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Lest you think Combi-Dock III and Peking–I will get back to them– are the only thing happening in the watery parts of NYC, here’s just a sampling . . . in a series I started last summer.
SBI Macarena –a fairly new bulk carrier– came in past the Brooklynside ramps for the VZ Bridge,
passing Jo Provel on the way out . . .
looking quite large relative to the new NYC ferry.
Tanker New Confidence tested its systems–water and sonic–as Doris Moran arrived.
Where the Wind Blows sails south toward the Narrows, so fast that
I lost track of her, although I admit to being distracted by this squadron passing overhead Elizabeth Anne.
Pioneer–one of South Street Seaport Museum’s schooners–also sailed past and ever went outside
the Narrows, where I’ll pick this up another day.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, waiting for Combi-Dock III action.
OK . . . I prematurely published it, so here it is.
Recognize this tanker . . . once a regular in the Hudson River but out in other waters the past few years . ..
I was thinking this post could be called
Afrodite . . . shares the waterways. A sport fish boat, a USCG patrol boat, and migrating(?) swans . . .
escorted past the Bayonne Bridge, where
Margaret Moran escorts her in as other traffic passes …
and Brendan Turecamo helps out . . .
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Not surprisingly, a lot of people were out on the boro the other morning: speeding out to fish,
descending from Vukovar–a name slipped out of the news–into the crew boat Emily Miller,
sitting watch past BW Shinano,
ditto . . . aboard CMA CGM Tancredi,
and preparing the heaving line . . . .
Is that c-ship so long that the curvature of the earth can be seen along its waterline? Actually that’s Brendan Turecamo moving SSS barge New Jersey over to Red Hook, I believe.
And a little earlier, although I place it last here, Shawn Miller pushed a trickster barge past ConHook Range.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Patricia was built in 1963 and works in the sixth boro here and here, and last I knew worked for C.H. Phoenix LLC of Green Cove Springs, Fl. . . . I like the racing stripes.
Caitlin Ann was built in 1961 and has worked for DonJon since 2011. Here, she and
Sarah Ann appear to be moving coal. Sarah Ann is from 2003, working for DonJon since 2009.
Marion Moran has worked by that name since 1982. I think that’s Katherine Weeks on the far side of the barge.
Bruce A. McAllister,
Eric McAllister, and
Alex McAllister were all working from the Narrows the
other morning.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
aka Names 34
What??
Xena, Lady Tara, one of exactly three barges squired in by Foxy3,
Denise A. Bouchard,
Silver Cindy,
Elbabe . . . El Babe? . .. with Bruce A. minding to port,
Turecamo Girls, and I’ll bet more than just one British Sailor or sailor of any of the seafaring nationalities . . .
along with a high voltage shore connection . . .?!@#! That can mean only one thing… there might be a Debbie around soon too . . .
See tomorrow’s post, for which the photos have not even been taken yet, but it’s June fishing time. All photos taken in the past week by Will Van Dorp. Here’s a previous Xena reference on tugster.
Given the location of the sixth boro, it’s not surprising how often “atlantic” appears in post titles.
It’s not quite an oxymoron, but those two words juxtaposed certainly seem odd unless you look at the context . . . more on this at the end of the post. But olive? And I’m thinking the branch may be more needed now than the fruit . . . Atlantic Olive Branch . . . on AIS?
For now, in this bright and rich morning light, let’s arc around the MR tanker and her escort . . . Note the ship’s crew checking out the gangway . . .
as the ship passes what could be the village of St. George . . . and that link tells me I need to visit Fort Hill in the background there.
Escorting the tanker into the dock more or less straight ahead are Miriam Moran and Brendan Turecamo.
For all the apparent “non-sixth boro ness” of the tanker, the contact info for Diamond S is Connecticut . . .
Here’s looking back toward the POV of the first photo.
Happy Friday . . . All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Really random means just that . . . so that’s start with this one, Tutahaco, YTM-524, which has recently been hauled out of the water between Daytona and St Augustine. Michael Schmidt took these photos back last winter.
She worked for a time in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The next two photos come from Allan and Sally Seymour, whose twotugstravelin’ blog was mentioned in yesterday’s post. Kathleen Turecamo (1968) is a staple these days in the Port of Albany.
A bit farther north on the Hudson in Troy is the footprint of NYS Marine Highway Transportation Company. Pictured here from r to l are Margot, Benjamin Elliot, and Betty D; built in 1958, 1960, and 1980, respectively.
The next photo is from Kyle Stubbs, who writes “the original JOVI is still around. The simple answer is yes, and she’s quite a ways from the Sixth Boro, now taking up residence in San Diego in the service of Pacific Tugboat Service as the JAG. I’ve attached an image of her I took this past September.” Kyle sent the photo along in response to a question about Lil Rip I’d posted here some years back.
George Schneider picks up the Lil Rip‘s origins question here and sends along his own photo of Jag, to wit ”
I was very suspicious of the story she was made from part of a Liberty Ship, since hacking up something like that just to make a push boat didn’t make sense. But somewhere along the lines, I realized the LIL RIP was registered at 54 feet long. I found a Liberty Ship was 57 feet wide, so that’s perfect, considering they had to cut away some of the “stern” for the propellers, so the registered length would be a few feet shorter than overall.
