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Usually when I see an MSC vessel, it’s a container ship, but as this post shows, that is not always the case. Melissa, though, IS a container ship. When she passed the other day, I also saw a lot of people, not surprising on a warm but not torrid summer’s morning. See the crew in the line boat?
Here’s a closer up showing a deckhand on the bow of Miriam and another crewman at the top of the tanker companionway.
On Mary Turecamo, a crewman gets a line to MSC Melissa.
MSC Melissa dates back to 2002, and at 6402 teu, she was a large vessel of that time almost two decades ago.
Crew . . . I wonder how long they’ve been aboard. What was breakfast this morning? What are nationalities of the crew? Where all has the vessel called in the past 12 months? Here‘s a partial answer that may prompt more questions. And of course, what is in all those containers? And the crews on the tugboats, what are their stories.
All photos, WVD, who has lots of questions sometimes and not many answers, which is the story of my life.
Marjorie B. McAllister is one of those tugs that confused me when I first started paying attention. Below the house is down, and
and here the hydraulics have raised it up to look over Bulkmaster.
Ava M. McAllister‘s elegant lines are shown off as she assists a tanker to the Arthur Kill.
Cohoes on the Hudson River was the launch site of Mary Turecamo, the last tugboat to be built there.
Thomas D. Witte originally had a telescoping wheelhouse to fit under bridges on the Erie Canal and elsewhere, but I’ve never seen photos of that superstructure.
Ever sharp-looking 2006 Pegasus goes to a job.
The veteran Ellen McAllister escorts in a tanker. I’ll do a tanker post here one of these days soon, maybe later this week.
Capt. Brian heads eastbound on the KVK to a job.
Pathfinder is rarely seen light, but here she heads over to pick up the TUP at the trash transfer station.
Twins . . . at the 10-year mark . . . looks to need some TLC.
Here was Twins a minute earlier, coming out of a busy but typical traffic pattern on the KVK. I count five tugboats besides Twins.
The mighty Patrice powers her way east to pick up a job. Note the crew aboard Chem Singapore.
And to end this post, which of course could go on and on, the 4610 hp Doris powers along a container barge from one NY/NJ container port to another, a local example of short sea shipping.
All photos, WVD.
A new assist boat in town bringing 3800 hp to the job?
Right . . . I was kidding. It’s Jones Act non-compliant anyhow.
Genesis Eagle is a 6140 hp pin boat.
JRT Moran and Capt. Brian McAllister do an assist of an ULCV.
Pegasus gives Mount St. Elias an assist as it moves DBL 82 out of IMTT bound for New Haven.
Andrea gives HMS Liberty an assist as it delivers a bunker barge to Port Elizabeth.
Miriam Moran delivers a pilot to the ship.
Mary Turecamo assists a container ship.
Doris waits for a job to approach in the Upper Bay,
and finally, Kirby Moran moves in closer to an incoming ship.
All photos, WVD.
A quick post today, since I’ll spend most of the day without computer, signal, or free time. The varied and unsettled weather of the recent weeks is evident here as well, the diverse days of summer.
Here are some of the usual workhorses or work oxen of the port.
Brendan Turecamo,
Normandy, and
Evening Breeze and a couple Bouchard barges. There must be a shortage of locations to stack the idle Bouchard fleet, still in limbo no matter what engrossing negotiation is happening behind closed doors in advance of July 23, according to this article.
Continuing with this threat, there’s Normandy and Pelham,
Fells Point,
Justine McAllister,
Marjorie McAllister with Bulkmaster,
Sea Lion and a sailboat under sail,
Brendan Turecamo
Kirby Moran and Miriam Moran,
Miriam and a fishing skiff,
and Kirby, James D., and Miriam, all Moran, and all following an incoming ship.
More soon . . . WVD.
According to PANYNJ stats, May 2021 saw 396,417 loaded teus arrive in the sixth boro; May 2020 saw 266,004! That is an increase of 49%. Exports of loaded teus in May this year totaled 134,458 versus 95,462 last year, an increase if 40.8%. So the port is . . . busy. So as I’ve done before, I offer a sampling of the ships involved in the moving teus, i.e., container ships.
Check out OOCL Europe, head on . . . launched in 2006, with her 8063 teu capacity.
As you know, CMA CGM Marco Polo [yes, I missed it] has been the largest container ship to call in port of NYNJ to date, recently she called in Laem Chabang and Vung Tau, and I’ll let you guess where those megaports are.
Ikaria, 2002, and 4492 teu, is the smallest box ship in this batch. In 1999, I was not blogging about the port, but the record shows the largest container ship in the world then carried 6200 teu.
There’s not much view of either the box ship, CMA CGM Brazil or the tanker, but check out the bow wave compared with the small trawler just beyond. Of course, foreshortening is involved and the 30+- trawler was in no danger.
CMA CGM Brazil, pictured here, is the newest in this batch, launched in 2020 and has the capacity of 15128 teu.
