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See the ship over there?
Here?
Wait . . . there’s the red wind farm ship but also a low slung gray one, easy to miss, low light a subchaser or even a submarine. It took me a while to find any identification on it. No, the last word is not cher.
Guess the age based on the plates battered so much you easily make out the frames. A uniformed crewman patrols the deck. Of course you recognize the flag.
I expected to see a number on the bow, and maybe the F792 was there and has been painted out.
Again, the lines do not look current.
Here’s the identity in case you couldn’t make it out from photo #2 above. Premier-Maître L’Her (F792) is an aviso, aka a class of military vessel the US appears not to have but said similar to a light corvette.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Previous photos of visiting foreign naval vessels can be seen here.
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.
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.
A decade ago, the split-hulled trailing suction hopper dredger Atchafalaya was in the sixth boro. These days in 2023 the 1980 vessel in the St. Johns River of the Alligator and Sunshine State. I don’t believe it actually worked in the sixth boro.
The west side walkway made for a lot of photography on my part in spring 2013, like Asian King here making the turn at Bergen Point with assist from Gramma Lee T Moran. The 1998 RORO today goes by Liberty King and is located between Hokkaido and Honshu. Gramma Lee is working in san Juan these days.
Evening Tide is currently in chrysalis state in Brooklyn.
Pretty World had to be “dead-ship assisted” into port 10 years ago. The assist tugs (l to r) are Margaret Moran (I think), Marion Moran, and Gramma Lee. The 2007 tanker now goes by a much more prosaic Central and is in port off Ivory Coast. Marion Moran is now Dann Marine’s Topaz Coast.
Click here for the latest in the French frigate Aquitaine.
No comment needed on this tale of two cities.
Maersk Ohio is currently in Norfolk.
The US-flagged Maersk ship is assigned on the northern Europe run.
Superior Service is now Genesis Vision, currently in Lake Charles LA.
The 1971 Fred Johannsen, usually mostly up the Hudson, came down in April 2013 to do-si-do back upriver with Taurus, now Hay’s Joker.
Ellen McAllister is still Ellen McAllister. But from this angle, a proto-drone view from the Bayonne Bridge, she appears more rotund than I usually imagine.
Marion Moran focuses on giving the 1996 HanJin San Francisco an extra amount of shove to round Bergen Point. I believe 4024 teu container ship has been scrapped.
And finally, North Sea is now Sause’s Kokua, now working around Maui.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who loves these opportunities to look back at all the changes that have transpired.
Ford here refers to USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), currently operating on her initial voyage ever, along with foreign naval vessels, somewhere in the western Atlantic. Here, two of those, frigates, made their way northbound across the Upper Bay shortly after daybreak earlier this week.
Identify the flag on the stern?
HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën (F-802) was the first of a four-vessel class; others of the class called in the sixth boro here in 2009 and here in 2019.
Following F-802 was an older M-class frigate, HNMLS Van Amstel (F-831), the last remaining HNMLS of that class. More on that class here.
Might that be one of her own RIBs escorting her in.
I’d missed the first of those vessels coming in, so later I hiked up to the passenger terminal to get this shot.
Can you identify this flag?
It’s Danish frigate HDMS Peter Willemoes (F-362).
Namesakes for these three vessels are as follows: F-802 namesake was the flagship of a Dutch admiral, F-831… a captain, and F-362 … an officer who fell in battle at age 24. An image of De Ruyter’s flagship as rendered by William van de Velde the Younger or Cornelis P. de Mööy can be seen here.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Unrelated but fascinating: An earlier HNMLS vessel named De Zeven Provinciën was deliberately bombed by the Dutch themselves to put down a mutiny on board in 1933. See the story and related thoughts on mutiny here.
The sixth boro and other harbors have those vessels that seem to hide in plain sight. Maybe it’s more accurate to say these craft, like the one below, are visible but their usage might not be so clear.
Here’s how Annie Moore gets described: “a utility vessel for the National Park Service designed to transport national and international VIPs to the Statue of Liberty.” That’s vague and not vague at the same time. Who are these national and international VIPs, I wonder.
Here’s more: “to transport VIPs, official passengers, supplies and equipment to Ellis Island from Battery Park, New York, NY.” Only Battery Park? Some contradictions exist in these two pubs.
As many questions as I have with Annie Moore, when HOS Browning came back into port after some days offshore, I have even more.
I know what the boat does, but I crave specifics. For HOS Browning, I’d like to know where they went, why that location, what specifically was accomplished with which tools and to what end . . . .
In port, what and who leaves the ship and what and who comes aboard? Maybe that makes me a landlubber with too much time on my hands . . . . Who are the crew?
See the name on the bow of the high speed vessel below? Clearly, it’s not THIS Sea Vixen, but somewhere in the weapons “kit” carried on Ro8 HMS QE is an enterprise called Project Vixen, involving aerial drones, and named for the de Havilland DH.110 Sea Vixen carrier-based fleet air-defense fighter.
Technically, the vessel above and below is a 43′ PTB, a personnel transport boat, and “the HMS Queen Elizabeth class will each carry four PTBs made by Blyth-based company Alnmaritec. Each 13.1 m (43 ft) long PTB carries 36 passengers and two crew to operate the vessel.” Find more photos here.
The PTB seemed to be flitting all around the boro, checking out the sights. Who gets to ride the Sea Vixen and who the larger sixth boro-based PTB, whose name I didn’t catch.
Why those sights? Had HMS Prince of Wales come to town as planned, it would have had evolved PTBs, such as the one here.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who’s always looking for novelty.
I had a different post and an entirely different morning planned, until I looked at AIS, and saw that after almost exactly four years, Big Lizzie (HMS Ro8) was inbound. So whose was this when
these were coming into view?
