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March 25, 2011 was a busy day. L to r, Maurania III, USNS Yano, Resolute, McAllister Responder, McAllister Girls, Amy Moran . . . with a K-Sea barge at the mooring, and some iconic structures. None of these vessels in currently in the sixth boro. Amy Moran is now John Joseph.
Let’s follow the USNS vessel first, as it’s assisted into the graving dock. Yano is in Newport News at this time, 2021.
Yano is an example of a US-flagged non-Jones Act vessel.
A bit later, more to the west, Davis Sea stands by to assist Taurus
and DBL 25 into a dock. Taurus recently came to the boro from Philly as Joker. Davis Sea is now Defender.
The following day, Maurania III and
McAllister Girls sail British Serenity off the dock. Maurania III is now in Wilmington, and British Serenity is now Champion Timur and is in the Black Sea on a voyage that began in Indonesia. Girls is laid up.
An hour later, Jennifer Turecamo assisted the big OSG 350 moved by
OSG Vision westbound. Jennifer is in Tampa, and Vision runs in and out of Delaware Bay.
All photos and any errors, WVD, who notices the old Bayonne Bridge profile above.
For an update on Ever Given, click here.
And the answer to yesterday’s what and where: Jay Michael off Bridgeport, CT….
It’s March 1, and that invites a look back to March 2011.
Vinalines Queen is where I need to start. Less than two years after I took this photo, the 2005 bulk carrier was lost on a run between Morowali, Indonesia and China with a cargo of nickel ore, with the loss of all hands (22) except one.
Morowali has 19 nickel smelters. Nickel ore is considered the most dangerous bulk commodity. Two other nickel ships were lost in December 2010. Here‘s info about the single survivor of the sinking.
Assist here is provided by Miriam Moran.
Kongo Star was just off the ways when I took this photo; and the small tanker (13011 dwt) is still working and currently near Rotterdam, in fact, in the town where my father was born.
Entering the KVK, it’s Ross Sea and Houma, each with a barge. Houma was scrapped a few years ago already. Ross Sea is currently in Philly.
Heron, here passing CMA CGM Puget, was sold to a Nigerian company in 2012. The 4404 teu ship dates from 2002 and is currently traveling between Korea and Mexico.
Greenland Sea shows her Candies origins. She may currently be laid up. Torm Kristina just passed Cape Town, on a run between Asia and South America. She’s a large handysize crude tanker launched in 1999.
Ron G, now Captain Mark, is docked in Jacksonville.
It was in March 2011 that I first visited Puerto Rico. In Fajardo, I saw Isla Grande and Cayo Norte. Both are Blount boats, launched in 1976 and 1995, respectively. Cayo Norte is still working in Puerto Rico, although I’m not so sure about Isla Grande.
The 1973 Harvey Gamage is currently near Charleston SC. Can you recognize the tall ship off her stern?
Of course, it’s Bounty, launched in 1960 and lost over 100 miles SE of Cape Hatteras during Hurricane Sandy.
March 2011 was a busy month. I’ll post more photos of the month later.
All photos, WVD.
This secret lake had great ice for these old boats like Ariel, Ice Queen, Whirlwind, Genevieve, and others. I was asked not to tell then, and by now I’ve forgotten exactly where this Shangri-la was, but
the ice boating was ideal. Has anyone heard of Hudson River Valley ice boating happening this year? The temperature is perfect, but that doesn’t always mean the ice surface is. I checked here and it doesn’t look favorable.
Evrotas was getting an assist from Amy C McAllister. Evrotas is currently St. Eustatius-bound from Texas. Amy C is in the Mariners Harbor yard, and I’ve not seen her in a while.
Amazing, which has to be one of the most amazing extraordinary names for a bulk carrier, was discharging salt. Currently she’s anchored off in the Black Sea. The ice of February 2011, the heat from oil, and the need for salt of the roads interrelate.
Then, as now, the sixth boro was busy with (l to r) dredge New York, GL 501, MSC Yano, Horizon Discovery, K-Sea’s Maryland, DBL 17. I may have left someone out there. To choose two of these, the originally Esso Maryland is now Liz Vinik. Horizon Discovery was scrapped in Brownsville in February 2015.
Ipanema heads out to sea in the rich morning glow. She may have sailed into her sunset as Norsul Ranaee, unrelated to this photo.
