Random Tugs 145

I will be back tomorrow with close-ups of L’Hermione and more, but Bjoern of New York Media Boat sent me the very intriguing photo below.  Recognize it?  Answer follows.  Clue:  Elizabeth Anna.

Well, L’Hermione  (pronounced LAIR me un) will find her way into more of these photos.  Here’s the venerable W. O. Decker.  Click and scroll to see her at work a few decades back.

It’s Pelham, power unit for Wavertree not long ago.

And it’s James Turecamo, preparing to escort in the French frigate currently at South Street.

And Frederick E. Bouchard, in the process of switching B. No. 264 from on the hawser to alongside.

And my first shot of James E. Brown, brand spanking new.  I’ll devote a whole post to James E. soon, I hope.

Laura K. Moran watches the French lion pass . . .

as does Frances out in Gravesend Bay.

And the answer to the question about Elizabeth Anna . . . the top photo . . . I believe it’s the erstwhile Bear, the Disch tug acquired by DonJon at an auction back in December 2014.  I wonder where she’s headed.  Anyone help out?

Except the top photo by Bjoern Kils, all photos in the past few days by Will Van Dorp.

And if I haven’t said this explicitly enough, New York Media Boat is the faster, most versatile, shallowest draft means to see whatever you want in the sixth boro.  Need waterborne support for a project or  . . .want to see or show someone the sixth boro and its borders with the other boros, check them out.

Pairs in Winter 5

Here was 4.  Pairings suggest to me springtime, and I certainly am ready for that to happen.

Here a blindingly cold blue Meagan Ann departs the Kills with a team of scows

Cape Sally and Cape Heane.  Are there really capes by these names?

From back in January . . . it’s Chesapeake 1000 towed into the Kills by

Mary Alice and tailed by

Emily Ann.

Non-matching but a pair nonetheless here is Paul Andrew and Liberty V.

And since this post seems to be sticking to the color blue, here’s a pair I took a photo of midMay last year… Emily Ann driving Crow‘s last ride.

And although red . . . Little Bear and bigger sister Bear . . . has anyone recently gotten a photo of them you could share here?

To end on a blue note . . . does anyone ave photos of Atlantic Salvor in its current Caribbean context?

All photos here by Will Van Dorp.