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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.
Two days, two ULCVs, and two distinctly different types of weather.
OOCL Brussels glided into a foggy harbor with
Ava ready for indirect towing. OOCL Brussels is 10 years old and has box capacity of 13200 teu.
Here’s the bestickered AMP box ready for use.
Below the AMP box, in the aft mooring station, notice the speck of orange?
It’s still there as Justine passes.
That turns out to be a crewman, his 21st century version of a spyglass turned on me, just as I’d turned my camera on him. Seconds later, I waved and he waved back. Send me an email, sir.
A few days later, actually yesterday morning, Justine played a role again,
possibly a role as a press boat(?) for the gentleman with the camera slung over his left shoulder,
as Zim Sammy Ofer departed port.
Ofer represents another design for large box ships as well as other innovations, such as LNG or dual-fuel propulsion. Keep in mind that no matter how much LNG is touted as “natural” gas, it’s no more natural than any other fossil fuel product. However, it is cleaner and more energy dense. Ofer‘s capacity is 15,000 teu. Also, notice the unusual, non-bulbous bow. More on Ofer here.
This time, Capt. Brian was hooked in for indirect towing with Ellen standing by.
Note the fire monitor at the top of the stack
and the crew sans spyglass at the morning station.
As they departed with Marjorie and
Ava also assisting,
they exited the Narrows and Ambrose and soon were heading SW at 19 knots!
All photos, any errors, WVD.
I don’t want to be too predictable with this title.
Check out Miss Madeline and Emma Rose on a foggy morning.
Later that foggy day, it was Everly Mist and Emma Rose.
That same foggy day, Kirby Moran and Kimberly Turecamo saw Northern Jubilee out of town.
Heading for the next job, Alex and Marjorie B. McAllister pass my location, like a brace of oxen I never photographed when I could have back in the 1980s.
Here Patrice and Ava M overtake Ever Fame and travel to their next appointment.
Justine and Ava see OOCL Brussels into port. Invisible here is Patrice on the far side.
As Nicole Leigh waits with RTC 135 at IMTT, Josephine passes by with RTC 83.
Cape Fear gets an assist from Wye River.
Fells Point gets an assist from Cape Fear.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who will soon be making a major but temporary change of venue.
In the chilly windy of a crisp Saturday morning light, Maersk Skarstind made one of the many turns in the KVK. Name the tugboats assisting? Answer follows.
Maersk Skarstind is a 2016 vessel with 9443 teu capacity.
And, yes, that’s
Laura K on the stern.
Jonathan C has a line port alongside.
Less than two miles behind her (my estimation)
Ava M had a line on CMA CGM Columba‘s stern, with Bruce at the ready.
I said less than two miles . . . ? Maybe someone out there has a better estimate?
Columba is an Andromeda class CMA CGM vessel, entered service in 2010 and has 11400 teu capacity. Behold over 20,000 teu capacity arriving for all practical purposes at the same time.
All photos, WVD.
Part B of this post is a corrective. The lead photo I used two days ago was NOT the first photo I took in 2023; rather, the one below was: a pristine 1969 or 1970 Buick Electra (?) parked here by another photographer wanting to get golden hour photos of the sunrise over waters near the VZ Bridge. I knew I had to step back from my vantage-point cliff to get a photo of this museum quality piece of automobile history. If you’ve been following Tugster for a while, you know it’s a waterblog that occasionally strays into automotive land machines, although not self-driving kind of “automotive.”
A while later, with the sun still quite low, I caught Copper Mountain pushing A-70,
likely upriver.
Above and below, it’s Shiloh Amon aka Jillian Irene. Unrelated, has anyone gotten a photo of Marilyn George aka Steven Wayne, ex-Patapsco, currently in the boro just west of Caddells? I’m wondering if Marilyn George might soon be wearing a lion . . . .
Already on the first day of the year, loaded garbage barges move toward the railhead and empties . . . to the marine transfer stations, here with James William in the foreground.
Ava heads out for a just-past dawn job, as
does Jonathan C.
All photos, WVD.
For scale, the “small” tugboat on the near side of the tanker here is over 100′ loa.
