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This will be a photo-rich post, starting with bridge workers currently at the Brooklyn side VZ tower, aka the former Fort Lafayette.
You might remember Michele Jean; Christina is the replacement vessel.
Most small craft in the sixth boro work all year round, in either construction, hydrographic surveys,
boom handling, launch service,
law enforcement,
and more. Some fishing takes place all year round although winter fishing employs different craft.
Fishing machines as below . . . only from about April to October.
Annunziata is a fishing boat I see a lot on AIS, but this is my first time to confirm boat with name under way.
New York Media Boat has some of their vessels working all year round, but here’s a catch, a NY Media Boat RIB in front of the Hudson Yards endless staircase called the Vessel, parts of which appeared on this blog during construction.
Then, the red boat below with kayak on roof, that’s a summertime only boat for up here.
And let’s close with the boom handlers; tankers and oil barges are boomed during some of their harbor operations, as a precaution in case of spillage. All year round these small craft do their boom wrangling.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
It’s the first full day of spring, which means that soon many more small craft will operate on the sixth boro, yet all winter long, many small boats never leave.
If this is a Class A 25′ SAFE Defender boat, it may have entered service in 2002. I’ll be back with this.
Here are a team of the newer 29′ USCG vessels.
Line and boom boats, patrol boats . . . these small craft operate in the sixth boro all year round.
Ditto survey boats like this one.
Over alongside Rhea‘s stern, that’s certainly a launch from Miller’s.
I’m guessing these are 31′ SAFE boats operated by NYPD, but they’ve been running in threes of late. They also have larger Vigor (ex-Kvichak)-built boats.
NJ State Police has a few small boats that patrol/train all year round.
NYPD has had a few of these for almost five years now. When they first arrived, I was astonished by the speed they could make.
USACE Moritz first launched in 2001.
So let’s go back to that 25′ Defender in the first photo, but at closer inspection . . . see the logo on the door . . . it’s a DonJon RIB.
USCG checking me out with a long lens? . . . Nah, that’s Bjoern of New York Media Boat. Check out their blog here, and book a tour here.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who’s again reminded that you’ll see something new each time you go down to the water and look closely. And in the next few months, in all waters recently ice-bound, be ready to see an influx of recreational boats coming north for the summer.
Here are previous iterations of this title.
Well, in fresh water like the Upper Saint Lawrence, they look like this, from a photo by Jake Van Reenen.
In salt water, even small outboard work year round. There are boom boats,
patrol boats,
more boom boats,
clam-digging boats,
small island supply boats,
fishing boats,
police boats,
. . . and 29′ Defiant boats.
Top photo credit to Jake; all others by Will Van Dorp.
I’ve posted photos of USS Little Rock on this blog last winter, when it was frozen rock hard into the Montreal winter. Its lines helped me identify these vessels some weeks back as I was driving along the eastern shore of Wisconsin, where I had stopped to see what was in the Marinette Marine yard; my guess is that these will be LCS 13, 15, and 17.
The yard has also turned out Staten Island ferries like Molinari, Powhatan class tugs like Apache, coastal buoy tenders like Katherine Walker, YTBs like Ellen McAllister, LCMs like Jennifer Miller . . . and lots of RB (M)s . . .those are some that I know.
Here’s a link to Marinette Marine and its parent company.
And while we’re looking at Wisconsin-built government boats, check out these photos on Grasp. They were taken in Scotland last year by Tommy Bryceland, a North Sea tug captain.
You may recall that just last week, Grasp was south of Fire Island doing training and a memorial service on USS San Diego.
Justin Zizes sent me these photos a few weeks back also, even captioning them as government boats.
Absolutely, an NYPD personal watercraft is a diminutive government boat.
Thanks to Tommy and Justin ; the others by Will Van Dorp, who will be heading for the Great Lakes soon, so any disruption in posting is no cause for concern. Keep an eye on the sixth boro and beyond, please.
Who even knew such a vessel as Integrity existed? I can imagine all manner of things they dive for. Here’s more info on requirements and job description.
