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Angelina Autumn . . . that’s not a common sixth boro boat . . .
so of course I needed to go check her out as she entered the Narrows yesterday with a deck barge headed for Coeymans NY.
Arriving with Angelina Autumn was Shannon Dann,
towing a huge Weeks crane. I did not get an ID on the crane. Neptune was in the procession also, but it was miles back and I had other places I needed to be.
Genesis Eagle had GM 11103 alongside a tanker.
Josephine came in from sea with
RTC 83.
Lois Ann L. Moran departed the Narrows
bound for Philly with the barge Philadelphia.
Anacostia headed out as well with
with Double Skin 510A.
I should know but am just guessing . . . Nicole Leigh Reinauer alongside Energy Centaur over by the Sandy Hook Pilots’ station.
All photos, WVD.
Here comes Jonathan C around the stern of an incoming ship . . .
This turn would have been fun to see from the air, from a stable platform like a helicopter or drone.
The container ship is called Athens Express. And of course that is Kimberley Turecamo.
She was inbound yesterday from the ancient port of Damietta, 12 days and 19 hours behind her.
All photos, WVD.
This is a photo emblematic of our time . . . two seafarers. I could even speculate comfortably about their nationality. The older man to the left has no mask, and the other, with mask, is on his device. This can only be 2020.
Ditto here . . . the masked seafarer standing watch, leaning back on the rail as the vessel heads out to sea.
This can only be NYC, in the 20 aughts or later. I took it in September 2020.
Here’s a series of three. See the two crew?
They were testing/arranging something with the jacob’s ladder.
Then, this crewman saw me taking photos and he posed!
Here both the captain of the tug and the two ship’s crew are watching the pilot step across onto Margaret.
The pilot here stands out on the port bridge wing.
And finally, a crewman on a local boat provides lookout on the barge.
All photos, WVD, who loves summertime . . . as no doubt so do these crew.
Here are previous posts in this series. This post is a tribute to the dangerous but vital role pilots play in shipping.
Below, the docking pilot descends onto Marjorie B McAllister.
The transition from the gangway to the jacob’s ladder is tricky.
Here’s a Moran docking pilot, departing the ship after the ship is underway.
This is a small ship, but the distance to the water is still significant.
When assured the adjustment is right,
the docking pilot begins his descent to Jonathan C. Moran.
And finally, see the gangway from this angle . . .
and the pilot about to step across to Ava.
All photos, WVD, who wishes all safety.
Remember the post on the CMA CGM 14414s? How about the Wall of New York?
Below you are looking at 25,000 teu on the Maersk PLUS the CMA CGM vessels, Maersk 10k and CMA CGM 15k,
making this the largest ULCV yet to call in the sixth boro, CMA CGM Brazil. Brazil came off the ways earlier this year. The rest of the series will carry names including CMA CGM Argentina, Mexico, Panama, and Chile. Does Brazil have the special scrubbers? When will LNG catch on as fuel?
Hayward must have been the spectator vessel, but I didn’t get my invitation.
Maybe someone can opine on why James D. provided the tow moving astern? My supposition is that this configuration places the wheels farthest ahead of the tow, providing the dynamic equivalent of a longer lever, but that’s only a supposition.
James D. and Kirby worked in tandem, as opposite ends of the ship.
If my math is correct, 15,000 teus, if lined up end to end, would make 56.8 miles of containers. Big ship.
All photos, WVD, who wonders what is in all those boxes and of all that, what could not be made or grown in this country.
If you didn’t see her arrive, maybe you can catch her when she exits.
As of writing, two pink ULCVs– ONE Minato and ONE Hawk–share the cranes at Global Terminals. That would be a great photo, but I’m tied up this morning.
Recently, I waited around for another one of the CMA CGM Explorer series ULCVs. So far, I’ve seen Vespucci. That leaves von Humbolt, Colomb, Laperouse, Verne, Magellan, Polo, and Zheng.
Foreshadowing: JRT is cutting ahead of CMA CGM Corte Real to go to the next job.
The “explorer” in this case is obscure on this side of the world. Gaspar Corte Real was a 15th-century explorer memorialized by a statue in St. John’s Newfoundland.
More foreshadowing: Margaret has the honors here of retrieving the docking pilot.
This photo was taken a half hour after the previous ones. That’s JRT cutting across the Narrows to position for the next job . . .
an APL ULCV that Margaret is already alongside.
JRT closes in on the bow of APL Sentosa,named for an amusement resort in Singapore.
She’s the longest ULCV to call in the sixth boro, to date, I believe. Prove me wrong. She’s listed at 1207′ x 167′ whereas Corte Real has the same beam but is seven feet shorter.
Here the two ULCVs meet. Between them, they have capacity of 27,238 containers. both ULCVs loaded in Sri Lanka in early August. I’m wondering if anyone there got a photo of the two together in the port of Colombo.
As to relative size of ULCV to tugboat, notice the two crew on the bow of tug (in blue green) and stern of ship (in orange with white helmet)?
