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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.
April 2009 . . . a decade ago but it’s still palpable and present.
How could I not remember the morning before work I stood on the Elizabethport dock wishing the punch-in clock mechanism would slow to a pace slower than McAllister Responder and McAllister Sisters helping Eagle Boston ooze toward her Linden berth . . . Some who don’t take many photos might not be able to fathom how those moments stick to the memory.
Or the unmistakeable Norwegian Sea light and going for fuel near IMTT . . at dawn; it’s unforgettable. I was hoping there’d no delays on the rest of my way to work that morning.
Another day, I took lunch break in Elizabethport, thrilled that Laura K and Margaret were escorting Seoul Express away from Howland Hook . . .. backing her down.
And here’s one . . . I recall my pain this morning as I walked north along HRP, conflicted between the hurt of betrayal and the chill of being under-dressed, since I’d crept out early on a Saturday morning thinking that sun in April translated into warmth .. . and the throaty sound of Melvin E. Lemmerhirt distracted me from all those things.
Also from that dock in Elizabethport, I watched Rosemary McAllister and Responder ease Hyundai Voyager boat toward the dock in Howland Hook . . .
The scene here is harder to recall, but from l to r, it’s Nathan E. Stewart, New River, and –the uniquely named– Gramma Lee T Moran . . .!
In April 2009, I commuted into work early a lot,so that I could catch the likes of this . . . John Reinauer moving a barge southbound on the Arthur Kill… not knowing that a few years later, that equipment would travel across to the South Atlantic.
Scott Turecamo . . . this is the only photo in this “oldies” set that could have been taken in 2019 as easily as in 2009, except I’d have to photoshop in the current Manhattan skyline in the distance . . .
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who hopes he’s still fit to add to the archives in 2029 . . .
March 2009 . . . Stephen Scott here passes Port Ivory, near my old job, pushing RTC 70. I’m still looking for Stephen Scott photo is her new profile, sans upper wheelhouse. Port Ivory was an intriguing place name for me when I first moved here; once a North Shore Branch of the SIRR even had a station there.
Kimberly Poling already had the color scheme, but adding a few more teal stripes to her current appearance is a big improvement.
Lettie passed by once while I scheduled my lunch break. As of today’s posting, Lettie G is in Mobile AL!! If she continues, she could end up back in Lake Erie by way of the great loop. Is that what’s happening? A few months I caught her at the top end of the Welland Canal here.
More Port Ivory area, Specialist was around, then called Specialist II.
So was the huge K-Sea fleet, which included Falcon.
This post should be called “sixth boro and beyond,” since I took this photo of Justine with RTC 120 up near Saugerties. Back then,
was that a red canoe along her portside rail?
Side by side in the Rondout 10 years ago were Hackensack, the 1953 colorful one, and Petersburg, 1954 vintage and still in the general area. Last I knew, Hackensack was in Guyana pushing molasses barges.
And going farther out, it’s Allie B pulling Goliath on a cargo barge Brooklyn Bridge out of Quincy MA, with assistance from Vincent D. Tibbetts Jr and Justice.
Here’s a closer up of Liberty. For the entire reportage on that journey to Mangalia, Romania (!!), click here. Damen operates the crane in their shipyard there, the largest shipyard in the Damen collection.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who hopes you enjoy these looks back as much as I do.
My rules for this series: all photos need to have come from the month in focus but exactly 10 years earlier. It’s a good way to notice change.
Take Capt. Log. I used to love seeing that boat, now long scrapped. I have photos of her as a heap of scrap pieces and have never posted them. I’m guessing the Chandra B crew are happy to have that new boat, but Capt. Log was such a unique sight.
Baltic Sea . . . I’d love to see a current photo of her from Nigeria. See more of her departed K-Sea fleet mates here. Sunny Express is now Minerva Lydia, and still working, I think.
Taurus has moved to the Delaware River and has some splotches of purple a la Hays.
Volunteer has been scrapped.
The orange June K is now the blue Sarah Ann . . . . I still miss that color….
Charles Oxman is no longer in service . . . I last saw her here in 2016.
