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Every day is Thanksgiving, but we dedicate one day to talk about it. One undeniable detail of the US popular T’giving narrative involves a transAtlantic vessel, Mayflower. Some of this info about the Mayflower might be new. Less than a decade after arriving in North America, it may have been dismantled and used in a barn building project. Reference to Mayflower, original and replica, can be found in these previous blog posts.
Of course, instances of earlier thanksgiving in the US exist, like this one from 1607 and involved a vessel named Virginia, in Maine. My point is . . . it’s a story of migration by ship.
That’s the connection: this blog features ships, and this post is a sampling of vessels that’ve called in the sixth boro in recent weeks and months, like The Amigo, a 2012 Croatia-built asphalt/bitumen tanker. Cargo in the tanks needs to be kept well above the boiling point to maintain liquidity.
MSC Shirley is a 2000-built Polish-built container ship with a capacity of 2024 teu.
Seaways Redwood is a 2013 South Korea-built crude tanker. South Korea currently builds the highest percentage of global shipping, although other Pacific Asian countries are in second and third places, as you’ll see in this sampling.
Grande Texas is a PCTC built 2021 in China, off Ningbo. She has the capacity of 7,600 ceu (car equivalent units).
Ardmore Dauntless and Ardmore Enterprise, both built South Korea but in 2015 and 2013, respectively. Enterprise has slightly larger capacity.
Aruna Berk is a drybulk carrier launched in China in 2011.
Thor Maximus is a 2005 Japan-built drybulk carrier.
ONE Wren is a 2018 Japan-built 14000 teu container ship.
Atlantic Spirit is a McKeil tanker, launched in 2011 from a shipyard in China.
McKeil is a Canadian company. McKeil tugboats work mostly the Great Lakes; one company tug visited the sixth boro a few years back here.
Thundercat is a 2008 crude carrier built in China.
Given a 1980s cartoon series, I had to chuckle at this name.
Key Ohana is a 2010 Japan built bulk carrier.
MSC Agadir is a Korea-built 8886 teu container ship dating from 2012.
Note the scrubbing add-on for emissions. MSC Shirley, above, also has an exhaust-filtering system.
Northern Jaguar is a 2009 8400-teu container ship built in South Korea. Small size as it is relative to the ship, the rudder and prop spray size relative to a single container is gigantic; think of following that down the highway as you would a trailer-mounted container.
Jag Leela is a 1999 South Korea built crude tanker. She appeared on this blog back in 2010 here.
Poorly-lit but I include this photo anyhow because it shows Ever Forward, the newest and likely the best-known ship in this post, due to her not moving forward earlier this year. She’s currently heading south in the Red Sea, getting chased by a friend named Mike.
All photos and any errors, WVD, who offers this as an assortment of commercial vessels in and out of the sixth boro. Post 98 in the series appeared here way back in April.
None of these vessels will ever maintain the lasting hold Mayflower has on the US psyche, but the fact is that much of what folks will list as what they are thankful for involves conveyance of vessels like these in and out of the sixth boro. That’s part of why I do posts like this one.
Happy thanksgiving today.
FedEx in the sky, container barge at the ASI yard on this side, Donjon Marine yard on the other side, and off the end of the channel, highways and railways. By the way, Fred Smith has long been one of my heros.
EWR is one of three very busy airports in greater New York.
Note the control tower at the airport. Check that link for a view of the whole complex from the air.
And the ship . . . since 1 September, here’s a list of ports it has called in: Balikpapan, Yeosu, Huanghua, Aviles (maybe) , Red Dog Mine, and who knows where else. And some of the crew . . . are dreaming of visiting Times Square and Rockefeller tonight.
And if this is Port Newark, then next it’s Norfolk.
Value is a creation from 2011
in the Samsung Heavy Industry yards in Goeje. Currently the yard is working on–among other things–Utopia.
Value docked for a few days in Bayonne, but now
passing container ships and all the other traffic
will see . . . Ice Blade. And Value, as of this morning,
has anchored somewhere off Rockaway, Queens.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp, from various spots along the KVK.
Here and here are some other vessels delivered by Samsung in Goeje.
Unrelated: Do you suppose Costa Concordia will really float away?
FireFighter at the Narrows, Fort Wadsworth side . . . rainbow effect of spray . . . must be doins’ … big stuff going on or about to . . . .
Waiting on the Fort Hamilton (Brooklyn) side, I espy a huge shape some five or six miles off, here between FDNY’s not-yet-in-service 343 and the venerable Driftmaster. Iwo Jima (Mississippi-built) has returned! See fotos I took on board last year here.
The first fleet vessel through the Narrows was PC-4, Monsoon, Louisiana-built, commissioned in 1994, here passing Ellen McAllister. Scroll through this link to see a sampling of fotos of Monsoon‘s adventures.
