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Is that really USS Cole (DDG 67)?
I’ve not seen it mentioned much in media coverage today.
Ocean survey vessel HMS Scott (H131) and why the
penguin? Answer follows.
USS Oak Hill (LSD 51), a dock landing ship is named after a former president’s residence!
ITS Virginio Fasan (F 591) is an Italian frigate. Click here for the namesake.
USCGC Warren Deyampert (WPC-1151) has a quite interesting namesake story.
Deyampert and Ollis meet.
HMCS Glace Bay (MM 701) is a Canadian coastal defence vessel, as spelled in Canadian English.
USS Wasp (LHD-1) history can be read here.
Is that a Harrier AV-8B?
USNS Newport (T-EPF-12) can transport over 300 troops at almost 50 mph.
I’d love to tour it.
All photos this morning, WVD.
OK, H131 is named for RF Scott, the explorer.
This is one of my last KVK photos of Ireland. Eventually, a few years ago, she went upstate to Lake Ontario for repowering and much more. She’s currently in the NYS canals, heading back towards the sixth boro, down the Hudson but then past and all the way to the Mississippi River watershed. So if you’re north of the boro in the next few days, be on the lookout for . . . Hoppiness!! See the end of this post.
In May 2013, I spotted this yacht coming in through the Narrows; Nomada, it turns out, began life in 1943 as a Canadian navy tug, seen here. I’m not sure of Nomada‘s whereabouts today.
Specialist was getting spa treatment here, a few years before her tragic demise.
Doro aka Dorothy J was at the same spa that day.
Doris Moran towed in a new floating dry dock for Caddells, with James Turecamo steering the stern.
State of Maine was in the boro. As of this posting, she’s NE bound off Long Island about a hundred miles from the sixth boro, if I’m not in a time warp. By the way, TS Empire State VII is still being completed on the Delaware, and will be making her maiden arrival in the boro in the summer, at a date so far not published.
Speaking of Maine, I had a memorable sojourn in Belfast just a decade ago, and took in all the collections at Maine Maritime Museum. It’s likely high time I get back there.
During the 15 years I spent in the northern two-thirds of New England, boats like these were often on my mind and in my view.
In May 2013, Zumwalt DDG-1000 was in its final stages of completion.
As of this morning, as was the case a decade ago, Fournier Tractor was ready for action in Belfast harbor.
And here from the NYS Canals, photos of Hoppiness eastbound taken by a westbound yacht delivery captain . . .
Check out their progress on FB. They’re likely transiting the middle portion of the the state canals today.
All photos except the last two, any errors, WVD.
I don’t want to be too predictable with this title.
Check out Miss Madeline and Emma Rose on a foggy morning.
Later that foggy day, it was Everly Mist and Emma Rose.
That same foggy day, Kirby Moran and Kimberly Turecamo saw Northern Jubilee out of town.
Heading for the next job, Alex and Marjorie B. McAllister pass my location, like a brace of oxen I never photographed when I could have back in the 1980s.
Here Patrice and Ava M overtake Ever Fame and travel to their next appointment.
Justine and Ava see OOCL Brussels into port. Invisible here is Patrice on the far side.
As Nicole Leigh waits with RTC 135 at IMTT, Josephine passes by with RTC 83.
Cape Fear gets an assist from Wye River.
Fells Point gets an assist from Cape Fear.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who will soon be making a major but temporary change of venue.
A decade ago, the split-hulled trailing suction hopper dredger Atchafalaya was in the sixth boro. These days in 2023 the 1980 vessel in the St. Johns River of the Alligator and Sunshine State. I don’t believe it actually worked in the sixth boro.
The west side walkway made for a lot of photography on my part in spring 2013, like Asian King here making the turn at Bergen Point with assist from Gramma Lee T Moran. The 1998 RORO today goes by Liberty King and is located between Hokkaido and Honshu. Gramma Lee is working in san Juan these days.
Evening Tide is currently in chrysalis state in Brooklyn.
