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All these photos were taken in the second half of January 2013. This 1973 livestock carrier Falconia was in the Brooklyn Navy Yard getting some work done. I’d love to see a cargo layout for the vessel. Also, just back from the foremast, those are large bales of either hay or straw for the livestock. What would you guess her disposition in second half of January 2023? Answer follows at the end of this post.
The tanker here is today in the Gulf of Guinea on a run between Gabon and Netherlands. Kristy Ann Reinauer was scrapped in 2015.
The green tug Mary Gellatly was transformed into the very busy CMT Mackenzie Rose.
The behemoth Rebel has become Ken Vinik, awaiting a makeover in the Arthur Kill.
The name of the hull–we’d spell it “Sovkomflot“–is one you will not see in the sixth boro these days, and it seems the icebreaking tanker is currently
anchored where it has been for at least the past six months in Murmansk.
The Penn Maritime Coho has become the Kirby Coho, currently in Savannah.
Note the ice and snow on the boats above and below; January a decade ago was frosty! Barbara McAllister has become Patsy K, which I’ve never seen. She’s in Panama City FL right now.
It’s clamming time in the boro, and many of these clam/fish boats come out of this creek in NJ. More Dutch Girl tomorrow.
Grey Shark may be a dead ship or even a scrapped one by now, last recorded in the DR.
And finally, Megan McAllister is alive and well, busy as Charles James.
All photos from January 2013, WVD.
And the answer to the question about the current disposition of Falconia: she’s renamed Dragon and in Midia, Romania on the Black Sea, flying the Togolese flag, and still working, having just arrived in from Libya. For a tour of a much newer and sophisticated purpose-built livestock carrier, click here. More on this category of vessel here, and Dragon specifically on page 49.
For a disturbing report–if you choose to followup here–google Queen Hind livestock carrier, which capsized in Midia in 2019 and resulted in the “lost cargo,” i.e., death 14,000 sheep.
Does equipment ever change in the sixth boro? Of course.
Thornton Bros, the 1958 Matton Shipyard product, was scrapped in 2014.
The 1971 Maria J is now Nicholas Vinik.
USACE Hudson, the sweetest Corps boat I’ve ever seen, got transformed into a fish house in 2019. Advance Victoria, 2006, is now Kition M, anchored in the Persian/Arabian Gulf.
The 2002 Labrador Sea is now Vane’s Brooklyn.
The 1944 Gage Paul inadvertently became a very deep fish house in 2015.
The 2002 Gramma Lee T is now in Norfolk.
Does the US Navy still have airships? If ever I have the chance to ride in one of these, I’ll take it in a heartbeat!
Bruce A brought in the 1970 Crowley Mars and
Michael J brought in the 1975 Crowley Pioneer; both Crowley’s were shipped off to Africa later in 2012. The 1971 Michael J. was scrapped late in 2021. Christine was working for Reinauer.
The massive 1970 Penn No. 6 is now the massive Vinik No. 6.
The 1972 Catherine Turecamo is now on the Great Lakes as John Marshall.
Do you still want to tell me nothing ever changes in the sixth boro?
All photos taken by WVD during the first SIX days of 2012.
Let’s have another look at photos in the sixth boro during the first month of 2012. It was a snowy day that I caught Cheyenne
and Franklin Reinauer. Cheyenne is now in Wisconsin, for sale, and Franklin is still in this boro.
Thomas Dann had a crane barge over alongside New Century. Thomas Dann had a serious fire off Florida and was scrapped in 2015. New Century is now Lucky Century, NE bound near Mauritius and Reunion.
Bohemia assisted Quantico Creek with a bunker barge. Bohemia is on the Delaware River, and Quantico Creek . . . in Tampa.
This scene was so busy I might come back to it in another post. What I can identify here (l to r) is this: Maersk Murotsu, Quantico Creek, of course Greenland Sea, Dubai Express, and a Reinauer barge. Dubai Express is currently on its way from the Med to the sixth boro.
Seaboats had already been scooped up by K-Sea in January 2012, which had itself been scooped up by Kirby. Notice the stacks of the two boats: the red/black initials have been painted over and a K-Sea oval placed but not painted with the K-Sea logo nor had the stack itself been painted K-Sea “yellow.” Mediterranean Sea and
Weddell Sea still carried their mostly-green livery, and when painted, we clearly Kirby boats. Mediterranean Sea has just recently changed hands again and is now Douglas J., a Donjon boat.
Beaufort Sea was still fully K-Sea, as evidenced by the yellow stack and the K-Sea oval. She was scrapped around 2016.