APL Egypt used to be a regular here, and of course John B. Caddell . . .had only a few years left at this point before getting cut up. For a “what’s left . . .” of John B., click here and scroll.
I’m not saying everything is gone or has changed. Walker and Salvor still work here and –to the untrained eye–look exactly as they did a decade ago, even though these days from any distance, I can’t tell the distance between Atlantic Salvor and Atlantic Enterprise. And those crewing on these two vessels, I can’t tell if anyone working then on each boat still does. For Walker, it’s very likely it’s an entirely new crew.
I hope you enjoyed this glance back.
All photos in February 2009 by Will Van Dorp.
I’m rushing December, but I’m eager to get through winter and back to spring. All photos here date from December 2008.
Bowsprite took this from one of her cliff niches: June K (2003) here is moving the Floating Hospital (1974, Blount) up to the Rondout, where she remains. Is she really now called Industria at Sea.
The geography is unchanged, but McAllister Responder (1967) is no longer in the sixth boro, and Sea Venture (1972) is dead and likely scrapped . . . .
Maryland (1962) has become Liz Vinik, after operating with Maryland in the name for more than a handful of companies.
Choptank (2006) is back in the sixth boro and environs. My autocorrect always wants to call this tug Shoptalk. Puzzling. NYK Daedalus (2007) is still at work, just not here. TEN Andromeda is still on the oceans as well, still transporting crude.
Now called Charly and working the Gulf of Guinea, Janice Ann Reinauer (1967) used to be a personal icon in the sixth boro. Note that 1 World Trade does not appear in this photo, as it would today.
Closing this out . . . Margaret Moran (1979 and the 4th boat by that name) passes APL Jade (1995 and likely scrapped by now) in the KVK.
I’m hoping you’re enjoying this glances back a decade as much as I am.
With the exception of the first photo, all these by Will Van Dorp, who alone is responsible for research errors.
Unrelated: Win a trip on a Great Lakes freighter/laker here.
One satisfying thing to me about these retro posts is noticing how much the local fleet has changed. All these photos I took in November 2008. Coral Queen was scrapped at least eight or nine years ago. Maersk Donegal has had two name changes since 2008, now know as Santa Priscila, and no longer calls in the sixth boro.
SPT Guardian, still under the same name, is currently operating out of Lome, Togo. Note the NJ State Police boat alongside. I don’t know if they are still using that boat.
ITB Groton is gone as well.
The huge K-Sea fleet in the boro has dispersed. Solomon Sea is now Emily Ann,
Falcon, I believe, is still Falcon but wears Vane livery,
Davis Sea still has the same name but Kirby colors and operates in the Gulf,
and Aegean Sea carries the same name but works for Burnham Associates in my old stomping grounds north of Boston. NYK Diana has moved to the Pacific to the US West Coast.
This Rosemary McAllister has been replaced by another Rosemary McAllister, and has spent only part of one day in the sixth boro.
Stapleton Service takes the prize for the greatest number of name changes, three since 2008. She’s now Michael Miller.
Buchanan 15 has become Dory, although I’ve not seen her in a while.
Coral Queen‘s smaller fleet mate was John B. Caddell, which became a hurricane Sandy victim: grounded, sheriff auctioned, and scrapped.
I made a jaunt upriver aboard the only and only Half Moon–now sold abroad– in November 2008, and saw
Champion Polar but she’s now
–ice bow and all- dead and likely scrapped, as well as
a more intact Bannerman’s Castle.
All photos by Will Van Dorp in November 2008.
Here are the previous installments. Today’s photos all were taken in August–October2008.
Let’s start with part of the line-up for the 2008 tugboat race. If I’m not mistaken, the only boat left standing, as is, in this photo is St. Andrews, fourth from the left.
Escort, a Jakobson boat, is currently laid up.
Sea Raven, an intriguing “composite” vessel, whose hull was composed of two hulls of 1941 hulls, has been scrapped.
She was called Lone Ranger when she was in the sixth boro in 2008, owned by the CEO of Progressive Insurance. The former oil-platform towing vessel is still on the seas, now as Sea Ranger.
