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With greater focus today, let’s start where we left off yesterday . . . here, with that large red mooring ball behind tugboat Maverick.
The mooring was attached to a section of flexible dredge hose that
was getting towed. Any guesses on Maverick’s date launched? Decide that for each of these and arrange them by age, before checking the answers at the end?
Carolina Coast came in light the other day, possibly just off a sugar barge.
Meagan Ann was eastbound, maybe heading north for scrap.
Michael Miller was moving who knows what. As a reminder, have you decided the launch date on each of these as you’re going through? Answers are posted at the end here.
Miss Madeline a bit earlier was working on a dredge project.
Charles A was in from another dredge project.
Susan Rose was pushing oil.
Stephen Dann has since gone to Bridgeport.
Charles James is still the the boro as of this writing.
And that’s where we leave it today.
All photos and any errors, WVD.
Maverick 1967
Carolina Coast 1970
Meagan Ann 1975
Miss Madeline 1976
Charles A. 1979
Charles James 1985
Stephen Dann 1999
Susan Rose 2019
“What do you like about New Orleans?” A friend asked me that recently. Different answers exist: ubiquitous and diverse music, unique architecture, history and present through all the senses, spicy and delicious food, free spirits, bons temps roulants… this list can be even longer. But for me, the traffic on the river is without rival . . . that I know of. That’s what calls me back. I can even skip the music, merriment, and tastes, but the river always attracts and satisfies. From my recent stay, here are some photos.
I’m thinking this may be a formerly Bouchard boat, but I really don’t know who this is getting spa treatment.
Any help?
Mary Moran was there too. She’s of the same general class as Miriam and Margaret.
A. Thomas Higgins is not as new as I thought, but still, she’s not yet at the 5-year mark.
Here’s a recent article on her from ProfessionalMariner, which among many other things mentions her namesake. It makes me wonder if this Mr. Higgins is related to Andrew J. Higgins, the “new Noah”
Turquoise Coast, formerly Barbara E Bouchard, was in.
Rodney, the former Sheila Moran, came through with a barge, heading upstream.
Michael S I thought was newer, but she’s from 2009.
More info can be found here.
Know this unit?
A clue is the name . . . well, number . . of the barge, 1964.
It’s Millville, the WaWa . . . THAT WaWa, tug, which I saw under construction in Sturgeon Bay in 2017, which seems like a lifetime ago. My friend Jack caught the unit in Nova Scotia here, as she was first headed into salt water. Take a close look at the last photo in this post from 2017 . . . yup that was what would become 1964.
All photos, WVD, who wonders if you’ve noticed what type of tugboat I’ve omitted here. This is not-so-random a selection, as you’ll see in an upcoming post.
It’s not the best photo maybe, although–hey– it was the golden hour when B. E. Lindholm came into the boro recently. They’ve been working along the east side of Sandy Hook.
Some small craft traffic the boro all seasons of the year. I suspect this is going out fishing, but I’m not sure.
Daisy Mae here southbound along Newport . . . in a clash of horizontal lines.
This morning had Meaghan Marie, Eastern Dawn, and Evening Mist rafted up in Red Hook.
I’ve often seen David Auld Scudder on AIS, but not until the other day had I seen the boat,
diminutive beside Pegasus Star.
As have appeared here before, Millers Launch has a lot of small workboats like Erin Miller.
Discovery Coast has been working a fair amount in the boro in recent weeks.
Too distant to tell, but Twin Tube here is lifting new life rafts onto Nordic Harrier.
Hayward dates from 1974, when the drift collection vessel came out of a Boston shipyard.
And there we’ll leave it. All photos and any errors, WVD.
I caught her at the fuel dock the other day, and knew a bit of back story. Do you recall seeing her before on this blog?
Since she was fueling and I was not waiting around for that process to end, I left. I wish I’d gotten a 360-degree view, because changed paint really changes appearance.
She used to be Marion Moran, as seen in these Bayonne Bridge April 2013 photos
here muscling a HanJin container ship around Bergen Point.
Another new name . . . Marilyn George, stencilled on for now.
As you can see, before that she was Steven Wayne and before that . . .
she was
Patapsco, as seen here in a September 2008 photo.
Welcome Marilyn George and Topaz Coast. All photos, WVD.
I haven’t always noticed all the right details,
and you might be wondering if this title sounds a bit like one of those professional firms . . .
but possibly by the time you get to the photo below you’ve figured out the title.
Certainly while shooting these photos, it occurred to me that this tug/barge combination is somewhat unusual . . . Chesapeake Coast pushing liquid tank barge Chesapeake. Maybe it’s not unusual. Sister tug Discovery Coast has been in the boro a fair amount but it’s been a while since I recall seeing Chesapeake Coast here.
Anyhow, I thought it was unusual.
