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Ten years ago, the WTC was incomplete, no supertalls/superskinnies were up, and Taurus was not yet Joker.
Miriam and the archway at Sailors Snug Harbor are all the same, although that dock is gone from there.
The 1969 Barbara McAllister is now Patsy K, operating out of the Gulf coast of Florida.
The 2003 Jane is now Anna Rose, and I’ve seen her in the boro a few times.
Amy Moran is now John Joseph.
Crow was in her last days here, and has been scrapped more than a half decade already.
Charles D. McAllister has now been five and a half decades in service and still working in the sixth boro.
Gage Paul was lost in transit after being sold overseas. Note the seaplane on the East River.
Last I knew, Buchanan 10 was laid up upriver.
In June 2012, I had the opportunity to tour USNS Apache near Norfolk. A few years later, Apache was the vessel credited with locating the black box of El Faro, after its tragic sinking.
Sharing the dock with Apache that day was USNS Grapple.
All photos, ten years ago, WVD, who is currently traveling again, out of tugster tower for an indefinite period of time, getting more indefinite every day. I have re-activated the robots, but we’ll see how reliable they are this time.
Kimberly Poling and barge lie alongside Maritime Gracious for lightering.
Eastern Dawn, here pushing a mini barge, continues to work in the sixth boro,
with a base over alongside the dormant Evening Tide.
Bruce A. travels west in the East River after a job over near Throg’s Neck.
I love the “whitewater” on the uptown side of the 59th Street Bridge.
A mile or so behind Bruce A., Ellen McAllister passes Rockefeller University’s River Campus.
Back exactly six years ago, pre-fab sections of the new campus building were lifted in place by a fleet of DonJon vessels here.
And finally, in the late spring haze, it’s Mary Turecamo
approaching her next assist.
All photos, WVD, who’s entrusting these posts to the tugster tower robots. Hat tip or whatever, robots. Actually, I don’t even know how many robots are involved in this effort, since they appear happy to subsist on nothing more than the electricity I provide.
I’m trying to get together a post or two from my current location, which I was supposed to depart from a week ago . . .
Novel bow marking,
unusual box colors,
familiar port . . .
recognizable tugboat,
container with the “I” painted out,
certainly a container line marking I don’t recall seeing before,
oh wait . . . what did that character’s name mean in Swahili? And what’s been painted out is X-press Annapurna . . . same same, Hakuna Matata or Likambo te…, as I would say it back in the 1970s . . ..
no problem . . . . Any Lingala speakers out there today? Oh well, don’t worry be happy is the same.
All photos, WVD.
New container shipping lines have appeared in the boro here and here recently.
Scouts? Patrol? Search pattern? First and foremost, it’s to honor our war dead, and there are too many of those, even the walking wounded and dead….
Thanks to New York Media Boat, I caught the fleet from a different angle, all while respecting the safety zones.
Note the unmistakeable red of a McAllister tugboat on the starboard bow, along
with a handful more McAllisters and the other fleet vessels following.
The USACE and USCG always take part . . .
USS Bataan (LHD-5) was the lead ship, and
it docked in the Hudson River Passenger Terminal.
More WVD fleet week 2022 photos tomorrow. Lots more photos of the LHD can be seen here. A guide to Fleet Week activities can be found here.
Previous tugster fleet week posts can be seen here.
I’ve posted a lot of unusual ship names here over the years.
If you don’t read Greek, as I don’t, the one above and below are the same ship, just from different angles.
Triton is a 14k+ teu vessel, making it quite the giant.
Whether it’s jolly or not, i can’t tell. It is truly jam-packed.
Over on the far side of Triton, yup, that’s Happy Lady.
Justine, Ava, and Ellen all played a role in getting Triton safely into if not out of the sixth boro.
Taipei Triumph is a bit newer and has roughly the same teu-capacity. Notice how small the ferry Barberi, which is closer, looks in comparion.
Gregg McAllister is working the starboard bow,
with an untethered JRT Moran following, and Bruce A. ready when needed.
Bow and stern on the two green giants are slightly different.
Other than the sixth boro setting, the escort tugs, my framing in the post, and the fact that all the photos were taken by me, WVD, they are unrelated.
Anyone catch the vessel in this post that I did not acknowledge in any way?
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Clearly, we robots messed up. To make amends, here’s some info pasted in:
GENERAL RUDDER (IMO: 8835463) is a Training Ship that was built in 1984 and is sailing under the flag of USA.
Her current draught is reported to be 4.5 meters. Her length overall (LOA) is 68.28 meters and her width is 13.11 meters.
Here’s more on Texas A & M’s training ship.
BERTO L MILLER (IMO: 8964850) is a Offshore Supply Ship that was built in 1999 and is sailing under the flag of USA.
Her current draught is reported to be 3.1 meters. Her length overall (LOA) is 49.71 meters and her width is 13.41 meters.
