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Traffic on the East River captivates, in part, because of the context, the vertical density shrinks even large vessels, or flotillas like this.
Weeks 531, I’m thinking, must be fairly new, not only because I’ve seen her only in 2018, but more so because she doesn’t show up on the Weeks crane pages. For a 500-ton lift capacity crane, she’s strangely absent online.
Unlike most crane barges that I’ve seen, she has a prominent superstructure.
When she was “west” bound the other day, Katherine was out front, tailed by
Susan and Michael (ex-Freddie K) Miller.
Back in January I caught the next two photos of Weeks 531 headed directly from the AK into Newark Bay. At first view, I assumed Weeks had a huge new tug.
That’s Bergen Point between the equipment and my lens.
All photos by Will Van Dorp. Can anyone fill in more info on the 531?
Previous posts featuring Weeks equipment can be found here with the Shuttle Enterprise and here with USAirways Flight 1549, in both cases involving Weeks 533, another 500-ton capacity crane.
Check out what British Cygnet looks like less laden . . later in the post.
MSC Marina heads for sea in the morning light.
Panamax Christina has some cargo (coal, I think) transferred before leaving town. I believe that’s Weeks Seeley alongside.
Hafnia Leo waits in the anchorage.
Poland Pearl offloads salt for ice to come after our current supply melts and gets replaced by many more days of winter.
So . . . I wish I could have gotten a bow-on shot of British Cygnet. There’s a lot of hold under the water when she’s loaded.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who lost track of time today.
And random perspectives, like this of James E. Brown approaching the W’burg Bridge, whose namesake was an engineer you’d never guess.
Yes, that’s Manhattan.
Marty C is a Weeks tug I’ve never heard of, here assisting Weeks 500 modify shoreline.
If you’re wondering, you’re looking into the Bronx.
And finally, with queens in the near background, it’s the workhorse Ellen McAllister.
And that reminds me, I saw Prentiss Brown this morning, although she was way down on the horizon, so far off I couldn’t even force my camera to focus. You may recall Prentiss Brown as Michaela McAllister. And Chicagoans know her barge as the “jinx ship,” back when she was still self propelled. Now I’m keeping my eyes peeled for the former Katie G and Colleen McAllister. Have they been renamed?
All photos, etc. by Will Van Dorp.
GWA stands “go[ing] west again,” the next set of posts all attempting to catch myself and maybe you up, if you’re following along, with random and I hope interesting photos from the past almost three weeks. I realize that catching up is impossible, and in this case while I had vacated the sixth boro, big stuff happened.
A word that comes to mind is protean– named for Proteus. Type “define: protean” into google and you’ll appreciate why it’s difficult to catch up. But here goes.
Within a half hour of departing Warren RI, we pass Naema and
Lionheart. Do check the links. Either would be worthy of a post in itself.
And still north of the Rte 138 bridge, we see NOAA R/V Henry B Bigelow.
On the cusp of Block Island Sound, we encounter inbound Atlantic Pioneer, where you’d expect her returning from a run. Here’s a post I did almost exactly two years ago when Atlantic Pioneer components still needed to be combined at the shipyard.
A bit further, it’s Carol Jean and Islander, both Block Island bound, although one will arrive much before the other.
By now, we’re into Long Island Sound and being overtaken by darkness. That’s Atlantic Navigator II as a speck heading toward us.
This dawn photo found us within NYC and approaching the East river. It’s Fort Totten, designed for the entire US by Robert E Lee. Here could be a dilemma: there’s no debate that I know of of striking his name from the credits for this fort.
We pass HuntsPoint Produce Market,
the floating pool,
Marty C–a Weeks tug I’ve never seen,
the “north end” of Roosevelt Island with the Blackwell Island Light,
Gabby L Miller pushing past Cornell Tech‘s yet-to-be used buildings,
the Brooklyn Navy yard with Asphalt Sailor and –I believe– the old Great Point,
swimmers in the water doing a Manhattan circumnatation,
and–let’s end it here for today–a yacht named Vava II. Here’s info on her owner.
Protean . . . day 1? It’s not even over, and I think so.
Lots more to come.
I stopped by around midday today. Trevor had been alongside all morning. I presume this was loading cargo support materials. Here’s the last post I did where Trevor appeared. These first two photos are taken from Brooklyn looking across at Staten Island.
Time is of the essence here, but I’ll bet working in the 90 degree F temperatures was draining.
Here’s the prep as seen from Fort Wadsworth.
Reynolds‘ Twin Tube appears to be standing by with supplies for crew and possibly spares.
Let’s hope tomorrow proves an eventful day. . .
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
I’ve mentioned Heraclitus before here . . . he’s the guy credited with observing that you never step into the same river twice. It’s certainly true about going to a the Kills with a camera. Take Saddleback . . . never seen it before I thought . . . although on longer reflection, yes I had here, doing what it’s designed and built for back in 1992 and in the North River back in the winter. Stern view just looks different than profile.
