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A decade ago, the split-hulled trailing suction hopper dredger Atchafalaya was in the sixth boro. These days in 2023 the 1980 vessel in the St. Johns River of the Alligator and Sunshine State. I don’t believe it actually worked in the sixth boro.
The west side walkway made for a lot of photography on my part in spring 2013, like Asian King here making the turn at Bergen Point with assist from Gramma Lee T Moran. The 1998 RORO today goes by Liberty King and is located between Hokkaido and Honshu. Gramma Lee is working in san Juan these days.
Evening Tide is currently in chrysalis state in Brooklyn.
Pretty World had to be “dead-ship assisted” into port 10 years ago. The assist tugs (l to r) are Margaret Moran (I think), Marion Moran, and Gramma Lee. The 2007 tanker now goes by a much more prosaic Central and is in port off Ivory Coast. Marion Moran is now Dann Marine’s Topaz Coast.
Click here for the latest in the French frigate Aquitaine.
No comment needed on this tale of two cities.
Maersk Ohio is currently in Norfolk.
The US-flagged Maersk ship is assigned on the northern Europe run.
Superior Service is now Genesis Vision, currently in Lake Charles LA.
The 1971 Fred Johannsen, usually mostly up the Hudson, came down in April 2013 to do-si-do back upriver with Taurus, now Hay’s Joker.
Ellen McAllister is still Ellen McAllister. But from this angle, a proto-drone view from the Bayonne Bridge, she appears more rotund than I usually imagine.
Marion Moran focuses on giving the 1996 HanJin San Francisco an extra amount of shove to round Bergen Point. I believe 4024 teu container ship has been scrapped.
And finally, North Sea is now Sause’s Kokua, now working around Maui.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who loves these opportunities to look back at all the changes that have transpired.
Many thanks to Kyle Stubbs for sending along these photos. Recognize these tugboats below? Answer follows.
He saw and took this photo of Osprey in Vallejo CA in November 2022.
Osprey above is 125′ x 38′ and propulsion power of 6140 hp . Sun Spirit below is 122′ x 37′ and the same hp as Osprey. Ring any bells?
This photo of Sun Spirit he took in Seattle a few days ago.
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And here they were in previous livery, Linda Lee in May 2020 in the sixth boro, and
Robert J. in December 2021 at Algiers Point, a picturesque curve on the Mississippi.
Again, for today’s photos, thanks to Kyle, whose previous contributions A through D can be traced here.
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 stroll in the night life of Nola is complete without a stop at Igor’s Checkpoint Charlie, combo bar, music venue, and laundromat!!
Following the river by car, we next stopped in Baton Rouge, and among the dozens of boats, enjoy this one–Ned Ferry–with a sixth boro connection: It was built in 1959 Pittsburgh for Pennsylvania Railroad, which in 1968 merged with the New York Central to form Penn Central. In 1974 it was sold to Crescent, which repowered and rebuilt it . . . Find more in Paul Strubeck’s Diesel Railroad Tugs Vol 1.
The river is quite busy; here Creole Sun works on a fleeting job.
Richard‘s pushing a set of tank barges. You might imagine I’m toying with a Mississippi River cruise this year.
American Pillar is a good example of a line haul boat: 195′ x 54′ and working with 10500 hp.
Fort Defiance Park in Cairo IL is a good place to see the Ohio and the Mississippi River refuse to mix for a while. Note the difference in water color.
I never mentioned that my car was broken into in East St Louis in summer 2021; Malcolm W Martin Park right across the way is the place. I left a review on tripadvisor in September 2021 here if you scroll through.
Leaving St Louis in 2013 we made a stop in Kampville to catch the ferry across the Illinois River.
Then it was a lot of dry until we got to the Monongahela River at Belle Vernon PA, and the port of registry on these boats tell you where the nearest port (to the north) is.
We’ll leave it there. If you want to peruse the archives for January 2013, click here . . . they are in reverse chronological order. There were obviously many many photos.
All photos, WVD.
This monthly practice of looking back a decade gives me an opportunity to dust off a specific part of the archive in tugster tower. Besides sneezing sometimes because of the dust, I also feel amazed about the amount of change, small changes maybe but significant it seems.
Evening Mist has become Everly Mist, and is in a new endeavor. Palva is now Laurentia DesGagnes operating on and out of the Saint Lawrence River where I saw her a few years back. Only Eastern Welder in the background remains.
I made a few trips out to Greenport a decade ago, and walking through a shipyard saw this vessel from Suffolk Count Department of Health and its unusual top deck exhaust. Is that still around? I’m guessing it might check water quality on shellfishing areas . . .
Bebedouro (1974) and Atlantic Conveyor (1985), now both dead and scrapped. Brendan Turecamo still works here all day every day.
Rebel (138′ x 46′) is still on the NJ side of the sixth boro, waiting for an opportunity to get back to work.
Viking (132′ x 34′) has been cut up.
Annabelle Dorothy Moran was on her delivery run, making her way to the Chesapeake/Delaware Bay area, where she still works. Those range markers are no longer in place on the Brooklyn Heights bank of the sixth boro.
John B Caddell was nearing the end of this shore leave, heading for her final one. Note Sarah Ann tending the crane barge and WTC in the distance not yet completed.
