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Today’s post will have low verbal density, but I could not pass up noting the arrival of a vessel named Captain Haddock, especially since it’s a bulk carrier with a salt cargo, not a fishing boat.
This is just a hint; it is a container vessel but with many refrigerated plug ins, it might just be transporting some citrus.
No comment.
Put rail on water and you’ll see graffiti.
Let’s end this post with more context on Captain Haddock.
All photos, WVD. Stay healthy.
Count the tugboats in this one shot . . . six! And a seventh is obscured right behind the nearest. And no, it was not part of the annual tugboat race. From (l) to (r), it’s JRT Moran, Amy Moran, Stephen B, (and Ellen McAllister is obscured) then Genesis Eagle, Magothy with Double Skin 57, and Elk River doing assist.
In case you suspect I’m making up the seventh tugboat, here’s a closeup of Ellen assisting Eagle just nine seconds earlier.
A bit later, I noticed a similar density over in the anchorage. Just naming ships, (l) to (r), there’s Advance II, White Horse, Sten Odin, and Cielo di Londra.
Then among then, there are two more tug/barge units with tugs Barry Silverton and Helen Laraway. Interesting how Barry Silverton is shrunk when beside a tanker.
And a bit later I zoomed down, around, and in to see the service vessels clustered around White Horse: HMS* Liberty (I think), a Miller Launch boat, and on the far side Lesney Byrd.
All photos, WVD, who’s now outa town for a while. Thx to everyone who’s sent in or pledged relief posts.
Also, a certain exotic ship is coming into the harbor, and I’d be very grateful if someone stepped forward to get photos of it as it arrives. Email me, please, if you might be able to get the shot.
*HMS . . . Harley Marine Services is no more; out of its ashes rises Centerline Logistics.
Radar helps when you can’t see in the fog, but
even on a clear day, you can’t see the crew operating this 2013 2000 hp tugboat, or its history . . . how it got to become a fixture in the sixth boro.
Ditto this 1994 tug, operating with 3000 hp. Here Kimberly Poling is docked, and the outside viewer knows no reason why.
Brian Nicholas was launched under a different name before Nixon was elected. If only one could be privy to all the conversations and dramas even happened aboard.
Mister Jim was based for 30 years in the Gulf of Mexico, although without looking at her logbooks, who knows where all she worked.
Ellen McAllister has the distinction in this post of having been launched before Nixon was elected also AND worked both sides of the Atlantic, and I would suspect she’s appeared on this blog more times than any other of the machines here, but still . . . even I, what do I know about her quirks and feats?
Helen Laraway, unless I tell you, would you know that she was working before Kennedy was elected POTUS? And with rehabbing and repowering . . . she’s as good as new, I believe, and working hard for a 63-year-old.
James E. Brown is the youngster of this post, built in a fishing village originally called Coq d’Inde, now anglicized.
Finally, back in the fog . . . It’s Stephanie Dann, a product of the Carter era. As to these dates and use of POTUSes as time references, it’s not political, but you’ll see my point here in tomorrow’s post.
And yes, all photos and info here by Will Van Dorp.
I’m not disparaging, but my first thought was “just another” Vane tug heading across the bow, until
we passed and I noticed it was Charleston, which I believe is Vane’s newest tug in the sixth boro.
The new “ubiquitous” vessels on the sixth boro waterways move containerized trash. Pathfinder is one of the tugboats assigned to this duty. Covanta first got the contract for this business in 2013, and my first knowledge of these barges was here.
Two different generations of McAllister tugboats headed out recently, Capt. Brian A. and
Ellen. Launched a half century apart and having a difference of almost 3000 hp, they are both working daily assisting ships in the harbor.
Janet D is a mere five years old and works in marine construction, working for the aptly named Construction and Marine Equipment Co.
Franklin Reinauer was built and christened by that name in 1984.
It appears to me here that Linda L. Miller, the truckable tug, is the prime mover, pushing Catherine C. Miller. Click to enlarge the photo and you’ll see a handsome spread of Manhattan architecture, sans the peaks.
And let’s conclude with Mister Jim, who back in 2016 did not have the gray/red livery.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who missed the return of Atlantic Enterprise this morning, back from the work in Georgia.
J. George Betz and Morton Bouchard Jr. raft up on the floating dock.
Helen Laraway pushes toward the east.
JRT passes Weddell Sea on the way home after completion of another job.
Daisy Mae moves a deeply loaded scow westbound. I’m not certain but believe the product is road salt.
Discovery Coast heads over toward the Kills.
A light Elk River makes for the next job.
