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This collage of orange and blue indicates that something unusual approaches . . .
0846 hr . . .
0904
Atlantic Salvor might have been headed out on a long range mission, but
at this point, I realized this mission would begin in the Lower Bay of the sixth boro along with
lots of other vessels, although
something new this year was the escort of four commercial tugs: Sassafras, Miriam Moran,
Atlantic Salvor, and Normandy. 1150. I was happy to find someone to talk to.
It’s fleet week NYC. Welcome all.
It’s USS DDG 96,
HMCS D 282,
WMEC 911,
HMCS MM 700,
HMCS MM 708,
LHD 5,
DDG 99,
and LSD 43.
At 1216, Eric McAllister joins the welcome party . . .
WLM 552.
An E-2 flew by too.
The message on the port wheel well ((?) amused me.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Here was last year’s arrival.
I’ve been waiting to get a good photo of the latest FDNY vessel under way and I caught it here the other day.
Her top speed exceeds 40 knots, an important feature given the need to urgently respond to a crisis.
Another relatively new government boat in the harbor is NYPD 621, P. O. Harry R. Ryman.
Of course, RIBs like 25713 are always out and training.
And finally, I’m guessing this is a government boat, given where it was, but it has no marking on it at all. Anyone help?
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Here was 33.
See the logo on the stern of this puppy . . . er . . . LARC?
My friend Tony A shared these photos with me. He said they’re in the public domain, but they show up nowhere in google searches.
So here are my questions: Were these only experimental? What is the approximate vintage of these photos? What has become of the boats? A hydrographic survey company used to have at least one such vessel in their Staten Island yard . . . are they the same boats?
I’m just full of questions this morning. Many thanks to Tony for sharing. Enjoy the beautiful sunny spring morning. Here is an index of previous tugster posts with NYPD vessels.
In the Lower Bay, NYS Environmental Conservation police confer with NYPD.
Motor Lifeboat 47264 . . . was delivered from this Louisiana shipyard in late July 2000, and
looks brand new.
This Buffalo district survey vessel is barely half year old, and named for
a surveyor with a long career of service all over the watery parts of the globe.
This 45′ response boat medium was delivered to Oswego this year.
Sylvan Beach air boat.
Tappan Zee V . . . I know no more about this vessel–a retired US boat ??–than I did last time I had a photo of her.
Here Oswego Marine One trains in the Oswego River.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Last May I traveled willingly into around a corner in time . . . enjoyed it, and posted the “fifth dimension” series that ended with this post. So I toying with the idea of strolling into another. Sadly, about all I know about these photos –other than that they show the sixth boro as it was more than half century ago–is the dates and some names. I hope someone can add some information.
NYPD, 1949. Launch is named for Patrolman/Boatswain’s Mate 2nd class Robert Steinberg, who died in March 1945 while serving in the Navy.
1951 departing (for where?) troopship City of Keansburg. Tug is unidentified.
1952. Lehigh Valley Victor. Notice the Woolworth Building near the left margin of the photo and the Singer Building –demolished 1968– near the center. Is Victor considered a tug?
July 1952 . . . Carol Moran and two other tugs, near Haverstraw.
1953. East River . . . tugboat is Manhattan, floating property of the Department of Docks but I’ve found nothing else. The building partially shown along the left is 70 Pine–I think, and the building in the center of the photo is 120 Wall.
Photo taken by Allen Baker in April 2014 . . . last week . . . of a USS Slater, launched and patrolling the oceans before the photos in this post were taken. Obviously, I’d love to know more about all these vessels.
All these photos can be found in the NYC Municipal Collections.
Oh . . if you recognize the “corner in time”reference in the first line . . . here’s the music, one of my all time favorites.
Doing research on some city-owned vessel. . . I stumbled onto this photo below dated September 1934. Recognize the sledgehammer-wielding politician about to do some major reefing off the side of the boat?