That gave me a reason to believe the reputed origins of the boat were true. It makes even more sense, because if you realize the scrap yards generally had no drydocks or slipways, they’d cut a ship like that down to the tank tops while it was afloat, then somehow had to dispose of the double bottoms. Sometimes they just took them out and sank them since it took so much extra effort to clean and cut them up. But in New Jersey, whose coastline is inland, they probably had to cut them apart and lift them ashore, and voile! What a perfect hull to build a pushboat on!
So I’m wondering if anybody has added more to the comments on that day’s page. If anybody has ever seen her “on the hard,” they might have measured her across the deck, and if that measures a perfect 57 feet in length, I’d say that’s pretty close to proof. I looked up the liberty ships sold for scrap 1961-64, and none were scrapped in Elizabeth NJ, nor were any scrapped by her owner.
But several deceptive things are at play here: 1) A ship sold for scrap was not legally reused for anything, so the title to something made out of the pieces couldn’t reflect the original vessel. 2) If the ship wasn’t sold for scrap, was “Sold for Non-Transportation Use’ which was also sometimes authorized, she might not have been included in the list of vessels scrapped, and 3) Vessels were often bought by distant companies, then found the vessel couldn’t practically be towed to their scrapyard, were sold or contracted to other companies for scrapping.
As for the question of the original JOVI (283905), she kept her name long after the JOVI II, working for various East Coast companies, but then made her way out here to San Diego, where she now works. She has worked as TUG JAG, then KODAK, and now simply JAG. I’ve attached, unfortunately, the best and only digital photo I’ve taken of her. You can reproduce this any way you’d like.”
Now I’m wondering about Logan and Mate. Logan shows in the NOAA registry as built in 1974 and formerly called Kodak, Jag, and Guppy. Mate doesn’t show.
Sarah D (1975) worked for White Stack, Turecamo, and Moran (each bought out the previous company) before coming to NYS Marine Highway.
And finally, once again out and about in the sixth boro, it’s W. O. Decker, the 1930 wood-hulled tugboat of South Street Seaport Museum.
Click here for some of the dozens of posts I’ve included Decker in.
The last three photos are by Will Van Dorp; thanks to Michael, Allan, Sally, Kyle, and George for the other photos.
Enjoy this sampling of boats and the dates associated with their launch starting from Arabian Sea (2007) on Dry Dock No. 7,
Stephen Reinauer (1970) nearby on 4,
Miss Circle Line . . . (1954 as ST 2124 and later Betsy) ,
Alex McAllister (1985),
Joyce D. Brown (2002) headed home after completing the daily chores,
Crystal Coast (1983) and Justin (1981) heading south into the Chesapeake,
JRT Moran (2016) holding onto an argosy,
Ivory Coast (1967) waiting on the next job,
All photos by Will Van Dorp (1952).
Unrelated, for a long interpretation of Moby Dick (1851) and connections between “grammar school literature” like the Odyssea (est. 1000 BCE) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) and connections with folk songs, listen to Bob Dylan (1941) making his Nobel Prize acceptance speech (2017) here . . . It’s the best 27 minutes of listening you’ll do today, I believe.
Here was 53.
So many large ships pass through the sixth boro that unlimited time and a large staff of passionate observers could make ship watching (and learning from the experience) a tourist attraction. Some of the names intrigue . . . like Stove Friend . . . recently built in the home of a quarter of all seafarers, the Philippines.
Axel Maersk may be one of the “longest” container ships that have called in the sixth boro, loa 1155′ x 140,’ assisted here by JRT, Jonathan C, and Miriam Moran.
Ibrahim Dede, here with escort Amy C McAllister, has been calling in NYC for almost as long as I’ve been doing this blog.
Eternal Ace . . . one of the 6400-car capacity PT, looks quite streamlined for a PCC or PCTC, but a newer design is coming . ..
Navios Venus is another fairly new bulk carrier.
I’ve seen CMA CGM Maupassant before, but this is the first time featured on this blog. Kirby Moran, along the starboard side, seems to have a swell approaching from astern.
Liberty . . . last time I saw her she was Topeka, one of the T-class, and yet I can find no reference to a name change. Hmmm.
Tanker MTM New Orleans . . . barely over a year old, is assisted here by Eric McAllister.
SCT Matterhorn leaving the Narrows bound for sea here has Basel as her homeport.
All photos here by Will Van Dorp, who just found out about this related event . . . related in that it focuses on the wet 2/3s of the planet.
It’s not just mea culpa. I’ve done it, you have too, most likely. “What?” you ask? I’ll get to that.
Foreshortening does make for dramatic photos. And that looks like a spare prop high up on the port side deck.
Watch out there, Madame Mallard . . .
What would Captain Ahab make of this profile? Onyx Arrow was in port for less than a half day yesterday, arriving from Halifax and Europe before that. Early afternoon I got these photos of her leaving town…
So this “we’re all at fault” title in Latin above? We’ve all hit animals while driving: birds, bats, other folks’ pets, turtles . . . I’ve never hit a deer, but over a million are hit on US highways each year . . . .
Here’s what I’m getting at . . . see it on the bulbous bow? Here’s more info on ship strikes . . .
It’s sad to see . . . like deer along the highway, but mitigation seems not so easy. I know of a sailboat sailing with no engine running that hit one that may have been asleep on the surface . . . middle of the night.
The last two photos come thanks to the always alert Tony A; the others by Will Van Dorp.
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