More specifics in the link above the first photo, but check out the info here.
“But sir, I’ve been fighting this trophy striper . . . !”
Notice Stockham (T-AK-3017) in the distance?
Why eight?
Danmark, owned by the Danish Maritime Authority, is simply called that; although a naval training ship, it does not go by Margrethe II. More photos of Danmark appeared own this blog earlier this week.
Note a second helicopter now?
Wednesday and Thursday the “Atlantic Future Forum” will occur no doubt right there.
Kirby has the stern as they Ro8 enters the nUpper Bay.
HMS Richmond (F239) escorts Queen Elizabeth in.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
I’ve previously cited the line about eight million stories in the naked city, a reference to a 1948 movie and subsequent TV show. More on all that at the end of this post, but for now, with the sixth boro added in, I’d double that number . . . 16 million stories in the naked city, considering all six boros. And thanks to Tony, here are a bunch of stories from the past few days that I’d otherwise have missed entirely.
An Italian destroyer visited the sixth boro, D-554 Caio Duilio.
A Maine purse seiner Ocean Venture came through. I caught her coming through the boro here two years ago.
More on Ocean Venture can be found here on pp. 20-23 of March 2021 of National Fisherman.
And there’s more . . all from the past week, name that tall ship with the flag of República Dominicana?
That’s Weeks James K in the foreground.
So here it gets confusing; it appears this DR training ship barquentine is called Cambiaso. She was acquired from Bulgaria in August 2018. However, it’s possible that for a short and unrecorded period of time, the same barquentine carried the name Maria Trinidad Sanchez. What happened? Was that simply a delivery name, or am I still showing effects of my time in the heat with the alligators while the robots attempted a coup?
That being said, along with a DR training ship, there was also another DR naval vessel. Do her lines look familiar?
Vintage? Where launched?
Today she’s known as DR’s Almirante Didiez Burgos. But at launch in Duluth in 1943, she was USCGC Buttonwood, a WW2 veteran and now flagship of the DR Navy. She reminds me of USCGC Bramble, which I saw way back when on the St. Clair River. After an epic journey from Michigan to Mississippi for refitting by a private individual, she might now be scrapped.
All photos by Tony A and shared with WVD, who feels privileged by this collaboration.
I also think, given the reference to Naked City, that moving pictures producers should revisit the concept of a Route 66 series, incorporating Charles Kuralt’s influences. Want the season 1 episode 1 of Route 66? Click on the image below and prepare to go back in time for good or ill! It’s disturbing watching. Season 1 episode 1 provides some backstory about how a “broke” Manhattan kid came to be driving a 1960 Corvette. Hint: Hells Kitchen, the East River, barges, and bankruptcy are all involved. A luminary of the series was screenwriter Stirling Silliphant, a name I should have known earlier.
And to give equal time to Charles Kuralt, watch this 8-minute segment on wooden replica vessel building in Wisconsin. Watch highlights as the boat builder, Ferd Nimphius, works on his 113th build.
I’m just observing, not criticizing, but the vessel turnout in 2022 seems quite small. I understand that lots of other things are happening globally. Following USS Bataan, USCGC Sycamore (WLB-209) and HMS Protector (A-173) arrive. They are both about 20 years in service and have both done assignments in the Arctic.
Sycamore made a run up to the GW before turning around. I saw her here in the sixth boro just over a year ago.
Protector did not begin life as a UK Royal Navy ice patrol vessel. Rather, it was built as the 2001 Polarbjørn in Lithuania for GC Rieber, a Norwegian company based in Bergen, a port I visited way back in 1985, on one of my early gallivants. Unfortunately, in those days I traveled sans camera.
USCGC Dependable (WMEC-626) built at AmShip in Lorain OH and commissioned in 1968, is over the midcentury mark and still at work. AmShip Lorain-closed since the early 1980s- built some icons, several of their lakers still very much in active service.
Most of the medium endurance cutters of Dependable‘s cohort-Reliance class– are still in service, either in the US or elsewhere.
USS Milwaukee (LCS-5) was commissioned in 2015. Like Sycamore and Dependable, she was built on the Great Lakes
Four years ago here, I visited the Marinette Shipyard town where Milwaukee came into existence. Some products of Marinette include Sycamore–above–and Ellen McAllister, also involved in Wednesday’s parade into the sixth boro. Katherine Walker, part of the welcoming committee Wednesday, is another Marinette product, as are some of the current Staten island ferries (Molinari class) and some ATBs, like Brandywine and Christiana that pass through the port now and then.
As Milwaukee steamed upriver, she slowed and spun a 180 turn much faster than I imagined possible for a 378′ vessel. I wish I’d been on shore just off her improvised turning basin when she did so. Was anyone there and can send photos?
A sister of Milwaukee, USS Duluth (LCS 21) was commissioned in her namesake city only earlier this week.
All photos, WVD, who hopes to get in some more Fleet Week sights this weekend. If you’re reading this and arrived in the sixth boro–aka the primary boro–of NYC, welcome.
May 2012 was a month of verticality, as in these twin tugboats,
as in the towers of these bridges with a low, long riverboat transiting beneath, and
and in the 156′ air draft of this mega yacht once owned by one of the oligarch’s now sanctioned and hiding his other yachts wherever he can.
It was also time for Opsail 2012, the sixth of six such events to date.
I recall an evening sail around Gravesend Bay one May evening to see some of the tall ships that overnighted there prior to parading into the confines of the sixth boro.
Above and below were tall ships from Colombia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Mexico, and Brasil.
The tall ships have scattered to the seven seas, but these tugs each returns to the sixth boro as work dictates.
All photos, WVD.
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