Irida discharges salt. She appears to have been scrapped.
MOL Partner is inbound on the Con Hook range. That’s a GLDD mechanical dredge at work and (maybe) some Bouchard tugboats in the distant left. MOL Partner is passing the Aleutians between China and Tacoma.
We leave it here. All photos from exactly a decade ago, to the month, WVD.
It’s January 31 or -1 February. since it’s a short month, it needs another day. The temperatures where I’ve been have been colder than -1 centigrade. So let’s do it . . . photos from a decade ago, February 2010. See the crewman in the netting dangling over the side of tanker Blue Sapphire? He appears to be touching up paint on the plimsoll marking. I wonder why I didn’t add this to a “people on the boro” series, which started in July 2007 with this. Today, the tanker is northbound along the west coast of Malaysia, and sailing as Marmara Sea. Oh well, stuff changes.
Here’s a fair amount of dense traffic: Norwegian Sea is eastbound, Conrad S westbound, and an Odfjell tanker is tied up at IMTT. Looking at my archives, I have a “dense traffic” series and a “congestion” series that probably should be collapsed into one series. May I’ll do that on a snowy or a rainy day. Dense Traffic goes back to February 2012 here, and Congestion series started in March 2011 here. Norwegian Sea has been renamed Miss Rui and sails for Smith Maritime Ocean Towing and Salvage Company. Conrad S is now Iris Paoay, leaving Davao in southern Philippines.
Cape Bird is getting lightered (or bunkered??) by Elk River and barge DS 32.
This was a congested scene as well; note beyond Cape Bird APL Sardonyx and Eagle Service with Energy 13502. Eagle Service is now Genesis Eagle (which on the radio sounds like Genesis Sea Gull). The 1995 APL Sardonyx is now just Sardonyx and is tied up in Taiwan. Maybe at a scrap yard? The 2003 Cape Bird is now Tornado and tied up in Lagos.
Crow is no more . . . having been turned into scrap like that loaded on the scow she’s pushing here.
Ever Dynamic is inbound under the original Bayonne Bridge, with Laura K assisting on the Bergen Point turn.
Gateway’s Navigator was a regular towing submarine sections between Rhode Island and Virginia.
Here’s Navigator towing Sea Shuttle, which may or may not have something under the shelter on the barge. Navigator is now Protector, out of New Bedford.
Arctic Sunrise was in the sixth boro for a Greenpeace “show the flag” event. Since then, she spent time detained in the Russian Arctic . . . the Pechora Sea. Later released, Dutch authorities took the detention to the World Court, and Russia was fined 5.4 million Euros over the detention.
All photos were taken by WVD back in February 2010.
2011 began in Charleston, a great place to welcome a new year. Strolling around, I encounter the 1962 75′ buoy tender Anvil, 75301, here made up to CGB68013. In the background, that’s cutter Cormorant or Chinook.
Heading farther north a day or two later, it’s Hoss, sister of Patricia, and now habitat for fish and other sea life. Click here to see her sink if you do FB.
Still farther north, I see this T-boat, a 1952 Higgins named for a high point in Ireland.
Lucinda Smith, then based in Maine, is currently based on Cape Cod.
Bering Sea, like a lot of K-Sea boat, has become a Kirby boat; it is currently in Philadelphia. According to Birk’s invaluable site, this boat was Stacy Moran for a short time. I never saw it in Moran red.
Thanks to my friend Paul Strubeck, this Kristin Poling needed an assist from Cornell to get through an ice jam. This is one of my all-time favorite photos. It looks to me like a submarine in the very deeps.
McCormack Boys was active in the sixth boro back in 2011, and although she’s still working, I’ve not seen her in years.
I glimpsed Stephen Scott in Boston a few months back, but since this photo was taken, she’s lost the upper wheelhouse.
There’s classic winter light beyond Torm Carina, provisioned here by Twin Tube. Torm Carina is currently in the Taiwan Strait.
Later Margaret and Joan Moran assist the tanker westbound in the KVK while Taurus passes. Taurus has become Joker, wears Hays purple, and I’ve not even seen her yet. I guess it’s high time I hang out in Philadelphia again.
A wintry photo shows McKinley Sea in the KVK eastbound. In the distance,
notice the now foreign-based Scotty Patrick Sky. If you want to see her, gallivant to St. Lucia. McKinley Sea is currently laid up in Louisiana.
