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Enjoy a few more from that day it was raining and I was waiting around. Another detail is that I was charging the battery on my camera #1 and used my older #2.
Jason Reinauer looks just as good with this camera, but I’ve developed a new interest, harder to satisfy, seeing their hull design. It was built here in 1968 as Walton. Cabot [now Harold A. Reinauer] and Daley [now Vincent D. Tibbetts Jr.] were likely the same plans. Correct me….?
As for the next two boats once part of the same fleet, close to 40 years passed between the two, their superstructures are quite similar although their actual dimensions are slightly different. The Beatrice has more power and slightly larger dimensions.
Susan Rose has less powerful but lower emissions engines. As recently as four years ago, Susan Rose looked like this, and before her transformation and intermediary livery looked like this.
I like the current livery but I still wonder how different these two boats are below the waterline.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who bases his info on tugboatinformation.com.
Speaking not of hull design but fuel innovation, I’m curious about the latest on the Amogy project. Anyone help?
Springtime seven years ago, the roadbed that had existed on the Bayonne Bridge was breached, In a controlled manner, of course. Steps in the transformation are captured here. April 3, 2017 was the day this vessel, Maersk Kolkata, came through the opening that dismantling had just created. Here were moments before that happened.
As I took the following photos yesterday, I realized I hardly ever
think about the previous shape of that bridge,
the new configuration has been seared into memory, what else would the Bayonne Bridge look like, I think.
After all,
bridges are forever,
until we think about it.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
No, they’re not.
By the way, I wondered about the tanker name Arrebol. It wasn’t familiar and didn’t sound appealing until I looked up the derivation. Nice!
Let’s pick this up in Umatilla OR and head downstream.
AIS and camera zoom were not confirming, but I think this is Shaver’s Lincoln.
The photos above were below the McNary Lock and dam; those next two are taken upstream of the dam. The lift here is 86′.
Shaver? I don’t think so.
The signboards say that Captain Bob is a Tidewater Barge Line tug, here coming through the Oregon Trunk Rail Bridge opening.
More on Tidewater if not Captain Bob here.
Again, the scenery here in April is stunning.
At the Dalles, I caught this Shaver unit heading for the Dalles dam and lock, lift of 86′ as well.
Downbound and just out of the lock was this unit. Know the company?
The barge downbound was Professor Karen Ann Brown, and for sixth boro readers that might be a clue.
The upbound boat was indeed Lincoln here, and
Mount Hood, a Centerline vessel, reminded me a lot of “lion” boats I saw everywhere from San Diego to San Francisco.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who might by now be in Montana.
Boats similar to Mount Hood include Jillian Irene, Darrell Hiatt, Madeline G. Hamilton, Paula M. Sperry, and Dr. Ray. I suspect there may be more.
Centerline has acquired a number of these similar pushboats recently. Darrell Hiatt Madeline G. Hamilton dates from 2020, and her 2250 2600 hp moves her 85′ 81′ x 34′ hull and whatever work she’s doing.
Eagle was launched in 1978; she’s 98′ x 32′ and brings 6000 hp to the job.
Lucy Franco‘s been around since 1981. Her 1250 hp moves her 69′ x 26’ hull through the water for work.
Michelle Sloan began work in 2015. Her numbers are 76′ x 36′ and 5800 hp.
Seana C was built as Lolita Chouest in 1975 She has three propulsion engines turning two screws generating 1800 hp. Her dimensions are 70′ x 24′.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
I’ve lots more photos from the West Coast, but this may be the last post for a while unless I find that happy medium of wifi, time, and energy as the jaunt goes on. I might be in Idaho by now.
Chincoteague and Doubleskin 802 show the Vane work flag in the Bay area, at least the other day.
Crossing ahead is Centerline’s Paula M. Sperry.
Arthur Brusco and Heidi L. Brusco both worked the Bay. I’m not sure what they were doing.
In the foreground, a mooring lifter, I presume.
Wildcat delivered a crane, while
fleetmate Baycat moved fuel into the Oakland channel.
Millennium Falcon [built 2000, 99′ x 34′ and 4400 hp] and Millennium Dawn [identical but built three years later] rafted up briefly the other day.
And rounding it out . . . could this not be a lot of ports? Name that tugboat?
It’s Delaware with Doubleskin 501.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
I’ve lots more photos from the Bay area, but this may be the last post for a while unless I find that happy medium of wifi, time, and energy as the jaunt goes on.
Darrell Hiatt works in the port moving bunkering barges. She seems quite similar to Jillian Irene in the Bay area.
The next four boats have a somewhat similar appearance. See if you can guess their relative ages, oldest to newest.
Delta Audrey is a ship assist boat in the port, 100′ x 40′ and 6800 hp.
Delta Billie seemed to get abrupt change of orders.
She’s got the same horsepower and breadth as Delta Audrey, but is 7′ shorter.
Delta Theresa is also shorter than Delta Audrey, and operates with 5350 hp.
Rounding it out for this post, Independence is 73′ x 34′ and 5080 hp.
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Launch dates in order of appearance here are as follows: Delta Audrey 2014, Delta Billie 2009, Delta Theresa 2019, Independence 2007
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Bernice Lind has an interesting and transformed history. The 60′ x 23′ square bow began life as a USN landing craft.
