Random Ships 86
This is “restricted visibility,” and as you can imagine, lots of fog horn blasts were sounded. An alternative explanation is that APL Dublin just folds herself into another dimension. The ship was launched in 2012. Believe it or not, the vessel below is also APL Dublin, photo taken about 10 minutes earlier in a less […]
12 Lakers b
Are you still making calendars? Here’s another set of 12 candidates, if my count is right. January could be American Integrity, a product of Sturgeon Bay, WI, 1000′ loa x 105′ and when loaded and photographed from this angle, she looks impossibly long. Her size keeps her confined to the four upper lakes, being way […]
KVK Square Riggers
Click here to scan the many posts with KVK in the title. Here’s a new one inspired by arrivals that had many folks, aship and ashore, paying attention. Wavertree is suddenly and lavishly being regaled with sights of 21st century merchant vessels and crew from all over the world are paying attention. And a mile farther […]
Canal Craft 3
Oswego is one terminus in the NYS Canal system that sees regular calls from non-US ships, like Stephen B. Roman, named for this mining engineer. I wish a shiptrafficwatcher would start an Oswego-focused blog. A joy of traveling the Canal system is seeing the craftsmanship . . . of all sorts; this building and […]
Graves of Arthur Kill T minus 3
I didn’t want to call this post “something different 19” because clearly it wouldn’t be different from the previous days. A pattern has emerged, and then I realized that part of the pattern is that these photos depict some of the unidentifiable vessels lost in boneyard or ship graveyards like the one focused upon in […]
Happy 35th L’day Algolake
Join me in wishing the crew fair winds and safe sailing aboard their vessel Algolake launched 35 years ago yesterday. I mentioned my Facebook link with Algolake here more than a month ago. Boatnerd has more than a dozen fotos and all the specs here. As of this posting, the vessel is in the […]
Other Watersheds 6
Allen Baker has worked on four of the five Great Lakes in recent weeks and shares the next four fotos. Massachusetts has that low, upswept “laker look” that reminds me of Grouper, which I’ve not received updates on. Any guesses on location of the shot and launch date of Massachusetts? For launch date, you were […]
A. V. Kastner
I wrote about this ship a little over a year ago (scroll about half way through). This time, a cold day last week, I recognized her immediately and got closer ups. A Saugerties lighthouse keeper recorded the same vessel passing some time back. Only a cold winter shot catches the white smudges around its bow […]
Random Ships 8
OK, so I couldn’t get close enough fast enough, but the gray vessel evaporating into the fog at the Narrows is none other than Bob Hope aka T-AKR-300 delivered to the US Navy just over a decade ago by Avondale Industries. I never knew this until just now, but the vessel’s namesake was born in […]
From the Line Locker 6
Time to catch up on odds ‘n ends. Thanks to Jeff S for identifying the tug run aground near Perth Amboy in January 06 as Hudson, ex-Margaret Matton, Ft Lauderdale, Evening Light, Cheyenne Rose. Thanks to Jim for telling me of Specialist II, sibling of another Specialist and Realist, depicted here recently. (Find them […]
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