USS Nemo
As you read this, I’m west of the Mississippi following the muddy tributary of the muddy Mississip, but I thought I’d remotely set signals to go up. Here’s a WW2 story that intersects the sixth boro in a way I’d never heard . . . the Chicago museum I and most of you know as […]
Edna A and the Shrinkwrapped Mystery
Last spring, Edna A passed my location with a “nameless” tugboat. The day before the official opening of the Canal season, Edna A climbed the Flight westbound with a light barge 82 heading for Albion NY. Three days after passing Newark for Albion, Edna A and the 82 were back, heading east. If you’ve ever […]
Headwaters 7
I hope you’re enjoying my juggling of alternating author persona: in this post, I’m back to tugster retrospectives. Remember this sixth boro boat? It carried a powerful Norse name. It was a favorite of mine too. Back when I took the photo in 2008, I thought I’d never see a pushboat with variable height wheelhouse […]
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 […]
Stealth Friesland
From a shipyard near the Black Sea, this very “white” Holland-class offshore patrol ship came into the sixth boro a day or so ago. A lot needs to be unpacked in that sentence, so here goes: a Royal Netherlands Navy vessel identified as P842, third in a class of four which began with P840 (shown […]
Retro Sixth Boro 43
I hope you enjoy looking back 10 years as much as I do, although some might say I live in the past a little too much. Here’s some dense traffic, l to r, Twisted Sisters, Lucinda Smith, Maurania III, and Petrozavosk. Up in Lyons NY at the drydock, Governor Roosevelt shows her deep 8′ 6″ […]
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 […]
Sixth Boro Sampler 3
Gene Chaser appears to be a sister of Ad-Vantage, which appeared here a year and a half ago. Click on the link at the beginning of the first sentence and you’ll see some interior shots of this 55-meter yacht support vessel. At some point, yacht support vessel Ad-Vantage was available for charter for a mere […]
High and Dry: Caddells 4
The “4” here refers to the dry dock, not the fourth post in this series. The last post on Caddell was Something Different 57. And in the “high and dry” series, this would be number 11. I’m just trying to anchor this post in the previous body of work. Also, I believe this dry dock […]
Saint Emilion
There’s this below from ancient Roman vineyards in Gaul, near this monolith church . . . Also, about 30 miles away in Bordeaux is the repurposed WW2 submarine base . . . repurposed for art. But I started out beyond left field here and have digressed in an even more oblique direction. Saint Emilion is […]
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