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Grey Shark assisted out of the Kills by Catherine C. Miller. Catherine is still working, but Grey Shark has not moved from its berth in Las Caleras DR in almost three and a half years, so it’s safe to assume she won’t be calling in NYC’s sixth boro any more. By the way, July 2011 had some HAZY summer days.
The former Kristin Poling (1934 as Poughkeepsie Socony) had a few months to work, here alongside the almost new Crystal Cutler.
The mighty Viking was still working. See the Celebrity ship in the haze.
along with even more powerful fleetmate Irish Sea, still intact and tied up at Vinik Marine.
Glen Cove was still working; she was sold south.
Then the gallivanting started, here with a stop under the Route 213 bridge alongside the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal to watch the almost-new Mako go by.
Down to Key West and USCGC Mohawk WPG-78, now a fish condo. She was reefed almost exactly a year later.
Florida is unusual in that few Kirby tugboats, to my knowledge, work as assist boat. She’s currently operated as a Seabulk tug.
C-Tractor 5 and its fleetmate
the slightly more powerful lucky 13 set the bar for unusual design and color scheme.
All photos, WVD, who’s making arrangements for more gallivanting soon, although it looks to be in the interior on the continent rather than along the edges.
If you’ve not seen a ULCV, CMA CGM A. Lincoln is coming in this afternoon/evening.
In case you’re new to this blog,”retro” means I’m looking back to my photo archives exactly 10 years to June 2011. The “38” here means this is the thirty-eighth month I’ve done this. It’s a fresh look at June 2011 photos, in some cases informed by whatever the past 10 years has wrought.
Bridge Builder 26 doing what it is named for.
F. Dawson, 1969, 66′ x 22′ and 1000 hp, in 2011 was working on a bridge project in the Harlem River. I’ve no idea where either of these boats is today.
Patapsco, 2004 and 96′ x 34′ and now known as Steven Wayne, was one of the first Vane boats into the sixth boro.
Susquehanna is a Patapsco-class tugboat, meaning mostly a clone and three years younger, and still in the Vane fleet.
Marlin (1974, 96′ x 35′, and 4200) and Penn No. 6. Marlin‘s now registered in Panama, and the No. 6 is now Vinik No. 6.
Kathleen Turecamo is now buff and green, a Stasinos boat, seen here as Meaghan Marie.
Matthew Tibbetts is still in the sixth boro and at work.
This was the only time I saw Hercules, ex-YTB-766. In June 2011, it was towed here and then loaded aboard a semi-sub for Nigeria.
Barents Sea came back to life as Atlantic Enterprise, and is currently working on a salvage/recovery down south.
All photos and memories, WVD.
There will be a mermaid parade later this summer; in 2011, it took place on the Saturday closest to the solstice, which would be today.
I’m away from the sixth boro, so here’s another from the vault, archived May 2011.
Twin Tube back then still had her lighter stick. Lichtenstein now sails as Mr Tigris.
Sand Master, the sand miner, had not yet gone to South America.
A company called K-Sea still existed, and Norwegian Sea still sailed.
The 1976 tug now sails as Miss Rui for Smith Maritime Ocean Towing and Salvage. She’s currently in Amelia LA.
Colleen McAllister was still in salt water; she’s now on Lake Michigan but not in service.
Stena Poseidon is now Espada Desgagnes, sailing the Saint Lawrence, where I saw her less than two years ago.
In late May, the first attempts were made to load a half dozen tugboats onto Blue Marlin, the heavy lift ship, but I talk more about that when I open the vault next month. Blue Marlin still sails the seas with unusual cargoes, currently between the Philippines and Shantou, in SE China.
And this boat, the 1951 Dorothy Elizabeth, begging to be captured on a painting, imho, was still intact.
All photos, WVD.
May Day! It’s a busy day without access to my archives. May 2011 . . . Urger in Lyons NY, waiting for the dry dock to flood.
Back in the sixth boro, it’s Elk River and Siberian Sea…eastbound at Con Hook, and
near the same location, it’s Lincoln Sea and Eastern Dawn, both westbound.
Greenland Sea . . . also westbound.
Barbara McAllister has long gone from the boro, as have some of the vessels above and below.
Others, like Eagle Service, have been renamed.
This Ken’s Marine Service boat I saw once, and I’d still love to know the story and current disposition. Anyone?
Shelby Rose is still in the boro, but when I last saw her at a dock, her vivid livery was greatly faded.
Gazela is still in Philly. She arrived here in May 2011 to dock at Atlantic Salt, I believe, in a driving rain.
And in late May, the orange Blue Marlin arrived in town for the longer-than-expected loading process of some boats sold to Nigerian interests. If I recall correctly, that Trumpy (?) yacht is still in the boro.
Happy May Day . . . smell the flowers, work in the garden, or even dance around the pole today if you are so inclined. Or, you might choose to adopt the May Day tradition of University of St. Andrews students in Scotland . . .
All photos from the archives . . . WVD.
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.
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