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Lightning is here and has been for at least four years, and Thunder is on its way.
From 2014 and therefore two years newer than Lightning, Adeline Marie, previously Denise A. Bouchard, was heading over to the Industry Day on Wednesday. I caught a few photos of her as Rubia in between her original and her latest livery.
The 2006 Kristin Poling first came to the sixth boro as the 5000 hp 111′ x 36′ Chesapeake. Here was my first good view of her as a Poling/Cutler tugboat.
Atlantic Enterprise has been keeping busy with runs with dredge spoils from the North River passenger terminal out to the dump site aka HARS. For a day’s worth of reading, click here for a July 2022 report on HARS.
The 1981 Susan Miller pushes a small deck barge through congested waters here. She’s been working in the boro for as long as I’ve been doing this blog.
The 1968 Marie J. Turecamo has worked in the Moran livery for over 20 years.
Scale is clear from this side-by-side photo of the 2007 Saint Emilion (105′ x 38′ and 4800 hp) and the 1982 McCormack Boys ( 74′ x 26′ and 1200 hp), both hauled out over at Bayonne Dry Dock.
The 2007 Normandy (79′ x 27′ and 1900 hp) has been in the boro since 2015.
The 1981 Navigator (64′ x 24′ and 1200 hp) has to be one among the busiest boats in the harbor and the region.
The 1975 Mary Emma (100′ x 31′ and 3900 hp) has worked under this livery since 2021. I caught her transformation here about a year ago.
All photos and any errors, WVD, who thanks you for continuing to read this blog.
Janet D, product of 2015, comes in a 67′ x 26′.
Ellen McAllister, the oldest here launched in 1967, measures 102′ x 29′.
Marjorie B McAllister, from 1974, is bigger than I imagined . . . 112′ x 30′.
The two McAllister tugs were heading to assist tanker Sakura Belle, 26960 dwt contained within 558′ x 88′, launched in 2011.
Janice Ann Reinauer, the newest tugboat here, came off the ways in 2020. She measures 113′ x 35′.
And finally, doing dredge spoils runs, we have Douglas J, 2004, 110′ x 38′ and
Atlantic Enterprise, 1976, and the largest tugboat in this post, measuring 136′ x 40′.
All photos, this week, WVD.
A year and a half ago, I saw a small craft that I’d first misidentified. No, of course it was not Atlantic Enterprise or
Witte 4004, shown here
returning from the dump on a rainy morning.
But right outside the Staten Island side of the VZ Bridge, this small craft, the RIB, showed up, and again I wondered if it was the NY Media Boat Defender, which led me to wonder why
they moved in so close to the wire trailing from
Atlantic Enterprise.
By now, even with naked eye, I’d spotted the blue logo on the sliding door of the RIB. It was a crew
addition on the fly.
It’s a maneuver that used to make me queasy, just because I never got that good at it.
Well done. Transfer complete, Enterprise throttles up.
They spin around, take the stern of 4004, and head back to the base.
All photos, WVD.
Here are previous iterations, just to change things up. Non-random here means I took these over a few weeks, which should be obvious as you look through the photos.
Atlantic Enterprise . . . she’s big at 136′ x 40′. Over the past few years, she has appeared here. Before that, she was in the sixth boro but much less active as Barents Sea. She had different names before Barents going back to 1976.
Although slightly older than Atlantic Salvor, the two boats appear to be mostly similar. An Atlantic Salvor tow I’ll always remember relates to the WTC antenna here.
Some companies have a crew boat. Behold Matthew Scott, a 1968 Gulf Craft 65′ x 16′.
When I first saw Caitlin Ann, she was called Vivian L. Roehrig.
The 79′ x 24′ tug keeps busy.
Hidden behind this barge,
it’s Sarah Ann, who i first knew as June K.
I did a post on Brian Nicholas some years back. I don’t recall ever seeing her as Banda Sea, but in this post from June 2009, that name was still showing . . . .
My favorite photo of Paul Andrew over the years
is this one, showing the 64′ x 23′ tugboat getting transferred, so to speak.
Mary Alice is one of the larger DonJon boats, at 92′ x 27′.
We’ll end with another shot of Atlantic Enterprise, distinguishable from Salvor (my photo during the tugboat race September 5, 2010)
by that fire monitor.
Other DonJon boats– Meagan Ann, Emily Ann, Rebecca Ann, Thomas D., who else did I miss–I’ve not seen so far in fall 2020.
All photos, WVD.
I’ve seen unusual tows before 2019, but it was only then that I started counting. I’ll add links to previous unusual tows at the end of this post. So where’s the tow?
It’s (l to r) Mary Alice, Laura Maersk, and Emily Ann, all behind Atlantic Enterprise.
The story is simple if unfortunate . . .
You’ve no doubt experienced the same with your car, or boat . . . Something happens, and you need a tow. This one started a few days ago, as you can read in the link in the previous sentence. Here‘s more detail.
