Other Peoples Photos 89
Many thanks to Trucker Tim Powell for sending along these photos taken in Superior WI back in May 2008. She was launched in 1944 as ST 7067, later transferred to the USACE. Given the timing, Forney had already changed owners and would soon be painted in Heritage Marine’s gold livery, and renamed Edward H. She […]
Sixth Boro Fifth Dimension IS1
Recall that I refer to the sixth boro of NYC as the water, which has served to create and develop the city’s other boros and to connect it via waterways to places near and far. Also, on this blog, fifth dimension is time, a vehicle to ride backward in it to where the nature […]
Sixth Boro Fifth Dimension IS2
First, bravo to Lee Rust who puzzled out 2 of the 3 photos from IS1. And I’ll just paste in his concise answers here: “#1 is Colleen Kehoe passing under the Bear Mountain bridge southbound sometime around the late ’70’s or early ’80’s. Since 1996 this vessel is has been part of the Axel Carlson scuba […]
Sixth Boro Fifth Dimension IS4
For context in this series, IS2 is most explicit, but for fun, check them all here. The photos in this series, all scans of slides, were all taken after the late 1950s. #1. This is called Hudson raft-up. My questions: Can anyone identify the tug or at least its company? Is that a steam crane […]
Sixth Boro Fifth Dimension IS3
Here’s another photo shared by Ingrid Staats. If you’ve been to this blog before, you recognize the bridge, but what are Vega and Altair you might wonder. The ferries are aptly named, since they are two characters in a Chinese love story, Vega the weaver girl and Altair the cowherd. Here they operated within the […]
Other Peoples Photos 60
First, thanks to Joseph Chomicz . . . it’s Rebel and Dolphin over by the Philadelphia Navy Yard . . . Quo vadis, Rebel? And the second batch comes from Ingrid Staats with likely the most unusual backstory ever on this blog . . . Ingrid took the photos from a room in New York-Presbyterian […]
Thanks to Ingrid Staats
Today’s photos were taken less than a month ago by Ingrid Staats, who writes, “I grew up on the Hudson River and I love getting your blog posts! Here’s some pics from my last trip upstate 1/30– looking north toward Albany, there’s two tugs waiting to greet Champion Istra. One is Frances Turecamo. She went […]
tugster: a waterblog 