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Atlantic Star first arrived here four years ago, although that hardly seems possible.
Five identical vessels transport containers and anything “rolled on.” See a partial cutaway here.
I’ve not yet made photos of Atlantic Sky and Sun, although I have noticed them either coming or going.
But I just learned they also carry passengers . . . it’s two weeks and three days from Hamburg to here. More info here.
Has anyone reading this done it or know of someone who has? I’d love to hear.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Radar helps when you can’t see in the fog, but
even on a clear day, you can’t see the crew operating this 2013 2000 hp tugboat, or its history . . . how it got to become a fixture in the sixth boro.
Ditto this 1994 tug, operating with 3000 hp. Here Kimberly Poling is docked, and the outside viewer knows no reason why.
Brian Nicholas was launched under a different name before Nixon was elected. If only one could be privy to all the conversations and dramas even happened aboard.
Mister Jim was based for 30 years in the Gulf of Mexico, although without looking at her logbooks, who knows where all she worked.
Ellen McAllister has the distinction in this post of having been launched before Nixon was elected also AND worked both sides of the Atlantic, and I would suspect she’s appeared on this blog more times than any other of the machines here, but still . . . even I, what do I know about her quirks and feats?
Helen Laraway, unless I tell you, would you know that she was working before Kennedy was elected POTUS? And with rehabbing and repowering . . . she’s as good as new, I believe, and working hard for a 63-year-old.
James E. Brown is the youngster of this post, built in a fishing village originally called Coq d’Inde, now anglicized.
Finally, back in the fog . . . It’s Stephanie Dann, a product of the Carter era. As to these dates and use of POTUSes as time references, it’s not political, but you’ll see my point here in tomorrow’s post.
And yes, all photos and info here by Will Van Dorp.
Whenever I’ve seen this vessel, I had associations with a huge river in a big country.
These blue-white designs, though, didn’t conjure up that tropical river, yet they were strangely familiar.
The “upside-down V” didn’t initially strike me a Greek letter lambda either.
Later I started looking differently to try to figure out why that Greek frieze design looked familiar. I’ve only been in Greece once and that was almost half a lifetime ago. Now it strikes me as strange that I didn’t think of the huge multinational e-commerce and tech company, the one who created a zillionaire.
Amazon Beauty was once Greek-flagged, but it’s not any more. Now it appears to be shuttling some product between Point Tupper NS and Linden NJ.
Have you figured out the blue/white pattern and why it might be familiar?
Click here for the New York coffee cup, the ubiquitous vessel for coffee at one time, and now eclipsed by DD and Starbucks.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who send greetings to the photographer up in Point Tupper, who will get photos when she arrives.
I’m not disparaging, but my first thought was “just another” Vane tug heading across the bow, until
we passed and I noticed it was Charleston, which I believe is Vane’s newest tug in the sixth boro.
The new “ubiquitous” vessels on the sixth boro waterways move containerized trash. Pathfinder is one of the tugboats assigned to this duty. Covanta first got the contract for this business in 2013, and my first knowledge of these barges was here.
Two different generations of McAllister tugboats headed out recently, Capt. Brian A. and
Ellen. Launched a half century apart and having a difference of almost 3000 hp, they are both working daily assisting ships in the harbor.
Janet D is a mere five years old and works in marine construction, working for the aptly named Construction and Marine Equipment Co.
Franklin Reinauer was built and christened by that name in 1984.
It appears to me here that Linda L. Miller, the truckable tug, is the prime mover, pushing Catherine C. Miller. Click to enlarge the photo and you’ll see a handsome spread of Manhattan architecture, sans the peaks.
And let’s conclude with Mister Jim, who back in 2016 did not have the gray/red livery.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who missed the return of Atlantic Enterprise this morning, back from the work in Georgia.
I took this photo after dawn, technically, and what detail of tug James D Moran is lost because of low light is somewhat compensated for by the lights of the boats and on the Brooklyn background.
Ditto . . . a few minutes later, the lights are dramatic as James D passes the illuminated IMTT facility.
Evelyn Cutler passed a bit later; light was still low from an overcast sky.
JRT Moran heads back to base, the sky is still overcast, wind brisk, and standing around taking photos was cold.
Paula Atwell is quite common here, but usually the boat is obscured by the containerized garbage she pushes.
Navigator passed with her barge . . . and the sun I’d wished for was still not forthcoming.
Barry Silverton . . . pushing a deeply-loaded Fight ALS toward the Sound. Here’s a document I’d never seen in its entirety explaining the Harley “naming” project. It turns out that Mr. Silverton was a victim of ALS. What I thought was a one-off vessel naming is actually a fleet-wide enterprise. For example, Dr. Milton Waner is named for a pioneer in the treating of hemangiomas.
Franklin Reinauer, passing Nave Ariadne, has operated with that name–I believe–since she first came off the ways.
Marjorie B McAllister waits alongside New Ability to assist an incoming container vessel.
which Capt Brian A. McAllister is already assisting.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who at this point had the luxury of having some indoor work to attend to while warming up.
