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It turns out, I’ve done a post like this once before . . . in 2012 here. When I took the next two photos on Tuesday, I’d thought all the fleet week vessels had already departed. Well, wrong . . . there went LHD-3 USS Kearsarge . . .
which reminded me this would be
a good time to use a photo by a jolly tar back about 10 years ago. Notice the long-gone, long transformed Odin bunkering LHD-3….
Mid afternoon Tuesday this was a sight to behold along the East River, here approaching the Williamsburg Bridge . . . whatzit?
It’s another of the fleet leaving town . . . USNS Yuma (T-EPF-8). The photo above and next two come from an alert Tony A doing his commerce on the East River. In the photo below, it’s the green-fronted UN Building along with river with Trump Tower (dark) rising behind it.
When I caught notice of this, I thought I could hurry to Fort Wadsworth to catch photos of Yuma with Manhattan behind it, but my underestimation of EPF’s speed and the coincidence of hitting every stoplight on Bay Terrace meant that when I got to the Fort,
Yuma was already making almost two dozen knots and headed for Norfolk, a trip that took less than 24 hours.
The EFTs are a further evolution of the HSTs, which I posted about here. By the way, Alakai was renamed USNS Puerto Rico, but then later that name was removed, since there’s a new EFT with the name USNS Puerto Rico in the offing. So is the former Alakai now nameless?
Many thanks to Tony A for sending along the East River photos. Thanks to JED for the Odin/USS Kearsarge shot, and all the others by Will Van Dorp.
Happy June!
I think today is a holiday. Somewhere. If it weren’t, it just should be.
Actually it’s Children’s Day in Turkey. And the Feast of St George at the Vatican and in England. Slay-a-Dragon Day somewhere. International Talk like Shakespeare Day . . . I could go on. Feadship’s Casual Water is headed upriver, if not uptown.
Others are going in all directions . . .
mostly southbound.
Grande Mariner was westbound on the East River to get southbound to the River City. Know that place?
Some are Sound bound, and
others like Ma Belle are headed La Belle Province.
I can’t keep track of Elizabeth.
Flowers are blooming and
it’s great out. Make time to enjoy the holiday. Oh . . . River City starts here.
All photos in the past few days by Will Van Dorp, who did the first “spring giddiness” here.
I’ve done other East River series, but it’s time to start a new one. The next 12 photos were taken yesterday over a total elapsed 11 minutes! I happened to be near South Street Seaport in hopes of catching santacon craziness there, as I did many years ago here.
Let’s start with Alice discharging aggregates, and barely recognizable, that’s Matilde the cement making vessel.
A longer shot reveals a clutch of kayakers, which I hadn’t seen while shooting.
Down by Red Hook, I see Frances approach with two barges of aggregate.
Dean Reinauer passes, pushing a deeply laden
RTC 106.
Those are the stacked lanes of the BQE with the Brooklyn Heights esplanade atop.
Buchanan 1 heads in the same direction as the other two units, but at a slightly greater speed than
Frances.
Again . . . all in 11 minutes.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
That is a long way from the Staten Island base these boats have long used . . . and how many engine rooms are hot here?
So Katie G and Colleen McAllister danced their way east to get north and way west past the dancing (or leaning) towers of the East River this morning.
Notice you can still see the original Libby Black name in the raised metal of Katie G McAllister, soon to be named something else?
Here’s a previous post I did featuring Katie G. remaking a tow at the Battery.
Click here and here for posts featuring Colleen at work. Here’s one at the dock in Mariners.
I’m guessing this voyage will take about three weeks?
Godspeed, and beat the ice!
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Click here for another way to move a tug with a cold engine. And here–scroll to the 4th photo–to see another way it can be done. And another. And I’ll add another post here with alongside towing.
I have more Saint Lawrence posts, but with a chrononautical weekend behind us, let me digress and report. The mood for the first ship was set by the weather; see what the mist did to my favorite downtown building–70 Pine. Click here and be treated to a slideshow of views through time of boro Manhattan’s tall observation cliffs, past present and future.
Looking eastbound up the East River, I saw her waiting, as
first one of her entourage arrived and
and then another.
The term “haze gray” was certainly demonstrated yesterday,
as was the vintage of this Liberty ship headed to sea, for a cruise.