Here’s more the the Miller’s Launch OSV fleet.
GO AMERICA (IMO: 8968181) is a Offshore Supply Ship that was built in 2001 and is sailing under the flag of USA.
Her current draught is reported to be 3 meters. Her length overall (LOA) is 44.35 meters and her width is 10.97 meters.
Here’s more on the Guice Offshore (GO) fleet.
Many thanks for all photos to Pete Ludlow. Tugster might pull our plugs and drain our batteries for our failing to fill in the info yesterday.
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Let’s jump back to May 2012. Over along the Manhattan side of the East River then, I caught this scene. Since then, there’s been some movement: Peking to Germany, Marion M to the Chesapeake, Helen McAllister to . . . rebirth as new steel.
Cheyenne has migrated to the Lake Michigan for now.
Twin Tube is still around but sans the boom.
Ellen McAllister is also still hard at work in the sixth boro, but I don’t see her doing much indirect towing as here.
Mark Moran was just passing through from the shipyard to Charleston.
Swan, built in 1981 and showing as her last movement three and a half years ago in China, has likely gone to rebirth as new steel.
But a decade ago in May 2012, she was here to move some used tugboats over to West Africa. Here she’s already down and BFT No. 38 with a crew boat strapped on has already been loaded, while
McAllister Sisters and McAllister Girls wait with three Crowley tugs,
Cavalier, Pioneer, and Mars.
After they are floated aboard, the tide turns the anchored Swan.
Socrates and Heron also float aboard, and
overnight, Swan gets deballasted and raises the hull, so that we can see their five-bladed wheels. More of the story here.
Also in the boro those days was Picton Castle, showing the flag and more, maybe recruiting some hands
before sailing away. Does anyone have news about her? Has she really stayed in Lunenburg since late 2020?
All photos, WVD, exactly 120 months ago.
Unrelated to any of this, read this May 2004 article by the late great Don Sutherland and reflect on how much change has occurred.
Other Evergreen F-class vessels have called in the sixth boro. So can you be sure which one this is?
Justine McAllister had the port bow. Again, name that ship? I could just be pulling your leg with that title.
Yup, this is the now much-maligned Ever Forward.
I too have made the same jokes about ever backward, ever sideways . . . .
But here, as she rounds a sharp turn with assistance from Justine, Ellen, and Majorie B., I have to change my tune. No report has yet determined what caused the incident in the Chesapeake, and when that report comes out, whatever error caused the incident will lead to avoidance for next time. Who has not erred or operated a device that hasn’t erred?
Bravo, Ever Forward for rinsing off that mud and getting back to work. Fuel up and deliver those delayed boxes.
All photos and sentiments, WVD.
They come, they go . . . and we never get to know more than the names, unless something unusual happens, as was the case with Ever Forward. More on that at the end of this post. Some names are intriguing, like CMA CGM Osiris, likely among the newest cargo ships calling in the sixth boro, part of the CMA CGM Zephyr class.
Chipolbrok–the name– made no sense until I looked up its origins. The agreement has been around longer than I have!!
Bulk carriers have the best names . . . like Common Luck.
Maersk Vilnius is a regular in the boro, last posted here in January.
So is MSC Tomoko, although I’ve not posted any photos of her before.
Fairchem Copper has never appeared here before, although sister Fairfield tankers have.
Ortolon . . . that’s a word origin I never suspected! Making sense of Ortolon Coco, that defeats me.
Ice Fighter . . . I saw this and immediately thought of Ice Babe Base of many years ago.
I started with a CMA CGM Zephyr, so it’s a good place to end . . . and they crossed paths in the boro: Osiris, meet Apollon.
All photos, WVD.
Here’s the story I alluded to earlier: a graphic novelist —Jordan Crane–had his latest book printed overseas and it–along with other new books–was traveling back to the US aboard Ever Forward. Crane also had a book tour planned, where he would distribute copies of the new book. Well, Ever Forward messed up those plans! Long term though, this delay revealed this story, and that may just boost his sales, like a double-printed postage stamp or doubly-struck coin. Well, if I were Crane, I would play up this angle. And Ever Forward, it appears she’s back in Baltimore. I’ll bet the pilot and crew will be very nervous around the Craighill Channel.
Dace lighters STI Excel.
Neptune comes into town again.
Buchanan 12 makes a rare appearance light, but everyone needs to refuel periodically.
Janet D follows Seeley into the Kills.
How a bout a four’fer . . . counter: Marjorie, Kristin Poling, Nicholas, and Jordan Rose.
Sea Lion heads eastbound.
B. Franklin travels west, and
Discovery Coast, east. . . both light.
Nathan G moves a deep scow into the Kills with Cape Wrath lurking in the background.
Traffic never stops, and it’ll outlast me, the photographer, WVD.
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