Here’s a closer up, where you can see the messenger line coming down . . . just about to hit the deck. The deckhand will grab it, make the messenger to the tow line, and the ship’s crew will bring it back to the ship.
All photos, WVD.
Alongside Pilot No. 1 New York, the current one, it’s the newest-in-name vessel in the sixth boro . . .
Meaghan Marie, ex–Kathleen Turecamo, has become part of the same green & buff fleet as Joseph John.
Here’s a photo I took of her in port of Albany, September 2013.
A different use of green . . . Vane’s Philadelphia, a 4200 hp tug launched in 2017.
A slightly darker buff, it’s Matthew Tibbetts. What I didn’t realize until I looked it up just now, Tibbetts was launched as Dann Ocean’s first boat to carry the name Ocean Tower. More on that later.
It’s always a good day when I catch two Reinauer tugboats together, Haggerty Girls (4000 hp) and Ruth M. Reinauer (4720 hp), with a deeply loaded RTC
Alex puts its 4300 hp to bear on Viktor Bakaev.
I mentioned Ocean Tower earlier . . . here’s the current tugboat by that name. It’s about a decade newer, one-third more horsepower, and 15′ longer, and 5′ broader than the earlier boat, now Tibbetts.
Kristin Poling began life as Chesapeake, an early version of Patapsco but longer, broader,and with a full 5000 hp.
And to conclude, examples of the classes of the two largest tractor tugs in the sixth boro . . . Capt. Brian A. and
JRT, each approaching their next job.
All photos very recently, WVD, who has more tugboat race photos from previous years . . .
Like lots of things, the Great North River Tugboat Race is, as ws said in a comment yesterday, “alas . . . cancelled this year.” So here’s some consolation, ws. . . If you need a dose of racing, you can click here and get all the way back to tugster post 2006, or for a sampling from 2006 until 2011, follow along. In 2006, I followed from W. O. Decker and had this view. I’ll let you try to identify these; if the group-source gets stuck, I’ll help out.
In 2007 . . . of these, only Lucy Reinauer is still around here.
HMS Liberty is still around.
In 2008 . . . throttling up releases some smoke . . .
In 2009, two of these are still running around the sixth boro staying busy. The third was involved in a scandalous grouding and has been scrapped.
Meagan Ann has unique safety headgear, inspired by an ancient design.
In 2010 . . . this was a motley armada, ranging from Atlantic Salvor to The Bronx.
Catherine C. Miller and Mary H were hurrying to the starting line here.
That year saw lots of pushing match-ups.
Vulcan III could be matched up with Viking later.
In 2011, THIS could be called the heat . . . actually, it was a misting from one of the fire boats.
Pushing around happened all over the field for spectators on deck and photographers up high.
As always, getting a line on a bollard . . . just another event in the sixth boro games.
USMMA’s Growler is closing on the bollard as a crewman demonstrates a rodeo-influenced style.
More to come . . . all photos, WVD. And if the last four photos above suggest a muddy Hudson, remember that 2011 had just seen Hurricane Irene flood the valley creeks feeding into the Hudson.
This title goes back more than 10 years. But I got some congested photos recently, so I dredge up an old title. Count the boats of all sizes here. Of course, foreshortening makes them seem much closer to each other than they really are. I count at least 12 vessels on the photo below, including some I had not noticed when I took it.
There are five here, and maybe two miles of separation between the two container ships.
Three operations were happening simultaneously in this stretch of the channel, and all were either stemming or moving very slowly.
Again, there’s lots of foreshortening here.
It may be exhilarating to get this close to a large ship, but if your engine stalls . . . stuff’ll happen really fast.
Here’s a different sort of “traffic” photo from august 31, 2008 . . . exactly 12 years ago. And it gives me an idea for a post. By the way, left to right, can you name at least half of the 12 boats at least partly visible here?
All photos, WVD.
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Remember Laura Maersk, the unusual tow from back in mid-June? An engine room explosion disabled her, and she had to be towed in for repairs. Well . . . below are her tracks from yesterday . . . first sea trials . . . aka a “test drive” and then
she made a beeline for Panama, an excellent place to load. I forgot to mention it, but the two ULCVs in a recent post, Hyundai Drive was arriving from Cartagena CO and Cosco Shipping Rose, from Limon Bay Panama.
Before leaving, she was very light, like this.
Remember Mendonca came into port about two weeks ago?
Her portside stern half of the vessel has been stripped of coating. In a blown up version of the photo below, i count at least 10 yard workers.
One might conclude, correctly, that Maersk has the largest container fleet in the world by the number of Maersk vessels calling here. Below the Gunhilde, 1200′ loa, gets escorted in by Capt. Brian A. McAllister.
CPO Bremen, previously called Vancouver Express, heads out, as
does
Northern Magnum, previously called Los Angeles Express.
CMA CGM T. Jefferson winds her way through the KVK.
Johanna C loads scrap.
Spinel arrives,
as does MSC Elodie.
All photos, WVD.
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