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More photos here thanks to Pete Ludlow.
The Amigo is an asphalt tanker. That means she moves her cargo around at almost 300 degrees F.
She was eastbound with assist by James D Moran.
What do you suppose Vinik No. 6 had in tow?
Nicholas and Liz assisted as well.
But of course, it was the venerable training ship . . .
from the shipyard on its way back to Fort Schuyler.
Again, many thanks to Pete for sharing these scenes not previously seen on tugster.
Unrelated: Since we robots monitor harbor events and share news, here’s a surprise that will astonish tugster upon his return: The Brown tugs have been sold to Seward Marine of Chesapeake VA.
Let’s jump back to May 2012. Over along the Manhattan side of the East River then, I caught this scene. Since then, there’s been some movement: Peking to Germany, Marion M to the Chesapeake, Helen McAllister to . . . rebirth as new steel.
Cheyenne has migrated to the Lake Michigan for now.
Twin Tube is still around but sans the boom.
Ellen McAllister is also still hard at work in the sixth boro, but I don’t see her doing much indirect towing as here.
Mark Moran was just passing through from the shipyard to Charleston.
Swan, built in 1981 and showing as her last movement three and a half years ago in China, has likely gone to rebirth as new steel.
But a decade ago in May 2012, she was here to move some used tugboats over to West Africa. Here she’s already down and BFT No. 38 with a crew boat strapped on has already been loaded, while
McAllister Sisters and McAllister Girls wait with three Crowley tugs,
Cavalier, Pioneer, and Mars.
After they are floated aboard, the tide turns the anchored Swan.
Socrates and Heron also float aboard, and
overnight, Swan gets deballasted and raises the hull, so that we can see their five-bladed wheels. More of the story here.
Also in the boro those days was Picton Castle, showing the flag and more, maybe recruiting some hands
before sailing away. Does anyone have news about her? Has she really stayed in Lunenburg since late 2020?
All photos, WVD, exactly 120 months ago.
Unrelated to any of this, read this May 2004 article by the late great Don Sutherland and reflect on how much change has occurred.
As of March 1, 2022, CMA CGM Adonis was still in the shipyard, not yet delivered. By March 31, the vessel was in Qingdao and loaded, casting off lines. And April 29, 2022, she had a Sandy Hook pilot on board and was proceeding up the Ambrose Channel, making her first ever cargo call anywhere.
And here, as a SeaStreak fast ferry overtakes it off to port, a Moran tug is about to land a docking pilot on board for her first call.
It turns out that James D did the honors, not JRT, which took the stern.
Click here to learn some of the invisible but significant technology built into Adonis to make it safer and cleaner.
All photos, WVD, who wishes to say “welcome to the sixth boro, CMA CGM Adonis.“
They come, they go . . . and we never get to know more than the names, unless something unusual happens, as was the case with Ever Forward. More on that at the end of this post. Some names are intriguing, like CMA CGM Osiris, likely among the newest cargo ships calling in the sixth boro, part of the CMA CGM Zephyr class.
Chipolbrok–the name– made no sense until I looked up its origins. The agreement has been around longer than I have!!
Bulk carriers have the best names . . . like Common Luck.
Maersk Vilnius is a regular in the boro, last posted here in January.
So is MSC Tomoko, although I’ve not posted any photos of her before.
Fairchem Copper has never appeared here before, although sister Fairfield tankers have.
Ortolon . . . that’s a word origin I never suspected! Making sense of Ortolon Coco, that defeats me.
Ice Fighter . . . I saw this and immediately thought of Ice Babe Base of many years ago.
I started with a CMA CGM Zephyr, so it’s a good place to end . . . and they crossed paths in the boro: Osiris, meet Apollon.
All photos, WVD.