Erie Service, now Genesis Valiant, pushes her barge 6507 westbound.
And on a personal note, it was in January 2011 that I stumbled into a locality that had been attracting me. I suppose if ever I created a retreat, I’d have to call it Galivants Hideaway. Here‘s another Galivants Ferry set of photos.
Thanks to Paul for use of his photo. All other photos, a decade back, WVD.
I took this photo in Waterford eastern terminus of the Erie Canal on November 1, 2010, and the canal had not yet closed. I had just returned from part of a transit, and we had met lots of boats. Although we had been bound for the Great Lakes, most, like the intriguing Baidarka, was bound for sea. As of this writing, Baidarka is back on the Canadian Pacific coast.
A week later, in the sixth boro, docked in front of USNS Sisler, it’s the “love it or hate it” Sea Raven, now turned into new steel.
Sea Bear was engaged in the deepening of the sixth boro, and here a crew on the sheerleg was repositioning the anchor.
Lots of dredges including GLDD New York were involved. More later. Captain D, currently in the sixth boro on other duties, was dredge tender.
Then, as now Atlantic Salvor, was active. I particularly like this shot with the 0730 “golden hour” light. A very different set of buildings then largely defined the Manhattan skyline.
Wanderbird swooped through the harbor on their way south.
Padre Island and Terrapin Island were regulars recontouring the sixth boro bed.
Beaufort Sea, 1971, is no more.
The brilliant colored Little Bear, built 1952, became a DonJon vessel, but I’ve not seen her since the Disch auction.
Susan Witte . . . I can’t tell you anything about her either.
Back then I would spend my Thanksgivings in Philly, and the high point of that holiday was not the excellent food and drink and company, but rather seeing the big barge for the first time.
Pilot towed in La Princesa, here assisted up the Delaware by Grace and Valentine Moran. Pilot has been sold Panamanian, and La Princesa–577′ x 105′–I’ve neither seen nor heard from. I believe Valentine is still active, but I don’t know about Grace.
All photos, WVD, who looks at these and wonders how a decade has so quickly passed.
In fall 2010, deepening dredging was happening in the sixth boro to prepare for the ULCVs now so commonplace here, after Panama Canal enlargement and Bayonne Bridge raising. These operations afforded me the chance to see a cutterhead close up. The crewman wielding the hammer was trying to loosen a worn tooth. By the way, those teeth weigh 35 pounds each. Teeth . . . dentist?
Then as now, Layla Renee was in the dredge support trade. Right now she’s in Charleston. She was only two years old at the time of the photo.
It looks that way, but W. O. Decker is NOT a dredge tender in this photo. Here five people on Decker are catching the stare of the one dredge worker in work vest.
The entire K-Sea fleet has disappeared. As of 2020, Falcon has become Carol and I’ve not yet seen her latest livery. Houma was scrapped in 2017 in Baltimore.
Here are two of the McAllister tugs involved in easing MSC’s USNS Sisler (T-AKR 311)into Bayonne drydock as then-John P. Brown manages the door. For many more photos of the event, check out “floating the door,” where you also see Allied’s Sea Raven, unlabelled.
I caught Growler at Mystic Seaport that fall. Rumor has it that Growler has returned to the sixth boro under a new name and sans teeth, but is under wraps.
Also in Mystic at that time, 1885 steam/sail vessel Amazon (has nothing to do with Bezos), the 2000 Amistad, and the 1908 steamer Sabino. Does anyone know the whereabouts of Amazon today?
My reason to be in Mystic that October was to work on Pegasus, seen here with Araminta and Cangarda. What works of beauty all three are!
Deborah Quinn here is docked near where Jakobson Shipyard used to be located. I believe that’s her location as of this writing.
Under the old Bayonne bridge, Maurania III assumes position to ease the 1997 Maersk Kokura around Bergen Point. Maurania III is currently in Wilmington NC.
Back a decade ago, Day Peckinpaugh had some good paint on her, and Frances was like a cocoon in Turecamo livery. There’s scuttlebutt of a new lease on life for Day Peckinpaugh.
Let’s end with dredging, as we began. Terrapin Island was one of the regulars in the navigation dredging effort. Terrapin Island is currently in Norfolk.
All photos, October 2010, by WVD.
Big announcement soon.
