Exotics 30 Follow-Up

I’m not exactly sure what HOS Browning does each time she goes to sea,

but she has a lot of deck space, and a derrick to work with.   It turns out I’ve seen ship before down in Port Fourchon eight years ago, when she went by the name Betty Pfankuch.

Specs on this Mexico-flagged vessel can be downloaded and read here. Of interest are the facts that HOS Browning was built in the same shipyard as the new ferries and that the owner and manager is the same company that owns/operates the liftboat Ram VII recently featured here. Also, why is a US-built, Mexican-flagged vessel being used?

This general arrangement  diagram shows the location of a “future hydro-acoustic thru-hull” midships.   I suppose that means that now that 34″ thru-hull has now been opened up.  On that same diagram, would the mud tanks still be in place?  

Given the yellow “cage” near the stern, I’m surprised there’s no A-frame for deploying it, unless it’s been stowed/dismantled while in port.

All photos, any errors, lots of questions, WVD.

Along Bayou Lafourche Again 2

Thanks much for the encouragement;  here’s another set of photos.  Actually, if you follow the Bayou nearly to the end, you’ll be here in Port Fourchon at the entrance to one of the southernmost roads in Louisiana.  This post will be mostly a photo album.

As you’ll notice in the following photos, certain colors dominate here.  Here’s  C-Legacy and

beyond Delta Power  . . . more orange and yellow in the background including

Timbalier Island, C-Clipper, and unidentified.  Many Edison Chouest vessels are listed here, and for Timbalier Island, launched less than a year ago, click here.

Finn Falgout and another view of Timbalier Island.

For the many other Edison Chouest vessels I’ve previously posted, click here.

Crosby Enterprise and Kurt J. Crosby.  For lots of Crosby tugs including these, click here.

Joshua Chouest

Miss Aimee and John G. McCall

C-Pacer and Fast Track

Harvey Champion and Harvey Supporter and some I can’t identify.   Here’s the Harvey fleet including

Harvey Falcon, Harvey Racer, and Harvey Hero.

Betty Pfankuch

AMC Ambassador, Seacor Conquest, and Bob Jr

Norbert Bouziga

HOS Mystique and HOS Sandstorm

HOS Crockett

Russell Adams

Mainport Pine and some unidentified vessels

Connor Bordelon, a ProMariner ship-of-the-year this year, and Blue Dolphin and what looks like an identical BakerHughes vessel.  I saw other Baker Hughes vessels in Brazil last year.

And finally .  . the MSRC vessel everyone hopes never to have to deploy . . . Deep Blue Responder, she with a sibling in the sixth boro and many other places.

Thanks for asking for more of these.  Tomorrow I’ll start unpacking the Nola photos.

All photos here by Will Van Dorp, but if you want to follow work on vessels like these, check out Crewboat Chronicles and New England Waterman.