Really Random Ships 2

This is a very mixed bag:  differing locations, times, and type of ships. Installment 1 was from a very different time, two years and a few weeks ago. 

The first three photos come thanks to Steve Munoz. 

1990.  Somewhere on the Hudson . . . I can’t quite place it.  Penhors, launched 1986, is no more.  It last carried the name Anahuac.

1991.  The Red Hook container port.  Beate Oldendorff was launched in 1989 and scrapped in 2017.  In her lifetime she carried a slew of names:  Han Li, Thor Nectar, Beate Oldendorff, Tasman Mariner, Beate Oldendorff, TA Discoverer, after having started out as Beate Oldendorff.  To make searching difficult, at least three vessels have carried this name, somewhat common in companies that name vessels for family members.

1997.  In the port of Baltimore, Dubrovnik Express, a 1987 build.  She’s still afloat and in Egypt as MSC Giovanna.

2019.  Here’s a favorite of mine at the dock in Quebec City.  Arctic is currently between the Azores and Gibraltar on her final voyage  . .  . to the scrappers in Aliağa.

The bow testifies to her special habitat: the Canadian Arctic, since 1978. Her CAC4 rating means that she could move through 4′ of ice at 3 kts., ie, without an icebreaker escort.

Arctic is an OBO (oil, bulk, ore) vessel, not so common these days.  Since 1998, she made 136 voyages into the Arctic and back, mostly for ore.  Her replacement, Arvik 1, has been launched in Japan and is anticipated in Quebec City.  Designed for the same work, she looks similar to Arctic. 

2009.  Eastbound in the KVK, President Polk, launched in 1988, was scrapped in 2013, along with three other C-10s.

2014. Docked at Tata Steel, just west of Amsterdam. it’s Percival, launched 2010.  At 956′ and with a capacity of 177,065 dwt, she’s a VLBC, very large bulk carrier.  Currently called Springbank, she’s headed for Indonesia from Nantong.

2021.  Hyundai Ulsan, or is it Rickmers Savannah, was launched in 2011.  She was recently anchored in Gravesend Bay.

The first three photos, Steve Munoz;  the others, WVD.  Ships, like trucks, only earn when they move, and although things of beauty, are mostly utilitarian.

More Cargoes 12

Cargoes past featured–besides plain colored containers–trucks, and boats like this. Anyone know the cargo of a rowboat called Liv?  Unrelated to the sixth boro, but the answer follows at end of post.   Some of these

traveled to sea yesterday on

President Polk.  Military colors?  Some engines or generators traveled a little farther back.

No . .  cargo here is not cobalt.  But can anyone tell me the types of oils or chemicals she carries?  For pics of her launch, see here;  scroll down a bit.

As to cargoes or potential ones here, use your imagi . . .

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ion. I still have no confirmation what this fishing boat catches.  MOL Express, 964′ loa.  Bering Sea (ex-Stacy Moran and ex-Cougar) stands by barge in the distance.

E-Bos undergoes lightering.

Cargo on Padre Island . . . rich Hudson Valley silt, soon “dissipant” on the  seabottom.

And more on this later:  a group a thirsty folk in matching red uniforms evoking a certain cargo-delivery outfit from up north . . .  .  Could they have liberated themselves from the hold of Ambrose?  Would they be carrying TWICs?

All fotos by Will Van Dorp.  Liv . . . . info here.  Cargo/powerplant is a young woman named Katie Spotz.

Winter Solstice 2

Blogging–you know this–means maintaining a log, with all the benefits. Here‘s what I logged a year ago.

 

The solstice this year happens 12/22 at 1:08 am EST (6:08 UT). For this post, I wanted only fotos I took on the 12/21. Above a very crowded Arthur Kill: (foreground left to right) Thomas D. Witte, APL Virginia, Atlantic Ocean, Turkon’s Dilara Kilkavan, and a tiny work boat.

 

And here’s more: aft of APL Virginia lies APL President Polk, Ellen McAllister at bow and Eileen McAllister abeam. And you thought the highways were jammed. And I wonder whether these containers hold spring fashions and summer clothes.

It’s 4 pm here, already dark at nine hours before the solstice; 182 days from now, come summer solstice, folks will lie still sunning themselves. Peace on earth, calm at sea, and quiet at anchorage . . . like the crew on this Reinauer tug and barge.

Only 91 short but lengthening days til spring!!!

Photos, WVD.