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It seems most appropriate to juxtapose that building with an ocean-going ship. The physical aspect of world trade happens thanks to ships.
And the names allude to this, like Mediterranean Shipping Company (aka MSC) Lucy and Mustafa Dayi.
Or Zim Yokohama and Lian Yang Hu.
Atlantic Journey,
Ever Linking, and
Ocean Pearl: they almost make a declarative sentence. And Ocean Pearl‘s cargo comes from North Africa.
RHL Agilitas . . . Her name is Spanish, she’s recently been in ports in Columbia, Guatemala, and Mexico, but the “H” in RHL is Hamburg.
High Tide seems as English as the 4th of July (:)) but the company D’Amico began in Italy.
I mentioned to someone recently that the harbor is full of secrets hidden in plain sight, and that’s why I keep coming back.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
When the cold makes it less pleasant outside, it’s heating season in the sixth boro and region far and wide. I’m not sure all these units are moving heating oil, but they are all moving fuel of one sort or another.
Can it be that Crystal Cutler has been working here for almost 8 years now?!! Here was my first time seeing her back in 2010.
Here’s a larger unit for a different niche than Crystal.
When I was first paying attention, the tug here was called Huron Service.
She’s been Genesis Victory for about five years now.
Diane B does some creek work once she leaves the main channels. Here’s an article I did on Diane B and John Blanche some years back already.
All photos and any errors here by Will Van Dorp, who wishes anyone out there to be safe.
Mr. Connor has been in the area for a few weeks now, but here’s the first good set I’ve gotten.
The logo on the stack is unmistakeable, Marquette Transportation Company Offshore, one of three companies under the Marquette banner. Click here for previous Marquette boats on tugster.
She might be working in dredge support.
Holden Marine Towing is also working in dredge support.
Based on the livery, I thought I’d never seen Bayou Babe before.
But a little digging showed that I’d seen her in 2009 as a Weeks boat, Virginia. Equipment changes hands; Bayou Babe now operates under Holden Marine, but before she was Virginia, she was Misener Marine’s Bayou Babe, built as such in 1979.
All photos this month by Will Van Dorp.
A friend once took this photo of a wall in San Francisco. And Manhattan has this street called Wall that was quite ineffective in keeping the originals of Mannahatta out.
But as you can see from the photo below, Manhattan today is a walled city, with a wall made of lego-colored boxes.
[And this is just a space digression so that
you can’t see the next photo
on your screen.
There are more photos below.
I wouldn’t want you to make sense of the first photo
right away.
OK, enough, with
the digression.]
Here’s the rest of that shot, two Maersk ships passing just north of the VZ Bridge.
All these photos were taken within a total of less than two minutes
Alex sees Maersk Shenzhen out, then will likely do a 180 and assist Capt. Brian seeing Gunhilde Maersk into the KVK.
And now I have a question: NYMaritime defines ULCVs and SULCVs (super ultralarge container vessel) basically as follows: anything larger than 997′ and 140′ beam is considered a ULCV, and anything with beam in excess of 159′ is a SULCV. Vessel traffic describes ships of Gunhilde‘s class as SULCV but does not do so for Shenzhen. But now guess the relative dimensions of these two vessels.
Maersk Shenzhen 1062′ x 157’* 10,000 teu. Previously she was Hyundai Pluto.
Gunhilde Maersk 1204′ x 138′ * 7000 teu.
Is there some mistake here?
*These numbers come from shipspotting.com.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Navigator looks great in the yellow trim. For some quantifiable info, she dates from 1981 and reports 1200 hp.
Ellen always strikes me as a brawler, more so than identical YTBs. Maybe it’s the ships’ hull paint she’s rubbed off with the bow rendering. For numbers and facts, she dates from 1967, built in Marinette WI, and currently has z-drives putting out 4000 hp. Click here for photos I took in Marinette this past summer.
Dory looks great, having added an upper wheelhouse. Click here and scroll for photos of Dory over the years, pre-upper wheelhouse. Who operates her now?
Amy Moran and Atlantic Salvor meet under the bridge. As an indication of winds, notice the bridge “curtains” movement. Numbers: AM 1973 and 3000 hp. AS 1976 and 6480. For previous Atlantic Salvor posts, click here.
If Buchanan 5 looks like she has new paint, she does. It used to work around here as Taft Beach. Numbers: 1983 and 2600 hp.
Normandy benefits from a simple and classical paint scheme. 2007 and about 1900 but with triple screw. As I understand it, she used to work in Colombia. Anyone have info on her propulsion plant?
Kimberly Poling got a makeover almost 10 years ago and she is just a beauty. 1994 and 3000 hp.
