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Steve’s uncle Bob was a captain and pilot on the Dalzelleagle/McAllister Bros from 1968 to 1985. That makes for a special connection and lots of vintage photos. Enjoy these thanks to Steve. I’ll use his captions.
Dalzelleagle assisting ship in East River in September 1968.
Dalzelleagle heading down Buttermilk Channel-from pier 12 Brooklyn in September 1970. The tug is interesting, but so are the details in the background.
Cook Ralph Andreason waves from the stern on Dalzelleagle departing 69th St pier Brooklyn in September 1970.
McAllister Bros in North River off Hoboken pier on August 24, 1973.
The is the same time and place, roughly. The Twin Towers had opened earlier that year.
Tug McAllister Bros leading Atlantic Champagne thru Newark Bay Draw on July 5, 1976. This picture brings to mind a story that my Uncle Bob Munoz told me. Bob was a captain and pilot on the Dalzelleagle/McAllister Bros from 1968 to 1985. One time he was piloting a ship in Newark Bay toward the Newark Bay Draw Bridge and a woman passenger came over to him on the bridge of the ship and asked him if the ship was going through that little opening in the bridge. Bob said that they were. She then asked how he did that. So he looked at her and said, “When we get real close I just close my eyes.” Atlantic Champagne, an ACL vessel, was launched in 1969 with a teu capacity of a dazzling 882 teu.
McAllister Bros in Newark Bay from a ship on June 26, 1987. That CRRNJ bridge was used starting in 1926; I saw some remaining piers about a decade ago, but it is entirely gone now. Given the raising of the Bayonne Bridge, keep in mind that vertical clearance here was 136′. Maybe someone can tell me the width of the channel.
McAllister Bros galley on January 11, 2001,
and her engine room on the same date.
And finally, McAllister Brothers here along with Christine M. McAllister on November 6, 2006.
It’s hard to say good bye. Many thanks to Steve for use of these photos.
And thanks to Birk Thomas for posting this on FB today, Dalzell Towing.
First, see these three photos from 2009 with updates. I passed by this spot in Seaford DE this past week . . . on a mission, and the former Flagship Nanticoke Queen restaurant is no more. Only a graded lot remains where the USS McKeever Brothers (SP-683) WW1 patrol and minesweeper vessel and fishing boat both before that and after the war once was. Route 13 has a bit less character. The wooden hull was likely buried in a landfill.
From 2009, this is the 1958 Jakobson-built Dalzelleagle and then McAllister Brothers. And yesterday, she was was towed away to be scrapped. At temperatures between 2500 and 2750°F, that steel will puddle and take new shapes. Tomorrow I’ll post more photos of this 1958 beauty.
Another photo from 2009 of the 1907 Pegasus . . . now also history and headed for the same high temperatures and red hot puddles.
A photo from 2012 . . . Siberian Sea, still afloat, and currently called Mike Azzolino.
Also still extant, in fact, David Silver took this photo less than a week ago, the May 1921 launched Day Peckinpaugh. Yes, that is the Erie Canal between Locks E2 and E3. The canal water level is drawn down in the winter/spring for maintenance.
May 21, 1921 precisely was the day Interwaterways 101 came off the ways at the McDougall-Duluth Company shipyard. Shouldn’t we hold a socially distanced party for the freight ship?
Here was the neat and active Eriemax freighter in 1961.
Thanks to David and Craig for use of their Day Peckinpaugh photos; the others from 2009 and 2012, WVD.
As to the tragedy of 231′ x 71′ Seacor Power, Seacor Supporter, 131′ x 66′ , came to do some work in the sixth boro here a few years ago. Brazos is 145′ x 100′.
Two bulk carriers are currently in the sixth boro having come directly from a very salty area in the north of Chile, more than a 1000 miles north of the coastal city of Valparaíso.
One of them is Albatross Island, an ultramax bulker from the huge Pacific Basin fleet.
She was launched in 2010 as Jin Ming.
She made an 18-day voyage from Chile, counting the time transiting the Panama Canal, when last these crew were close to land.
Port Osaka, part of the Port Dragon Bulk fleet within Portline Bulk, is roughly the same size as Albatross Island but much newer, launched in 2019. She made the voyage from Chile in 15 days.
Yes, I love that logo, which I can’t quite decipher.
If you want a hint of the desert from which our road salt comes, click here for Punta Patache.
All photos, WVD.
Where’s there’s a “1”, a “2” must follow, right? Let’s start with Brendan Turecamo on the starboard side of APL Dublin.
Enter a Maersk ship with Bruce tendering the port side.
APL Dublin has Kirby on the stern.
Gerda has Capt. Brian A. on her stern, and
Patrice and
Ava. That makes a total of four tugboats on Gerda Maersk.
Note the rust stains on Maersk Columbus, a US-flagged ship.
Yet, no tugboats work the port side of Columbus,
but on her starboard side, Margaret has been all along, and Kirby has left APL Dublin to assist Columbus as they head for the bridge and Bergen Point.
All photos and interpretation by WVD, who’ll never see this identical concatenation repeated. Hat tip to all the crews who make this happen.
Can anyone explain the story of the rust stains on Maersk Columbus?
Looking back a year, here‘s where April 11, 2020 found us.
Excuse the obscure word; it’s not one I regularly use, but concatenation, i.e., a series of interconnected things or events, random and unlikely ever to recur, came to mind as I put together this set of photos. Follow along. Early one morning recently, Kristin Poling made up to a loaded Eva Leigh Cutler,
and Normandy came to assist.
They eased out of the slip and turned to the west and
passed the moored crude tanker SKS Jersey.
Behind them came Bruce A. McAllister.