MSC Tavvishi is the oldest, from 2000, with a 5468 teu capacity. Launched in 2000, she was not that much smaller than the largest in the world at that time.
And RDO Fortune, a 2012 launch with a 5033 teu capacity
came into the sixth boro appearing to be entirely empty. Might that be to pick up empty boxes?
All photos, WVD.
Laem Chabang and Vung Tau are ports in Thailand and Vietnam, respectively.
See it between those ships? It’s . . .
Utopia! And that’s within the dimensions of 207′ x 36′ and powered by 4 x MTU 16V 2000 M96L’s.
Well, Utopia IV, that is, the $50 million yacht of someone with the net worth . . . of Bob Dylan. Back to that later, the owner’s previous yacht, as you can imagine was Utopia III.
The IV is available to charter for a mere half million a week, chartered through Moran Yacht and Ship, which has no connections, that I know of, to Moran Towing.
The low-profile yacht is capable of 33 knots, with a range of 3600 nm. At 30 knots, it can cover the 950 nm between Miami and New York in a day and a half, if my math is correct.
Not visible here is the fold down transom that has a square footage greater than my Queens apartment!
All photos, WVD.
The Bob Dylan reference above . . . he sold his rights to his work recently for $300 million, said to be the net worth of JR Ridinger, owner of Utopia IV. Maybe he came up for the fireworks?
I had several “pink” posts, but let’s go with the official designation of the hue, magenta. Magenta, believe it or not, is a term for the created color derived from an Italian town where a significant battle took place in 1859!! How’s that for obscure.
In June I caught ONE Hawk (again) and ONE Munchen.
Yesterday brought in another pink sorry magenta vessel, ONE Hangzhou Bay, that body of water that separates Shanghai and Ningbo and can be crossed via the 22-mile bridge that opened in 2008.
Miriam delivered the docking pilot,
while Kirby and James D. stood by.
All photos, WVD.
Hangzhou is also noteworthy as the southern terminus of the Grand Canal, the thousand-mile water first designed and worked on over 2000 years ago, completed over 1400 years ago.
Elli, built in 2010 and with 113k capacity, gets an assist out of the berth from Ellen McAllister.
Kimberly and Brendan assist STI Finchley, 2014 and 38k, out of a dock, and
and Ginga Cougar, 2005 and 26k, heads into that same dock.
See the blurry name above, and somewhat blurry below?
I’d seen it before in the boro as King David and then King Dorian.
Khawr AlAdid is a crude tanker, 2006 and 106k.
When I saw Maersk Navigator on AIS, I’d expected a box ship.
It’s a tanker, 2016 andn 46k.
Seabreeze is 2007 and 54k.
Persepolis, a classical name for a world heritage site,
was launched in 2018 and 74k.
Front Clipper is huge for the harbor, 157k and built in 2017.
And closing it out . . . all rise for The Judge, an asphalt tanker, 2016 and 37k.
All photos, WVD.
Here’s a tanker with a great name I stumbled upon while looking through the November 2016 archives. St Aqua . . . i’ll expand that St to “saint,” who we sometimes need . . .
In case you’re new to this blog,”retro” means I’m looking back to my photo archives exactly 10 years to June 2011. The “38” here means this is the thirty-eighth month I’ve done this. It’s a fresh look at June 2011 photos, in some cases informed by whatever the past 10 years has wrought.
Bridge Builder 26 doing what it is named for.
F. Dawson, 1969, 66′ x 22′ and 1000 hp, in 2011 was working on a bridge project in the Harlem River. I’ve no idea where either of these boats is today.
Patapsco, 2004 and 96′ x 34′ and now known as Steven Wayne, was one of the first Vane boats into the sixth boro.
Susquehanna is a Patapsco-class tugboat, meaning mostly a clone and three years younger, and still in the Vane fleet.
Marlin (1974, 96′ x 35′, and 4200) and Penn No. 6. Marlin‘s now registered in Panama, and the No. 6 is now Vinik No. 6.
Kathleen Turecamo is now buff and green, a Stasinos boat, seen here as Meaghan Marie.
Matthew Tibbetts is still in the sixth boro and at work.
This was the only time I saw Hercules, ex-YTB-766. In June 2011, it was towed here and then loaded aboard a semi-sub for Nigeria.
Barents Sea came back to life as Atlantic Enterprise, and is currently working on a salvage/recovery down south.
All photos and memories, WVD.
There will be a mermaid parade later this summer; in 2011, it took place on the Saturday closest to the solstice, which would be today.
It should be no secret that I’m an early riser, have always been one to get up in the “o’dark” hours for the morning golden hour, the best time of day. Here are two Miller’s Launch OSVs, possibly Rana and Rosemary.
A bit later on a different day, I caught Dylan Cooper westbound, with another Reinauer unit off in the distance.
Janet D headed into that same morning, here eastbound.
Ditto . . . Charles D McAllister and
Mary Turecamo. In fact, in the photo below, you see all three. Did you get the golden hour this morning?
All photos, WVD, who thinks this morning’s overcast skies here blocked any gold.
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