Hat Tip John A. Noble
I don’t go to galleries, museums, or other events enough, I know, but ’tis the season when it’s dark and rainy, and indoors can be bright, dry, and cheery. Rainy Sunday afternoon recently, I stopped in at the Noble Maritime Collection on Staten Island to show it to a friend not familiar with Noble’s work. […]
Review: Diesel Railroad Tugboats: Vol. 1
Full disclosure first, I met the author, Paul Strubeck, around 15 years ago, and he’s been working on this voluminous tome for almost a decade. We met on a retired diesel railroad tugboat, of course, not either of the ones depicted below. Over the years, Paul has shared photos and information on this blog. I’ll […]
Canal Tug Project M2
After today, I have one more Matton post from the Canal Society archives. Below is an aerial shot on the Matton shipyard on the Hudson, the one that closed in 1983 as a Turecamo-owned site. Bart Turecamo had purchased the yard in the mid 1960s , soon after Ralph Matton had died. More info and […]
Canal Tug Project M3
First I need to make a correction: in M2 I stated that Tigre would have traveled through the Panama Canal; she did not because she worked out of the Peruvian Amazon in the area of Iquitos! Thanks to Paul Strubeck for the image below. That would have been an interesting delivery!! Next, photos and details […]
1989 Postcard Mystery
The question here is where and when this photo was taken. In 1989, I was living in SE New Hampshire and sent this postcard to my parents. My mother saved all the mail I ever sent them, and thanks to that, I have this postcard. Yesterday I stumbled upon the card while looking for something else. […]
Tugster Retro 2013 B
The first half of January 2013–a decade ago–was one long gallivant, taking in New Orleans to St Louis to Pittsburgh and then back home. In the spirit of these retro posts, let me start here, shooting right off the Algiers ferry. Barbara E. Bouchard is now Dann M’s Turquoise Coast, which I’ve not seen. No […]
Canal Tug Project F
Many thanks to all who commented on the “mystery tug” post and identified it as Callanan No. 1. See the comments for much more info on the tug. William Lafferty sends along this photo of the tug and its crew. I count seven crew. Also, that looks like a jackstaff on the bow to judge […]
Retro Sixth Boro (and beyond) 33
2011 began in Charleston, a great place to welcome a new year. Strolling around, I encounter the 1962 75′ buoy tender Anvil, 75301, here made up to CGB68013. In the background, that’s cutter Cormorant or Chinook. Heading farther north a day or two later, it’s Hoss, sister of Patricia, and now habitat for fish and […]
Second Lives 29
Check out the sailboat. But look closer. Thanks to George Schneider: “She’s sitting abandoned at Larose LA along Bayou LaFourche. I took the shoreside photo on 8 October 2013, the cross-bayou photo 16 July 2012. When I saw her, the only name visible was OLD COURAGE in lettering on her wheelhouse window. Being undocumented since […]
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 […]
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