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Here’s a calendar’s worth of harbor tugboat shots, starting with Sarah D., looking brand new although built in 1975, her colors matching the shades of Manhattan building materials in the background.
Brian Nicholas (1966) moves into the Upper Bay, her blue repeated in the sky and water and more.
Buchanan 12 (1972) heads down bound and then
back upbound, day after day and year after year. It’d be interesting to quantify the tons of aggregates she’s moved out of Hudson Valley quarries.
A Blount-Barker product from 2002, Brooklyn moves from Brooklyn over to Bayonne.
HMS Justice is one of the newer boats in this post, launched in 2012.
Kristy Ann is the newest boat in this post, having arrived here last year to replace the nameplate of a boat from 1962.
James E. Brown, here assisted by Janet D, both 2015 products of Rodriguez Shipyard, brings a daily load of rail cars across the harbor.
Ruth M.Reinauer (2008) heads back to her barge.
The 1979 CMT Pike . . . I can’t not think of Odin when I see her.
JRT Moran (2015) rounds the KV buoy with Kristy Ann in the distance.
We started with Sarah D and we’ll end with her.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
She’s not pink or blue or green or new, but she’s an ULCV that I saw back out of Bayonne yesterday, and I can imagine all the communications and applications of power to make this happen.
JRT yanked eased under power stern wise, while Mary Turecamo
and Jonathan C countered that movement just enough to maintain control.
Once far enough out of the docks area, the vectors shifted,
and, I’d wager, added bow thruster force to rotate to port,
revealing to me a fourth tugboat–Margaret–that’d been working the obscured side until now. Seeing three tugs and 15,000 hp arrayed on the bow is a reminder of the days when many tugs would make docking a form of choreography.
It was yesterday’s sunny low humidity, but the colors rivaled foliage up in the valleys at peak! And never have I seen so many figures up on a bridge wing! I count at least five folks up there.
When Monaco Bridge has been pointed safely toward the VZ Bridge, the docking pilot–I presume–departs and
the ULCV heads for the next port . . . Norfolk in this case.
Using gCaptain’s figure of 48,000 bananas for one 20′ container, Monaco Bridge could carry over 667 million bananas .. . or two bananas for every person living in the country!
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who points out that ONE Ibis is currently at the Global Terminal.
More info on Monaco Bridge: she was launched in 2018 by Imabari Shipyard in Japan. Her 11 cylinder engine generates 65,576 hp at 76 rpm. See photo of the shipyard here.
Back in the sixth boro . . . it’s a head-on shot of Thomas J. Brown, with multiple icons of the harbor behind her.
Mister T pushes some loaded barges out east beneath the 59th Street Bridge in the photo below,
and tows twice as many empties westbound in the next photo.
Mary Turecamo shifts deck cargo barge New York from Red Hook over toward the other container ports of NYC/NJ, keeping a good number of trucks off the roads and bridges.
Meredith C. Reinauer moves RTC 150 out in the direction of the Sound.
Philadelphia pushes fuel barge Double Skin 503 into the Kills, over to where Ellen McAllister assists Genesis Liberty out of her IMTT berth.
Then Genesis Liberty moves GM 11105 around and outbound.
Robert Burton, usually pushing compacted garbage barges, the other day was doing
rock scow duty.
And rounding out this post, Ava M. McAllister, still in her first half year of working in the sixth boro, heads out to escort in a vessel just in from sea.
All photos recently by Will Van Dorp.
November 2009 saw the USS New York (LPD-21) arrive in her namesake city for christening commissioning. Just faintly, the name is visible on the stern.
I also went up to the Lyons NY dry dock in November 2009 and caught Urger, then in seasonal layup. Five years were to go by before I did my season on this Barge Canal tugboat. May she return!
Firefighter was still working in the sixth boro.
Stephen was working then too, and she’s still working today.
Cape Ann’s Essex Creek is hardly the sixth boro, but you can get there from here . . . . and Essex MA is one of my favorite places, although –truth be told–I’ve been there only once since 2009.
Some miles north of Essex Creek is the Piscataqua River, and back then these were the horses in Moran’s stable on Ceres Street: Carly A. Turecamo, Mary M. Coppedge, and Eugenia Moran. Carly‘s now in Maine with Winslow, Eugenia is maybe laid up, and Mary M. is still working there . . . but again I’ve not been there in almost two years.
