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I’m still working to catch up and photos some of you have sent.
First, from Scotland and Robin Denny, it’s Seal Carr (1983) and
Oxcar, 1978 and looking almost like the USACE colors. They’re working MV Saga Pearl 11 out of Firth of Forth, port of Edinburgh.
From Port Newark and Phil Porteus, it’s scrap . . .
loading to the right marks on Thor Infinity.
Here from Phil is a mishmash of vessels at Port Newark.
And another from Phil . . . the former Sea Monster and Mars.
And from Brooklyn looking over at Manhattan by Daniel Meeter, it’s Commander. She has a history going back to in 1917, built by the Beele Wallace Co., Morehead City, NC. She did patrol work in World War 1.
From Port of Coeymans and Erik Springer, it’s James Turecamo, a frequently depicted boat on tugster
Thanks Robin, Phil, Daniel, and Erik.
Here are the previous installments. Today’s photos all were taken in August–October2008.
Let’s start with part of the line-up for the 2008 tugboat race. If I’m not mistaken, the only boat left standing, as is, in this photo is St. Andrews, fourth from the left.
Escort, a Jakobson boat, is currently laid up.
Sea Raven, an intriguing “composite” vessel, whose hull was composed of two hulls of 1941 hulls, has been scrapped.
She was called Lone Ranger when she was in the sixth boro in 2008, owned by the CEO of Progressive Insurance. The former oil-platform towing vessel is still on the seas, now as Sea Ranger.
Ah! Cheyenne . . . she been on this blog countless times.
Frances, as she’s called now, . . . back then I feared she was not long for this world…
Baltic Sea . . . I’d love to see her now as she works the Gulf of Guinea.
I’ll repeat this photo . . . as a parting tribute shot, and since St Andrews is the only survivor, let me
show her tangling it up with Edith Thornton, with Dorothy Elizabeth watching.
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Along the Jersey shore . . . it’s Candace, a Damen Shoalbuster design . . . built at Eastern Shipbuilding in 2004.
Hete’s a slightly sharper, closer shot.
Working with Candace in dredge support, it’s Trevor.
Trying to keep her ground tackle tackling the bay bed, it’s Linda Moran holding with Houston.
OSG 350 is practically a ship . . . and she’s pushed by
a force more powerful than what drives some ships, the 12,000 hp OSG Vision. I first saw her here in 2010.
Also, holding fast or trying to, it’s Genesis Valiant, previously Erie Service.
In much calmer weather, it’s Nicole Leigh Reinauer and
Atlantic Enterprise, formerly Barents Sea.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
I take a lot of photos. A few are extraordinary, IMHO. The photo below ranks among that select set.
Above and below, it’s Jonathan C Moran. Sharon Sea heads for sea above.
Atlantic Salvor takes yet another scow filled with dredge spoils out to the dumping grounds.
Atlantic Dawn heads out.
Emily Ann tows Chesapeake 1000 down toward Norfolk.
St Andrews moves a petro barge.
Frances has a headline to a barge in the anchorage.
Two Vane boats wait in Gowanus Bay.
And James D. has a line onto ONE Stork.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Seeing a tugboat on a mooring in the sixth boro is unusual, in my experience, and I took many shots. This is my favorite.
Neptune the other morning headed for sea along the sylvan banks of Staten Island.
James E. Brown moves a scow, likely to be filled with scrap metals.
Brian Nicholas travels to a job . . . that’s New Jersey off her starboard.
JRT Moran crosses the Upper Bay enroute to an assist.
Genesis Eagle travels along Brooklyn’s Owl’s Head.
One almost has the illusion here that Emily Ann is on assist with that tanker. Almost.
Mister Jim lighters salt
from SBI Phoebe.
Sea Lion heads out of her base to grab . . . a recycling barge perhaps.
And Atlantic Salvor continues shuttling dredge spoils from somewhere off the bottom of the North River.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
. . . 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.
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