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Catching up . . . it’s a never-ending task, but a useful one. Let’s start with these two tugboats still under wraps at Isle aux Coudres Ocean shipyard. It’s not the best image, but with the wind, it was the best I could get. Anyone help with identification?
RF Grant is a 1934 tug up on a marine railway on Île d’Orléans, just downstream from Quebec City.
At the main Ocean Group yard, it’s Ocean’s Taiga and Tundra, and Clovis T.
Ocean Henry Bain is on the inland side.
Quebec is inseparable with their blue.
Cue the next day and farther upstream, it’s Aldo H.
Boatmen 6 and more at their dock.
Nearer the port, it’s Ocean Serge Genois and Ocean Bertrand Jeansonne.
Excuse the blurred shot, but it’s Ocean Pierre Julien and Ocean Jupiter. Particulars on all the Ocean boats can be found here.
As we climb higher up the Saint Lawrence, we get to the US DOT boats, Robinson Bay and the brand new
brand-spanking-new Seaway Trident.
For our last boat today, it’s Seaway Joan, a Lake Michigan 1952 boat, a great name and great little boat.
All photos taken in May 2023, WVD.
I’m traveling and was thinking not to post, but these are just too good to pass up.
It’s a very familiar looking livery for folks familiar with the sixth boro and many other places . . . the lion boats.
What’s not familiar though is the background . . .
given that this is late May, but it’s Ann T Cheramie departing Kodiak!
Many thanks to Clay W for passing these photos along.
Regionally speaking, Andrew, along with
Roderick and Nancy, could be said to sail in maritime waters.
In the maritime province of Nova Scotia, though, I caught up with Atlantic Towing Limited tugboats Atlantic Oak,
Atlantic Cedar,
Atlantic Fir, and
Atlantic Elm. Given their extensive fleet, it seems I need to make my way back here. Other than returning in October, I’m not sure when that will happen, but now it’s a goal.
Seeing the Canso Strait, first hand and after being introduced to it by my friend Jack Ronalds, satisfied a curiosity.
Behold Spitzer Bedford, Spitzer Montreal, and Point Chebucto.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Is that really USS Cole (DDG 67)?
I’ve not seen it mentioned much in media coverage today.
Ocean survey vessel HMS Scott (H131) and why the
penguin? Answer follows.
USS Oak Hill (LSD 51), a dock landing ship is named after a former president’s residence!
ITS Virginio Fasan (F 591) is an Italian frigate. Click here for the namesake.
USCGC Warren Deyampert (WPC-1151) has a quite interesting namesake story.
Deyampert and Ollis meet.
HMCS Glace Bay (MM 701) is a Canadian coastal defence vessel, as spelled in Canadian English.
USS Wasp (LHD-1) history can be read here.
Is that a Harrier AV-8B?
USNS Newport (T-EPF-12) can transport over 300 troops at almost 50 mph.
I’d love to tour it.
All photos this morning, WVD.
OK, H131 is named for RF Scott, the explorer.
On this date in May 2013, I was near Portland OR scanning slides, images Seth Tane had taken decades earlier.
The images have value in a macro sense, not the small details but rather the extent of change in the past almost 50 years.
Tomorrow (2023) the fleet comes in. But what year did LCC-20 come in . . . maybe 1985 or 1986? It seems she’s still active. I now believe that lightship is the former LV-84.
But there are details here too, like these. Might these two tugs be what’s more commonly known to me as Christine M. McAllister and H. J. Reinauer? And look at the crowds!!
Is this the former lightship St. Clair?
Will this former tanker, former crane ship be fodder for underwater archeologists of the 22nd century?
I’d love to see this tugboat today.
What a different skyline!! The Esso tanker’s been scrapped two decades already.
Kehoe tugs have appeared here on this blog a few years ago. Here in this fog, they look every bit to be a fading past.
All photos, thanks to Seth Tane. Any errors, WVD.
If you’ve got time and inclination and an interest in the comments of a decade ago, click in the links below for that journey back in time to 6 b 5 d aka sixth boro fifth dimension posts . . . .
Many thanks to Tony for keeping me current on vessels in the boro. Most of these are transients, like Capt Richard of Norfolk Dredging. Other equipment of the dredging
company was towed through in recent months as well, likely returning from a dredging project somewhere.
Stadt Amsterdam was in town, in fact at Pier 17, about a month ago. From the sixth boro she headed east, with her itinerary listed here. Pier 17 is also where I caught Capitán Miranda–after being tipped off by Tony. Danmark was there too as well as the vessels of the beer run. Has any beer been delivered there by boat since?
With LCS Cleveland just launched with a splash and a douse over in Marinette, USS Cooperstown was recently commissioned in a location relatively close to . . . Cooperstown.. I believe she overwintered in Escanaba, where we we welcomed recently as the first passenger vessel to call since the Americans.
Hidden away, Tony caught Rachel Marie and more. Here’s a blast from the way past featuring her exploits tugging on whole islands!
Shelby Rose may be a fleet mate.
Jimmy, recently spoiled by spa treatment, stands forward of a whole line of boats and countless stories.
Mr Connor was ashore getting spiffy.
I’ve often seen Manhasset Bay on AIS, but thanks to Tony, here’s
my first time to see her in the boro.
And rounding things out, behold Joanne Marie, following her makeover after I got these photos over her coming into town the other month . . . wow!! that was February. Time does pass quickly!
Much appreciation to Tony A for keeping an eye on sixth boro traffic while I get lost elsewhere.