Pretty World had to be “dead-ship assisted” into port 10 years ago. The assist tugs (l to r) are Margaret Moran (I think), Marion Moran, and Gramma Lee. The 2007 tanker now goes by a much more prosaic Central and is in port off Ivory Coast. Marion Moran is now Dann Marine’s Topaz Coast.
Click here for the latest in the French frigate Aquitaine.
No comment needed on this tale of two cities.
Maersk Ohio is currently in Norfolk.
The US-flagged Maersk ship is assigned on the northern Europe run.
Superior Service is now Genesis Vision, currently in Lake Charles LA.
The 1971 Fred Johannsen, usually mostly up the Hudson, came down in April 2013 to do-si-do back upriver with Taurus, now Hay’s Joker.
Ellen McAllister is still Ellen McAllister. But from this angle, a proto-drone view from the Bayonne Bridge, she appears more rotund than I usually imagine.
Marion Moran focuses on giving the 1996 HanJin San Francisco an extra amount of shove to round Bergen Point. I believe 4024 teu container ship has been scrapped.
And finally, North Sea is now Sause’s Kokua, now working around Maui.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who loves these opportunities to look back at all the changes that have transpired.
“What do you like about New Orleans?” A friend asked me that recently. Different answers exist: ubiquitous and diverse music, unique architecture, history and present through all the senses, spicy and delicious food, free spirits, bons temps roulants… this list can be even longer. But for me, the traffic on the river is without rival . . . that I know of. That’s what calls me back. I can even skip the music, merriment, and tastes, but the river always attracts and satisfies. From my recent stay, here are some photos.
I’m thinking this may be a formerly Bouchard boat, but I really don’t know who this is getting spa treatment.
Any help?
Mary Moran was there too. She’s of the same general class as Miriam and Margaret.
A. Thomas Higgins is not as new as I thought, but still, she’s not yet at the 5-year mark.
Here’s a recent article on her from ProfessionalMariner, which among many other things mentions her namesake. It makes me wonder if this Mr. Higgins is related to Andrew J. Higgins, the “new Noah”
Turquoise Coast, formerly Barbara E Bouchard, was in.
Rodney, the former Sheila Moran, came through with a barge, heading upstream.
Michael S I thought was newer, but she’s from 2009.
More info can be found here.
Know this unit?
A clue is the name . . . well, number . . of the barge, 1964.
It’s Millville, the WaWa . . . THAT WaWa, tug, which I saw under construction in Sturgeon Bay in 2017, which seems like a lifetime ago. My friend Jack caught the unit in Nova Scotia here, as she was first headed into salt water. Take a close look at the last photo in this post from 2017 . . . yup that was what would become 1964.
All photos, WVD, who wonders if you’ve noticed what type of tugboat I’ve omitted here. This is not-so-random a selection, as you’ll see in an upcoming post.
Seen yesterday by Donald Edwards . . . whose photos previously appeared here. The story behind the paint job follows.
Today’s post features exactly what the title says . . . a random set of recent visitors to the sixth boro, like the 2015 Hafnia Raven, here escorted in by Margaret Moran.
Bass is a 2021 build.
Britta Oldendorff dates from 2020.
ONE Wren is a 2018 vessel.
Proteus Bohemia is a 2022 LNG-capable tanker.
with externals to prove it. And for all I know, she’s using LNG for fuel.
Captain Paris has come and departed the port, and as a 2014 crude tanker, is the oldster of this set.
Leikanger is a 2016 build, with its fuel touted on the side, as was the case with Grouse Sun, a few months back. For a comparison of LNG and methanol, click here.
Here’s more on CMA CGM Kimberley: this livery marks CMA CGM’s splash into new cleaner fuels. This begs the question: among the innovations passing through the sixth boro, LNG fuel and methanol capability is one that’s touted on the ships themselves. When will LNG bunkering be available in port of NYNJ? How about methanol bunkering? It’s happening elsewhere.
Many thanks to Don for sharing the CMA CGM Kimberley photo he caught while she was inbound passing Caddells. All others, WVD.
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