Next visitor in was WMEC 909, Campbell, the sixth cutter to bear that name, here with helicopter above and USACE vessels all around, from left, Moritz, (I believe that’s the stern of Dobrin … barely visible), Driftmaster, and Gelberman. Campbell’s homeport is Portsmouth, NH. See a previous appearance of Campbell on this blog here… last foto).
Next in, sibling of Monsoon . . . was Squall, commissioned in same year and state.
As Iwo Jima approached the Verrazano Bridge, a gun salute from Fort Hamilton drew
Iwo Jima‘s response. By the way, the bit of land on the lower left side of the foto above is Hendrick’s Reef, on which the Brooklyn pillar of the Verrazano Bridge stands, an island that from 1812 until 1960 housed Fort Lafayette. I wonder which Hendrick that was.
Ellen McAllister followed Iwo Jima in. Is that Catherine Turecamo over on Iwo Jima‘s port side?
Next in was DDG 95, destroyer James E. Williams, named for a sailor who served in both Korea and Vietnam. Read about her namesake here.
Then it was FFG 45, frigate De Wert, named for a sailor who died in Korea in 1951.
And then Bath, Maine-built CG 58, Philippine Sea.
Closer up . . . I can’t identify the Coast Guard 47-footer other than 47315. By the way, see this type vessel’s capabilities as filmed in the mouth of the Merrimack River in all its fury. The Merrimack was my obsession during part of the 80s and all of the 90s.
I didn’t see where Miriam Moran assisted (probably up at the Hudson River passenger terminal) but a while later I caught her headed to home base as Laura K. was out to Red Hook for an assist. Check out the two crew on the afterdeck.
Hmm . . . I wonder what the story is.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
By the way, “Government Ships 5” is the short title; a longer version is “Their crews and all those sixth-boro based supporters.”
Welcome to New York.
A century ago, a parade of ships featured the Cruiser Olympia, now in very real danger of being reefed.
Staten Island Live has an excellent schedule of events planned the next few days on Staten Island, where most of the fleet vessels are berthed. See the schedule here.
Final note: I plan to cross the Merrimack aka “merry mack” tomorrow headed north for some canoeing. See foto here. The Pow Wow flows into the Merrimack.
What I would like to know is how widely known is “seaspeak,” or SMCP. Or, how much have seaspeak principles been morphed–voluntarily or by regulation–into common VHF practice?
Most large ships look alike, allowing for differentiation into groups like container ship, tanker, RORO, pure car truck carrier, and then sub-groups with military vessels. Explanation: physics, global standards related safety, and the dictates of efficiency.
But within a tank, any of a range of fluids might live; within a container, a limitless number of goods might be moved. So it’s not surprising–given the diverse points of origin of sixth-boro traffic–that a need exists for a simplified but unambiguous standard language.
As to signs of this diversity in shipping? Check out Al-Mutanabbi. That’s not “al” short for “Allen” or “Alberto” either. More on the “al” at the end of this post. I’d no idea until I looked it up that
Al-Mutanabbi was an Iraqi poet who died more than 1000 years ago. In the foto above, vessel in the distance is MSC Dartford.
Elixir suggests magic for me, until
I learn that Yang Ming, a Taiwanese company with a history that dates back to the Qing dynasty (the last dynasty before the “republic”), has a whole set of container vessels with “e” names like Efficiency and Eminence. Give me elixir any day. By the way, that’s Vane’s Sassafras passing port to port. By the way, sassafras was once a major ingredient of that great elixir called root beer.
Lian Yun Hu . . . I’ve not much clue about, other than that it’s owned or managed by Cosco, conjuring up thoughts of Cosco Busan and Shen Neng 1, of San Francisco and Great Barrier reef notoriety, respectively.
Most watchers of the boro would be clueless here without
a little help elsewhere on the exterior of the ship.
In Hindi, I’m told, “jag PLUS prerana” means “world” AND “inspiration.” Now, I wish they put an asterisk there with a translation painted just above the waterline somewhere. I’d want to know that!
A large number of ships in the harbor are constructed in Korea. And their names are straight-forward English although generally hangul writing coexists with English. Tug is Amy C McAllister.
An interesting fact about hangul is that its invention gets credited to a Korean king named Sejong, a Renaissance man on that peninsula a half-millennium ago.
All of which I use to illustrate my point: if I didn’t read or understand English, I’d be helpless. And I’m really just a shore-watcher. Without an international language, communication on the sea–as in the air–would be worse than garbled.
Finally, here’s a gratuitous shot of Flintereems, from the land of my mother tongue. Spelling notwithstanding, I believe the “eems” in this Flinter vessel refers to the river whose estuary forms the border between the Dutch and the Germans. I set Goldman Sachs atop the Flinter deck to mimic the last Flinter vessel “borg” appearing on this blog here.
All fotos, Will Van Dorp.
For a perspective on some verbal and non-verbal communication in the harbor, check out bowsprite here.
Oh . . . Al the prefix in Arabic means “the.” You know it from such English words as “algebra, alchemy, algorithm” and –believe it or not–“elixir.” Here’s more on that.
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