Other Peoples Photos 84
Timo Pajunen took this photo back in 2010. Here are my questions for you: whose livery? what mission? what was McArthur‘s original mission? I’ll answer at the end of the post. Charles Ritchie took this. Hawk YTL-153 has fine pedigree: in 1941, she was built and launched in Pearl Harbor and was present during the […]
Strait of Canso Traffic
Guess the usage? Avalon Sea is an AHTS vessel of the sort I’ve not seen call in the sixth boro. Any guesses on usage, age, and dimensions of the unit? If it reminds you of the various semi-submersible vessels that’ve called here, great, because that’s what Boabarge 37 is. It measures 499′ x 125′ […]
Calusa, Delaware to Jonathan
Hot to sweet . . . could have been a title too. I hope obscure titles are not too off-putting, but I just realized that in late August 2019, I encountered Calusa Coast on the Cuyahoga while she was still on her contract to push liquid asphalt around the Inland Seas, aka the Great Lakes. […]
To Bayway, from Point Tupper
You saw a different version of this photo last week, NS Leader being assisted into Bayway. This begs the question . . . from where did NS Leader come? Where did it take on the cargo discharged at Bayway? The answer for NS Leader and lots more crude tankers is Point Tupper NS, where there’s […]
Random Tankers 8
Way more tankers come to the sixth boro than you might conclude from tugster. Here’s a sampling from the past month . . . Front Clipper, launched in 2017, is a 157351 dwt crude tanker. She’s currently on her way to Pemex’s Yuum Kak Naab, in Mexican waters, and said to be the world’s largest […]
Sarah Dann and 38
Excuse the duplication here, but since this was a long voyage, I’ll repeat some of the early shots and add new ones farther down the page. A Great Lakes mariner took this is Manitowoc on May 29. Jeremy Whitman got these as the tow left Manitowoc on May 30. Jake Van Reenen got this […]
Strait of Canso Traffic 2
Four years ago, I saw Alder in Duluth, where she had worked since her launch in Lake Michigan in 2004. Believe it or not, I appear NOT to have taken photos of her, as unlikely as that seems. In 2005, Alder replaced the 1944 Sundew, which is still in Duluth, now as a private vessel. […]
Millville and 1964 at the Canso Lock
Canso Canal separates the Nova Scotia mainland from Cape Breton Island, lying between Northumberland Strait to the north and Chedabucto Bay to the south. And it’s a great place to watch traffic between eastern USA and the Great Lakes. Jack Ronalds pays attention to that traffic, and is always eager to accept paying photo commissions, he […]
Other Peoples Photos 63
Jack Ronalds took this photo of Ontario (Jeffrey K. McAllister) and Erie (Missy McAllister) in Canso back in August 2016. John Jedrlinic took this in the sixth boro in December 2008. I took the photo below a few months earlier in 2008, as the transfer from Normandy to Ross Sea was happening. Grouper has been featured here […]
San Jose
Under wraps last summer, this new build in Cleveland was ready for the intended client, but . . . “we have a problem” finalizing the deal, so there had to be another deal. So finally a month ago, San Jose got under way from Cleveland getting through the Saint Lawrence and around Nova Scotia bound for […]
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