Here’s the story I alluded to earlier: a graphic novelist —Jordan Crane–had his latest book printed overseas and it–along with other new books–was traveling back to the US aboard Ever Forward. Crane also had a book tour planned, where he would distribute copies of the new book. Well, Ever Forward messed up those plans! Long term though, this delay revealed this story, and that may just boost his sales, like a double-printed postage stamp or doubly-struck coin. Well, if I were Crane, I would play up this angle. And Ever Forward, it appears she’s back in Baltimore. I’ll bet the pilot and crew will be very nervous around the Craighill Channel.
Bet you can guess where that line leads from the bow of Kirby Moran?
Here you go.
Jordan Rose has been tied up in Bayonne for a while, but
Gregg McAllister passes her on the way to an assist.
Michael Miller is one of the venerable tugs of the sixth boro,
having worked here since the mid-1960s.
Cape Fear has been here for a few years, although I’ve not yet seen
her two sisters, Cape May and Cape Henry.
Ava M. is one of the workhorses, certainly.
Does anyone know when and if Capt. Brian A. will return to service here?
Kimberly Turecamo has worked the harbor consistently for going-on 30 years.
Here she heads into an orange sherbet dawn.
All photos in the past week, WVD., who has more Canal Society archival photos coming but some contemporary posts demonstrate my temporary anchor. Also coming up, a photographer high above Hell Gate has shared a new trove of photos from a perspective I’ve missed. Many thanks for your continued interest.
I’ve used this title a dozen times before, but never have four relatively recent hulls shared sixth boro waters until now, at least not that I’m aware of.
So let’s start here with an obvious logo and a name I couldn’t quite parse, Viking
Octantis, until I realized it was named for a star visible in the Southern Hemisphere.
From here, they head north and are expected on the Saint Lawrence by the end of April. This is the vessel that is supposed to transform cruising in the Great Lakes, including Lake Superior, using Milwaukee as its hub for the summer months. I can say from experience that Milwaukee could be a great city for this. Here, here and here are more Milwaukee posts previously on tugster.
I understand that Blount tried Lake Superior with their vessels years ago, but Viking will bring in a few hundred guests at a time. Other itineraries explain the name, as they will sail under the southern skies. As of this writing this 2022 vessel is still at the passenger terminal, unfortunately, stern to land, and I wanted to see the bow. She was delivered from the VARD Shipyard in Søvik NO in January 2022.
As of 1130 today, she headed for sea, for Charlottetown PEI, specifically.
Another 2022 vessel arrived in the sixth boro yesterday, USCGC Clarence Sutphin WPC-1147, the 47th Sentinel-class cutter has delivered to the USCG. After christening, WPC-1147 will head off to Bahrain.
Christening is here most likely because the namesake was a Queens native. I thought that learning this would help me understand the origin of this major street near where I live, but it seems both street and hero have names traced back to the old country. The new cutter overtook the container ship under the VZ Bridge.
While we’re looking at hulls delivered in 2022, here’s another, with noticeable style-cousins already working in the boro. I’ll let you look for the similarities in superstructure. James K was recently delivered to Weeks, as reported here.
She’s been hauling dredge scows the past few days, as was the case Easter morning at first light.
See the resemblance certainly with James E. Brown? Rodriguez Boatbuilders needs their history site updated.
Another fairly new hull in town, possibly calling in PoNYNJ for the first time is CMA CGM Osiris. I’ve not yet seen it, but she may depart today.
All photos, WVD.
Some of you may know a vessel called Pride of Baltimore II, as seen here if you scroll a bit or if you follow the tags.
But here is something different. See when you figure it out.
Overseas Anacortes is a product carrier . . . tanker . . . that was delivered in early May 2010, one of about a dozen such vessels.
Here the Overseas tanker is assisted in by Miriam Moran, a 1979 product of Morgan City LA, a place I visited just a few long months ago.
On the side of the superstructure of Overseas Anacortes, see the below signs.
