Random Tugs 379
Janet D, product of 2015, comes in a 67′ x 26′. Ellen McAllister, the oldest here launched in 1967, measures 102′ x 29′. Marjorie B McAllister, from 1974, is bigger than I imagined . . . 112′ x 30′. The two McAllister tugs were heading to assist tanker Sakura Belle, 26960 dwt contained within […]
Lynne M. Rose
Years ago [in 2008] I caught a mega-Bouchard tug in the KVK. It was Danielle M., now Rebekah Rose. But yesterday I saw the much newer sister of the boat from 2008. Escorted into the Arthur Kill by Ellen McAllister and another tug, and pushing RCM 270, a 250,000 bbl barge, it was the massive […]
Retro Sixth Boro 58
February 2013 saw Patrick Sky still working in the boro. The walkway still flanked the west side of the Bayonne Bridge, which allowed images like the ones that follow. Sun Right and Suez Canal Bridge were regulars. Since then the 1993 Sun Right has been scrapped. The 2002 Suez Canal Bridge continues to work under […]
Random Tugs 373
Kimberly Poling and barge lie alongside Maritime Gracious for lightering. Eastern Dawn, here pushing a mini barge, continues to work in the sixth boro, with a base over alongside the dormant Evening Tide. Bruce A. travels west in the East River after a job over near Throg’s Neck. I love the “whitewater” on the […]
Likambo Te!
Novel bow marking, unusual box colors, familiar port . . . recognizable tugboat, container with the “I” painted out, certainly a container line marking I don’t recall seeing before, oh wait . . . what did that character’s name mean in Swahili? And what’s been painted out is X-press Annapurna . . . […]
Forward, Ever Forward
Other Evergreen F-class vessels have called in the sixth boro. So can you be sure which one this is? Justine McAllister had the port bow. Again, name that ship? I could just be pulling your leg with that title. Yup, this is the now much-maligned Ever Forward. I too have made the same jokes […]
Random Tugs 388
Even on overcast days, the sixth boro aka NY harbor offers sights. It’s long been so; here’s much abridged paragraphs 3-5 Chapter 1 of Moby Dick: [People] stand … fixed in ocean reveries. Some leaning … some seated … some looking over the bulwarks of ships from China… [some] pacing straight for the water… Nothing […]
Newest Hull in the Sixth Boro 15
Here’s the newest, following directly from 12 for Sandy Ground and 10 for SSG Michael H. Ollis. Or how about a redux for both. Now unless ferry and tug travel on a maglev frictionless cushion of air when offshore and distant, this is just the fata morgana effect when the vessels are seen a ways […]
Retro Sixth Boro 49A
Let’s jump back to May 2012. Over along the Manhattan side of the East River then, I caught this scene. Since then, there’s been some movement: Peking to Germany, Marion M to the Chesapeake, Helen McAllister to . . . rebirth as new steel. Cheyenne has migrated to the Lake Michigan for now. Twin […]
Random Tugs 367
Tony A sent this along labeled as “m-o-a-t,” mother of all tugs, and Pacific Reliance is truly a large tugboat at 121′ x 42′ with 9280 hp turning two 12′ diameter propeller and pushing around a 560′ tank barge that carries 155k barrels of liquid product. But there are larger tugboats. Justine McAllister gets called […]
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