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May 2010 . . . I took my first trip to see the thrills of the southern Arthur Kill, thanks to Bonnie. Back then the hull of Astoria (1925-1967 on the East River Line) was still there. Since then, I believe it’s been removed . . . said to be an eyesore. !@#$?!! Here’s more from that paddling trip. Keansburg Steamboat Company operated it until it ended up here. If I read The Boats We Rode, Roberts & Gillespie, p.13) right, I’m wondering why it spent so many years before being broken up. And why isn’t it listed here?
ABC-1 was hauled out back that month. I know some of you are happy to see what she looks like below the waterline.
OSG Vision was new, and spent some time at the Bayonne shipyard. Here she’s nose-to-nose with Horizon Discovery.
I recall vividly this spectacular spring morning before work . . . Irish Sea went by pushing DBL 103, passing NYK Rigel at Howland Hook. Mornings like that tempted me to skip work.
I’m not sure where this boat is today, but I did manage to get close-ups out of the water here, three and a half years later.
Heather M II here passed NYK Rigel. I’ve never seen Heather M since, I believe, but she has classy lines and a great bow pudding.
Colleen was still in salt water back then. I’m not sure she ever thawed out after a late December transit to Lake Michigan six years later.
Janice Ann, here pushing RTC 28, was still around here. If you want to read about life aboard Janice Ann, I did a review of a book written by one of her captains here.
Niz C. Gisclair was an exotic in town, likely here working on a dredging job. She has a Marquette logo on her stack.
Sorry about the backlighting here, but it’s Allied’s Falcon in the Kills. She has since appeared on this blog as Carolina Coast.
And finally . . . a sad shot of sister ship of Day-Peckinpaugh, launched as Interwaterways 101. The vessel below was launched two months later as Interwaterways 105, and from 1936 until 1976 operated as Michigan. She’s languished in the AK for decades, possibly since 1976. She’s an Eriemax, tailored to the dimensions of the Barge Canal locks, built in Duluth 99 years ago!
Here’s the same vessel on the Erie Canal, date and photographer unknown.
Yup . . . after 18 days of virtual Erie Canal touring, I needed to sneak another Erie Canal pic in here.
All photos except the last one by WVD.
Some things like winter fishing in the harbor appear not to change in a decade, but
Houma will never again move Mary A. Whalen. Houma, built at Jakobson in 1970, was scrapped in 2017. PortSide NewYork currently has a berth for the tanker and many other activities in Atlantic Basin, Red Hook.
B. E. Lindholm, built in St.Paul MN in 1985, is alive and well, currently dredging off Fire Island.
This Kristin Poling was still working 10 years ago, definitely a survivor from before WW2 and also definitely then in her home stretch. Byearly 2012 she was scrapped.
In March 2010 I also had a chance to gallivant off to Baltimore, home of NS Savannah. If my calculations are correct, she was in service for 10 years total, and now in mothballs for 48!! Truth be told, she was a prototype, a demo ship with limited cargo capacity but also passengers. Her beautiful lines were designed by George S. Sharp. Recently she was at the end of a towline, a sight I’m sorry I missed. A wealth of info and video as well as smart comments can be found on this demo vessel here in a publication called Atomic Insights. Let me quote a small section to tease you into reading the article: “By technical measures, the ship was a success. She performed well at sea, her safety record was impressive, her fuel economy was unsurpassed and her gleaming white paint was never smudged by exhaust smoke.”
Cajun stood by Chios Voyager near the Inner Harbor Domino Sugars plant. Cajun still works along the east coast US. Chios Voyager, built 1984, has been scrapped.
And a somber last photo . . . I caught El Faro in Baltimore 10 years ago. Little did I expect then what we all know now.
All photos, WVD, in March 2010.
Coastline Girls and many other names including Gage Paul Thornton and ST-497, the 1944-build now sleeps deep in Davy Jones locker, and was not an intentional reefing.
It’s been a while since I last saw Mcallister Sisters, shown here passing the Esopus Meadows light. If I’m not mistaken, she’s currently based in Baltimore.
Ten years ago, this boat had already been painted blue over orange, but she still carried the June K name board.
Socrates, classic lines and a classic name, has since gone off to Nigeria, riding over in mid-2012 on a heavy lift ship called Swan.
Urger on blocks in Lyons . . . one would have thought then that she’d run forever. These days she’s back on blocks at the eastern end of the Canal.
And February 2010 was the time of prime iceboating, and that’s Bonnie of frogma.
James Turecamo, with its wheelhouse down as I rarely saw it, works these days upriver as far north as Albany. Photo by Allen Baker.
Brandywine and Odin these days spend most of their time on Gulf of Mexico waters.
Gramma Lee T Moran straining here as she pulled the tanker off the dock. She now works in Baltimore.
In the foreground, East Coast departs the Kills; I can’t say I recall seeing her recently,but AIS says she’s currently northbound north of the GW. In the distance and approaching, June K, now Sarah Ann, and she regularly works in the sixth boro.
All photos, except Allen’s, WVD, from February 2010.