Fire Fighter II met the tow as it approached the Narrows.
Mary Alice had starboard,
Emily Ann had port.
The trio delivered the container ship to Stapleton. Moran tugs took the ship from there to the container docks.
Today’s weather was fabulous and seas flat, not so a few days ago.
All photos, WVD.
Some previous unusual tows might be these of Wavertree, Peking, Lehigh Valley 79, Dorothy McAllister and mystery ship, the future OHP, Thorco Hilde, SS Columbia, and I could go on . . . Maybe I need to add some appropriate tags.
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Thanks to Joseph Chomicz, it’s Capt. Latham in Port Elizabeth . . .
standing by the barge Atlanta Bridge . . . So here’s my question . . . and answer will be located at the end of this post . . . in quo vadis?
I’ve not seen this boat in a while . . . the 1958 Blount-built Vulcan III.
The “D” stands for Derrick Marine of Perth Amboy.
The current Kristin Poling stands by as Aramon is lightered before it enters the Kills.
Doris Moran moves Portland into the Kills, headed here for Shooters Island before following the channel around to the north.
Jonathan and JRT make their way home after an assist.
Mary Turecamo assists a lightered Aramon to a berth on the Arthur Kill.
Many thanks to Joe for the Capt. Latham pics; all others by Will Van Dorp, who lacked his real camera to document the answer to the “where goest they?” question above.
Some older cargo cranes go San Juan-bound aboard Atlanta Bridge between Capt. Latham and Atlantic Enterprise.
All the photos in this post I took over a two-hour period Friday. I post this in part in response to the question raised by a commenter recently, how many tugboats operate in the sixth boro, aka the waters around NYC.
They pass one at a time,
you see them in twos . . . . and that might be a third with the crane barge off the Battery in the distance,
a trio might be assisting a single ULCV,
foreshortening might collapse four into a single shot, and
if you look across the repair and docking yard, you might see five tugs plus one science boat.
And finally for now, move the huge box ship away, and six of more are revealed.
This is the sixth boro, folks, one of the busiest ports in the US.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
The other night in a diner 300 miles from the sixth boro, Jim–holding the remote below and to the left–mentioned his boat models. His favorite, he said, was Mister Darby. My interest was piqued, but he went on, describing it as about five feet long and having an automobile battery as a power source. In fact, he said, one time he sank the model as a result of taking an abrupt turn to port; the battery wasn’t adequately secured, flipped on its side, dooming the tug.
I met Jim last year in connection with an old boat up on the Saint Lawrence. I had coffee with him the other day in connection with another boat, one that’s been featured on this blog many times.
Anyhow, when he was finished, I asked if he had a photo of Mister Darby; sure enough he did. When I asked what else he knew about Mister Darby, he said it was last in Indonesia. JMC on the stack expands to Jackson Marine Corporation, a Halliburton company.
So for Jim and everyone else, here’s Mister Darby –now Atlantic Salvor–as she appeared in the September 5, 2010 Great North River Tugboat Race.
And in late November this year, below she heads west under the Bayonne Bridge.
These days, Atlantic Salvor has a “twin” in the boro also, Atlantic Enterprise, ex-Mister Pete.
The first two come from Jim; the others by Will Van Dorp, whose favorite Salvor photos were posted here.
By the way, here’s the Mister Darby kit.
Along the Jersey shore . . . it’s Candace, a Damen Shoalbuster design . . . built at Eastern Shipbuilding in 2004.
Hete’s a slightly sharper, closer shot.
Working with Candace in dredge support, it’s Trevor.
Trying to keep her ground tackle tackling the bay bed, it’s Linda Moran holding with Houston.
OSG 350 is practically a ship . . . and she’s pushed by
a force more powerful than what drives some ships, the 12,000 hp OSG Vision. I first saw her here in 2010.
Also, holding fast or trying to, it’s Genesis Valiant, previously Erie Service.
In much calmer weather, it’s Nicole Leigh Reinauer and
Atlantic Enterprise, formerly Barents Sea.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Behold the Atlantics . . . being A Salvor with the dump scow Witte 4003 and
A Enterprise . . . with the Chesapeake 1000. It’s delightful to see them now as twins, which they are, but hadn’t appeared to be. Before we move to the next pictures, though, what are the “poles” beyond the dump scow?
The ridge is the highlands of Monmouth County above with West Bank Light below.
Mary Alice and Atlantic Salvor have been shuttling quite a few dump scows the past few weeks, it seems.
Caitlin Ann–which I first saw as Vivian L. Roehrig and later as Caribbean Sea— followed Enterprise in.
Different day, different towing arrangement . . . Atlantic Salvor returns with a light dump scow Weeks 258.
Caitlin Ann heads under the Bayonne Bridge, past its dismantled piers.
And the “poles” belong to L/B Vision coming into the harbor with
her 95′ spindly spuds.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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