And finally . . . she who need not be named alongside a dock in Philly.
Any since we’re on the retired undefeated speed champion, let’s zoom in on the “crow’s nest” in these next two photos . . .
Not my photo although I felt like talent that day . . . Here and here are more photos from that day, in 2014.
This last photo is by Chris Ware. All others by Will Van Dorp.
It’s been a few months since number 265, so let’s catch up.
Kimberly Poling had brought product upriver via Noelle Cutler, and you can tell some time has passed since I took this photo by the foliage.
Edna A was assisting a crane barge working on the power lines near Hudson NY.
Challenger came in through the Narrows yesterday, delivering a crane barge. A few years back she delivered what was initially a mystery cargo here.
Eli stood by as salt was transshipped from scow to large truck.
Mister T was westbound for the Upper Bay with four scow to be filled.
Pokomoke brought petroleum upriver.
Memory Motel, the original exotic, . . . I wondered where she had gone until I saw her high and dry up by Scarano.
Betty D and Mary Kay . . . they were docked just south of Albany.
Mary Turecamo brought container barge New York from Red Hook to Port Elizabeth . . .
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who has many more saved up from the summer and early fall.
I couldn’t leave the earlier post from today dangling as I did.
It was ONE Ibis, the most recent in the series I’ve seen.
The pink is so vivid that the pink M on James D appears de-colored.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who has focused on other birds here.
Related: At 14,000 teu, these ONE ships are small compared with the latest ones contracted by Samsung for Evergreen . . . giants at 23,000 teu.
Life gets lived in a linear fashion, but that’s not how it’s processed. It seems the longer we live, the more chaotic we want processing to be.
Kirby and Margaret assisted this ship into the pier this morning.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who’ll be processing regularly starting tomorrow, or so I hope.
With momentum gaining for more offshore wind farms, a raft of seldom-seen type vessels make port calls in the sixth boro. This photo from Tony Acabono is an excellent example: Geosea is not new, but she’s surely exotic.
Another from Tony, Berto L. Miller is new in town, joining two other Miller OSVs sometimes here, Rana and Josephine K.
And yet another set from Tony . . . recognize this vessel?
Look at the design on the stack . .. .
It’s the return of Bear, as I first knew her, although she’s also been Catherine M. Brown and Elizabeth Anna.
And finally . . . here’s a photo of a vessel--Lois Ann L. Moran and barge Philadelphia–as seen from the “vessel,” the whatever-it-is in Hudson Yards. Those are LIRR trains in the foreground. Thanks to my sister for this photo.
Thanks to Tony and my sister for these photos. No photos here by Will Van Dorp, who is again off across the border.
i.e., the 19th month in a row that I’ve posted photos from exactly 120 months before. Well, although it’s not always this hazy, the Statue still looks the same, but
Responder no longer carries that boom or works in the sixth boro, and neither that bridge nor Coho looks the same.
Coral Sea Queen has been reconfigured into a trillion recombined molecules, and
June K is no longer orange.
That part of the skyline is the same–maybe–but Lil Rip has not been in this harbor in quite a while.
This Rosemary is no longer here nor painted this way, and
John Reinauer . . . I’d love to see her since she transited the Atlantic to work in the Gulf of Guinea.
Flinterborg released these Dutch sailing barges in the waterways of another continent . . . and Flinterborg has not returned that I know of.
Penn No. 4 is laid up, I think. Does no one use the term “mothballed” any more? I’ve never mothballed clothes, for what that’s worth.
Laura K Moran works in Savannah, with occasional TDY in other ports, I’ve noticed..
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who himself is no longer the same person he was in October 2009.
Here’s a company I’ve not encountered before . . . LMZ.
LMZ Europa was northbound at Stuyvesant as we passed, and following her
were James Turecamo and
Turecamo Girls, both
have been regulars down near the mouth of the Hudson, but these days the
main ship assist horsepower up in this part of the River. As it turned out, the ship had completed discharging cargo in Coeymans (named for the Koijemans family) and was headed north only briefly to spin around.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who hopes to see them again in these parts a few weeks farther toward winter.
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