As my eye followed Saddleback to the east, I noticed this “neck,” and for some instants wondered what was afoot, or afloat at least.
I didn’t have long to wait . . . it was Weeks 526 pushed by Shelby, Norfolk bound as it turns out.
Mr Russell usually stays upriver, but shuffles are sometimes necessary . . .
I suppose some of this equipment will end up in Boats and Harbors once the TZ project is complete.
Gelberman . . . at first I thought she was headed here to fuel, and that would have surprised me because I’d never noticed that before, but when the fishing poles came out,
I realized they had a different objective, one
that boats like this benefit greatly from.
I’ll end this foot-in-the-water with Gabby, pushing a small barge with reinforcing forms.
More soon. All photos by Will Van Dorp.
And finally . . . a research request: a friend is looking for photos of McAllister workboat M. L. Edwards. Birk writes about it here, and Bob Mattsson includes this photo
of it here.
Patricia was built in 1963 and works in the sixth boro here and here, and last I knew worked for C.H. Phoenix LLC of Green Cove Springs, Fl. . . . I like the racing stripes.
Caitlin Ann was built in 1961 and has worked for DonJon since 2011. Here, she and
Sarah Ann appear to be moving coal. Sarah Ann is from 2003, working for DonJon since 2009.
Marion Moran has worked by that name since 1982. I think that’s Katherine Weeks on the far side of the barge.
Bruce A. McAllister,
Eric McAllister, and
Alex McAllister were all working from the Narrows the
other morning.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
I do not try to group tugboats in posts by company, but in the past week I’ve noticed an inordinate number of Weeks boats in the sixth boro. Let’s start with this shot of Trevor, which I caught yesterday. Here are some previous Trevor shots.
Earlier I’d caught Trevor tailing a tow pull by Alexandra. I might have to dig in the archives to 2009 and 2008 to find my previous photo of Alexandra.
Here was that tow, the Weeks 533, the flagship of the Weeks fleet. The 1965 crane also has tragedy associated with it now.
A few days ago I caught Thomas and
Shelby over on the KVK. Beyond Shelby here are Jill Reinauer and Brooke Chapman. This was a first to see Brooke Chapman in the sixth boro. Will she become a regular?
All photos in the past week by Will Van Dorp. And speaking of Weeks tugs, I’d be happy to see Candace again.
My favorite Shelby photos have her towing the Starship Enterprise. and tailing here.
I realize that snow days occur here every year, even though not as frequently as they might farther north, but the movement of a squall across the boros rewards with interesting photos in spite of the cold.
At 0925 the other day, Maersk Edgar was in the clear although a squall concealed the lower Manhattan skyline.
Here’s zoomed in closer because I hoped to confirm the unit to the left as Kirby’s Rebel, which I’ve not seen in ages. I hope I see her close up before she leaves town.
Corpus Christi was clear.
At 10:00 Weeks’ tugs Thomas and Shelby moved in to retrieve a crane as soon as they completed the salt pile job. That’s Dreggen in the background. Nearly eight years ago Thomas and a crane were involved in a job that involved fishing out a certain geese-ingesting aircraft from a forgiving North River.
Red Hook moves a barge past a snow-cloaked IMTT.
Emerald Coast heads out at 11:37.
Peking appears from the edge of space.
And here by noon, I was disappointed in my hopes to get a photo of Hyundai Pluto, entirely invisible beyond ACL Atlantic Cartier. The port may have been closed around this time because Hyundai Pluto had arrived inside the Upper Bay, then spun around–not a lightly undertaken feat–and headed out to the Long Beach anchorage. Atlantic Cartier anchored in Gravesend, and Atlantic Conveyer did the same off Stapleton, not a common occurrence for a containership. Or maybe I just misunderstood what what going on, my perception beshrouded from myself.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Here’s GLDD’s cutter suction dredge Florida as seen from above the cutter head and
photo taken October 2010 in the KVK
from alongside. I took the first three photos in this post.
photo taken October 2010
Here’s Weeks cutter suction dredge C. R. McCaskill, with Sea Wolf serving as a tender.
photo taken near Rockaway Inlet September 2013
USACE E. A. Woodruff was built in 1873 and worked the Ohio. Technically, I think Woodruff was a snag boat.
USACE Florida was the most technologically advanced dredge built when it was launched in 1904. Unfortunately, she sank with loss of life 14 years later and is currently a dive site.
USACE Barnard was built in 1904 as well in Camden and sold to Mexico in 1942.
Here’s another view of Barnard with
a tender alongside. It looks a lot like the buoy boats on the Erie Canal.
Dredge Welatka was built in 1925.
Dredge Congaree was built in 1914 in Charleston SC.
Here’s USACE Potter originally built in 1932 and still in use.
For many more vintage USACE photos, click here.
Many thanks to Barrel for this trip through USACE technological history.
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