Dutch Tugs 10
Hat tip to Jan van der Doe for sending along a set of tugboat photos from the Lekhaven area of Rotterdam harbor. Rather than shotgun approach and posting a lot of photos, I just chose one tugboat for today’s post . . . Brutus. Click here to get all the specs for the boat. […]
Sleepboot Thomas
Sleepboot . . .? it’s Dutch for tugboat. It’s pronounced more like “slape boat” See the tricolor courtesy flag between the lower and upper wheelhouse? The photos were taken Monday (July 5) by Jan Oosterboer, in Het Scheur, aka “the rip”, a section of the Rhine-Maas-Scheldt delta near Rotterdam. And those certainly are not buoys […]
Other Peoples Photos 81
From Capt Nemo, a few years ago, the 2000 Mary Gellatly high and dry and before she was Mackenzie Rose. Also, I see Tasman Sea, Dace, an unidentified Bouchard, and Yemitzis. From KP, Dace getting her upper wheelhouse . . . over 10 years ago. From a Great Lakes Mariner, the oldest working ship on […]
Thanks to Jan Van Der Doe 3
Here are some previous posts with photos from Jan. So here’s the tugboat, just out of the shipyard near the Arctic Circle and at work, the last in a series of five identical anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels bringing more than 23000 hp to the job. This job starts in the Princess Arianehaven. And what’s […]
Really Random Tugs 45
Here are all the previous installments of this series. Glenn Raymo caught this photo up the Hudson the other day, as Joker assisted a Weeks crane. Hays tugs do come up here occasionally, but I’ve never seen them. Back almost exactly six years ago, the same boat headed upriver as a dead ship. And eight […]
Dutch Tugs 9
On a windy day recently in the Beerkanaal section greater Rotterdam harbor, Jan Oosterboer took these photos, passed along by Jan van der Doe. The small boats here are operated by the KRVE, self-translated as “rowers” but more likely we’d call them linesmen. The more distant KRVE boat is alongside Smit Cheetah. The link that follow […]
Dutch Tugs 8
These photos come via Jan van der Doe and were taken by Jan Oosterboer in the Lekhaven area of Rotterdam. Lingestroom, a Damen Shoalbuster 3512 design and launched in 2017, measures 114′ x 39′ and is powered by triple screw driven by three Caterpillar C32-TTA SCAC. Unrelated, notice the stack for the Atlanship SA orange juice tanker […]
Raised Ace 3
Here are the previous posts in this series, showing the removal and disposal of the wreck of the RORO Baltic Ace, which sank after a collision in December 2012. After more than two years underwater, this is how things appear. Many thanks for these photos to Jan Oosterboer via Fred […]
Raised Ace 2
Here was part 1 of this story about the ill-fated Baltic Ace. Jan Oosterboer took these photos in the Waalhaven portion of Rotterdam harbor. Tugboat Viking barged these parts to Waalhaven on July 2. Can you recognize the make of car? Click here to see this model out of the water but in workable condition. The […]
Port of R’Dam 4
More photos by taken by Jan Oosterboer showing traffic quite different from what you’d see on our parts of the watery globe. Let’s start with Matador 3. With the North Sea as the densest area of the globe for offshore wind turbines, floating cranes like this–with lift capacity of 1800 tons– keep busy. And Wei Li . […]
tugster: a waterblog 