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Here’s the newest, following directly from 12 for Sandy Ground and 10 for SSG Michael H. Ollis. Or how about a redux for both.
Now unless ferry and tug travel on a maglev frictionless cushion of air when offshore and distant, this is just the fata morgana effect when the vessels are seen a ways off, in this case, about six miles. In the photo below, there’s a hint that Sarah Dann is riding on a foil board,
and that the ferry has a dreadnought shaped hull.
Well . . . I’m just messin’. These were photos of yesterday’s arrival of the third of three new ferries. Note New York Media Boat out to snap their first welcome photos. Photos of the christening down in Florida happened months ago here.
Here the tow enters the Narrows, and the ocean called the Upper Bay, where Dorothy Day will transport hundreds of thousands and even millions of passengers in the next decades.
Ellen McAllister moves in close, not to provide the assist but rather to convey photographers needing to confirm that the vessel is in fact a ferry for the City of New York. confirmation provided andn documented.
All photos, WVD, who’s ridden aboard MHO but not yet Sandy Ground.
For reportage on all three newest ferries, check out this report from New York Media Boat here.
Here was the first post in this series, but Wednesday I caught the crane again, this time being handled by a regular in the boro as well as a newcomer named Brinn Courtney, who appeared here once before as Patricia Winslow.
Thinking the better shot would be with Manhattan as background, we opted for the NY side,
but as we passed on our way to another job, we noticed the green stack on the starboard side of the tow. I’d not seen that earlier and had not taken time to look at AIS.
At first I thought Charles James, but her red paint has been covered over a few years ago, so i finally looked at AIS and saw
it was Brinn Courtney, a new-to-Stasinos boat.
I would have taken more of Brinn Courtney, but we were already late for a rendezvous.
Welcome to the boro, Brinn Courtney. She appeared here once about eight years ago as Patricia Winslow.
All photos on the fly, WVD. Thanks to the New York Media Boat for conveyance.
Note: By this time tomorrow, I will be out of the boro and the robots in tugster tower will again have their virtual fingers and hands on the controls. I’ve no idea how long I’ll be away on this gallivant, nor what the WiFi situation will be. Go, robots!
I’m just observing, not criticizing, but the vessel turnout in 2022 seems quite small. I understand that lots of other things are happening globally. Following USS Bataan, USCGC Sycamore (WLB-209) and HMS Protector (A-173) arrive. They are both about 20 years in service and have both done assignments in the Arctic.
Sycamore made a run up to the GW before turning around. I saw her here in the sixth boro just over a year ago.
Protector did not begin life as a UK Royal Navy ice patrol vessel. Rather, it was built as the 2001 Polarbjørn in Lithuania for GC Rieber, a Norwegian company based in Bergen, a port I visited way back in 1985, on one of my early gallivants. Unfortunately, in those days I traveled sans camera.
USCGC Dependable (WMEC-626) built at AmShip in Lorain OH and commissioned in 1968, is over the midcentury mark and still at work. AmShip Lorain-closed since the early 1980s- built some icons, several of their lakers still very much in active service.
Most of the medium endurance cutters of Dependable‘s cohort-Reliance class– are still in service, either in the US or elsewhere.
USS Milwaukee (LCS-5) was commissioned in 2015. Like Sycamore and Dependable, she was built on the Great Lakes
Four years ago here, I visited the Marinette Shipyard town where Milwaukee came into existence. Some products of Marinette include Sycamore–above–and Ellen McAllister, also involved in Wednesday’s parade into the sixth boro. Katherine Walker, part of the welcoming committee Wednesday, is another Marinette product, as are some of the current Staten island ferries (Molinari class) and some ATBs, like Brandywine and Christiana that pass through the port now and then.
As Milwaukee steamed upriver, she slowed and spun a 180 turn much faster than I imagined possible for a 378′ vessel. I wish I’d been on shore just off her improvised turning basin when she did so. Was anyone there and can send photos?
A sister of Milwaukee, USS Duluth (LCS 21) was commissioned in her namesake city only earlier this week.
