Retro Sixth Boro Ships 2012
The phrase “supply chain issues” appears to have eclipsed “pandemic” in my thoroughly unscientific and entirely anecdotal and mental survey. The PANYNJ website does provide some “facts and figures” you can mine and crunch to compare 2021 container movement here to that in 2012. An easy conclusion is that the container ships are generally larger, […]
Retro Sixth Boro 44 A
Ten years ago, the lower Manhattan skyline looked quite different. A vessel bringing orange juice from the southern hemisphere was also a smaller one; the 1985 Orange Blossom last sailed into Alang six and a half years ago, and if you don’t know what that means, click on the Alang link. As it turns out, […]
Retro Sixth Boro 40 A
Happy August 2021. And “Wow!” That is almost always my reaction when I jump back a decade into the archives. This riveted tug was 83 years old when I took this photo, and I looked at that deep rounded icebreaker hull and imagined it would go on working forever. Now it’s 93 years old, and […]
Orange Sun 2
Quick post today . . . If you ask me what has been the biggest surprise since I moved to NYC, discovered the sixth boro’s delights, and began tracking its flora, fauna, and mechanica, I’d say the the orange juice ships. Orange Sun came off the ways in 2007, and has called in the sixth […]
Congestion 5
Sometimes the sixth boro gets crowded, as you can see from these posts. This post tries to show that, but keep in mind that foreshortening makes these vessels seem closer than they are–the two ships below are more than a mile apart. Keep in mind also that a water channel is a dynamic medium, current […]
Assists 6
Here goes another 3-fer, three cargo vessels making their way again through the KVK simultaneously. JRT here at dawn assists orange juice carrier Orange Blossom 2 through the ConHook Range. Jonathan C passes in front of them, returning from assisting another vessel now bound for sea. Right behind the juice carrier is a box ship. […]
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 […]
Random Ships 76
Lest someone think all container ships built these days or calling in the sixth boro are ULCVs, consider YM Evolution. She was launched less than 10 years ago and has a teu capacity less than 5000. The company is based in Taiwan. I’ve seen Ebony Ray before, but this is the first time I post […]
Names 32
Here’s the series. And there, look at that name. No, not that one. .. this one. And the paint job–or time elapsed since the most recent one–lends authenticity to the name. She looks to have been “rode hard and put away wet,” but that expression may just apply to horses and this bulk carrier […]
Retro Sixth Boro 2
A few days ago I stumbled into a rabbit hole and enjoyed it down there. I won’t stay in 2008 for too long, but evolution I found in the ship department intrigued me, change change change. It also made concrete the reality of the scrapyards in the less-touristed ocean-margins of the globe. Take Orange Star; […]
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