Commander, a WW1 USN vet as SP-1247, was still showing its rotondity.
Joan Turecamo, a late Matton product, was still in the boro. Now she winds her way around the curves of the Lower Mississippi.
Sarah Ann and others of the Donjon fleet kept me up most of the night in December 2012, as she stood by a barge carrying WTC antenna sections that were lifted onto Manhattan . . .
across a blocked west side highway . . . lowered onto a vehicle with dozens of axles . . .
and trucked inland
In other night photos, quite rare on this blog . . . it’s Clearwater lifted onto Black Diamond barge with Cornell standing by.
I hope you enjoyed this backward glance as much as I have. I might have to get out and do some documenting of nighttime events on the sixth boro this December.
All photos, December 2012, WVD.
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I’m following up here from May, this post.
I won’t tell you the name yet, but here are some hints: she carried the same name for 40 years and it was changed only in this fall.
More clues: 106′ x 35′ and 5100 hp.
This is a deviation from her new livery, but if you’re not ready to paint, slapping on a sticker might be a quick solution.
Her previous name was used once before in 1952 by her previous company. That 1952 boat was reefed off NJ in August 1996 after going through a half dozen names here.
And here you have it: tugster readers, meet The Beatrice.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
I can’t say if more than unusual number of changes are in fact happening these days, or if my radars are set to detect change. In either case, I privilege novelty on this blog, so here we go, the first of the series.
April 2016 this was Ellen S. Bouchard alongside Bouchard Boys.
Also in 2016, Ellen S. was in a crowded channel meeting another fleetmate, Evening Light.
From yesterday coming through Hell Gate I saw this. Name the tugboat pushing B. No. 282?
wearing a Centerline livery and now
carrying a new new.
It’s Jeffrey S,
here slowed down because of the work over near Blount-built William Brewster and the Manhattan side 79th Street bridge.
She’ll round the bend at the Battery and head up to Albany.
All photos, Halloween, WVD.
Happy November 2022.
Here’s a post I struggled with yesterday. The photos are not the best to document what I saw: a convergence of tugboats that all used to wear the same livery but now bearing new names.
Susan Rose used to be Evening Breeze. Although you can see part of the name plate, the stack has not yet received the blue/gray Rose Cay paint.
Next in the anchorage was Adeline Rose, now a Centerline boat but formerly Rubia and before that Denise A. Bouchard. See the scant but be-shadowed orange forward of the engine room vent.
A bit farther south in the anchorage were two more former Bouchard units. Left to right now are The Beatrice and Jeffrey (or Jeffery) S, with barges B. No. 282 and B. No. 280.
Jeffrey S used to be
Rhea I. Bouchard is now The Beatrice. I’m eager to see these two–ex-Rhea and Ellen–light so that I can confirm photographically the name update.
Jordan Rose is now clearly visible with her blue/gray stack, although I’m not sure the stack color matches that on Lynne M. Rose.
Maybe it’s just the quality of post-fog light.
All photos this week, WVD, who never saw all these changes coming or he’d have invested in marine paint.
Here’s a March 2017 photo of Evening Mist, one of many I took over the years,
her big tugboat lines lessened by this the second upper wheelhouse she had carried. A previous one she had as Captain Dann.
She was recently transformed again, and a few days ago I finally caught Evening Mist in her new livery . . .
H is for the Haughland Group.
And she looks great for a 1976 tugboat. I look forward to seeing more of the Haughland Group.
All photos, WVD.
I’ve compartmentalized my photos from the Pioneer sail the other night, in part because in a short two-hour sail there was so much to see. For starters, Stephanie Dann had earlier just rushed eastward and came back with Cornucopia Destiny, a dance partner on her starboard side. I can speculate about this, but I don’t know the details.
As we headed into the Buttermilk, we met Susan Rose AND
Jordan Rose, ex- Evening Breeze and Evening Star, respectively.
This sweet downeaster passed.
I suspect Jordan came along to assist
Susan into the notch.
Meanwhile, a ways down the piers, Stasinos Jimmy and currently still Evening Tide were rafted up for the moment.
Whatever brought Jordan to the Red Hook piers, by the time we had sailed passed the gantries, she was overtaking us.
On the return, as night began to fall, we met Thomas D. Witte and
then her fleetmate Douglas J.
At this point, my photos were pixelating, but I still managed to get Eastern Dawn, heading back to the “barn” at dusk.
All photos, WVD, who has handed the keys to the tower over to the robots again for a while.
Years ago [in 2008] I caught a mega-Bouchard tug in the KVK. It was Danielle M., now Rebekah Rose.
But yesterday I saw the much newer sister of the boat from 2008. Escorted into the Arthur Kill by Ellen McAllister and another tug,
and pushing RCM 270, a 250,000 bbl barge, it was
the massive 144′ x 44′ and 10,000 hp tugboat
wearing the livery and stack logo of Rose Cay Maritime.
Welcome
Lynne M. Rose. Check the spelling.
According to AIS, she made a six-day eighteen-hour trip to the sixth boro from Corpus Christi, a port I’ve yet to visit, although I will only go there in winter months.
Any errors and all photos, WVD.
While doing this post, I came to realize I’d seen this very boat before, back on December 1, 2021 here
and here at the Bollinger yard in Algiers, LA.
Enjoy this contrasting parting shot.
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