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Andrew J graced this port I’ve passed many times both by water and highway. Any guesses where I took this photo? I watched their July 4 2016 fireworks. Answer follows. That power plant opened in 1950 as well; it’s shuttered and a plan to repower it from coal to natural gas has fallen through.
Andrew J is a 1950 build, less than 50′ loa. I took a photo of one of Andrew J‘s fleet mates here in 2016, although then West Wind –a boat with a really random history–was working for another company.
Kurt R. Luedtke has been working its way around Lake Ontario this season. I missed her in Sodus Bay, but
the other day caught her in Fair Haven NY. Kurt R. has previously appeared on this blog here and here.
Any guesses where Gulf Spray does her work? I suppose the paint on the light house may be a clue.
Closer up . . . both these photos come thanks to Justin Zizes.
Gulf Spray, a Nova Scotia 1959 build, works in Halifax.
And finally, the flags are a clue here. Spes was built in 1946, and the photo comes thanks to Jan van der Doe. It’s one of many photos he sent me months ago that I’ve been saving for a rainy–or otherwise distracted– day.
Spes, of course, is a Dutch boat. These photos were taken in the river town of Dordrecht, where I had gone in 2014 for the steam fest that happens there every other year.
Thanks to Jan and Justin for sharing their photos.
The lead photo here was taken in Dunkirk NY, where I had stopped to look for a fish tug. No dice on the fish tug, though.
Here was the first in this series. Guess the date these photos were taken?
Consider all that coal smoke.
As it turns out Dockyard III doesn’t always blow so much smoke. Click on this link if you wish, but what I find remarkable there is that Dockyard III and its sisters were built in WW2 for Murmansk and hence have the chimney-encasing wheelhouse (for heat) and an ice-strengthened bpw.
Adelaar dates from 1925.
Paddle steamer De Majesteit dates from 1926. I saw her on the river in Rotterdam in 2014, and included her in a comparison of old passenger vessels here.
Dockyard IX, part of that same order that never made it to Murmansk, was completed in 1942. Dockyard IX has been on this blog once before here.
Many steam tugs crowd the river below, but nearest the camera, that’s Heibok 4, a floating steam crane dating from 1916.
SS Furie, dates from 1916. I wrote about her extensively here in 2016.
George Stephenson had me fooled; it was built starting in 2007, ie., she might be called steampunk. I saw her in May 2014.
Hercules is the real deal steam, launched in 1915. I was aboard her in 2016, as seen here.
And the answer is late May 2018 at the Dordrecht Steam Festival. The photos come via Jan van der Doe from the photographer Leo Schuitemaker.
Looking at these photos, I’m again struck by the number of historic vessels preserved and in operating condition in the Netherlands. Some are scrapped there of course. Has anyone ever heard of the Dutch reefing boats to create North Sea fish habitat? These, and I have many others from Jan and Leo I’d love to post, have benefitted from loving restoration. Let me know if you want more steam tugs.
Amicitia, which I wrote about in 2011, is back to life after 60 years (!!!) underwater as a result of being bombed, not reefed, back then.
Do the Dutch have different financial tools that produces this fruit? Is it because of their different attitude toward maintaining machines and buildings? Are there just different priorities throughout Dutch culture?
A google search leads to this article referring to “artificial reefs around the world,” but the headline is quite misleading.
New styling for a superstructure? Ocean7 Projects is an organization I’ve not seen in the sixth boro before.
For a Dutch company,
it has a great logo with that tulip.
Urk is a small town dating back to medieval times, accustomed to surviving against the sea. I’ll never forget a visit there with cousins on a raw November day, ducking out of the rain into a small bar with nary a straight line anywhere in its construction due to sagging. The genever warmed otherwise cold bones.
She danced around Bergen Point this morning, seemingly empty from
Haiti. I’m not sure what she’ll load in Port Newark.
It made my day to see this unusual cargo ship. As of this posting, she’s southbound along the Delmarva peninsula.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
And following up on yesterday’s post, the top AIS screen capture represents many Sunday evenings-into-Monday mornings. Although Port of NYC/NJ operates non-stop, there’s often a rhythm of emptying-out on the weekend with a surge of new boats at the work week’s start. The exact capture was from wee hours of Monday, this week.
More interesting is the followup to the second photo showing Grasp anchored off Fire Island. Frank Pierson found a news article corroborating what Mike had said . . . that USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) was indeed operating at the wreck site of USS San Diego (ACR-6). Be sure to read the article embedded in his comment. Here’s a video of the ceremony. Thanks much, Mike and Frank.
On a windy day recently in the Beerkanaal section greater Rotterdam harbor, Jan Oosterboer took these photos, passed along by Jan van der Doe.
The small boats here are operated by the KRVE, self-translated as “rowers” but more likely we’d call them linesmen. The more distant KRVE boat is alongside Smit Cheetah. The link that follow are mostly for previous instances these boats have appeared on this blog.
Here’s their own site in English.
Multratug 31
In the distance newly-launched LNG carrier Vladimir Rusanov, shuttling between Rotterdam and Russian Kara Sea port of Sabetta. I had to look up Sabetta, since I’d not heard of it: average annual temperature is 14 degrees F, -10 C
Above and below, that’s Smit Hudson.
Iskes tug Venus is about three years old.
Above and below FairPlay X,
which has not been on this blog before. Multratug 5 shows her Japanese origins,
here with Beagle, new this spring.
Many thanks to Jan and Jan for these photos. Any errors in text are mine.
These photos come via Jan van der Doe and were taken by Jan Oosterboer in the Lekhaven area of Rotterdam.