This is one of my last KVK photos of Ireland. Eventually, a few years ago, she went upstate to Lake Ontario for repowering and much more. She’s currently in the NYS canals, heading back towards the sixth boro, down the Hudson but then past and all the way to the Mississippi River watershed. So if you’re north of the boro in the next few days, be on the lookout for . . . Hoppiness!! See the end of this post.
In May 2013, I spotted this yacht coming in through the Narrows; Nomada, it turns out, began life in 1943 as a Canadian navy tug, seen here. I’m not sure of Nomada‘s whereabouts today.
Specialist was getting spa treatment here, a few years before her tragic demise.
Doro aka Dorothy J was at the same spa that day.
Doris Moran towed in a new floating dry dock for Caddells, with James Turecamo steering the stern.
State of Maine was in the boro. As of this posting, she’s NE bound off Long Island about a hundred miles from the sixth boro, if I’m not in a time warp. By the way, TS Empire State VII is still being completed on the Delaware, and will be making her maiden arrival in the boro in the summer, at a date so far not published.
Speaking of Maine, I had a memorable sojourn in Belfast just a decade ago, and took in all the collections at Maine Maritime Museum. It’s likely high time I get back there.
During the 15 years I spent in the northern two-thirds of New England, boats like these were often on my mind and in my view.
In May 2013, Zumwalt DDG-1000 was in its final stages of completion.
As of this morning, as was the case a decade ago, Fournier Tractor was ready for action in Belfast harbor.
And here from the NYS Canals, photos of Hoppiness eastbound taken by a westbound yacht delivery captain . . .
Check out their progress on FB. They’re likely transiting the middle portion of the the state canals today.
All photos except the last two, any errors, WVD.
I know it’s not summer yet, but this post best follows on Summer Sail 5 here, so . . . this choice of title. I also have catchups of some sixth boro events soon, and the fleet comes in this week, just before I go back to the lively Lakes.
Currently in the boro is the 1930 Capitán Miranda, a three-masted schooner of the Uruguayan navy, a vessel that had been destined for the breakers in 1978,
but then got a new lease on life.
Her namesake is a Uruguayan mariner of a century ago.
More on the Uruguayan navy can be found here,
and the country itself here. Before clicking on the link, guess the population size?
I’m not sure how long they’ll be in town, so if interested, hurry on down.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Off Campobello Island, the Eastport pilot boat North Sea waited to retrieve the pilot as we headed for sea. It was April 26, 0540… This first pilot had been a walk-on before we left Eastport.
April 27 at 0530, Portland pilot boat Spring Point came to meet us as we approached.
At 0538, the pilot stepped aboard.
At 1753, the same boat followed us out to retrieve the pilot as we headed into the Gulf of Maine.
On April 29 at 0551 Halifax pilot boat Captain E. T. Rogers met us outside the harbor.
Transfer was accomplished safely.
Port of registry listed on this pilot boat is Saint John.
At 1842, the same pilot boat followed us to retrieve the pilot when we were safely out to sea.
The next pilot was April 30 at 1340 off Canso NS, landed from Strait Falcon.
Registry here is given as Halifax.
This pilot would get us safely through the Canso lock.
May 1 at 0529 I almost missed the pilot off Charlottetown, since they appeared not to be on AIS.
Pilot boat JRG was at the dock when we arrived.
Serious winds delayed our departure from Charlottetown, and when we did depart, a walk-on pilot took us as far up as
just past the Confederation Bridge, when pilot boat Bridge Lady
retrieved that pilot. Waterway there is the Abegweit Passage of the Northumberland Strait.
I missed the next pilot pickup on May 4 at 0’darkest off Les Escoumins, but caught the moment half a day later where pilots exchanged places just before Quebec City.
The fresh pilot stepped aboard on May 4 at 1221, and
moments later the overnight pilot stepped off and
Ocean Guide sped him ashore.
Just downstream of Montreal on May 5 at 0754, I caught the next exchange . . . Ocean Maisoneuve II did the delivery and pick up.
Note the muddy water, ie, strong currents, and absence of green on the trees.
Ocean Maisonneuve II has an unusual orange fender built into its hull.
Exchange complete, she speeds off. Notice Montreal upper right in the distance.
Several other exchanges happened in the SLSW locks, but as we approached Lake Ontario at Cape Vincent, we exchanged pilots one last time before Toronto . . .
with the quite new Seaway V doing the honors.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who loses sleep to get photos like these.
Maybe someone can help me with details: is the series made up of Laurentian pilots, District 1 US river/lakes pilots, and then port-specific docking pilots? Any others?
Departing Escanaba, we cut through Little Bay de Noc and headed for the passage between Port des Morts/Northport and Washington followed by Plum Island. The white cliffs at the north point of Washington Island intrigue. Previously I had been similarly intrigued by Port des Morts; if you understand the French you’ll know why. Whether you do or not, check out this link and story. Northport after all is at the tip of the Door Peninsula.
Taking our stern and departing Green Bay is the oldest freighter working on the Lakes . . . Alpena of course, launched a mere 81 years ago.
Dilapidated buildings stand on Pilot Island Light, once referred to as
Death’s Door Light, as lurid as that sounds.
Morning brought this view of Chicago, our next port, the place where I’d step onto land for a long week.
Chicago Harbor Light welcomed us in; here we’ve passed in on the way to Navy Pier, and I looked back at sunrise, where distant Philip R. Clarke was northbound for more ore, no doubt, previously posted here on this blog.
James J. Versluis I’ve seen before.
Doing some breakwater work was David R. Shanock, an unfamiliar name until
I checked and realized she used to work in the sixth boro as Trevor!! Check the history here.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who will now catch up on sixth boro images before heading back for the Lakes late next week for LL2 posts.
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