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. . . and beyond. Let’s start with August 7, 2008 . . . up by the Iroquois lock of the Seaway. And Canadian Provider . . . well . . . in 2013 she was towed to Aliaga as OVI, and scrapped. Note that she’s a straight-decker . . . no self-unloading gear.
August 14 . . . reef-making consisted of sinking subway cars. These went off Atlantic City. To see their condition now, click here.
August 16 in the Arthur Kill, Volunteer was off to remake the tow. Built in 1982, she met the scrappers earlier this year.
August 20 . . . Laura K and Margaret–I believe –have just helped Glasgow Express to Howland Hook terminal. Glasgow (2002) is still at work, and so are Laura K (in Savannah) and Margaret in the sixth boro.
August 23 . . . Colleen McAllister and Dean Reinauer bring a barge through the Gate, reading for the Sound. Colleen is now owned by for Port City Tug Company of Grosse Point. Has anyone seen her in operation? Dean went to Nigeria aboard Blue Marlin.
Christine M McAllister stands by in Erie Basin on August 24. This 6000hp tug is currently working down south of here.
August 27 . . . the reclusive Susan E. Witte eastbound and Adriatic Sea westbound. Beyond Adriatic, that might be Aegean. Adriatic is currently on a tow on the 2000+ stretch of Ocean between Honolulu and Kwajalein! Can someone confirm this? Nine years ago, I caught Adriatic near the Bear Mountain Bridge here (scroll).
August 29 . . . Coral Sea westbound, while later in the same day,
the scarcely-seen up here Paul T Moran heads for the Bridge while Maryland approaches from that direction. Coral Sea has gone to West Africa, Maryland has become Liz Vinik, and Paul T stays mostly around the Gulf.
The Tugboat Races and other contests were on the 31st that year. Here Justin shows good style hitting that bollard.
HMS Liberty mixes it up with some real history. Edith went down to Trinidad and the venerable Dorothy Elizabeth (1951) was scrapped the next year. Liberty is still in the sixth boro.
And to close it out . . . the 1907 Pegasus made a showing at the races that year. She’s laid up on the morris Canal so far as I know.
I hope you enjoyed these walks through waters no longer here.
Now my big announcement: as this posts, I’m on board Grande Mariner for the next seven weeks, Chicago bound. I will post when I can with what photos I can. But I’ve done that before. GWA (Going west again) was my series title last year. You have to read this one about my role on the vessel. GW was the title I used in 2016.
Maybe this year it should TGWYA . . . thank god i’m going west again . . . Anyhow . . . this is my version of a “gone fishing’ sign.
All All but one of the photos in this post come from David Silver, assigned as a cadet this summer on a Maersk vessel going halfway around the world and back. He departed Port Elizabeth on May 21. This post follows his voyage, focusing on what someone like me–mostly fixed–doesn’t see.
May 24. Charleston. Mark Moran.
May 30. Houston. Thor.
May 31. Houston. Wesley A.
June 06. Norfolk. Maxwell Paul Moran.
June 08. Pilot boards in sixth boro of NYC. JRT Moran.
June 08. VZ Bridge as seen from the ship and
as seen from my location, at about the same moment.
June 09. Port Elizabeth. Kirby Moran.
There was a stop in Algeciras–the world’s 10th largest transshipment port– but no photos of assist tugboats.
June 25. Suez Canal. It could be one of the Mosaed boats, maybe number 1.
June 26. Suez Canal. One of the boats called Salam.
After transiting the Red Sea and stopping in Djibouti, July 9. Mont Arrey,
they rounded the peninsula and entered the Gulf.
July 9. Jebel Ali. P&O Venture. That could be P&O Energy off the stern.
July 12. Port Qasim. SL Hodeida with pilot boat and other Smit Lamnalco tugs.
July 13. Port Pipavav. It appears to be Ocean Supreme and another one of the Ocean Sparkle boats in the distance.
I have enjoyed seeing this variety of towing vessels from this trip halfway around the world. Now I hope the return trip brings more photos and a safe return in late August.
Many thanks, David.