I have to share back story about getting that top photo. I was on foot on Richmond Terrace walking east toward Jersey Street when I saw the Coastline tug and Hughes barge. I didn’t recognize the profile and realized I could get the photo ONLY if I ran. At the same time, I noticed an NYPD car had pulled over another car, and you know, it’s never a good idea to run for no apparent reason when the police are nearby. But . . . you understand my dilemma: walk and miss the shot, or run and maybe attract the curiosity of the police officer. I ran, got the shot, and sure enough, the police called me over and wanted to know what I was doing. Since I knew I’d done nothing wrong except appear suspicious, I gave him my business card and launched full tilt into my “new yorkers are so lucky because they are witness to so much marine business traffic, and why didn’t he too have a camera and join me watching and taking photos of the variety of vessels . . . .” You can imagine the stare I got. My enthusiasm failed to move him. No handcuffs, no taser, not even a ticket, but an impassive gaze from a weary officer of the law possibly wondering if I’d escaped from an institution or a time warp. He wrote up a report and left me with this advice: don’t run when you see a police officer nearby. “Yessir,” I said, thinking . . . well sure, but I’d likely do it again if I again noticed something unusual transiting the waterway. Since then, though, I’ve not had any further encounters with the LEOs, at least not on the banks of the sixth boro.
Happy 2020, so let’s go a decade back, and see a selection of photos from January 2010.
Ross Sea escorts Rebel eastbound past Atlantic Leo in the KVK.
Lucy Reinauer, bathed in morning light, approaches Howland Hook in the AK.
Miss Gill and Lucky D head for the smaller Bayonne Bridge and Goethals Bridge, off to the west.
Athena is way out of Block Island Sound, here doing winter work in the sixth boro. Little did I know back then that I’d soon be taking my first ride to Block Island aboard Athena.
North Sea is on the hard in Kingston NY.
My favorite winter harbor fishing vessel passes Robbins Reef, leaving
the rest of the fleet farther to the NE in the Upper Bay. Note how different the skyline of lower Manhattan was then.
Doris escorts a tanker into the KVK.
Davis Sea crushes her way into the Rondout with a load of heat.
It was, as all these “retro sixth boro posts,” only a decade ago, but so much has changed.
All photos in January 2010 by Will Van Dorp. Happy 2020.
I have represented these “retro” posts as a slice of the sixth boro exactly a decade ago, but it more like . . . what in the boro caught my attention. So welcome back to December 2009, as seen from today, December 2019, taking advantage of 20/20 hindsight. And, to digress, I’ll bet the term 20/20 [2020?] hindsight will seen a bit strange in the next thirteen months.
Over at South Street Seaport, a group of vessels then is no longer there: Marion M, Peking, and Helen McAllister. Of those, Peking, though not the oldest, has the longest and most convoluted saga.
Sea Raven is no more, but with those high pipes, she always caught my attention.
Cable Queen seemed to have a future back a decade ago, but naught seems to have come of it, since last time I looked, she was still docked in Port Richmond. For context to this photo of the 1952 vessel, click here.
NY Central No. 13, scrapped in 2017 . . . also seemed to have a future back in 2009, although the owner was not in a rush to complete the job.
In 2009, the sixth boro was in the midst of a several-billion-dollar dredge project, as folks were talking about these ULCVs that would be arriving after the opening of the new Panama Canal locks. GLDD’s dredge New York was part of that effort.
I don’t know if Volunteer is still intact, but I’ve not seen her in years. Here she lighters Prisco Ekatarina while Mark Miller stands by. As of this writing, Prisco Ekatarina is in the Gulf of Finland.
Does anyone know if Horizon Challenger, built 1968 in Chester PA, still floats?
Patriot Service currently works as Genesis Patriot.
I believe Escort is laid up.
And let’s close with these two. Below it’s the now modest looking Ever Divine and Tasman Sea, and assembling photos for this post, for the first time I see the Taz’ devil sign on the stern of Tasman Sea . . . Maybe I’d seen it before and just forgotten. Ever Divine is currently crossing the Indian Ocean.
There it is . . .
All photos taken in December 2009 by Will Van Dorp.
Let’s go back to September 2009. CMA CGM Marlin, launched 2007, was the standard size back then . . . The 5092-teu vessel has since been scrapped, after only nine years of service!!
Over a dozen sailing barges came to NYC to sail in New York waters in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the Half Moon arriving here all those years ago. Here are more posts from back then. Groenevecht, below, is a 2000-built replica of a lemsteraak.
Also in town to celebrate were Onrust and HNLMS Tromp. Here’s more on Tromp.
Old and new came. On one end of the spectrum was Day Peck,
her great hold still waiting to be transformed into museum.
Urger still operated, here sidling up to Lehigh Valley 79.
A different Rosemary McAllister worked here.
Irish Sea (1969) was still at work.
Yessir, stuff changes. All photos in September 2009 by Will Van Dorp.
This feature of the blog serves to look back at this month exactly a decade ago, i.e., photos from my archives from exactly 120 months back.
