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Almost exactly 16 months ago, Wavertree left Pier 16 for a lot of work at Caddell Dry Dock. Here was my set of photos from that day, and here, subsequent ones at several month intervals. Yesterday she made way, back to Pier 16.
Here’s looking back west. Compare the photo below with the third one here to see how much work has been accomplished on the Bayonne Bridge during the same 16 months.
Yesterday, Rae helped, as did
Dorothy J and Robert IV.
The combined age of Rae, Robert IV, and Dorothy J is 139 years, whereas the beautifully restored flagship they escorted in is 131 years old.
And as the tow approached the Statue, John J. Harvey joined in.
These photos all by Will Van Dorp, who is grateful to the South Street Seaport Museum and the photographers’ boat provided by US Merchant Marine Academy and crewed by a set of dedicated cadets.
For some interesting history on Wavertree and info on a fundraiser on board on September 29, 2016, click here. For the story of how Wavertree came from Argentina to New York, read Peter & Norma Stanford’s A Dream of Tall Ships, which I reviewed here some time ago.
More photos of the return tomorrow.
Given the glorious sunshine, the transition from summer to fall begs another series. Let’s start with Maule,
2/3s of her escort, and
a fraction of her crew.
Following in Maule‘s wake, Helsinki Bridge arrives, here with half its escort.
McKinley Sea traverses the Upper Bay and passes
UBC Mobile.
In the harbor was Cordula Jacob and Seastar, as seen from two angles.
with some ferries and a Miller’s Launch crew boat.
Caitlin Ann and
Miss Lizzy work the AK and in the
KVK, for the last day, there are two glorious ships with bright futures . . .
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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Today’s a good day to return to this series I had going for a few years and now return to. More Chrononauts in the next few days…
But first, this vessel bringing in my favorite celebratory drink.
The fabulous September weather has allowed this project to rush to completion. Remember, tomorrow
in early afternoon she goes on a towline back to South Street Seaport through a portion of the sixth boro of this city made great thanks to shipping work and capital. You can watch from along the KVK, from the Battery, or from South Street Seaport Museum.
The name paint is on the list of about a thousand “last” things to do before departure.
Also, enjoying the spectacular equinox weather, the crewman who becomes almost invisible in the bow
tethered to James D. Moran.
More on Peking as she gets prepared for her home-going. Doesn’t this look like a shipyard for the ages?
All photos taken yesterday by Will Van Dorp.
Chrononauts here now refers to us, looking at photos from the past. This summer, in one of my Great Lakes ports, i bought first two prints, then the whole album of over 50 prints, all taken in the sixth boro between the 1930s and the 1950s. So let’s start with this one, taken in either 1948 or 1949,
How about this one, and you can find the overlap: S.S. Normandie (1932 –1941), Alice M. Moran (1925–1953), and New York Central Grain Elevator Pier 7 Weehawken (1884–1962).
I’d love to learn more about either of these photos. They are stamped on the back as Gmelin, probably the photographer.
Of all the project boats, converting work boats into yachts, few get completed to the degree this one has.
I took these photos last weekend in a cove just off a major portion of the sixth boro, thanks to a tip from MM & MM.
M. V. Santandrea keeps some elite company, its humble beginnings notwithstanding. Click here to see her working lines usually submerged. Now here’s the most important link . . . to see what she looks like inside, thanks to MM. I have not found photos of her as she looked in 1961.
Converting a workboat to a yacht seems a common dream and sometimes succeeds, as in the 255′ salvage tug later called Lone Ranger, now called Sea Ranger. Another success would be the 193′ Sea Wolf, former sister of pilots’ mothership Elbe. Then there’s the sixth boro’s own Yemitzis. And there’s Wendy B, which was 1940 built in Owen Sound, ON, and which generated lots of interest at the 2012 TBRound Up.
There’s no mistaking that rigging.
Meanwhile, Santandrea . . . she’s a beauty.
PS: Does anyone have updates and/or photos to share of Sea Monster, formerly of Narragansett Bay and once being worked on in Mamaroneck?
All photos here by Will Van Dorp, and thanks again to MM & MM.
July 13 saw my first sighting of this intrepid anachronism, here juxtaposed with a 21st century realm of Logi.
She was then probing the inland seas, seeing how far she could voyage, possibly looking for a passage to the Mississippi and the Gulf via Lake Michigan. OK, indulge me on that speculation.
Our paths next crossed on September 1, as she made her way through the Erie Canal,
with all the modifications that entailed and the use of sunstones to
avoid getting lost in the meandering rivers.
And late last week, Bjoern Kils of the New York Media Boat got this fabulous shot of her scoping out the sixth boro before
she slipped into a Manhattan cove for a spell.
I missed the display in the Winter Garden and hope I can get there again before the boat moves on.
Many thanks to Bjoern for use of that photo. For more of Bjoern’s photos, click here. All others by Will Van Dorp. And following up on some info from Conrad Milster, here’s a video on a Viking ship that traveled to Chicago in 1893. Yes, 1893!! And the crossing from Bergen NO to New Haven CT with Captain Magnus Andersen and 11 crew took 30 days. Then the vessel, dubbed Viking, traveled up the Hudson and through the pre-Barge Canal on its way to Chicago with stops in Albany, Syracuse, Rochester, and Cleveland. The vessel is still there in Geneva IL. Here’s another video on the ship.