Did you hear about Peak Pegasus, the vessel racing to get US soybeans into China before retaliatory 25% tariffs are slapped on? More on Peak Pegasus at the end of this post.
Well, these two container ship had no need to hurry into the sixth boro, yet here’s something I’ve never seen before . . . two container ships entering the Narrows in quite close succession.
Obviously the passage accommodates all, but still . . . a new sight for me, the reason I return here again and again.
See QM2 in the distance to the right? I caught her first arrival here 11 years ago. Dawn was too late for me to catch it. That ominous sky got me thinking . . . storm clouds. Locally I was just concerned about getting spots on my lens. But then I thought about the story of Peak Pegasus, the impending trade war. I could see those as storm clouds, and shipping . . . this is a front line, like every seaport in the US.
Take the value of all the imported cargo on Maersk Buton and
add to it the value of whatever’s on OOCL Berlin . . . and every other ship entering a US port for the foreseeable future and add the product of that and .25 . . . the sum’s rising. Ditto . . . whatever is on Bomar Caen–headed for Colombia–might just be less attractive if .25 gets added to the price of those goods. Maybe Colombia is not affected.
I’m by no means an expert in much, and please educate me if I’m wrong, but these storm clouds seemed appropriate this morning.
All photos and sentiments by Will Van Dorp, who first read the name of the Maersk ship as butoh, which would have been much more interesting.
Peak Pegasus plowed at top speed to make port, but . . . she failed. More here. Here’s a story from the same vessel from a few months back.
Wrangell, Alaska is almost 7000 sea miles from New York.
Harley does have a number of fleets, but the Olympic fleet
seems to have arrived in the sixth boro this month. Ernest Campbell (1969) is one of several tugs that have retained the last name of the previous owner.
C. F. Campbell (1975) is another.
The other day they cooperated to get Long Island into a dock at IMTT.
Has this 60,000 bbl barge been sold out of Moran’s fleet? If so, when did that happen?
Then last week I caught the 2012 Lighning in the boro,
a 2000-hp tug of the Gulf fleet.
The 1999 andrea (3000 hp) has been here for almost three years, if my recall is correct.
They’re all Harleys, along with Dr. Milton Waner, St. Andrews, HMS Liberty, and more. And thanks to Kyle Stubbs, here and here are a set of Harleys from the Pacific Northwest. And here’s one more . . . from San Francisco.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Here are previous posts in this series.
There is some self-disclosure here: since last winter and thanks to my movie-buff son, I’ve gotten hooked on movies based on comics. So, recently, to my surprise, while watching Gotham, I saw Marie J. Turecamo and one of the 6000s in a CGI-noir of an East River scene. She’s unmistakeable. Season 1, episode 11 has all these, along with some FDNY vessels, a NYCDEP tanker, and recognizable barges.
And with apologies to the actor, that is one of the Harley boats, St. Andrews (my guess) or Liberty.
And this . . . ABC-1, with a very odd mast.
I realize some of these are not tugs, but categories are made to be challenged. In the next two photos, I’d heard that Lilac was used for a Daredevil scene, so I watched the series–not liking it at first–until I got to the scene. By the time I got there, I was a fan.
Clearly filmed in the Navy yard, I have to say I’m impressed by the magic of cinema, and that’s why it’s the economic powerhouse it is.
All “screen-grabs” by Will Van Dorp.
Somewhat related: Come celebrate the launch of film maker Thomas Halaczinsky‘s “Archipelago New York”: June 18th, 6PM at Rizzoli Bookstore at 1133 Broadway Manhattan.
As we leave the cold of the past months, we see more crew of all vessels out on deck just to enjoy the balmy weather and sun, like these crew taking photos of the northern side of Staten Island. I’ve often wondered what they say about this port of the US; of course they see the skyline of Manhattan as they enter and depart the port, but I wonder what they say about the borders of the KVK.
I’m not “developing” it, however, maybe just taking advantage the “educational” opportunity it offers, to create a space as they have designated in Port Huron as the Great Lakes Maritime Center. The assemblage of containers there is attractive and functional. Click here and scroll for a post I did back in 2012 about this Center on a brownfield. NYC is failing to recognize the KVK for the tourist destination it could be.
