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Regionally speaking, Andrew, along with
Roderick and Nancy, could be said to sail in maritime waters.
In the maritime province of Nova Scotia, though, I caught up with Atlantic Towing Limited tugboats Atlantic Oak,
Atlantic Cedar,
Atlantic Fir, and
Atlantic Elm. Given their extensive fleet, it seems I need to make my way back here. Other than returning in October, I’m not sure when that will happen, but now it’s a goal.
Seeing the Canso Strait, first hand and after being introduced to it by my friend Jack Ronalds, satisfied a curiosity.
Behold Spitzer Bedford, Spitzer Montreal, and Point Chebucto.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Is that really USS Cole (DDG 67)?
I’ve not seen it mentioned much in media coverage today.
Ocean survey vessel HMS Scott (H131) and why the
penguin? Answer follows.
USS Oak Hill (LSD 51), a dock landing ship is named after a former president’s residence!
ITS Virginio Fasan (F 591) is an Italian frigate. Click here for the namesake.
USCGC Warren Deyampert (WPC-1151) has a quite interesting namesake story.
Deyampert and Ollis meet.
HMCS Glace Bay (MM 701) is a Canadian coastal defence vessel, as spelled in Canadian English.
USS Wasp (LHD-1) history can be read here.
Is that a Harrier AV-8B?
USNS Newport (T-EPF-12) can transport over 300 troops at almost 50 mph.
I’d love to tour it.
All photos this morning, WVD.
OK, H131 is named for RF Scott, the explorer.
This post encompasses two legs, but WiFi has not been cooperative.
Minimal comment: this is the eight-mile Confederation Bridge. Toll to cross by car: $CD 50.
Bridge Lady is pilot boat to retrieve the pilot who departed with us at Charlottetown.
After a rough passage north along the Gaspé coastline, we enter the lower estuary, where a cold welcome awaited.
Near Les Éboulements aka “the landslides,” this tug Felicia still adorns the shore.
From the ferry dock near there, Svanoy shuttled over to Isle aux Coudres.
As we approached the end of that first leg at QC, Ocean Guide came by to exchange pilots.
Kitikmeot W, Nordic Orion, and Spruceglen were in port.
as were the two powerhouses, Ocean Taiga and Ocean Tundra.
Departing I had my first opportunity to see Vincent Massey. Four years ago she was undergoing transformation here.
Torm Timothy headed for sea.
A pilot exchange happened just downstream from Montreal,
where Uhl Fast was in port.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
You’ll understand if I say this is a wicked quick post. Bear with me. At the appointed hour, albeit Campobello time rather than Eastport time, we cast off and made for sea.
Once away from town, the pilot departed, back for the Eastport station aboard North Sea.
We rounded the light off the top of Campobello as a fishing boat worked the same area. I wonder what the catch was.
Making our way SW out of the Bay of Funky Funky Fundy (yes, that was an autocorrect 2X!) and into the Gulf of Maine, we passed Storm Rider. Note the crewman looking our way between the house and the curtain on the stern deck. Yes, this song came to mind.
At daybreak this morning we took on a Portland pilot from Spring Point.
Ram Island Ledge Light, I presume.
I’ve lots of other lighthouse photos, but as we made fast, we were alongside the Portland McAllister fleet: l to r, Roderick, Nancy, and Andrew.
Heading into town for some supplies, I had to photograph this sign.
All photos, wicked fast, any errors because I’m too wicked fast, WVD.
Two days, two ULCVs, and two distinctly different types of weather.
OOCL Brussels glided into a foggy harbor with
Ava ready for indirect towing. OOCL Brussels is 10 years old and has box capacity of 13200 teu.
Here’s the bestickered AMP box ready for use.
Below the AMP box, in the aft mooring station, notice the speck of orange?
It’s still there as Justine passes.
That turns out to be a crewman, his 21st century version of a spyglass turned on me, just as I’d turned my camera on him. Seconds later, I waved and he waved back. Send me an email, sir.
A few days later, actually yesterday morning, Justine played a role again,
possibly a role as a press boat(?) for the gentleman with the camera slung over his left shoulder,
as Zim Sammy Ofer departed port.
Ofer represents another design for large box ships as well as other innovations, such as LNG or dual-fuel propulsion. Keep in mind that no matter how much LNG is touted as “natural” gas, it’s no more natural than any other fossil fuel product. However, it is cleaner and more energy dense. Ofer‘s capacity is 15,000 teu. Also, notice the unusual, non-bulbous bow. More on Ofer here.
This time, Capt. Brian was hooked in for indirect towing with Ellen standing by.
Note the fire monitor at the top of the stack
and the crew sans spyglass at the morning station.
As they departed with Marjorie and
Ava also assisting,
they exited the Narrows and Ambrose and soon were heading SW at 19 knots!
All photos, any errors, WVD.
I don’t want to be too predictable with this title.
Check out Miss Madeline and Emma Rose on a foggy morning.
Later that foggy day, it was Everly Mist and Emma Rose.
That same foggy day, Kirby Moran and Kimberly Turecamo saw Northern Jubilee out of town.
Heading for the next job, Alex and Marjorie B. McAllister pass my location, like a brace of oxen I never photographed when I could have back in the 1980s.
Here Patrice and Ava M overtake Ever Fame and travel to their next appointment.
