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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 . . . .
Franklin. Know the numbers on her or what are your best guesses?
Name the tug behind RTC 26?
Matthew Tibbetts 1969 92′ x 27′ 2000 hp
Name the tug with RTC 61?
Stephen 1970 100′ x 31′ 3000 hp
RTC 80?
Kristy Ann 2018 110′ x 31′ 4560 hp
RTC 82?
Curtis 2013 110′ x 33′ 4000 hp
Moving up to RTC 83?
Josephine 2018 110′ x 33′ 4560 hp
RTC 100?
Morgan 1981 120′ x 34′ 3900 hp
RTC 109?
Gracie 2016 112′ x 35′ 4720 hp
Franklin on a different day . . . And the numbers are 1984 81′ x 28′ 2600 hp
All photos, any errors, WVD, who’s soon leaving the boro again.
I don’t want to be too predictable with this title.
Check out Miss Madeline and Emma Rose on a foggy morning.
Later that foggy day, it was Everly Mist and Emma Rose.
That same foggy day, Kirby Moran and Kimberly Turecamo saw Northern Jubilee out of town.
Heading for the next job, Alex and Marjorie B. McAllister pass my location, like a brace of oxen I never photographed when I could have back in the 1980s.
Here Patrice and Ava M overtake Ever Fame and travel to their next appointment.
Justine and Ava see OOCL Brussels into port. Invisible here is Patrice on the far side.
As Nicole Leigh waits with RTC 135 at IMTT, Josephine passes by with RTC 83.
Cape Fear gets an assist from Wye River.
Fells Point gets an assist from Cape Fear.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who will soon be making a major but temporary change of venue.
The first part of this was four months ago here. Follow the red flag.
Know the tug moving this RTC 81?
B. Franklin was the first of her class when she came out in 2012.
Some numbers are 110′ x 33′ and 4000 hp.
How about the approaching tugboat?
That red flag is really visible in this light.
RTC 107 is
pushed by the 2013 Haggerty Girls, the third of the B. Franklin class, same numbers.
All photos, WVD.
RTC 81 … 80,000 barrels capacity. RTC 107 … 100,000 barrels.
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.
Truth be told, I should have passed this 100 milestone long ago, but I forestalled a number of times by differentiating within the title: for example, besides the August 2007 starting point of random ships 1 but also random ships *1 and really random ships 1 posted inAugust 2016 and March 2019.
Forestalled or not, we are here, and I still enjoy doing this. These photos all date from this month and December . . . like B. Franklin Reinauer here lightering Atlantic Blue.
Atlantic Crown here has a deck barge alongside delivered by Susan Miller, while in the distance you see the Bayonne peninsula and beyond.
The next two photos show Laura K Moran assisting MSC Greenwich as an outbound Seaspan New York
shares the KVK as it heads for sea.
If I’ve learned anything from these years of documenting the traffic the watery boro, it’s the value of light to (duh!) photo graphy. When you have the dawn light illuminating the orange hull of vessels like NCC Tabuk, with red and shadow image of Miriam Moran, and the cold black steel of the barge to the left, what more need I say about the joy of spending time in the cold morning solitude watching and “recording.”
What’s not to enjoy about shivering while taking photos of a CMA CGM with the name of a huge tropical city.
Before completing this post, any ideas about the reference in Tabuk or the age and population size of Surabaya? Answers follow.
One more dawn photo here . . . the enigmatic name Eco Revolution on a tanker escorted into the KVK by a 6000 hp Moran tugboat.
All photos, WVD.
Tabuk, in Saudi Arabia, and Surabaya, on Indonesia’s Java Island, have both been settlements for over a millennium.
As for Surabaya, some of you might know the lyrics of the Kurt Weill song here by Marianne Faithfull, but I prefer this one from Javanese myth.
Here was installment 1. Right over beyond Race Rock Light, that’s the entrance to
New London, where Rowan M. McAllister lighters a salt ship named Feng Ze Hai.
A Reinauer unit heads for the sixth boro, and not taking refraction into account,
I figured I could just read the name here. Can you make it out? My guess is Ruth E. but there are others similar to her.
Cape Canaveral passed Bridgeport bathed in morning light.
Later, Sapphire Coast
with Cement Transporter 1802
overtook William F. Fallon Jr. and her barge at
As the early winter’s night approached, Reinauer Twins
and RTC 104 passed close enough to read her name, refraction notwithstanding.
All photos, WVD, who has many more and closer up lighthouse photos from the Sound.
I made my way through all the weird car wrecks on the Belt Parkway this morning to get to my cliff just before sunrise. A small bulk carrier headed to Gravesend Anchorage while a tanker was anchored farther out. About those wrecks . . . three multiple-car collisions in same-direction lanes between Woodhaven and the VZ . . . what is it about impairment and driving that people don’t yet know!!?
Motorboat Yankee headed out to the mothership.
Miss Emma McCall was just off the USCG quarantine station.
From a different perspective, this is bulk carrier/general cargo vessel Meloi anchored.
When the sun rose, it painted ABC-1 and pilot boat New Jersey in light.
Philadelphia and
Josephine waited to rejoin their barges.
Sunlight began to hit the tops of the cranes on Castlegate, a bulker with Chilean salt.
All photos, WVD.
Discovery Coast has been around for over a decade now. One of my first times to see her was here.
Lightning has only recently been joined by Thunder, here. Might tugs named for other weather phenomena like hail and fog be coming?
Helen was only renamed that earlier this year; before that, she was Charles Burton.
Thomas D. Witte appeared here only once as Kendall P. Brake, and that was a decade and a half ago with Powhatan, class-establisher for Apache.
Defender last appeared on this blog a year and a half ago here . . . She was
formerly Davis Sea, my favorite photo of which was here, struggling with solid water upriver.
Pearl Coast is a regular at the cement dock on the KVK, here with Cement Transporter 1802, one of a fleet of barges dedicated to exactly that.
And while I was at this location, I caught a convergence of tugboats, Pegasus eastbound and Stephen Reinauer westbound. Stephen has been in the sixth boro for nearly 30 years now.
All photos, WVD.
Jason has appeared here before, but it’s been a few years since I last saw her in the sixth boro.
I was pleased, therefore, to catch the boat at work in the KVK.
Timothy L. Reinauer was headed in and needed an assist,
Jason, 90′ x 28′, brings 3000 hp to the job; Timothy L. 119′ x 34′, brings 4200 hp to the task.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Jason and Timothy are part of the same fleet as these other boats.
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