Can you recall seeing this barge in the boro? Going back in my archives, it’s been a few years that I’ve posted photos of Chesapeake Coast, other than it “retro” posts. Good to see you.
All photos, any lapses of memory and inattention, WVD.
Daisy Mae . . . time flies and this 82′ x 30′ and 3200 hp boat has been around since 2017 already.
Crystal Cutler, 67′ x 26′ and 1500 hp, I remember when she first arrived in the boro. I mist be getting old here.
Evelyn Cutler, 117′ x 32′ and 3900 . . . I recall when she was Melvin E. Lemmerhirt.
Discovery Coast, 96′ x 34′ and 3000 hp . . . she’s been around by that name since leaving the shipyard a decade ago.
Capt. Brian A. McAllister, 100′ x 40′ and 6770 hp . . . half a decade here.
Brian Nicholas, 72′ x 23′ and 1700 hp, I never saw her as Banda Sea, although I saw many other Seas.
Charles James, 77′ x 26 and 2400 hp . . . I recall her as Megan McAllister.
Navigator, 64′ x 24′ and 1200hp**, arrived here as that. Saint Emilion . . .105′ x 38′ and 4800hp, I’ve known her as Arabian Sea and Barbara C before that, and this blog has been doing this since before she was launched.
All photos and any errors, WVD.
**We know about autocorrect. Here’s a message from Capt. Tugcorrect: “Re 1200 hp, she’s been repowered and info should reflect that she ‘boasts two MTU 12V2000s rated at 900hp each for a total of 1800.’ ” Thx, Tugcorrect.
Discovery Coast has been around for over a decade now. One of my first times to see her was here.
Lightning has only recently been joined by Thunder, here. Might tugs named for other weather phenomena like hail and fog be coming?
Helen was only renamed that earlier this year; before that, she was Charles Burton.
Thomas D. Witte appeared here only once as Kendall P. Brake, and that was a decade and a half ago with Powhatan, class-establisher for Apache.
Defender last appeared on this blog a year and a half ago here . . . She was
formerly Davis Sea, my favorite photo of which was here, struggling with solid water upriver.
Pearl Coast is a regular at the cement dock on the KVK, here with Cement Transporter 1802, one of a fleet of barges dedicated to exactly that.
And while I was at this location, I caught a convergence of tugboats, Pegasus eastbound and Stephen Reinauer westbound. Stephen has been in the sixth boro for nearly 30 years now.
All photos, WVD.
This sight might have confused some folks looking at vessels in the Stapleton anchorage yesterday. The brightly lit vessel arrived a bit before sunrise.
Here’s a closer shot. That’s Discovery Coast with bunkers.
She spun with the tide.
Although, like me, you might not recognize the shape and colors of this vessel, Grimaldi is not an unusual name in the harbor. Grimaldi owns the ACL fleet as well as ROROs with names that begin with “grande” except the Blount boats.
Eurocargo Bari is one of 10 sister ships, all named for “Mediterranean” port cities, the class referred to as the Genova class.
If you’ve not clicked on the links, she’s 656′ loa x 87′ and carries 1255 ceus. She’s also fast, max speed of 22 knots. She departed the sixth boro yesterday after dark and is already off the Carolina Capes, bound for Altamira MX.
Busy livery and
over styled? Yes, IMHO, but it is a European look.
All photos and opinions, any errors, WVD.
Anyone know the story of this lobster tug over at Pier 81 Hudson River? Its current name?
Discovery Coast was standing by a tank barge at Pier 8 Red Hook.
Next pier south, Pier 9, Evening Tide hibernates. I guess it’s not true that all parts of “time and tide wait for no one.”
Continuing in that direction to the south of Erie Basin, a Dann Ocean fleet waits: l to r, Captain Willie Landers, Sarah Dann, and Ruby M.
In the anchorage, Susan Rose awaits her next appointment with the RCM 250.
Fells Point heads to the Narrows to retrieve her bunker barge.
Bruce A. McAllister escorts bulker Thor Fortune into Claremont for a load of scrap.
And finally, Everly Mist is the newest renaming I’ve seen. Ellen S. Bouchard has also been renamed Jeffrey S, but I’ve not caught a photo yet.
All photos, WVD.
Some things you can only see from the water, like these exquisite sights recently sent along by Capt. Sunbeams. An illustration for “smoke on the water, fire in the sky” i.e., sailing on the Delaware while pushing
something along to earn a living.
Meanwhile there’s lots to see like a cooling tower, Genesis Victory and her barge,
Ruby Coast and
Knot Refined . . . her very new barge,
an incoming Rhea . . . which makes me wonder if she’s here to do what Miss Rui didn’t,
and then a spectacular sunset.
All this adds up to another maybe routine but certainly spectacular run down Delaware Bay.
All photos thanks to Capt. Sunbeams.
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