Click here for more. What do you make of the outfit and the wheelhouse here in the late 1940s photo?
And what’s about to be reefed off DPC-15 aka Brooklyn?
To get the caption on the photo below, click on the photo. It appears city employees did a lot of ocean dumping back in those days. DPC expands to Defense Plant Corporation, and it appears that DPC-15 herself–aka Brooklyn— was dumped into the ocean . . . well, reefed in 2001!
The NYC Visual Archives can entertain you for hours on a rainy day. And back from the same time period, a film noir called Port of New York.
It turns out that tug Tilly, recently in the news here and elsewhere and currently unintentionally reefed was DPC-86.
Do check out the archives. Now I’ guess I have to go to NYPL to find what I started out looking for.
Today’s post relates directly to the very first one in this series. NYPD’s newest vessel is a Gladding-Hearn gem. Any guesses on her speed?
As I watched this morning, she was doing a consistent 40.1 knots . . . heading here in the direction of Jamaica Bay! For the specifics on her 3200 hp propulsion system, click here. In the distance, that’s Twin Tube delivering supplies to Voge Paul, a Philippines-built bulker bound for Albany.
I’m not willing to enumerate all the Gladding-Hearn boats that have appeared on this blog over the years, but many tugs, pilot boats, fast ferries, and government boats are among the +400 vessels turned out by the shipyard in over a half century, but if you wish, scroll through here and see which ones you recognize. Recently, six of their pilot boats were delivered to the Colombian Navy.
The new NYPD vessel is called 628 Dillon Stewart.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Click here for the post #1 by this title.
September 2012. Some Governors Island buildings as seen from the Staten Island ferry. Notice the excavator demolish the gradual way.
February 2013.
Building 877 May 2013.
Today, June 9, 07:15 h, as seen from Valentino Pier, Red Hook. Eleven stories about to go down.
Click on the image below to see my YouTube of the implosion.
All fotos and video by Will Van Dorp.
Click here for a view from Jersey City.
Springtime . . . and motion gives a renewed sense of life to the watery boro. Emerald Sea‘s been around all winter, but she’s not moved loads like this. Diner? Prefab beach buildings for post-Sandy reconstruction? Many thanks to Ashley Hutto for this shot taken along Roxbury, Queens.
Eclipse, the huge yacht in the distance has taller masts than Clipper City, the tallest sailing vessel operating in the the harbor. Eclipse left the harbor Tuesday, headed for Gibraltar.
Schooner Virginia left Wednesday, headed for Virginia . . . by way of Portland, Maine.
Anyone know the manufacturer of the speedboat in the foreground? In the background is Zephyr, launched 10 years ago from the Austal Shipyard in Mobile, AL . . . and Wavertree, launched 128 years ago in Southampton, UK.
I could almost imagine this boat has a bowsprit.
Smaller workboats seem more commonplace this time of year like Henry Hudson,
this Oyster Bay government boat,
an OCC vessel,
and of course the ubiquitous all-weather sludge tanker North River, frequently mentioned on this blog.
Thanks to Ashley for the first foto, and I’d love to know what that structure on the Weeks barge is. All other fotos by Will Van Dorp, who feels the urge to go somewhere too.
This gateway to the sixth boro dazzles at dawn, with out traffic or with.
Know this ship? You saw this funnel before in a foggy October post as well as in a sunny September post in the past twelve months.
Here are the specs for the 12-year-old vessel going under the almost 50-year-old bridge.
In the distance, that’s the Newark Bay Bridge, located north of Ports Elizabeth and Newark.
Inbound . . .
outbound, and
closely monitored.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp, who finally watched Saturday Night Fever for the first time, because of the bridges scenes. It turned out to be a much better movie than this non-discoing blogger ever imagined. See it if you haven’t, for a throwback to Bay Ridge (mostly) back in 1977 . . . which started with a president named Ford , new computers were Commodore PETs and Apple IIs, and the Concorde started to fly to NYC.
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