Call this “thanks to Steve Munoz 20: the 9th Annual North River Tugboat Race September 2, 2001.” As Steve writes, “The tug race on 9/2/2001 was nine days before 9/11/2001. I was on board the tug Janet M McAllister for the race. My son was on board a Seabulk oil tanker docked in Bayonne and he could see the Twin Towers from his cabin porthole. As the tug headed up the Upper Bay I was going to take a picture of the Twin Towers and decided not to since I had so many already. Little did I, or anyone else, know that they would not exist nine days later. I wish I had taken a picture.
[Participating] include tugs McAllister Bros, Janet M McAllister, Empire State, J George Betz, Mary L McAllister, Irish Sea, Dory Barker, Powhatan, Dace Reinauer, Beaufort Sea, Resolute, Growler, Z-TWO, Janice Ann Reinauer, Katherine, Amy C McAllister, James Turecamo, Kathleen Turecamo, Emil P Johannsen; also, includes fireboats John D McKean, John J Harvey.
I’ll not identify all the boats here. As you know, some of these boats, like Dace Reinauer, look quite different now. Also, many boats here, like Janet D. McAllister and Powhatan, are no longer in the sixth boro,
Z-Two is now Erin McAllister, and in Providence RI.
Emil P. Johannsen is laid up, I believe,
in Verplanck NY.
Beaufort Sea has been scrapped.
There were tugboats to port and
tugboats PLUS a fireboat to starboard. Two things here: I love the water thrusters deployed from Z-Two. And Powhatan is now a commissioned Turkish naval vessel known as TCG Inebolu; as such it was involved a month ago in the tow of a Bangladeshi corvette, BNS Bijoy, which had been damaged in the explosion in Beirut harbor.
Again, many thanks to Steve Munoz for taking us back to September 2, 2001 with these photos.
A different series of tugboat races happened decades earlier, as attested here. An indicator of how different the world then was is the fact that back then, a rowing contest was included, and crews of ships in port took part. Those days of break-bulk cargo had ships in port for much longer periods of time, and “port” included places along the Hudson.
Like lots of things, the Great North River Tugboat Race is, as ws said in a comment yesterday, “alas . . . cancelled this year.” So here’s some consolation, ws. . . If you need a dose of racing, you can click here and get all the way back to tugster post 2006, or for a sampling from 2006 until 2011, follow along. In 2006, I followed from W. O. Decker and had this view. I’ll let you try to identify these; if the group-source gets stuck, I’ll help out.
In 2007 . . . of these, only Lucy Reinauer is still around here.
HMS Liberty is still around.
In 2008 . . . throttling up releases some smoke . . .
In 2009, two of these are still running around the sixth boro staying busy. The third was involved in a scandalous grouding and has been scrapped.
Meagan Ann has unique safety headgear, inspired by an ancient design.
In 2010 . . . this was a motley armada, ranging from Atlantic Salvor to The Bronx.
Catherine C. Miller and Mary H were hurrying to the starting line here.
That year saw lots of pushing match-ups.
Vulcan III could be matched up with Viking later.
In 2011, THIS could be called the heat . . . actually, it was a misting from one of the fire boats.
Pushing around happened all over the field for spectators on deck and photographers up high.
As always, getting a line on a bollard . . . just another event in the sixth boro games.
USMMA’s Growler is closing on the bollard as a crewman demonstrates a rodeo-influenced style.
More to come . . . all photos, WVD. And if the last four photos above suggest a muddy Hudson, remember that 2011 had just seen Hurricane Irene flood the valley creeks feeding into the Hudson.
This title goes back more than 10 years. But I got some congested photos recently, so I dredge up an old title. Count the boats of all sizes here. Of course, foreshortening makes them seem much closer to each other than they really are. I count at least 12 vessels on the photo below, including some I had not noticed when I took it.
There are five here, and maybe two miles of separation between the two container ships.
Three operations were happening simultaneously in this stretch of the channel, and all were either stemming or moving very slowly.
Again, there’s lots of foreshortening here.
It may be exhilarating to get this close to a large ship, but if your engine stalls . . . stuff’ll happen really fast.
Here’s a different sort of “traffic” photo from august 31, 2008 . . . exactly 12 years ago. And it gives me an idea for a post. By the way, left to right, can you name at least half of the 12 boats at least partly visible here?
All photos, WVD.
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