So I guess you’ve figured out by now why I call this the “pride of Philadelphia“. Currently the shipyard is working on the new Empire State, due next year, and three other training ships. I’ve no idea how that project is going, but here was the steel-cutting ceremony. Here‘s more from last year.
In closing, notice the flag on the stern of both vessels.
All photos and any errors, WVD.
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Let’s go back a decade. Then MSC Emma was on the west coast of Bayonne leaving town; now she’s on the west coast of Central America, leaving Lazaro Cardenas for Panama.
Above she was assisted by Gramma Lee T [now in Norfolk] and Margaret and setting up for the turn from Newark Bay into the KVK; here we had almost gotten ahead of the trio of vessels.
A strange trio was in the sky
over the sixth boro. The piggyback rider is still in town, albeit likely to never fly again. More here.
Meanwhile, over in the Arthur Kill, a boring machine was placing charges in holes below the bottom of the waterway and connecting them to the stringy orange signal cord to blast when the time was right for them all to detonate at the same millisecond. That day I touched some hefty but perfectly safe explosives, inert until the right signal is applied, which sounds like some folks I know.
More on “kraken” the bottom here.
Back then, I was spending a lot of early mornings near Howland Hook waiting for my work to begin, and I caught a Double Skin 37 moving bunkers
and maneuvered by Coral Coast. Was that mechanical dredge Captain A. J. Fournier in the distance above?
The Joker was then a more sedate Taurus, before joining the hilariously-named over at Hays.
Put Tasman Sea into the picture too. Is the Tasmanian still laid up in Louisiana?
And it was a great April 2012 day I caught the seldom-seen Patty Nolan
moving a houseboat into the sixth boro. Patty seems to be preparing for a comeback.
And the 1972 2325 teu Horizon Navigator, here with Samantha Miller alongside, was still working. Is the 1972 container ship still intact?
And let’s wind this up with Ellen and Maurania III returning to base after a job. Ellen is still in the sixth boro, and Maurania III is in the Delaware.
All photos, WVD, April 2012.
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Does equipment ever change in the sixth boro? Of course.
Thornton Bros, the 1958 Matton Shipyard product, was scrapped in 2014.
The 1971 Maria J is now Nicholas Vinik.
USACE Hudson, the sweetest Corps boat I’ve ever seen, got transformed into a fish house in 2019. Advance Victoria, 2006, is now Kition M, anchored in the Persian/Arabian Gulf.
The 2002 Labrador Sea is now Vane’s Brooklyn.
The 1944 Gage Paul inadvertently became a very deep fish house in 2015.
The 2002 Gramma Lee T is now in Norfolk.
Does the US Navy still have airships? If ever I have the chance to ride in one of these, I’ll take it in a heartbeat!
Bruce A brought in the 1970 Crowley Mars and
Michael J brought in the 1975 Crowley Pioneer; both Crowley’s were shipped off to Africa later in 2012. The 1971 Michael J. was scrapped late in 2021. Christine was working for Reinauer.
The massive 1970 Penn No. 6 is now the massive Vinik No. 6.
The 1972 Catherine Turecamo is now on the Great Lakes as John Marshall.
Do you still want to tell me nothing ever changes in the sixth boro?
All photos taken by WVD during the first SIX days of 2012.
A list of odd cargoes over the years would include an uncovered cigarette boat, other boats, military materiel, never-to-be-used wheel pedestals, port supplies, a Mirage F-1, . . . I could go on. At this point, I’d not yet noticed the cargo atop the India-bound Maersk Detroit.
Brendan Turecamo retrieved the docking pilot.
But that’s when I noticed it. And in a very branded color. Know it? Evidence follows.
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It ain’t no snow blower!
See it?
It’s certainly a Deere, probably along these lines. It makes me wonder what fields this will harvest. See a leveling-combine in operation here.
This screening seems made-to-measure for passage through pirate waters.
Maersk Detroit is one of about 20 US-flagged cargo ships serving the oceans.
All photos, WVD.
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