I’ve long heard Thomas D. Witte once worked the Erie Canal as Valoil, but I’ve never seen photos of her superstructure from that time. Anyone help? 1961 and 1500 hp.
And finally, Matthew Tibbetts once won the most attractive tug at a North River Tugboat Race, and she truly looks good. 1969 and 2000.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Thanks to Timothy Cole for this photo . . .
that’s the Hudson, looking south. Croton Point is the near low spit mid photo left side. Who would guess that more than 10 million people live within a 50 mile radius of this spot?
Timothy took his photo on December 1, 2018. Bill Moyers called the Hudson “a waterway of ethereal beauty” . . . and more. But that says it all. That photo is sublime.
Below are two similar shots I took. First July 17, 2009 looking south toward the Bear Mountain Bridge and
this one looking west above Saugerties on June 28, 2016.
The Hudson is indeed worth traveling upon whenever,
even when the river looks like a frozen desert,
and critters walk upon it, as here.
Thanks again to Timothy for the top photo, and to Paul Strubeck for the last photo.
As she leaves for the North Sea port of Hull, finally . .
I caught Ocean Researcher. She’s spent much of the summer and fall until now doing survey work in advance of wind farm leasing and development in the New York Bight.
Seeing the vessel confirmed that she’s not a new vessel . . . built in Devon, SW England, in 1985.
Her original name was RRS Charles Darwin.
RRS expands to Royal Research Ship. The first vessel of that organization, built in 1901, was RRS Discovery, carrying among others Robert F. Scott and Ernest Shackleton.
The Gardline Group operates several dozen vessels around the world.
After a final salute from the Statue,
Ocean Researcher heads across the big pond. Next stop Hull, East Yorkshire, England. ETA . . . Boxing Day. Bon voyage.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Nineteen boxes wide!
And stacked higher behind the bridge than in front of it.
It was a windy day, and Alex did her part to ensure she rounded the bend.
Eric on the starboard bow was there if needed to thrust the bow within the channel.
And at the opposite stern, Capt. Brian A. could do what was needed
to make this rounding of Bergen Point
just routine, as Maersk Shenzhen made a few more turns before setting a course across the Atlantic directly for Suez and points beyond. I caught her in port earlier as Hyundai Pluto, sister of Jupiter.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, whose previous installments of this title all involved McAllister boats as well.
I love the morning, and I’ve never gotten a better photo of Tasman Sea. She’s a product of Main Iron Works, class of 1976.
Kirby Moran heads out on a job. There’s no angle from which these Washburn & Doughty 6000s look anything but stunning.
Ernest Campbell, from Southern Shipbuilding’s class of 1969, comes by to pick up a barge.
James E. Brown, a recent product of Rodriguez Shipbuilding, leaves the dock and heads to the railroad, rail float that is. Daisy Mae came out of the same yard two years later.
As Robert Burton makes her run with a less than loaded barge, I hope commuters appreciate that this stuff is not traveling by road.
Lucy Reinauer is a powerful local 1973 product; she came out of Jakobson Shipyard in Oyster Bay.
I’m planning a post on nothing but Brown boats, but I put Thomas J. in here because she’s bathed in that same rich morning light. She’s a 1962 product of Gladding Hearn and is rated at 1000 hp, same as James E.
Elizabeth McAllister has a dramatic and rich history, which you can read here. To summarize, in May 1988 as Elizabeth Moran, she was t-boned in the fog in Lower New York Bay.
And finally, two of Brewster Marine‘s workhorses . . . Helen Parker (2005) and Ava Jude (2013). In the distance is Neptune, built 1992 and sailing for Dann Ocean since 1996.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Fugro . . . is not a local name. In fact, it goes back to 1962, when Kees Joustra started a company called “funderingstechniek en grondmechanica,” shortened to the first few letters of each big word . . . yields FUGRO. I first thought it was a Fugro vessel I’d seen a few times a year ago here.
The morning light was almost overwhelming . . .
but you get the idea from these photos.
Fugro Enterprise dates from 2007 and appears to be a US build. She would certainly look more at home in Louisiana than in the KVK, but
with changes happening offshore, we may see more vessels like this. I’ve not yet gotten a closeup of Ocean Researcher, which has been spending lots of time in the New York Bight, likely mapping the bottom in advance of wind farms.
And with green lighting of efforts to seek oil and gas reserves using very loud “air guns” off the East coast, who knows what other exotics may be arriving. Here’s what National Geographic thinks. As of this posting, Fugro Enterprise is SE of Atlantic City and stopped. Her profile is similar to Seis Surveyor captured here almost a decade ago, and now sailing under a Peruvian flag.
All photos here by Will Van Dorp, who is looking for someone with photos of Ocean Researcher to share.
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