John B. Caddell was still kept compliant, spruced up, and –I assume–profitable.
Nathan E. Stewart commemorated a tragic incident but it worked on the East Coast to redeem itself. That certainly did not pan out.
K-Sea must have been at its peak back then: in this one shot are Greenland Sea, Baltic Sea, and Houma.
Hornbeck Offshore worked out of a footprint now occupied by Vane. Their boats like Patriot Service and
Spartan Service and others had a distinctive appearance.
Janice Ann Reinauer seemed much beloved, possibly because of the lush bow pudding missing in the photo below.
Of the boats so far in this post, Freddie K II is the only one that still works in the sixth boro these days. Of the others, only Patriot Service and Greenland Sea still operate in the US, and at least three of the others here have been scrapped.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who wishes you a happy and safe August 2019.
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Here for some context is a post with drawings bowsprite did exactly a decade ago … .
I took the photo below of the same setting.
Whole fleets that existed a decade ago are gone. For example, K-Sea has been subsumed. Some boats like Maryland are still in the boro,
others are still on the East Coast but in other fleets like this Falcon.
But still others like Coral Sea and
and Baltic Sea have gone to another continent.
Others might be scrapped . . . like Volunteer and
Bismarck Sea.
Others like Adriatic Sea have crossed over to the other side of North America….
Another fleet subsumed under Kirby–as is K-Sea–is Allied. Here in July 2009, Sea Raven–now scrapped–and another Falcon have rafted up. Here’s the link to read in this post: how Sea Raven was built!!
Hornbeck had a fleet in the sixth boro, with their base in Brooklyn at the current Vane base. I don’t know what Atlantic Service is currently doing, if anything.
Spartan Service has been sold to a Mexican company,
Sandmaster was still sand mining with this rig. She was since sold to the Caribbean, and according to AIS, now flies the flag of Niger, which to me says she may be scrapped.
Cheyenne was still red back then, and has since changed colors twice, and exchanged salt water for fresh. She’s also won the International Tugboat Race on the Detroit River for the past two years.
And this Kristin Poling, 1934 built, still plied her trade, always a treat to see.
All photos from 10 years ago by Will Van Dorp, who is amazed by the amount of equipment change in the sixth boro in the past decade.
I hope you all are enjoying these glances back a decade as much as I enjoy putting them together. If you weren’t paying attention back then, this hints at how much the traffic in the harbor has changed, just as it has on the roads. If you were watching back in spring 2009, you might have this same appreciation at the changes; In addition, you might be amazed how quickly time has passed. Maybe you’ve forgotten about some of these boats.
Pegasus, quo vadis? I’ve heard some ominous scuttlebutt, the kind you’d hear about any 112-year-old vessel. Your project site is still up. Here she was in front of the Hoboken Terminal, which opened the same year–1907–as Peg was launched.
Starboard view and port . . it’s the 1968 McAllister Girls . . . if she’s still around, I’ve not seen her in quite some time. In the background over near the Jersey City river’s edge, Clipper City and Pioneer sail toward each other.
Ditto the 1977 Sisters.
Ellen (1967) and Amy C (1976) are still active in the harbor, but it’s been years since APL Cyprine has called here.
The 1978 Mary Gellatly has been sold up down east, and last I knew, working as Alice Winslow for Winslow Marine Inc. out of Southport Maine.
The K-Sea fleet in the sixth boro in 2009 was quite large. Norwegian Sea was a workhorse on the Hudson; now she’s Miss Rui operating for Smith Maritime.
Houma (1970) has been scrapped.
Taurus (1979) recently reappeared here as Joker.
Onrust was launched into the Mohawk River in May 2009, and I believe she will again be sailing out of Essex CT. Her splash up and over the riverbank trees was quite spectacular.
All photos a short 10 years ago by Will Van Dorp.
Here are all the previous installments of this series.
Glenn Raymo caught this photo up the Hudson the other day, as Joker assisted a Weeks crane. Hays tugs do come up here occasionally, but I’ve never seen them.
Back almost exactly six years ago, the same boat headed upriver as a dead ship. And eight years ago, working for a different company and painted in a different livery, here she was . . . 2011, eastbound in the KVK.
Justin Zizes was coming down the Hudson recently and caught this spring-evoking photo of Nathan G, her gray livery and aggregate cargo set off by the hint of leaves on the tree-lined far shore.
Thanks to Justin also for this photo of Mister Jim in her homeport in Coeymans.
Jan van der Doe sent these photos along of a group of northern European tugs at work, taken in early April by Jan Oosterboer, not far from Rotterdam.
Mutratug 32 is a Carrousel Rave tug, which means she rotate her point of attachment to better brake the assisted vessel. To see her in action, click here.
And finally, see the tugs in this photo I took on the East River the other day? Two of them?
Thomas J. Brown is obvious and always a delight to see. But then there’s Bosco on the barge. I believe she was heading for a job on the Hutchinson River.
Thanks to Glenn, Justin, Jan, and Jan for photos here.
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