Left to right here, it’s Pearl River I and Morton S. Bouchard Jr. The ship is now Zim Vancouver–just left Norfolk for Spain–and the tug is now Stasinos Boys.
Ellen McAllister passed the 7 buoy.
And finally, Penn Maritime began the year as its own company before been acquired by Kirby, and
Penn No. 6 carried that name forward until 2018 when she began what we now know as Vinik No. 6.
All January 2012 photos, WVD, who hopes you enjoy this photographic account of some of the changes in the sixth boro in the past decade. I have lots of photos of that month, so I could do an installment “C” of that retrospective. Besides, although there are things I want to see in the boro today, I might have to acclimate to the cold first. Yesterday after it was 57 degrees here, and this morning . . . a dramatic 31.
And unrelated, here‘s how the new year was feted in around the world . . .
Also unrelated, this 1953 “tugboat tug” (sic) is still for sale.
Grey Shark assisted out of the Kills by Catherine C. Miller. Catherine is still working, but Grey Shark has not moved from its berth in Las Caleras DR in almost three and a half years, so it’s safe to assume she won’t be calling in NYC’s sixth boro any more. By the way, July 2011 had some HAZY summer days.
The former Kristin Poling (1934 as Poughkeepsie Socony) had a few months to work, here alongside the almost new Crystal Cutler.
The mighty Viking was still working. See the Celebrity ship in the haze.
along with even more powerful fleetmate Irish Sea, still intact and tied up at Vinik Marine.
Glen Cove was still working; she was sold south.
Then the gallivanting started, here with a stop under the Route 213 bridge alongside the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal to watch the almost-new Mako go by.
Down to Key West and USCGC Mohawk WPG-78, now a fish condo. She was reefed almost exactly a year later.
Florida is unusual in that few Kirby tugboats, to my knowledge, work as assist boat. She’s currently operated as a Seabulk tug.
C-Tractor 5 and its fleetmate
the slightly more powerful lucky 13 set the bar for unusual design and color scheme.
All photos, WVD, who’s making arrangements for more gallivanting soon, although it looks to be in the interior on the continent rather than along the edges.
If you’ve not seen a ULCV, CMA CGM A. Lincoln is coming in this afternoon/evening.
In case you’re new to this blog,”retro” means I’m looking back to my photo archives exactly 10 years to June 2011. The “38” here means this is the thirty-eighth month I’ve done this. It’s a fresh look at June 2011 photos, in some cases informed by whatever the past 10 years has wrought.
Bridge Builder 26 doing what it is named for.
F. Dawson, 1969, 66′ x 22′ and 1000 hp, in 2011 was working on a bridge project in the Harlem River. I’ve no idea where either of these boats is today.
Patapsco, 2004 and 96′ x 34′ and now known as Steven Wayne, was one of the first Vane boats into the sixth boro.
Susquehanna is a Patapsco-class tugboat, meaning mostly a clone and three years younger, and still in the Vane fleet.
Marlin (1974, 96′ x 35′, and 4200) and Penn No. 6. Marlin‘s now registered in Panama, and the No. 6 is now Vinik No. 6.
Kathleen Turecamo is now buff and green, a Stasinos boat, seen here as Meaghan Marie.
Matthew Tibbetts is still in the sixth boro and at work.
This was the only time I saw Hercules, ex-YTB-766. In June 2011, it was towed here and then loaded aboard a semi-sub for Nigeria.
Barents Sea came back to life as Atlantic Enterprise, and is currently working on a salvage/recovery down south.
All photos and memories, WVD.
There will be a mermaid parade later this summer; in 2011, it took place on the Saturday closest to the solstice, which would be today.
How about a quick post today, all three photos taken in a two-minute span on March 25, 2011. The third photo here is set to enlarge when you double click; let’s see if FB allows a preview with that.
Congestion: I don’t know what barge Sea Raven is pushing, but the Allied boat and First Coast are headed for the Gate on the East River. Sea Raven became razor blades in 2018. First Coast began as Morania No. 18.
Into the photo rides Hercules! Hercules was just off the ways at Washburn & Doughty in Maine, and on its delivery trip to Texas, where I believe she works with G and H.
Then into the photo also crowds Penn No. 4. Penn No. 4 ended up with Curtin Maritime in Long Beach CA but is currently out of service.
All photos taken during a busy two minutes, WVD.
Nothing says the Delaware River up around Philadelphia and Camden more distinctly than a group of Hays tugs, here Big Daddy, High Roller, and Purple Hays. That’s the stern of Grape Ape to the left. No company, I gather, has had more fun naming their boats than the Hays Tug and Launch folks. I hope Ed Roth got photos of these boats.
And I’ve never had so much fun on the Delaware River area than I did the day my friend John Curdy took me on a tour there.