Pilots boarding in windy frigid months must find this part of spring part of the joy of the profession.
Crew heading back out to sea . . . do they compare ports?
The deckhand needs to stay on station, a much easier task from temperature perspective.
Another crewman headed for sea . . . is this the last port departure of his hitch or his first?
Ditto the crew indicted by the red arrow, what do they talk about?
These boom boats, they work all year round on these utilitarian vessels.
This was a coup, I thought. The USCG had come aboard during cargo transfer to take the crew through a life boat drill.
Again . . . crew entering the port from sea . . .
And finally, nobody has time to enjoy these seats right now, but when work is done, I’m guessing they are enjoyed.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who is currently headed west again.
Cosco Prince Rupert came into town recently 27 days out of Pusan, Korea.
She was launched in South Korea in 2011, has dimensions of 1095′ x 141′, and has container capacity of 8208. By current standards, she’s upper medium-sized calling in the sixth boro of NYC.
Prince Rupert’s namesake? He was the first governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company.
JPO Capricornus, 2005, 865′ x 106,’ teu capacity of 4132 . . . makes her a smaller size calling these days. She was a week out of Cartagena upon her arrival in NYC. She was built in South Korea.
Atlantic Sky, a CONRO vessel with capacity of 3800 tea and 1300 vehicles, was launched in 2017 in China. The tape has her at 970′ x 121′.
Ever Leading launched in 2012 in South Korea. She has 8452-teu capacity and has dimensions of 1099′ x 151′.
Zim Ukrayina was launched in 2009 in the Philippines. Her dimensions are 849′ x 105′ and her teu capacity is 4360.
She made the voyage from just north of Hong Kong (Da Chang Bay) to NYC in 40 days.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
By the numbers today, Daisy Mae, launched in late 2017 and generating 3200 hp.
Joyce D. Brown, built 2002 and 2600 hp.
Matthew Tibbetts, 1969 and 2000.
James E. Brown, 2015 and 1000.
Dean Reinauer, 2013 and 4260.
Andrea, 1999 and 3000.
Elizabeth McAllister, 1967 and 4000.
Ellen McAllister, also 1967 and 4000.
Kimberley Turecamo, 1980 and 3000.
Joan Turecamo, 1980 and 4300.
Joan Moran, 1975 and 4300.
Miss Ila, 1962 and 2400.
All photos by Will Van Dorp; all numbers from tugboat information.
Only 13 months ago, Cosco Glory could not have entered Port Elizabeth. Now the +14,000-teu boats –more accurately called NYC’s 1200-footers, have become routine like T. Roosevelt, J. Adams, and Chongqing.
The geese are not even spooked.
Jonathan takes the starboard, and Kirby . . . port
while JRT and Margaret leverage the stern.
As of this writing, this crewman has most recently been treated to views of the Savannah waterfront.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Too bad this intriguingly named RORO was so far away when I saw it. Actually Drive Green is the project; the actual vessel name is Drive Green Highway. The project seeks to reduce NOx and CO2; it’s more streamlined, uses slippery hull coating, incorporates solar-powered LED lighting throughout the ship, and more. Click here for RORO history. I don’t know why the orange is not some version of chartreuse.
Breezy Victoria really should be parts of a “names” post, but I took it this same foggy visit to this part of the port.
Note the upper 400′ of the Staten Island side bridge tower is missing as
Pilot No 1 aka New York heads back out to her station. Here from winter 2014 is the same boat at the same bridge in different weather.
If you use your peripheral vision, you can just make out West Bank Light off the starboard stern of pilot boat New York.
Orange Ocean follows the fog bank into the Narrows.
And here’s the vessel I came out to see: Grande Mariner on her return from Honduras!! Here you can see the West Bank Light a little more clearly.
I board Grande Mariner again in July, for some more tours of the Great Lakes. Next winter’s plan for Grande Mariner is a trip to Panama!
Having no pressing demands on Thursday morning, I went back down to the Narrows, and once again it was
socked in!
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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