All photos, WVD, who hopes to get in some more Fleet Week sights this weekend. If you’re reading this and arrived in the sixth boro–aka the primary boro–of NYC, welcome.
Count them . . . at least four very different vessels: Saint Emilion with barge, JRT waiting to assist, Grace D shuttling people and supplies, and a sloop.
Here’s more from hither and yon around the sixth boro: Navigator at “old navy” topping off the ferry reserves,
Popeye fishing in front of Ellis Island,
Meagan Ann taking the stern of this interesting sailing trawler,
another sloop passing the Statue line, a Circle Line boat, as well as a Statue Cruises vessel,
and a NY Media Boat touring RIB.
Yes, I’m back to that trawler. It’s called Briney Bus out of Miami, but besides that, I don’t know much. My guess is that, like many boats, it’s heading for the NYS Canal system, which opened two days ago.
The parting shot . . . Meagan Ann.
All photos and any errors, WVD.
Quick . . . what do you know about this white lionine tugboat? Answer follows.
We’re still being quick here? What can you tell me about this model of Dianne E. in a display case on the lower level of a barge of Pier 66? I know nothing about the model, but I stopped by at Pier 66 Wednesday for the first time in way too long. Any interest in meeting gathering there one of these warm days?
And speaking of piers, I made my first stop at Pier 76 ever Wednesday as well. It seems I’ve not been out here in a really long time.
Harvey looked resplendent alongside the seating . . ..
The NYS Canal system opens officially today, and that means Sparky might be a looper headed up there traveling north and then west to get back to Florida. I’m just speculating.
Anne Moore is busy. Hey, NPS, I’d like to talk with you about this vessel.
Media Boat 5 is always out, always doing and seeing interesting sights.
RCC Africa is a RORO I’ve not seen before. Here are Autoliner routes.
Pacific Basin‘s Sharp Island left town light.
Rolf Williams was returning to base after delivering lube solutions.
And that brings us back to this tugboat . . . the former J. George Betz.
All photos, WVD, who suggests you too gallivant around the original boro, the sixth boro, some warm day soon.
Thanks to Bjoern of New York Media Boat, it’s . . . LCU 1657. This was last week, March 2022
At first glance I thought it was a landing craft with a large add-on wheelhouse. Later I noticed the landing craft was being pushed by a small tugboat named Pierson. I’m not familiar with this unit. LCU 1657 was built by Defoe Shipbuilding in Bay City MI in the early 1970s.
George Schneider sent me these photos from July 2021 in San Diego of a very similar if not identical vessel. He writes “LCU 1648 was built in 1955 by Marinette Marine in Wisconsin. She is not a commissioned warship, and is considered a ‘boat’ in the Navy hierarchy.”
From August 2021, here’s something unusual. George writes “the remote-controlled prototype Sea Hawk passed us to the South. I was still on the bow [of my vessel], and although she was up-sun, I still got some good, clear shots of her. Then, just to be a nuisance, I called our bridge and asked if they could get the Sea Hawk to turn around and pass down our starboard side for better lighting. The Captain didn’t dignify my call with an answer, but the Navy must have heard me, because that’s exactly what she did. So I got excellent underway shots of her, plus
I got a shot of her boat number, which is slightly different than we thought.”
Since the sixth boro is not usual Navy waters except during Fleet Week, we don’t get such exotic vessels here.
We do see a lot of Vane Brothers vessels in the sixth boro and throughout the East Coast, but in August 2021, Delaware was in . . . LA! She’s currently working in Oakland CA.
Many thanks to Bjoern and George for use of these photos.
It’s back, and with reconstruction complete, training can begin. To see how the new pilot boat got to this point, see updates here from May and August 2020. For a glimpse of the 1972 vessel this one replaces, click here. The 1972 pilot boat measures 155′ x 28′; this rebuilt 1993 OSRV measures 210′ x 46,’ so this is a massively larger boat.
For today’s post, enjoy these spectacular shots Bjoern of New York Media Boat got as she transited a rainy sixth boro yesterday evening.
Many thanks to Bjoern for permission to share these photos.
Meanwhile, keep your eyes turned toward the harbor and you may catch the new No. 1 with the old.
