Assorted Traffic Nola

If they fly the flag, maybe they do the deeds, 

or maybe they had been too busy shrimping to notice what the deckhand ran up the mast.

Maybe they were just both at Journey’s End.

Lizzy B. Moran returned from an assist.

This unnamed trawler–I forgot to look at the transom because I was so distracted by the next traffic–might be doing a local run or could be ending the Great Loop just around the bend.  I just don’t know.

 

It is that season . .  and Silver Fox is festive.

 

 

Ships with memorable names head upstream.

Angus R. Cooper

and Mardi Gras are two of the local assist fleet too. 

All photos, WVD, who’s thinking to find a room down here, but I can’t gallivant back down until I sell the three more calendars I have left.

Crescent on the Mississippi

Crescent has fleets in at least three southern cities, and I’ve featured some of them previously here.

Providence, built 1953, has quite some history in the Northeast, including the sixth boro. Port Allen was built in NYC at Consolidated in 1945, and Angus R. Cooper dates from 1965.

I’d never thought of this before, but from this angle, it appears that W. O. Decker is painted in Crescent Towing livery.

 

Margaret F. Cooper, similarly, worked for a time in NYC’s sixth boro.

As did Miriam Walmsley Cooper!  But southern living seems to agree with these boats, from what I could see as I passed.

Have another look at Providence.  I’m sure some of you have photos of some of these boats back when they worked in the Northeast.

 

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

 

Random Nola Tugs 3

I wonder . . . if I move here, will I tire of watching the traffic pass?   Sometimes there are familiar vessels . . . like Buster Bouchard, but otherwise . . .

commerce rafts in vessels never before seen . . . like Fu Kang (almost a racy name?) foreground and Caribe Pearl protruding from around the bend, with  Angus R. Cooper, Bollinger, and Algiers Point in between.

Leopard Sea and Miss Sylvia keep the excitement going, with

handoffs to Karen Koby,

Cindy R and Zante,

C. Mack Zito, 

Jesus Saves,

Presager,

J. K. McLean, 

Alice I. Hooker, 

Merrick Jones, 

Louisiana and Angus R. Cooper meeting Qingdao Tower.

The Mississippi never stops, but I will of now, with a note of familiarity, not Dolphin per se–she’s never been pictured on the is blog, I think–but rather the Kirby livery.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

Back to Jesus Saves, is there any truth to the story that somewhere along the Mississippi a nun is master of a tug?