Thanks to Steve Munoz 20
Steve’s uncle Bob was a captain and pilot on the Dalzelleagle/McAllister Bros from 1968 to 1985. That makes for a special connection and lots of vintage photos. Enjoy these thanks to Steve. I’ll use his captions. Dalzelleagle assisting ship in East River in September 1968. Dalzelleagle heading down Buttermilk Channel-from pier 12 Brooklyn in September 1970. […]
Thanks to Steve Munoz 19
From August 20, 1973 . . . it’s another narrated job from Steve. This time, MS Olympia is getting sailed. Launched in 1953 in Glasgow, she was a long-lived vessel. Any guesses when she went out of service? “MS Olympia at 57th St Pier North R. Eugene F Moran and Maureen Moran wait on the […]
Thanks to Steve Munoz 18
This batch of photos is from 1958 from Steve, who has shared photos for at least 17 posts, and maybe more. I’m grateful Steve provides the captioning, because I was in second grade at the time. Steve explains: “I was just over 10 years old, and although being brought up on the water on my […]
Really Random Ships 2
This is a very mixed bag: differing locations, times, and type of ships. Installment 1 was from a very different time, two years and a few weeks ago. The first three photos come thanks to Steve Munoz. 1990. Somewhere on the Hudson . . . I can’t quite place it. Penhors, launched 1986, is no […]
KVK Dawn 6
Steve Munoz took the first three photos in October 1986 from Borenquin. The tug identified as Kathryne E. McAllister appears to be the one from 1975, now known as Brendan Turecamo. Borenquin lived many lives between launching in Vancouver WA in 1945 and scrapping in Beihei CH (near the northeastern border of Vietnam) in 1989. […]
Requiem 2
1997. Taken from QE2 as it overtakes a Moran tug . . . taken some days later as the QE2 returns, passing the Towers at dawn… while possibly the same Moran tug meets it again. May 1998. Bounty arrives. May 2000. Morgan Reinauer passes lower Manhattan in the fog. January 11, 2001. Peggy […]
Requiem 1
August 2021. Samatha Miller follows the channel just north of the Staten Island Yankees stadium. Note today’s skyline. 1970. The rest of these photos I share thanks to Steve Munoz. Note the early night skyline here shows the Towers under construction. 1970 Dalzelleagle in the Buttermilk Channel passing USCG cutters tied up alongside Governors Island. […]
Fruits of Preservation 3
Here were the first two installments of this series. And what prompts this post is the news yesterday about a $200 million structure in the assembly stages just four years ago. Click on the image below to see the post I did just four years ago. It will be scrapped as announced yesterday here. The […]
Something Different 54 b
Since we’re at models, recall this post from two years ago with photos of a diorama in France depicting the sixth boro with a model of a Moran tugboat, the Statue, and a liner. These photos come from Steve Munoz, who tells this story: “model schooner Evelyn, about 3 feet long, built in early 1900s […]
Other Peoples Photos 85
The first three come thanks to Steve Munoz . . . HMS Bounty heading up the North River in May 1998. Taken November 2001, it’s Adventure of the Seas heading upriver with an diverse escort. Given the date, this would have been her maiden voyage into the sixth boro of NYC. John D. McKean and […]
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