Unrelated, the East River gets shut down sometimes if high profile traffic travels through the heliport. One such event happened about a week ago. Here besides two (of five) Gladding Hearn NYPD boats in the distance is FDNY’s Feehan, all asset in the sixth boro for under 10 years years now. Here and here are photos of Feehan— a FireStorm 70— before she ever arrived in the sixth boro.
I can’t tell you anything about State Trooper URT-7 (underwater recovery team??), but it looks legit.
USACE locally has a set of these small boats boats, which I believe do bathymetric surveys. It’s instructive to see this list of USACE missions. In the distance, one of NYPD’s 55′ patrol boats can be seen.
The blue/yellow logo marks the NJ State Police . . .
here traveling in twos.
Sentinel II was hauled out when I last traversed the Troy lock in October,
but in summer 2016 I caught her just south of Albany serving as a push boat.
And in closing, here’s a photo I took summer 2016, but so far as I can tell, I’ve never posted it, until now.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
I’m always happy to put up others’ photos. Cell phone shots, though, don’t display well on a larger screen. If you’ve sent a photo that I’ve not yet used, I’m working on it.
First, from Phil Gilson . . Driftmaster is retrieving a car that plunged off the fishing pier in Bay Ridge earlier last week. Driftmaster‘s fleet mate Hayward sometimes gets drawn into such recoveries also, as is shown here. And from tugster, here’s more fishing of this sort.
These are the folks who locate and investigate below the surface,
although it might be possible to use tools on Hocking as well.
Here’s a repost of a hypothetical map of my neighborhood assuming a sea level rise of 100′. Here are additional hypothetical, less extreme maps.
And finally, from Glenn Raymo, enjoy these photos of the Science Barge The Judy being moved upriver for winter.
Moving the barge is Fred Johannsen, previously appearing on this blog among other times here, when it had, in my opinion, a less attractive paint scheme.
Thanks to Phil, Jeffrey, and Glenn for use of these photos.
In case you’re wondering which vessel(s) will be where, here’s the navy.mil listing. These photos are ordered in the sequence they passed lower Manhattan.
USCGC Hamilton WMSL-753,less than three years old, is home-ported in Charleston . . . and Seattle. How does that work?
RV Neil Armstrong AGOR-27 replaced the venerable RV Knorr, mentioned here once some years back.
USS Kearsarge LHD 3, named for a mountain I climbed decades ago, is the fourth in a line of vessels named for the US warship commanded by John A. Winslow that sank Confederate raider CSS Alabama, two of whose crew were Raphael Semmes and Irving S. Bulloch, off Cherbourg France in June 1864, less than a year before the end of the devastating US Civil War. This account of the Battle of Cherbourg is worth a read.
Our friends to the North always have a representation, and HMCS Glace Bay MM 701 is this year’s.
Glace Bay‘s classmate Moncton appeared on this blog back in 2012 here.
Four YPs are in town from Annapolis. Here are some YP photos from two years ago, different perspective.
Here’s YP 705.
And finally USNS Yuma T-EPF-8 is without a doubt the newest vessel in this procession, having been accepted earlier in 2017.
I wonder who the photographer in the yellow foulies is.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who will be wandering around town trying to get more closeups these next few days. And below is another shot of USS Kearsarge.
The little-used adjective fleet is appropriate here. And when something goes amiss in the diverse workplaces of the sixth boro, it’s great to have the fleetest responders there are. The amusement park on the beach in the background identifies the location as Coney Island. In fact, the responders towed the vessel out to deeper water while dewatering. No passengers were on board at the time of the emergency, water ingress portside engine room. All’s well that end’s well.
MV Zelinsky worked in San Francisco waters from at least 2007 until last summer. I’m guessing it arrived in the harbor aboard a ship . . .
Many thanks to New York Media Boat for photo and information. And hat’s off to the responders from USCG, FDNY, and NYPD.
Here are previous fleetest posts.
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.
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