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Happy please-go-vote day. If you know anyone at all who is eligible to vote but won’t, have a chat with that person. As a New Yorker, I voted over a week ago . . . early voting on a Saturday afternoon.
Some photos . . . and your part is to 1) rank these boats by highest to lowest horsepower, and 2) identify which if any were built north of central sixth boro. I’ve provided dates of initial construction, but tugboats are required to be well-maintained, sometimes repowered and extensively rebuilt.
The 1979 Miriam Moran looked this way in her October markings. Cancer is a scourge, and I know this remembrance each October means a lot to folks who’ve seen the disease from nearby.
HMS Liberty has worked in the boro for over a decade now.
Laura K. Moran came off the ways in 2008, spent some years here, some away, but now she’s back in the boro.
Mister T, 2001, has carried that moniker ever since.
Andrea, 1999, has been in the boro a half dozen years. Here‘s how she looked back in 2016.
Shannon Dann was built in 1971.
Dace Reinauer dates from 1968 but has been considerably rebuilt from the first time she appeared on this blog here. See pre-2010 photos of her here and here.
Brian Nicholas, 1966, has been in the boro about as long as I’ve been doing this blog. I did post a photo of her with Banda Sea name clearly on her bow here 12 years ago.
Foxy 3 was built in 1974 and first appeared on this blog as Barker Boys, a name she carried until 2009, when she was renamed Buchanan 16. I don’t believe I ever saw her in the Balico livery as BF Jersey although I did see her with BF Jersey nameboards here. Note the folded back upper wheelhouse.
All photos, WVD.
Answers?
Laura K 5100 horsepower, Dace 3400, Andrea and Miriam at 3000, HMS Liberty and Mister T and Shannon D all at 2400, Brian Nicholas 1700, Foxy 3 1600.
Built north of the sixth boro: Laura K in Maine and Mister T in Rhode Island; all others were built in Louisiana.
We alternate back to Albert Gayer (1897-1976) tomorrow, but to maintain connection with the contemporary sixth boro, especially in the cold, crisp January light, enjoy these five varied boats from this past week. Name the one below?
Pelham, of course. The mighty Pelham was launched in 1960, loa is 80.4′, and has 3000 hp.
Who was rotating Marjorie K?
On the bow was Miriam Moran, 1979, 99′ loa, and also 3000 hp.
Name that boat?
Harry Mcneal is a busy boat launched in 1965, 53.3 loa, and 800 hp.
Which boat is this crewman on the bow of?
It’s the robust Rae, launched 1952, 46′ loa, and packing 450 hp.
And this one?
It’s the unmistakable Charles James, which started as a GLDD tug in 1985, 77′ loa, and 2400 hp.
All photos and any errors, WVD; numbers from tugboatinformation.com
More Albert Gayer tomorrow.
January is named for Janus, the one who looked forward and backward . . . transitions, this Roman. The connection is this . . . one day i post photos from 2022 and the next or two I post photos from the 1950s, supplied by Albert Gayer.
Charles James, framed here by the big green Tokyo Triumph and an Apex barge, pushes a bow wave in front of her.
Here’s the 13, 600 teu Tampa Triumph class ULCV that followed Charles James. You also notice Maersk Vilnius following the ULCV.
I know that names are just for convenient, but I wonder why this class of five Costamare ships carry the names Tampa, Tokyo, Toledo, Taipei, and Texas Triumph. Surely there are larger cities starting with T. In fact, Tampa and Toledo don’t even make the top 50 by population. And if Texas, then why not Tennessee? Taipei is fine because it’s home to Evergreen, the operator.
She’s deep, although I’ve seen deeper.
From the time she starting moving from her berth to the time she departs through the Narrows takes avbout an hour.
The fact that all those containers can leave safely makes an hour a short time.
She meets Oleander coming in for her usual Thursday appointment, and this meeting shows relative scale of these two cargo ships.
I mentioned Maersk Vilnius earlier in this post; I don’t recall ever seeing one container ship overtake another as they race out toward the Narrows.
All photos, WVD.
Because the name and focus of this blog is tugster, you’d expect to see a lot of tugboats, both within the confines of New York harbor, aka the REAL sixth boro, and I hope you are satisfied that you find a plethora of tugboats in installments of this blog. So here’s Random Tugs #337, post 4877, and the tugboat is Foxy 3 moving an aggregate scow.
In the foreground, it’s Crystal Cutler; off in the distance it’s Normandy.
Diane B here heads east with a cargo in John Blanche. I did an article on this unit some years back.
Joyce D. Brown pushes an empty scow east. Notice anything on the scow that identifies it? See the end of this post.
James E. Brown passed sister Joyce D. that morning in the Kills.
Franklin Reinauer that morning may or may not have been under control of the author of a tugboat captain who shared his tales a few years back. I will stay mum. Off to the left, that’s Capt. Brian A. McAllister.
HMS Liberty muscled a barge full of bunkers to deliver to a thirsty ship over in New Jersey.
Centerline operates both Liberty above and HMS Justice below.
Susan Miller moves some material and equipment over to the project just west of the St. George ferry terminal.
Brendan Turecamo heads over to the next and the next and the next job.
Bruce A. McAllister assists a container ship into port.
Bergen Point came off the ways at Blount Shipbuilding way back in 1958.
So that scow Joyce was pushing above is called Maria and
this logo says it was once in the Disch fleet, now sold off in many directions.
All photos, WVD.
Saving fuel . . . Foxy3 has Rae alongside and they’re passing a wall of a hull, or is that a hull of a wall….
Coral Coast is usually on a cement barge, but not now . . . .
Can you name that tugboat?
Let’s do regression, with Foxy3 and Rae approaching that tanker hull.
Double Skin 36 is what Coral Coast is pushing.
Name the tugboat pushing DBL 82?
Notice Foxy3 and Rae and SKS Mersey they’ve just passed? Progression going on here with Mount St. Elias and
Coral Coast, whereas
the Fox boats are regressing.
All photos, WVD.
Unrelated, and a bit late, but do you remember the “green boat” below, AQS Tor? It was deck cargo lost off a yacht carrier Eemslift Hendrika abandoned off Norway earlier this month. Click on the image to see the disposition. More AQS here.
Rae was on AIS such a long time I suspected it was a ghost signal. But sure enough, she came eventually into view, her 450 horses moving at a snail’s 3 kts.

She was pushing some sectional barges with spuds as cargo.
She was making progress however.
Go, Rae!
All photos, WVD.
Enjoy the photos. Can you guess which of these tugboats is oldest?
Greetings Rae and hello to the crewman at the railing. It’s been awhile since I’ve seen Rae. The first time I saw her I was with Bonnie and the tug was then called Miss Bonnie.
Several people have said Matthew Tibbetts is the best looking tug in the harbor. Who am I to argue with them about that?
Pathfinder cuts a sharp image as it leans into its empty trash containers . . . . and the barge CVA-601.
Some mornings the dawn light enhances everything. Because I was a NASA fan a long time ago, a tug named Cape Canaveral will always get my attention. I’m guessing she may be the newest boat among these.
Above, along the left side of the photo, see the barge with GL 54 on it? Ocean Tower was moving it along,as below.
This light perfectly complements Sarah D‘s lines and colors.
The sun is already rising well after 0600; I took this photo of Ruby M before 0600.
A very light Frederick E. Bouchard passed me by the other day.
Normandy has the throatiest sound of the boats I know best.
And finally, well before 0600, Emily Ann was moving a scrap (?) barge westbound. I believe she was last on this blog back in June.
All photos, WVD.
Oh . . . the oldest? That would be Rae, launched 1952, same as me.
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