Lingestroom, a Damen Shoalbuster 3512 design and launched in 2017, measures 114′ x 39′ and is powered by triple screw driven by three Caterpillar C32-TTA SCAC.
Unrelated, notice the stack for the Atlanship SA orange juice tanker on the far side of the building? I’m not sure which tanker that is.
MTS Indus is 82′ x 24.’ More info here. Just beyond Indus and against the dock is MTS Vanquish, a 2909 Stantug design from Damen.
Sea Bronco is a SeaContractor tug with two Caterpillar 3508B engines.
En Avant 20 is a twin Schottel 5000 hp tug built in 2006. I like the slogan on the building on the right side of the photo.
Union Princess is queen of the dock here: 221′ loa x 51′ and powered by two Wärtsilä 16v32 LND engines for a total of just over 16,000 hp.
Dian Kingdom measures 107′ x 36.’
I hope you enjoyed this look around the dock in Lekhaven, thanks to Jan and Jan. For the first seven in the series, click here.
Again, these photos come via Jan van der Doe from Vianen at the Merwedekanaal, and taken by Huug Pieterse from Arkel and Leo Schuitemaker from Klundert. By the way, Klundert became a city in 1357!
Noorderlight dates from 1941. I’m not sure which small tug she’s towing.
Wiepke, 1946.
Zuiderzee, 1930.
Maartje Anna, 1923.
Finally, for now, Noorman, 1939.
Many thanks to Jan. I’m working on catching up. All these photos–today’s and yesterday’s–were taken in the second half of May.
These photos come via Jan van der Doe from Vianen at the Merwedekanaal, and taken by Huug Pieterse from Arkel and Leo Schuitemaker from Klundert. By the way, Klundert became a city in 1357!
I’m making an attempt at matching these up with some basic info. So Storm dates from 1909 and David from 1947.
Harmonie is 1919,
Jan, 1917; and
Guardian is 1926.
Elizabeth . .. I don’t know.
I have many, many more photos from Jan to catch up on, and will try to do so. What always amazes me is how many restored tugboats/yachts there are in the Netherlands.
In the photos below you are looking at Time is Money, a famous parlevinker. A what??!
Well, have a close look and you’ll know . . .
A parlevinker is basically a floating supermarket, or more like a bodega on the water. In English it’s a bum boat, but when’s the last time you saw a functioning bum boat; there might still be one in NY harbor here, but it’s been converted into a loft on water. It wouldn’t work in the sixth boro, IMHO, because we don’t have a critical mass of people working and living on or in close enough proximity to the water. Click here for more info on Time is Money and its longtime owner Wim van Vooren. And if you look up-close at the exhibits on the top deck below the flags, they’re some Hertog Jan, sister beverages of Budweiser, siblings of the InBev family.
And while we’re on the unusual, ws, Walter, a frequent commenter here, told me about a lot of lobsters being released into the sixth boro last week: “Last Friday, a group of local Buddhists released a lot of live lobster into the North River at 100th Street. It’s been done before. I don’t know the lobster’s chances of survival, but it’s got to be a lot better than their chances of survival if they ended up on someone’s plate.” Here’s a Huff Post account.
These photos and many more to come were taken last weekend in the Netherlands by Leo Schuitemaker and forwarded by Jan van der Doe. Many thanks Jan and Leo.
Here’s a seven minute video clip on Time is Money. It’s in Dutch, but the interesting images start after one minute. Some translation: His family started the business in 1932, when there were about a hundred such boats working the inland waterways in the Netherlands. He himself started in 1962. He would serve 10–35 clients a day. A few of the “shopping in the waterway on the fly” scenes are great. Here’s a 20-minute one.
More old steel today and all from Jan van der Doe. I posted a stern view of the vessel below a few days ago . . . here’s more of the story, as much as I understand. Between 1944 and 1990, it had German, Belgian, and Dutch owners, both governmental and private. Since 1990, it’s been owned by Americans who keep it in Rotterdam.
The rest of these photos Jan took in Hamilton ON, and some of the boats
might be in greater jeopardy. Florence M, Tony MacKay, and James A. Hannah have all been on this blog before, and with some of the same company. One of these days, they may no longer be there, and they may no longer BE.
I gather these are Carrol C 1 and Bonnie B. from that same 2015 post.
Molly M I works for Nadro Marine and was built in 1962.
William is the name and Bermingham is the company here, and she’s almost 80 years old. Unrelated: What material is stored in the domes?
Many thanks to Jan for his updates from Rotterdam and Hamilton.
If you’ve yet to make your first trip to the Netherlands and you’re interested in tugboats, then Maassluis in one of a handful of must-see places. Jan van der doe went there recently and sent these. I was there last year and got some of the same photos, just two months later in the season. As you can see, the Dutch have wet and misty winters. This is the “binnenhaven” or “inner harbor.” For some great 1945 photos of the same place, click here.
I’m not repeating details on these boats, because most of them I commented on last year.
This boat’s name is tribute to the same person for whom our fair river is named, obviously.
Here we move counterclockwise around the harbor; that white building with the pointy tower is the National Tugboat Museum.
I’d translate Krimpen as “shrink,” but I don’t know if that’s the sense here.
Here we’re back to the location of photo #1 but we look to the right, toward the big river, the Nieuwe Waterweg. “Waterweg” translates as “waterway.”
If I walk in this direction a few blocks and follow this boat looking to my left, I’d be headed past Schiedam and the Mammoet Bollard Building and get to waters edge Rotterdam, about which I’ve done lots of posts.
All photos thanks to Jan van der Doe.
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