to left. […]
Really Random Tugs 29
Photo from Nate Lopez. Name that tug? Here are some previous photos by Nate. Technically Ellsea is a freight ship. The location for the next set of photos is the Acushnet River between New Bedford (background) and Fairhaven, where I spent the past week mostly incommunicado. That’s the Palmers Island Light. New Bedford, former whaling port […]
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