From the turn at Bergen Point, there appeared one of the Moran 6000s with Mandalay, a 2345 teu container ship launched in 2019.
Mandalay evokes much… all the way back to here.
She generally makes stops along the coast of North America and South America, hitting a port or two in the Caribbean.
As she passed between my vantage point and SKS Mersey, Morgan Reinauer heads west.
As of this posting, Mandalay, with her evocative name, is in Savannah.
All photos and perception, WVD, who has more concatenations to come.
Steve Munoz took the first three photos in October 1986 from Borenquin. The tug identified as Kathryne E. McAllister appears to be the one from 1975, now known as Brendan Turecamo. Borenquin lived many lives between launching in Vancouver WA in 1945 and scrapping in Beihei CH (near the northeastern border of Vietnam) in 1989. That’s indeed the Bayonne Bridge.
Here the vessels are in Newark Bay heading for Port Elizabeth. The sun rises over Bayonne.
Yesterday, April 8, 2021 I caught the next set. Eastern Dawn (Toula) was indeed heading east at dawn, pushing a barge with a crane over to Gowanus.
A few minutes later, Marjorie B. McAllister followed Eastern Dawn, now visible rounding the bend toward Gowanus. I believe the tugboat beyond her is Christian Reinauer.
Thanks to Steve for sharing his archives. The last three photos and any errors . . . mine, WVD.
April 1, 2011 … and this was not a joke. More on this distressed vessel at the end of this post.
McCormack Boys and
Turecamo Girls with Barney Turecamo. All three are still working in the same liveries, I believe.
Long Island-built Escort was phased out as a certain coal-fired power plant shut down. She’s taken on new life as Northstar Innovator, based on NJ’s
Maurice River, although I’ve yet to see her.
Stad Amsterdam is not currently in Amsterdam; she’s not far away though in Scheveningen. If you want to pronounce this shibboleth as a Dutch speaker would, have a listen.
Spring sunrises . . . Coming into port is the 2017-scrapped Atlantic Cartier
escorted by Ellen McAllister and
passing Bow Clipper and Maria J. That tug is now Nicholas Vinik. Bow Clipper is now in Santos Brasil.
The venerable Chemical Pioneer was ushered in by Ellen McAllister and McAllister Responder. I say “venerable” because she was built using the stern of Sea Witch, after a massive conflagration in the port, told here by the Fire Fighter site. .
Two small USMMA boats made their way through the fog. I’m not sure the name of the vessel to the left, but the one to the right was Growler and she’s back (though hidden away) in the sixth boro.
Of course, I post a photo of Kristin Poling, which had only a few months of service left at this point. She started service in 1934 as Poughkeepsie Socony.
Marion M . . . I’ve been told she was sold to parties in the Chesapeake who planned to restore her and put her up for sale in 2018. Does anyone have an update on that?
And finally, we return to Le Papillon . . . the 48′ steel schooner was dragged off the beach but I lost track of her after that. I believe she was cut up.
It all seems like stuff from long ago . . all photos, WVD.
Mornings on the KVK can be busy.
Above, Sea Fox (1971) follows Barney Turecamo (1995), and below, Kimberly Poling (1994) is followed by Mary H (1981)
Kimberly Turecamo (1980) and Marjorie A. McAllister (1974) head east to escort different incoming ships.
Chesapeake Coast (2012) assists Gulf Coast (1982) moving the cement barge out into the current.
Bruce A. (1974) and Patrice McAllister (1999) hasten out for work.
Thomas A. Witte (1961 when she was called Valoil) returns to Port Newark.
Joyce D. (2002) passes the docked Normandy (2007).
And Cape Canaveral (2019) makes for her yard.
All this and much more during a few hours one bright, mild morning recently by WVD. Any errors, my blame.
The erudite readers of tugster know Evergreen doesn’t have a single vessel, the one that caused some anxiety in Suez recently. In fact, the fleet comprises about 200 ships, of different sizes or classes. The L and F classes currently call in the sixth boro. The teu capacity for the F class is just over 12000. In other words, the vessel that departed the sixth boro this morning holds 8000 fewer containers than Ever Given, coming in over 20000 teu. Another way of visualizing it is this: add all the containers of this F class boat AND all from an L class vessel . . . and you’ll have one Ever G class. And consider this, an Evergreen A class is on the drawing board . . . coming in between 22k and 23k containers!
Enough alphabetizing . . . Ever Faith is currently on its way to Baltimore.
All photos, WVD, who had a hard time coming indoors today to download these photos and post.
March 25, 2011 was a busy day. L to r, Maurania III, USNS Yano, Resolute, McAllister Responder, McAllister Girls, Amy Moran . . . with a K-Sea barge at the mooring, and some iconic structures. None of these vessels in currently in the sixth boro. Amy Moran is now John Joseph.
Let’s follow the USNS vessel first, as it’s assisted into the graving dock. Yano is in Newport News at this time, 2021.
Yano is an example of a US-flagged non-Jones Act vessel.
A bit later, more to the west, Davis Sea stands by to assist Taurus
and DBL 25 into a dock. Taurus recently came to the boro from Philly as Joker. Davis Sea is now Defender.
The following day, Maurania III and
McAllister Girls sail British Serenity off the dock. Maurania III is now in Wilmington, and British Serenity is now Champion Timur and is in the Black Sea on a voyage that began in Indonesia. Girls is laid up.
An hour later, Jennifer Turecamo assisted the big OSG 350 moved by
OSG Vision westbound. Jennifer is in Tampa, and Vision runs in and out of Delaware Bay.
All photos and any errors, WVD, who notices the old Bayonne Bridge profile above.
For an update on Ever Given, click here.
And the answer to yesterday’s what and where: Jay Michael off Bridgeport, CT….
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