That means … there’s a lot of crude oil capacity in the vessel she’s assisting. however, to complete the scale comparison, this tanker is 816′ loa. The largest tanker currently operating–Euronav Oceania–is 1246′ loa, and the largest ever–Knock Nevis et al.–was 1504′ and that’s just looking at the length. Imagine how these tugboats would look alongside either of these tugboats!
The tug on the far side is 100′ x 40′. Also, keep in mind that when zoomed in on a subject several miles away, distortion happens, refracted light.
The line connecting tugboat and ship is incredibly strong.
To this photographer’s delight, the KVK twists and turns, complicating navigation but allowing photography of first one side and then the other side of whatever traffic there.
In low angle light of dawn, the shadow image replicates whatever creates it without distortion.
All photos, WVD.
As for the vessel SFL Trinity, you can learn more here. And why “S F L,” here is the expansion of that abbreviation.
Tugboats, large and powerful as they are, seem to shrink when beside a global container giant, like Ava here beside Adrian Maersk. What comes to mind, and if a paraphrase of Archimedes is acceptable, give me a tug and position alongside, I’ll move that world-traveling behemoth and make it look easy.
Capt. Brian here and Ellen get OOCL Singapore for the always preferred routine entry, shift of boxes, and then nudge back out to sea.
Ditto Laura K, CSCL Bohai Sea, and Kirby.
Ava stands by here with Mustafa Dayi, in an anchorage usually filled with tankers.
Jonathan C sees Ever Legion in the door.
Mary Turecamo stands by with Endo Breeze.
Ellen escorts a loaded tanker into the Kills. Notice here that the antenna deck is flush with the deck of the tanker, quite unlike the case with the largest container ships into the boro, as in the last image farther below in this post.
MSC Azov gets Kimberly and Laura K as assist boats.
James D has already terminated her business with Cosco Harmony and is now traveling to the next job.
And let’s conclude this post here, as mentioned earlier, the 6000 hp Kirby (?) looks insignificant beside 15000+ teu container ships. The key word here is “looks.”
All photos, WVD.
I’ve seen lots of pairs in winter, some in spring, but never until now in fall, at least not acknowledged until this post.
Two sets of pairs appear below, one Centerline and another Moran, the latter escorting in CSCL South China Sea.
Ellen and Patrice here are going to different jobs.
Mary Turecamo and James D Moran here work on the CSCL box ship.
Lots are boats here; clockwise from the farthest, Haggerty Girls (I think), James D, Margaret, Marjorie B, and James William.
Around 0900, a brace of migratory birds headed north . . . F-18s maybe.
B. Franklin got an assist from Matthew Tibbetts.
Two old ferries ply their trade: Barberi with the highest flagpoles and Marchi.
Two top of the line sixth boro McAllister tugs joins forces.
Two old style boats: Manhattan II and Wanderer, the latter from the Sippican River.
And finally, this juxtaposition passed and allows a comparison of the lines of the 2015 6000 hp Kirby Moran with the 2008 5100 hp Laura K.
All photos in the past week, WVD.
Quick post today with sights around the boro . . . like Morgan Reinauer
and James William
and Alex McAllister
and Ava M.McAllister and
Janet D and
Fort Schuyler and
Brinn Courtney and
Ivory Coast. Note these last two mark the October awareness.
All photos, my hat tip, WVD.
I am way out of the boro again and hoping to leave the bayous in the desired fashion. So yes, the robots are back on the button, sticks, and levers. The robots seem to love posts like this, random collections of mostly tugboat traffic,
like Ava escorting MSC Christiana out of the port, while
Timothy follows. MSC Christiana is currently following the West African coastline, east to west.
Durham must have been working all night and was entering the Kills from the Upper Bay.
Vane’s Brooklyn was eastbound and met
Mister T.
Andrea went to rejoin her barge, and
Jordan looks resplendent in her new livery.
We started with Ava, so she makes the last image as well,
standing by as Mustafa Dayi waits, anchored in a location where container ships rarely do.
All photos, WVD, with posting by the tugster tower robotic team!
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