Ambrose Channel late morning yesterday
saw the arrival of this vessel, 321′ x 41′ and with that pennant flying from the masthead at 157′.
Launched in 1914 in Bremerhaven, and having changed national registry many times,
Statsraad Lehmkuhl is on its One Ocean Expedition, having left Norway in August.
New York is one of 36 stops it will make on a 55,000 nm circumnavigation worldwide. Hop aboard via their FB page here.
By noon yesterday
she had anchored, basking in sunshine
just off the Statue.
All photos, WVD, with conveyance thanks to New York Media Boat.
The three-masted barque visited the sixth boro back in 1964, and maybe since then as well.
More photos and inside information can be found here.
More info about its multiple changes in ownership since 1914, here.
For other posts about visiting tall ships, click here.
ACV Enviro provides boom service at IMTT; this means they use a small boat to deploy and retrieve oil containment precautionary booms around vessels transferring petroleum products there. Here and here are examples appearing here previously. I don’t know how long booming has been required– years, I suppose; it’s not new.
Miss Beth, however, is a new boat. At least, this is my first time to see her. My question is . . . what was her previous life? She looks military.
The photo quality below is not the best, but I hope you find it as interesting as I do: Left to right, most prominently that’s Martin Explorer and Douglas J., whose livery says Donjon and whose lines are unmistakably those of the former Mediterranean Sea. Before that, she was Donald C. Interestingly, I believe I see the stack of Lilac there too, just forward and above the stack of Douglas J.
Also, this is not a great photo of Annie Moore, a relatively new hull in the boro, given that this Bristol Harbor Group-designed (Or was it designed by TAI Engineers??) workboat was delivered at most a half year ago to work the Statue of Liberty for the National Park Service. This is my first sighting for this boat. Her namesake is a 17-year-old Irish immigrant, the first person to pass through Ellis Island in early 1892 from steamer Nevada. Click here for more of the Annie Moore immigrant story.
Many thanks to Tony A for catching the Douglas J photo; all others, WVD.
I’ve been meaning to ask about this lumber on the piers at Red Hook container terminal. Not quite a year ago an unusual looking vessel called Mozu Arrow deposited these bundles of lumber. Here‘s another shot showing all the bundles. All through the stories of lumber being outrageously expensive, this lumber stayed here. In some places, the coverings have ripped off leaving the wood exposed to the weather, wasting away. Can anyone tell me the story of this lumber and why it hasn’t moved in 11 months. As of this writing, the lumber carrier is traveling between South Korea and British Columbia, light maybe, having deposited lumber on piers in Busan perhaps? On second thought, would this vessel travel sans cargo across the Pacific? What cargo might it be carrying to Canada?
Brendan Turecamo is a regular on this blog; behold about nine feet of the boat you never see when she’s working.
Here’s a limitation of gantry cranes; if you have a container ship loaded higher than the cranes can accommodate, getting a last box in place means lifting to the height and then sliding it in aft to fore. Understand what’s happening here? The box was lifted farther “back” than the empty slot, and now the crane operator is sliding it in laterally, toward the right in this photo. Is this a common occurrence on these “tall ships,” to give a new meaning to the phrase?
Do you remember “you go girl” graffiti on a ferry just west of the Bayonne Bridge? Well, clearly it has shifted over toward the Bayonne, New Jersey, side and is showing a different and more corroded side. I wonder where she goes next.
From this angle, there appears to be quite a few Reinauer tugs in their yard. While we’re playing an Andy Rooney and asking questions about everything, has anyone learned more about the WindServe Marine toehold within the Reinauer real estate here? Isn’t it hard to believe that Andy Rooney has been gone for almost a decade now?
Getting back to the warehouse sheds in Red Hook, is it possible this very experienced tow truck is there to prosecute any violators who choose to trespass and/or dock? I saw a more intimidating sign and sight in Belfast ME some years ago in the second photo here.
To show location of these signs and the antique tow truck, note it in the wider view photo below.
Shall we leave it here? I suppose. All photos, WVD, with conveyance from the New York Media Boat.
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