Timothy McAllister was docked nearby. She’s almost a twin of the sixth boro’s Ellen McAllister.
Amberjack (1981) was still in gray. She’s now the latest Thomas Dann, but I’ve not seen her yet.
Jack Holland was pushing a scow. Today’s Jack‘s in Norfolk.
I’m not sure where the 1967 Jakobson-built Grace Moran is,
but Helen D is now Sarah D, and is regularly seen on the Hudson.
Active, a 1956 Blount product, has been sold south and is now Chandler B, operating out of Virginia.
Soon after I took this photo, Coral Sea was sold to a Nigerian company and, at last report, was operating off Nigeria as Uganwaafor 2. I suspect she’s currently inactive.
Texan here is mostly out of the notch of Ponciana. She’s currently near Beaumont TX on the Neches River.
And finally, it’s USS Arthur W. Radford (DD 968) getting prepped for reefing. About a year later that reefing happened about 30 miles offshore, which appears to be out of range for most fishermen.
All photos, June 2010, by WVD, who will be in and on the Delaware River later this week, way in in the wild part of the river in NYS, trying to commune with the wild. Don’t be concerned if no new posts appear for a spell after Wednesday.
If you’re new on this blog, for the past 27 months I’ve been posting photos from exactly 10 years before. These then are photos I took in June 2010. What’s been interesting about this for me is that this shows how much harbor activities have changed in 10 years.
Tarpon, the 1974 tug that once worked for Morania and below carries the Penn Maritime livery, is now a Kirby boat. Tarpon, which may be “laid up” or inactive, pushes Potomac toward the Gate.
North River waits over by GMD shipyard with Sea Hawk, and now also a Kirby vessel. Sea Hawk is a slightly younger twin, at least in externals and some internals, of Lincoln Sea.
Irish Sea, third in a row, was K-Sea but now is also a Kirby boat.
Huron Service went from Candies to Hornbeck to now Genesis Energy, and works as Genesis Victory.
Ocean King is the oldest in this post . . . built in 1950. She’s in Boston, but I don’t know how active she is.
Petersburg dates from 1954, and currently serves as a live aboard. Here’s she’s Block Island bound, passing what is now Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Kristin Poling was built in 1934 and worked the Great Lakes and the Eastern Seaboard via the Erie Canal.
To digress, William Lafferty took this photo on 15 May 1966 at Thorold, Ontario, in the Welland Canal, same boat 44 years later.
And finally, she who travels jobs up and down the East Coast, the 1970 Miss Gill. She’s currently working in the Charleston area.
All photos, WVD, who never thought a decade ago while taking these photos that I’d revisit them while in the midst of a pandemic. June 2010 was a great month for photos, so I’ll do a retro a and b.
i.e., the 19th month in a row that I’ve posted photos from exactly 120 months before. Well, although it’s not always this hazy, the Statue still looks the same, but
Responder no longer carries that boom or works in the sixth boro, and neither that bridge nor Coho looks the same.
Coral Sea Queen has been reconfigured into a trillion recombined molecules, and
June K is no longer orange.
That part of the skyline is the same–maybe–but Lil Rip has not been in this harbor in quite a while.
This Rosemary is no longer here nor painted this way, and
John Reinauer . . . I’d love to see her since she transited the Atlantic to work in the Gulf of Guinea.
Flinterborg released these Dutch sailing barges in the waterways of another continent . . . and Flinterborg has not returned that I know of.
Penn No. 4 is laid up, I think. Does no one use the term “mothballed” any more? I’ve never mothballed clothes, for what that’s worth.
Laura K Moran works in Savannah, with occasional TDY in other ports, I’ve noticed..
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who himself is no longer the same person he was in October 2009.
I’m working on some tougher posts, but here’s an easy one. Let’s flip the calendar back approximately 10 years, give or take a month. Then it was Barents Sea, not Atlantic Enterprise. Rowan M. McAllister is still around, although in Charleston SC. And the container ship under the “un-raised” Bayonne Bridge is Zim Qingdao, currently eastbound across the Atlantic. The other McAllister tug I don’t know.
Melvin E. Lemmerhirt, now Evelyn Cutler, eastbound toward the Brooklyn Bridge . . . well, all’s quite changed about all this.
Maryland –I’ve yet to see her as Liz Vinik–was bunkering the brand new Queen Victoria.
Peking was then–as now–out of the water, although currently her dry dock is in Germany.
Penn No. 4 still goes by the same name, but it’s now a Kirby boat.
George Burrows was never a regular here, and I’ve no idea of her current disposition.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who hopes you enjoyed this backward glance.
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