Even the Higgins T-boat in the distance is a whole decade closer to the present–in inception– than Brown, although yesterday all crowded into 2016.
It was a moving sight,
which I beheld,
only slightly regretting I was not aboard.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Here are the previous posts in this series. This is the SUNY training ship’s return this past week from a “sea term” that began this way on May 10. This first set of photos comes from Roger Munoz, who took them from high above 74th Street.
That’s Roosevelt Island just to her far side, and the Queens and the Bronx farther beyond.
Later that morning, Thomas Steinruck took these during the assist back into the dock
as
friends and family welcomed TS Empire State VI home. Now it’s back to classes, study, and tests in this part of the Bronx.
Many thanks to Roger and Thomas for use of these photos.
Fly the Whale, that is. And you can watch it all from the Barge Bar on the East River.
Click here for a short video showing how to beat traffic . . .
Of course, seaplanes or flying boats are nothing new to the sixth boro. Click here for a short video of a Dornier Do-X arriving in a tugboat-filled harbor in 1929. It has no sound, but if you want to hear the details, here’s another longer video. Keyport NJ’s Aeromarine was operating long distance flights from the sixth boro even earlier.
Watch them come and go
as
you
watch from
here. For seaplane prices, click here. But it costs nothing to watch, which is the right price for me.
Click here for a previous post on Keyport.
All photos here by Will Van Dorp, who thinks that the photos in this post from February 2015 is an invigorating reminder of winter on a hot day.
Also, yesterday Marie Lorenz competed her journey in a rowboat from Buffalo to the sixth boro, and in true DeWitt Clinton fashion, she celebrated her accomplishment by pouring out some Lake Erie water into New York harbor. See it and much more here.
Even with sunglasses on, you can see the provenance of this barge Matilde in summer light. Jeddah was my point of departure for a voyage I took just over 30 years ago . . . and greatly enjoyed.
Summertime brings folks out to all the geology along the north Brooklyn side of the East river.
And Sunday I finally made it to the Brooklyn Barge, and I’m sorry I waited so long. I went there via the East River Ferry, getting off at India Street and walking around via West and Milton. I highly recommend the fish tacos and the shrimp tacos.
Here’s where you pick up the food after the magic has been done.
Of course, the Media Boat fleet was out and busy, and
the juxtaposition possibilities are great on a summer weekend.
Imagine the possibilities for a Spencer Tunick installation, partly on the hillock and partly on the scrap metal . . . . Of course, I’m don’t know if all the stakeholder would agree, so I’ll just imagine those oxidized shapes on the scow and those fleshy forms on the hillock have been painted that way by Mr. Tunick.
What will bring me back to this part of the East River soon–other than the tacos–is this air traffic, dodging
PWCs and ferries.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, whose next post will be “whale watching summertime.”
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Time to recapitulate the “go west” journey and post the many photos of tugboats I’ve omitted . . . .
Passing Senesco, we saw Buckley McAllister approaching us; I photographed the boat as someone there photographed us. I’m not sure which Reinauer tug that is in the background.
In the East river the next morning, we passed Cornell at the Brooklyn Barge, a food and drink venue I need to make time to visit.
Over by the Circle Line pier, it’s–well–Miss Circle Line, a reinvention of a Matton tug launched in 1955 and previously called Betsy. Thanks to Paul Strubeck for reading the name board lettering here before it’s applied . . . That was a joke, but thanks, Paul.
James William moves stone Mississippi River style down the sixth boro into the gargantuan building site encompassing the other five boros.
Near 79th Street, this unidentified tug was supporting a pier project.
Along the Palisades north of the GW Bridge, Comet pushed Eva Leigh Cutler.
And Miss Yvette moved a scow not far from where
Carolina Coast waited for her sugar barge to be emptied into the maw of the Domino plant in Yonkers.
All photos by will Van Dorp, who hopes to see you at the screening of Graves of Arthur Kill at the the Staten Island ferry terminal on August 13.
Is it Jonathan C Moran, which arrived in the sixth boro at some point in the past month?
It was.
Actually, as of now, it IS Jack T Moran, which arrived via the East River
yesterday afternoon, and will be christened along with Jonathan C, in a double ceremony at noon today.
More soon. All photos by Will Van Dorp.
I should use this title more often, given the frequent renewal of robust industry in the sixth boro of NYC, but here is the previous usage.
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