Justine and Ava see OOCL Brussels into port. Invisible here is Patrice on the far side.
As Nicole Leigh waits with RTC 135 at IMTT, Josephine passes by with RTC 83.
Cape Fear gets an assist from Wye River.
Fells Point gets an assist from Cape Fear.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who will soon be making a major but temporary change of venue.
Here was 1. Background on the UHL “F” fleet can be found there.
I’d thought to call this “non-random ships 001” because choosing to post images of her was my deliberate choice, even though I grant that her passage through the KVK randomly happened while I was there, like her, in the fog. Anything moving was sounding the required prolonged blast at intervals of not more than two minutes; it was like call and response between UHL Faith and another vessel in Newark Bay.
See the Bayonne Bridge? Name the more distant tug?
I don’t either. I could have done this as a “fog” post.
Her two cranes have a combined lift capacity of 900 tons, or tonnes.
Where do you imagine she was built? I know that symbol is a stylized hook, but it reminds me of the Star Wars “rebel alliance” symbol.
Here’s the answer to an earlier question.
Patrice saw UHL Faith out to the anchorage. On a clear day, the WTC would be visible in the background.
Madeira seems to be gaining as a ship registry location. Could you locate it on a map?
All photos, WVD.
The UHL F-series vessels were all built by CSSC in either Huangpu Wrenching or Hudong.
Madeira is an archipelago off Morocco.
I still have March travel photos of new scenes and even towboats I want to post, but it’s good to get back to my favorite old scenes like
birds flying high over the boros at sunrise.
At that same hour, Rowan M was heading for the Narrows to assist a
a ship arriving.
Later after the sun and wind had come up, I caught Bruce A.
hurrying to join her fleetmates assist a departing ship. I had elsewhere to be, so those outgoing ships . . . they departed without me.
If only scientists could devise practical means for anthro-ubiquity and omnipresence . . . live-streaming cameras already do that without the human factor.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
A decade ago, the split-hulled trailing suction hopper dredger Atchafalaya was in the sixth boro. These days in 2023 the 1980 vessel in the St. Johns River of the Alligator and Sunshine State. I don’t believe it actually worked in the sixth boro.
The west side walkway made for a lot of photography on my part in spring 2013, like Asian King here making the turn at Bergen Point with assist from Gramma Lee T Moran. The 1998 RORO today goes by Liberty King and is located between Hokkaido and Honshu. Gramma Lee is working in san Juan these days.
Evening Tide is currently in chrysalis state in Brooklyn.
Pretty World had to be “dead-ship assisted” into port 10 years ago. The assist tugs (l to r) are Margaret Moran (I think), Marion Moran, and Gramma Lee. The 2007 tanker now goes by a much more prosaic Central and is in port off Ivory Coast. Marion Moran is now Dann Marine’s Topaz Coast.
Click here for the latest in the French frigate Aquitaine.
No comment needed on this tale of two cities.
Maersk Ohio is currently in Norfolk.
The US-flagged Maersk ship is assigned on the northern Europe run.
Superior Service is now Genesis Vision, currently in Lake Charles LA.
The 1971 Fred Johannsen, usually mostly up the Hudson, came down in April 2013 to do-si-do back upriver with Taurus, now Hay’s Joker.
Ellen McAllister is still Ellen McAllister. But from this angle, a proto-drone view from the Bayonne Bridge, she appears more rotund than I usually imagine.
Marion Moran focuses on giving the 1996 HanJin San Francisco an extra amount of shove to round Bergen Point. I believe 4024 teu container ship has been scrapped.
And finally, North Sea is now Sause’s Kokua, now working around Maui.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who loves these opportunities to look back at all the changes that have transpired.
Since I’m currently riding the long rails, including this one, I’ve queued up a few posts. More on the rails soon.
But let’s go back a decade and a month in this case, and see some happenings in the sixth boro in 2013. Diane B was already around, and here she was taking advantage of the high tide to make her way with a light John Blanche downstream from the head of navigation on the Hutchinson River to the East River tidal strait.
Americas Spirit came in with assistance from Barbara McAllister and McAllister Sisters. Barbara is now Patsy K, and sisters is still Sisters. Spirit is still Spirit.
Marquette’s Miss Emily made a run through the KVK, likely in connection with some dredge work.
Vernon G was already Mary Gellatly then. Now she’s a very busy Mackenzie Rose.
Catherine Turecamo retrieves a docking pilot. Catherine is now on the Lakes as John Marshall.
Harry McNeal moves Clyde along by the hip. Work was just months away from the old version of the Bayonne bridge. Both boats I believe are still in the boro.
Lincoln Sea was the biggest regular in the boro, and still occasionally comes through.
Gramma Lee T. Moran still worked here, and I’d not yet met her namesake.
You know it, of course, this photo is about the Mini Cooper, not the RORO that delivered it here.
Mixed traffic worked here, as it still true.
A very rusty Horizon Trader- a 1973 cargo ship now long scrapped-–passed through the port with its 2325 teu capacity.
Back then an occasional tanker with this type of Cyrillic writing could be seen.
And around this time I started to use the tag “collaboration.” This photo comes from Capt. Fred Kosnac on an “excessively windy” day.
All photos here, as attributed. Thanks to Fred for the photo above.
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