Really Random Tugs 50
Here’s a photo I caught back in December in Boston harbor. That’s Miss Yvette pushing a barge that’s just lifted a “briefly immersed” Massport vessel into the air. It had taken me a while to put together that this is the most recent livery for the previously very red Miss Yvette. The plume rising […]
Really Random Tugs 49
Call this the seldom-seen version of RRT. I love that blue and the name on this 1954 tugboat. Kenny G …. I caught her tied up on the south side of Hudson River Pier 25, but by the time I got back there, Kenny G had moved tow elsewhere. And here are a few maybe […]
Really Random Tugs 48
We’re going west to east to south to farther east in today’s post, starting with the Missouri River north of Omaha by about 50 miles at the port of Blencoe IA. From here grain and soybeans are barged all the way to the New Orleans area for transshipment to foreign markets. That’s MV Tony Lippman […]
Really Random Tugs 47
Location 1? Do you know this tug? Location 2. Tug Rachel is with this unusual looking cargo ship, Lihue. Viking pushes southbound past Castle Rock and Comet northbound along the Hudson River. Near the west end of the East River, it’s C. Angelo and near the east end, it’s Navigator with GT Bulkmaster heading west […]
Really Random Tugs 46
Happy 4th of July. Here’s some sixth boro, some heartland, and some Pacific Northwest. Here‘s the series. But let’s start with Robert IV, a workhorse who last appeared in this blog here. Hundreds of Cheyenne photos have appeared on this blog, showing her in a range of colors and trims; this photo was taken last week […]
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 […]
Really Random Tugs 44
First, from Kyle Stubbs, three Vane tugs (Elizabeth Anne, Hudson, and Delaware alongside DoubleSkin 501) which would not be that unusual on this blog, except he took the photo in Seattle over by Terminal 5. Click here for previous photos from Kyle. Leaping south to the Mexican port of Manzanillo–north of Lazaro Cardenas–it’s VB Yucatan, […]
Really Random Tugs 43
Andrew J graced this port I’ve passed many times both by water and highway. Any guesses where I took this photo? I watched their July 4 2016 fireworks. Answer follows. That power plant opened in 1950 as well; it’s shuttered and a plan to repower it from coal to natural gas has fallen through. Andrew […]
Really Random Tugs 42
Naming the setting is easy, but can you name this tug? I thought it was Emerald Coast with a modified paint job. It’s a newbie in town from the Harley Gulf fleet, appropriately named Lightning, given that sky. . Iron Salvor I’d seen before, but at the dock. The other day she loaded some fuel […]
Really Random Tugs 41
Sea Power has been lurking in and around the sixth boro the past few days, and I will continue trying to get some good photos of her, but on 9-22-16 Jack Ronalds up at the Canso Canal caught these photos of her as she headed into Lake Erie to pick up her barge constructed in […]
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