Ah! Cheyenne . . . she been on this blog countless times.
Frances, as she’s called now, . . . back then I feared she was not long for this world…
Baltic Sea . . . I’d love to see her now as she works the Gulf of Guinea.
I’ll repeat this photo . . . as a parting tribute shot, and since St Andrews is the only survivor, let me
show her tangling it up with Edith Thornton, with Dorothy Elizabeth watching.
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. . . and beyond. Let’s start with August 7, 2008 . . . up by the Iroquois lock of the Seaway. And Canadian Provider . . . well . . . in 2013 she was towed to Aliaga as OVI, and scrapped. Note that she’s a straight-decker . . . no self-unloading gear.
August 14 . . . reef-making consisted of sinking subway cars. These went off Atlantic City. To see their condition now, click here.
August 16 in the Arthur Kill, Volunteer was off to remake the tow. Built in 1982, she met the scrappers earlier this year.
August 20 . . . Laura K and Margaret–I believe –have just helped Glasgow Express to Howland Hook terminal. Glasgow (2002) is still at work, and so are Laura K (in Savannah) and Margaret in the sixth boro.
August 23 . . . Colleen McAllister and Dean Reinauer bring a barge through the Gate, reading for the Sound. Colleen is now owned by for Port City Tug Company of Grosse Point. Has anyone seen her in operation? Dean went to Nigeria aboard Blue Marlin.
Christine M McAllister stands by in Erie Basin on August 24. This 6000hp tug is currently working down south of here.
August 27 . . . the reclusive Susan E. Witte eastbound and Adriatic Sea westbound. Beyond Adriatic, that might be Aegean. Adriatic is currently on a tow on the 2000+ stretch of Ocean between Honolulu and Kwajalein! Can someone confirm this? Nine years ago, I caught Adriatic near the Bear Mountain Bridge here (scroll).
August 29 . . . Coral Sea westbound, while later in the same day,
the scarcely-seen up here Paul T Moran heads for the Bridge while Maryland approaches from that direction. Coral Sea has gone to West Africa, Maryland has become Liz Vinik, and Paul T stays mostly around the Gulf.
The Tugboat Races and other contests were on the 31st that year. Here Justin shows good style hitting that bollard.
HMS Liberty mixes it up with some real history. Edith went down to Trinidad and the venerable Dorothy Elizabeth (1951) was scrapped the next year. Liberty is still in the sixth boro.
And to close it out . . . the 1907 Pegasus made a showing at the races that year. She’s laid up on the morris Canal so far as I know.
I hope you enjoyed these walks through waters no longer here.
Now my big announcement: as this posts, I’m on board Grande Mariner for the next seven weeks, Chicago bound. I will post when I can with what photos I can. But I’ve done that before. GWA (Going west again) was my series title last year. You have to read this one about my role on the vessel. GW was the title I used in 2016.
Maybe this year it should TGWYA . . . thank god i’m going west again . . . Anyhow . . . this is my version of a “gone fishing’ sign.
Since W. O. Decker may soon be seen albeit briefly in the sixth boro, let’s start with this photo from July 2008, as she chugs past the waterfall under the Brooklyn Bridge, thanks to an Icelandic-Danish artist named Olafur Eliasson.
Reinauer had some of the same names as now assigned to different boats here a decade ago but now no more on this side of the Atlantic, like Dean.
Some names have not (yet) been reassigned like John.
Now for some that are still here, though some have different paint and names: Juliet is now Big Jake. Matthew Tibbetts is still all the same, externally at least.
Stena Poseidon–a great name– is now Espada Desgagnes, and Donald C may still be laid up as Mediterranean Sea.
The long-lived, many-named Dorothy Elizabeth has been scrapped.
Rowan M. McAllister is still around, but the Jones Act tanker S/R Wilmington has succumbed to scrappers’ tools in Brownsville TX.
Falcon has left the sixth boro for Philly and Vane, and Grand Orion, as of today, is headed for Belgium.
And finally . . . June K here assisting with Bouchard B. No. 295 . . . she’s still around and hard at work as Sarah Ann.
All photos by Will Van Dorp in July 2008.
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