To pick up on the NY canals’ connection, as we approach the bicentennial of the start of the Erie Canal, it would be great to seek out and archive any photos–still languishing in local photo troves–of the 1893 passage there of Viking, as well as of any other outstanding vessels that have traversed the Canal throughout its history.
And since my focus these days is on chrononauts, there is this fleet that comes through the sixth boro every few years. I caught up with them in Newburgh in 2012 and Oswego in 2014.
I have more Saint Lawrence posts, but with a chrononautical weekend behind us, let me digress and report. The mood for the first ship was set by the weather; see what the mist did to my favorite downtown building–70 Pine. Click here and be treated to a slideshow of views through time of boro Manhattan’s tall observation cliffs, past present and future.
Looking eastbound up the East River, I saw her waiting, as
first one of her entourage arrived and
and then another.
The term “haze gray” was certainly demonstrated yesterday,
as was the vintage of this Liberty ship headed to sea, for a cruise.
Even the Higgins T-boat in the distance is a whole decade closer to the present–in inception– than Brown, although yesterday all crowded into 2016.
It was a moving sight,
which I beheld,
only slightly regretting I was not aboard.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Here are the previous ones.
Whitefish Bay was built in China in 2010.
See the beached vessel to the left, it’s
Kathryn Spirit, not a pretty sight.
Here Orsula departs upstream of Beauharnois Canal.
She’s formerly . . . Federal Calumet.
Here Mississagi was offloading corn,
with a green light and 84% of something status.
And closing this out, I have a friend on Algolake who prompted me to help them fete their vessel’s anniversary five years ago here.
Happy 40th very soon and fair winds. I’m curious about the United Way logo on the superstructure.
All photos by Will Van dorp.
This series goes back to 2006, when I had no idea where it would end up a decade on. Click here to see past installments. All the photos in this post I took between Prescott ON and the start of the Beauharnois Canal.
Below . . . it’s the light at the location of the Battle of the Windmill. Some of the charm of seeing this borderlands is learning of the obscure events of US-Canada history and the little remembered or mentioned groups like Hunter Lodges and the so-called “patriots” of the Patriots’ War.
Here’s the active monument to commerce at the port of Johnstown, ON.
What prompts me to do this post is a recognition of the beauty little seen.
More Mississagi soon, but for now, the self-unloader is offloading upstream of the Iroquois Lock.
This wall leads into the Iroquois lock, which doesn’t always close. It’s a check lock.
This is the same dairy farm off the port beam and
the stern.
We meet Thalassa Desgagnes upstream of the Eisenhower Lock.
These transmission lines come off the Moses-Saunders Power Dam, crossing over the River at Massena.
Dog swimming on a leash?
Singer Castle, it’s not.
Singer Castle, 50 or so miles upstream, this is.
And these are the Adirondacks, as seen from the River downstream of Massena.
This looks like the Eglise de Saint Anicet, QC.
Labrador here is just upstream of the first lock in the Beauharnois Canal.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Here’s an Ocean tug I left out of yesterday’s post . . . one of the Trois Rivieres’ fleet, Andre M. She has a distinguished past as the former Foundation Valiant, of the company made famous in Farley Mowat’s classics Grey Seas Under and The Serpent’s Coil.
Svitzer moved into Montreal recently, named one tug for the port and
another for 17th century gallivanteur bretonais. Click here for some backstory on Montreal and here for . . . Cartier.
Denis M, a port tug, is an oldie from 1942.
Michigan and its barge Great Lakes is
Indiana registered, and it appears to be Andrie-managed for US Venture. Here are some specifics. To my surprise, other Andrie-managed (?) vessels may include G. L. Ostrander and Samuel de Champlain.
Boatman No. 6 seems to operate as a one-boat harbor service vessel.
Since Everlast has captured my imagination, I was happy to see it again just upstream from Montreal.
Has anyone seen a photo of her as Bilibino? Some of her interesting worldwide history can be found here.
And the last boat for today is Qimu, which
is a rare sight for my southern eyes because of the script on the stern and bow. It’s Inuktitut, written in a Canadian Aboriginal syllabic script. Over a decade ago and before I had the habit of carrying a camera, I saw a general cargo ship in Red Hook Brooklyn with its name written in similar script. I no longer recall the name of the ship, but it looked like this one.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
And unrelated but in closing, here’s a information request from Michael Pak, which you can also see in the comments section to the left above, where you can also post your answers: “Hello, I’m wondering if anyone here can help me find out any information about my great grandfather John Maitland Adams, a tugboat captain on the Hudson in the thirties and forties I believe. He is mentioned in the March 1947 National Geographic magazine in the story “Shad in the Shadows of Skyscrapers” along with ‘river veterans, Captain, Fred Truax, Harry Lyons,Floyd Clayton and William Ingold.’ My grandmother and great uncles spent their early years on the river, they hauled coal and lumber up and down the river. He retired from the river and became an engineer on the Hudson River West Coast Line. He lived out his life on the river dying on his boat in Edgewater, I think. In his obituary they refer to him as ‘Pop Adams.’ Any records or info about him would be greatly appreciated.” MP.
Anyone help out with leads?
Here’s more on shad fishing in the Hudson.
And since we’re on research requests, does anyone know which tug would have been towing cargo barge Columbia Boston in Cape Cod Bay in February 1992 when it lost some containers? Here’s a reference to that event in a Bangor paper a year later because of flotsam.
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