Emily Ann tows astern passing the collection of boxes in the Global Terminal.
And Majorie B. passes Pacific Sky while she steams back to the McAllister yard.
And one more, Ellen S, Pearl Coast, and Evening Light . . round out this installment.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, whose sense of this decade’s end is growing more palpable, offers this photo of Michigan Service and a whole lotta dredgin’ from the last two weeks of 2009.
The first post by this title was here, and when I spotted them headed out of town the other day, I knew they were headed on the same run as I’d done a story about a few months back.
You can’t see it, but inside CMT Y Not 2 there’s a front end loader to assist with offloading.
You also can’t see it, but Daisy Mae is a triple screw tugboat.
They headed over to Stapleton to reconfigure the tow and put the big barge on the wire for the day and a half or so trip down to Salem NJ.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, whose previous Daisy Mae photos can be found here.
I’m always on the look out for new tugboats in the harbor, and Camie mostly fits that bill. A bit of research, though, finds she’s been on the blog a few times already, however.
Here, l to r, it’s Polar Bright, Ava, New York, and Stephen B.
Robert Burton here is tending a rock scow in front of the very busy Bayonne background.
James Brown moves some scrap barges . . . likely in the direction of the East River.
Weddell Sea stands by with Penn No. 90, demonstrating all the components of “push gear.”
Maybe someone can clarify here, but it appears No. 90 has cargo heating gear.
Helen Laraway moves a scow toward a morning.
And Fort Schuyler heads straight for us–I’m zoomed in–away from a marine/industrial Brooklyn background.
For the last day of November 2019, all photos by Will Van Dorp.
And finally, click here for Paul Strubeck’s Vintage Diesel Design blog post on tugboat Luna in Boston. It expands a post I did on Luna here almost four years ago.
Here’s another calendar’s worth . . . starting with Josephine. I have many more of this bot coming up soon.
Capt. Brian heads out through the Narrows to meet a tow.
Cape Lookout returns for her anchored barge.
Nathan G delivers a brace of scows.
Ava M heads out for a job.
The “new” Kristin Poling returns to her barge as well.
Ellen and Bruce A follow a job.
St Andrews heads east and
Ernest Campbell, west.
Challenger, some weeks ago, brings a Weeks crane up for a lift.
Stephen B has some additions to her paint job since last I saw her.
CMT Pike heads back across the Upper Bay.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who can’t believe it’s already mid-November 2019!!
Here’s a calendar’s worth of harbor tugboat shots, starting with Sarah D., looking brand new although built in 1975, her colors matching the shades of Manhattan building materials in the background.
Brian Nicholas (1966) moves into the Upper Bay, her blue repeated in the sky and water and more.
Buchanan 12 (1972) heads down bound and then
back upbound, day after day and year after year. It’d be interesting to quantify the tons of aggregates she’s moved out of Hudson Valley quarries.
A Blount-Barker product from 2002, Brooklyn moves from Brooklyn over to Bayonne.
HMS Justice is one of the newer boats in this post, launched in 2012.
Kristy Ann is the newest boat in this post, having arrived here last year to replace the nameplate of a boat from 1962.
James E. Brown, here assisted by Janet D, both 2015 products of Rodriguez Shipyard, brings a daily load of rail cars across the harbor.
Ruth M.Reinauer (2008) heads back to her barge.
The 1979 CMT Pike . . . I can’t not think of Odin when I see her.
JRT Moran (2015) rounds the KV buoy with Kristy Ann in the distance.
We started with Sarah D and we’ll end with her.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Frances heads out to earn some money on a rainy yesterday morning. I’ve no idea what that red glow behind the Statue is.
Lincoln Sea has worked on both coasts since I’ve been doing this blog, and like Frances, has kept the same name. Click here to see her in my second ever blog post . . . 2006.
Michael Miller here moves equipment to and from islands in the boro’s archipelago. I first saw this vessel as Stapleton Service.
Annie G II goes way back on this blog too. Recently she’s been doing a job over west of the Staten Island Ferry racks, a job she was the perfect size for. She’s a WGI tug.
Jane A. Bouchard was out along the east side of Staten Island, passing the old US Marine Hospital. See it here if you scroll way through.
Ellen McAllister was heading out for a call. I likely first posted a photo of her here.
In that photo earlier, Jane was headed to meet up with Evening Star and her barge.
James E. Brown and Thomas J. Brown tag teamed car float NYNJR 200, the newest and largest car float in the sixth boro.
Ditto, CMT Pike and Helen Laraway meet up on a set of scows.
And to close this out, it’s Austin Reinauer, Boston-bound in the rain.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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