For your quick peruse today, I offer the inverse of yesterday’s post: I went to my archives and selected the LAST photo of something water-related each month of 2019. So if that photo was a person or an inland structure, I didn’t use it; instead, I went backwards … until I got to the first boat or water photo.
For January, it was Weeks 226 at the artificial island park at Pier 55, the construction rising out of the Hudson, aka Diller Island.
February saw Potomac lightering Maersk Callao.
March brought Capt. Brian and Alex McAllister escorting in an ULCV.
April, and new leaves on the trees, it was CLBoy heading inbound at the Narrows. Right now it’s anchored in an exotic port in Honduras and operating, I believe, as Lake Pearl.
A month later, it happened to be Dace Reinauer inbound at the Narrows, as seen from Bay Ridge.
June it was MV Rip Van Winkle. When I took this, I had no inkling that later this 1980 tour boat based in Kingston NY would be replaced by MV Rip Van Winkle II. I’ve no idea where the 1980 vessel, originally intended to be an offshore supply vessel, is today.
July . . . Carolina Coast was inbound with a sugar barge for the refinery in Yonkers.
Late August late afternoon Cuyahoga,I believe, paralleled us in the southern portion of Lake Huron.
Last photo for September, passing the Jersey City cliffs was FireFighter II.
October, last day, just before rain defeated me, I caught the indomitable Ellen McAllister off to the next job.
November, on a windy day, it was Alerce N, inbound from Cuba. Currently she’s off the west side of Peru.
And finally, a shot from just a few days ago . . . in the shadow under the Bayonne Bridge, the venerable Miriam Moran, who also made last year’s December 31 post. Choosing her here was entirely coincidental on my part.
And that’s it for 2019 and for the second decade of the 21st century. Happy 2020 and decade three everyone. Be safe and satisfied, and be in touch. Oh, and have an adventure now and then, do random good things, and smile unexpectedly many times per day.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who will spend most of tomorrow, day 1 2020, driving towards the coast. Thanks for reading this. Maybe we’ll still be in touch in 2030.
Odfjell tankers of this and recent generations all look the same, so since I was able to get only the name, you can conjure up the rest. Bow Chain here was departing NYC and is currently in Houston. Previously, Bow Chain appeared on this blog here. Previous Odfjell tankers in the sixth boro include Bow __ (Cecil, Clipper, Fortune, Hector, Jubail, Performer, Riyad, Sirius, Summer, Trajectory). This time it’s in need of some Bow PAINT!
Seaways Silvermar the other day was being lightered, while anchored across the channel from “dem five.” No really . . . the DEM FIVE vessel there
was Alice Star. Dem Five is a new fleet–actually managed by Lydia Star— for me. Maybe it’s time I dust off the “names” series.
Erato is one of the smaller container vessels that call at the Red Hook port, and mostly Caribbean ports. I know I’ve seen her before, but this is the first time she appears on tugster, I believe. As of this writing, she’s already shuttling back north from Jamaica.
Since we’re nearing the end of a decade–and weather has not been conducive to getting out for photos–here’s a glance back to December 2009 . . . and an unfortunately blurry pic of President Polk, escorted out by McAllister Responder.
The 1988 APL ship, built in Germany in 1988, was 400′ shorter than the largest and now commonplace ULCVs now calling here and that carry about 10,000 (!!!) more containers.
She caught my attention here 10 years ago because of these unusual parts of her cargo, shipping out.
She was beached at Chittagong for scrapping in summer 2013.
All photos, even the blurry one, by Will Van Dorp.
J. George Betz and Morton Bouchard Jr. raft up on the floating dock.
Helen Laraway pushes toward the east.
JRT passes Weddell Sea on the way home after completion of another job.
Daisy Mae moves a deeply loaded scow westbound. I’m not certain but believe the product is road salt.
Discovery Coast heads over toward the Kills.
A light Elk River makes for the next job.
Emily Ann tows astern passing the collection of boxes in the Global Terminal.
And Majorie B. passes Pacific Sky while she steams back to the McAllister yard.
And one more, Ellen S, Pearl Coast, and Evening Light . . round out this installment.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, whose sense of this decade’s end is growing more palpable, offers this photo of Michigan Service and a whole lotta dredgin’ from the last two weeks of 2009.
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.
I’m always on the look out for new tugboats in the harbor, and Camie mostly fits that bill. A bit of research, though, finds she’s been on the blog a few times already, however.
Here, l to r, it’s Polar Bright, Ava, New York, and Stephen B.
Robert Burton here is tending a rock scow in front of the very busy Bayonne background.
James Brown moves some scrap barges . . . likely in the direction of the East River.
Weddell Sea stands by with Penn No. 90, demonstrating all the components of “push gear.”
Maybe someone can clarify here, but it appears No. 90 has cargo heating gear.
Helen Laraway moves a scow toward a morning.
And Fort Schuyler heads straight for us–I’m zoomed in–away from a marine/industrial Brooklyn background.
For the last day of November 2019, all photos by Will Van Dorp.
And finally, click here for Paul Strubeck’s Vintage Diesel Design blog post on tugboat Luna in Boston. It expands a post I did on Luna here almost four years ago.
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