Nearby Bernice on Mare Island were (l to r) Guardian and Hero. I’ll leave that there at this time.
Jamie Ann and Z-Four are rafted up and ready to work. I’ve not seen Jamie Ann unobscured, but she’s a 2020 6866 hp, 95′ x 40′ Foss boat built in the Salish Sea aka Puget Sound. Z-Four is a 1999 Great Lakes boat, 88′ x 32′ and 4000 hp boat. For more Z- Cleveland built boats, click here.
Patricia Ann was built on the Columbia River in 2008, 5080 hp and 73′ x 34′.
Sandra Hugh is another Columbia River build, 73′ x 34′ and 5080 hp.
Paula M. Sperry is another Centerline pushboat, 2600 hp, 81′ 34′ and here she’s bunkering Matson’s R. J. Pfeiffer.
Rachael Allen dates from 2020, 95′ x 40′ and 6866 hp.
Valor dates from 2007, 93′ x 40′ and 6772 hp.
And this post concludes with two more unusual boats, beginning with Sacagawea, and I quote from George Schneider: “originally an Army Corps of Engineers as ROBERT GRAY by Lake Washington Shipyard in Houghton WA in 1936. They classed her as a tug, but her interior was somewhat splendid, and she was probably the headquarters vessel for the area supervisor. In WWII she indeed worked as a seagoing tug for the Army as LT 666. In the 1950’s she was turned over too the U. S. Geological Survey and renamed DON J MILLER II. She was declared surplus in 1988 and donated to the Seattle Community College (“Seattle Maritime Academy”) but in 1990 was traded to private owners for a more appropriate vessel for the school. She resumed the name ROBERT GRAY for several owners as a yacht until renamed SACAJAWEA in 2019.” It turns out I’d posted a photo of this vessel over four years ago here. Many thanks to George for corrected the info I’d posted here before about a different Sacagawea.
Polaris ran ashore in 2013 and is succumbing to the waves and weather. More photos of the vessel in slightly better condition can be found here.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
My jaunt is not done, and posts will be asynchronous aka out of order for a while. So before I get to San Diego Tugs 2 and boats in ports south of the Bay area, let’s me post some Bay area boats.
Let’s start with Jillian Irene. Where? For a time, she worked in the sixth boro here. And then suddenly she was gone. She’s in Oakland now.
She’s from 2022, 81′ x 34′, and 2600 hp.
Working with her is another Centerline boat: older, bigger, and slightly more powerful. Dr. Ray, 2008, 86′ x 32′, and 2680 hp.
Apollo, 2021, 77′ x 40′ and 6000 hp.
Valor, 2007, 93′ x 40′, and 6772 hp.
Heidi L. Brusco, 1968, 116′ x 31′, and 3000 hp.
Alta June, 2008, 73′ x 34, and 5080 hp.
Tim Quigg 2004. 76′ x 32, 3800 hp.
Revolution, 2006, 73′ x 32′ and 5080 hp.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
From a photography perspective, foggy, drizzly weather has a way of highlighting the subject , provided the subject is in the right space . Henry Girls’ unique livery look great at this distance, enhanced by that opposing duck.
We had a lot of this weather this January in the sixth boro. A subdued background makes Justine‘s profile the unchallenged subject, as if it were in a narrow field.
A drizzly, mizzly dawn puts Quenames and her barge in the bright lights.
Ditto Seeley with her livery.
There’s a difference between the photos above and those below. I’ll tell you at the end of the post. Any guesses before then?
Andrea light and Bruce A. accompanying a ONE ship
Miriam alongside a tanker and Douglas J light . . .
. . . all four were from this January and the last four were all from January 2023, that’s the difference. Of course, I’m speaking from a mood and not from any scientific tally, but was January mostly rainy, foggy, and lacking in clear days and intense snow falls in the sixth boro?
All photos, any errors, complete lack of meteorological data, WVD.
Traffic, when you’re trapped in it, is not fun. Watching commercial marine traffic, for me, never gets old, as you might know. The more things get, the more interesting the harbor seems. A handful of sophisticated and expensive machinery and its skilled operators jam pack this image. I see three Centerline boats, JRT, and Safmarine Nomazwe.
Roughly the same place and hour and some later, Thunder, just off the port side of Caroline M, shares this image with at least three other tugboats that almost blend into the cold humid morning.
Foreshortening makes Laura K and Doris Moran seem a lot closer together than they are.
Here it’s Marilyn George, Coursen, Alex McAllister, and Wye River, I believe.
Besides the three tugs along the left side, that’s Alex, Kristy Ann with RTC 80, Barney, and Kristin Poling pushing Eva Leigh Cutler. Between Barney and Kristin are at least two Kirby boats.
This was several minutes after the previous photo with some of the same boats.
Daisy Mae here pushes a CMT barge with a Vane unit in the distance, in front of an impossibly packed set of cliffs.
This is not so much packed as it is filled with very different examples of marine commercial traffic.
And in closing, clustered in front of USNS Red Cloud, clockwise starting from Cajun, it’s J. Arnold Witte, USACE Haward, and Marjorie B. McAllister.
All photos, any errors or omissions, WVD, who hits the road again tomorrow. Peace on Earth!
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