Equinox 5b

Given the glorious sunshine, the transition from summer to fall begs another series.  Let’s start with Maule, 

2/3s of her escort, and

a fraction of her crew.

Following in Maule‘s wake, Helsinki Bridge arrives, here with half its escort.

McKinley Sea traverses the Upper Bay and passes

UBC Mobile.

In the harbor was Cordula Jacob and Seastar, as seen from two angles.

with some ferries and a Miller’s Launch crew boat.

Caitlin Ann and

Miss Lizzy work the AK and in the

KVK, for the last day, there are two glorious ships with bright futures . . .

 

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

 

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Equinox 5

Today’s a good day to return to this series I had going for a few years and now return to.  More Chrononauts in the next few days…

But first, this vessel bringing in my favorite celebratory drink.

The fabulous September weather has allowed this project to rush to completion.  Remember, tomorrow

in early afternoon she goes on a towline back to South Street Seaport through a portion of the sixth boro of this city made great thanks to shipping work and capital.  You can watch from along the KVK, from the Battery, or from South Street Seaport Museum.

The name paint is on the list of about a thousand “last” things to do before departure.

Also, enjoying the spectacular equinox weather, the crewman who becomes almost invisible in the bow

of this 1100′ box ship,  

tethered to James D. Moran.

More on Peking as she gets prepared for her home-going.  Doesn’t this look like a shipyard for the ages?

 

All photos taken yesterday by Will Van Dorp.

Chrononauts 4

Chrononauts here now refers to us, looking at photos from the past.  This summer, in one of my Great Lakes ports, i bought first two prints, then the whole album of over 50 prints, all taken in the sixth boro between the 1930s and the 1950s.  So let’s start with this one, taken in either 1948 or 1949,

Willard A. Holbrook. 

How about this one, and you can find the overlap:   S.S. Normandie (1932 –1941), Alice M. Moran (1925–1953), and New York Central Grain Elevator Pier 7 Weehawken  (1884–1962).

 

 

I’d love to learn more about either of these photos.  They are stamped on the back as Gmelin, probably the photographer.

 

 

Whatzit 30 Followup

Ten days ago I put up a post about multiple load lines on a Torm tanker, and I appreciate that many of you weighed in here and on FB.

Here’s an explanation of load lines I found online.

When I saw another Torm tanker leaving today, I thought I’d check.

And sure enough, this one too had three sets of load lines, although I understand that only the one painted is the valid one.

Neches dates from 2000, and Mary from 2002.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

 

Whatzit 30

Here’s a detail I noticed recently that I truly do not understand.  There are three sets of load lines.  does this mean that significant changes have been made to the vessel such that greater load–deepest draft marks here seem to be the current ones–is now legal?  The tanker is 16 years old.

Thanks.  Photo by Will Van Dorp.

Random Tugs 174

Well well well . . . the paint confused me here, until

I gt the name board . . . Mister Jim working while transforming.  Click here for a winter photo of Mister Jim.

Weddell Sea I’ve not seen in a while. And her barge looks to be undergoing a paint change as well.

Here’s my first glance close up of the stack of

Barry Silverton.

Silverton appears to belong to a different fleet than the Harley tugs that’ve been here for almost 10 years, like HMS St. Andrews.

Brendan Turecamo here is rushing past CMA CGM Corneille to assist from starboard.  Here’s a Brendan Turecamo photo from almost 10 years ago.   Here’s more on CMA CGM Corneille, and if you want a refresher on who Pierre Corneille was, click here.  Recently the sixth bork has seen other c-ships named for writers like Herman Hesse and Ernest Hemingway.

Closing this post out . . .it’s Jonathan C Moran, moving a tanker out.  More on this tanker soon.  But

my photo below shows Jonathan C Moran on her christening day, less than two months ago.

 

All photos here by Will Van Dorp.

Summer Training 1

Type the word training into the search window to the left on this page and you’ll get a variety of posts, as here.  And truth be told, many other options exist for summer training and sea time for ocean academy students;  I met cadets from at least three on my “go west” trip.  Yesterday David Silver got me advance notice of when this training ship would leave port;  thanks to him, I got these photos.

Kimberly Turecamo assisted, as did Julia Miller and Amy C McAllister.

 

By 1230 Friday, she was west of the Brooklyn Bridge and headed for sea,

 

for Maine, and by

this posting, she’s already east of Cape Cod.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

Click here to watch David Silver’s 20-minute video of her departure from pier side.

 

Random Tugs 172

I’m reprising this from Troy, and it’s Lisa Ann.  I believe she’s 2012 built.

Governor Roosevelt is almost a century older, and wears 1928 on her name board now. This is Marcy NY, an Oneida County town between Utica and Rome.

Also at Lock E20, here’s a clutch of boats and floats including BB152, an unidentified and in the process of being repainted tender, a dredge barge, and BB 142.

Tug Erie is there too. Anyone know when tug Erie was built?

Farther along is 1932 tug Seneca, formerly of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Inside the H. Lee White Maritime Museum in Oswego, here’s a model of a Catherine Moran.

Here’s what the label said, but according to birk’s site, she’s still alive and well under the assumed name of  Sherry D.   Anyone have photos of Sherry D out in the SF Bay area?

On the freshwater sea called Lake Ontario, it’s another tugboat from 1928, Karl E. Luedtke.

Tucked away in Silo City of Buffalo, it’s Daniel Joncaire II, about a year old.

In the Outer Harbor of Cleveland, it’s 1954 Duluth and fleet mate

1956 William C. Gaynor.

And here approaching the south end of the Detroit river, it’s 1982 tug Michigan pushing barge Great Lakes.

 

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

 

Random Tugs 168

Summertime and the living is easy . . . and Sassafras is bringing fuel to MSC Marianna.

JRT Moran is preparing to assist MSC Busan out of its berth

Another section of Rockefeller University’s River Campus is shipping in aboard Witte 1401 moved by Emily Ann, 

passing Zachery and Jason Reinauer and

and Dean.

Crystal Cutler moves Patricia E. Poling westbound . . .

Brendan Turecamo assists MSC Busan back out

on its way

to Norfolk.

All photos taken yesterday by Will Van Dorp, who is leaving the area for a while.  Details tomorrow.

 

Newest Hull in the Sixth Boro 3

Is it Jonathan C Moran, which arrived in the sixth boro at some point in the past month?

It was.

Actually, as of now, it IS Jack T Moran, which arrived via the East River

yesterday afternoon, and will be christened along with Jonathan C, in a double ceremony at noon today.

More soon.  All photos by Will Van Dorp.

I should use this title more often, given the frequent renewal of robust industry in the sixth boro of NYC, but here is the previous usage.