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I was at the KVK the other morning waiting around for an appointment. Overnight it had rained, dawn was overcast, but gradually the sky cleared. Just before I departed, Gabby came by, pushing a small barge with minimal freeboard, maybe spill remediation equipment.
Before it looked to clear, Helen came by, as
did Haggerty Girls,
Bruce A.,
Miss Madeline,
Brooklyn,
Laura K, and
Patuxent. So did these, posted a few days ago.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who muses about the fact that although there’ve been a couple different tugboats in recent years called Brooklyn, there’ve been none in that same time frame named for the other boroughs or boros that come to mind.
Vane Brothers has expanded their fleet quite dramatically during the time frame of this blog [since 2006]. Although most of their boats operating through the sixth boro fit into two classes, Sassafras 3000 hp and Patapsco 4200 hp, strong design similarities blur the distinction. In other words, with a quick glance, you might think they’re all identical. Patapsco came out in 2004, and Sassafras, in 2008. All come from the drawing boards at Entech, which has an impressive portfolio, as seen here. Ironically, Sassafras now operates as George Holland, and Patapsco as Marilyn George.
Let me show some Vane boats I’ve seen in the sixth boro recently, beginning with Elk River, a 3000 hp.
Would you sat Bohemia is identical to Elk River?
The difference is in the height of the upper wheelhouse. Bohemia is a 4200 hp boat, aka Patapsco class.
Charleston is a 4200 hp boat, but given some upgrades, is considered of the run of at least four Elizabeth Anne-class boats. Elizabeth Anne and several other Vane boats work on the West Coast.
Brooklyn is an outlier; it came out in 2002 and is a Blount product, previously called Sea Bull and Labrador Sea.
Helen is also an outlier, a Sassafras-class boat previously called Charles Burton.
Choptank is a 4200 hp boat.
Cape Fear is a 3000 hp,
Pocomoke 4200,
Magothy 4200,
and Jacksonville, a 4200 hp boat of the Elizabeth Anne class.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Here was the first installment, and here’s a long series called Vane Brothers.
Winter dawns and dusks can be the best, like this one creating golden water for Miss New York.
The 2000 Brooklyn had Vane livery then.
Haggerty Girls, attached here to RTC 60 and with Grace D alongside, was likely the newest tugboat in the Reinauer fleet. Note the bulbous domes of Ellis Island to the right.
The 2006 Manson dredge Glenn Edwards was in town. Currently, it’s in Florida.
Wittich Marine’s 1977 Iron Mike ranged the boro now and again. I’m not sure if this boat is still around.
Brendan would have about a decade of work ahead of it yet.
The 2012 Evening Star and B. No. 250 made their way east. Star is now Rose, Jordan Rose. In the distance, that’s a Genesis Marine unit.
Then, as is still the case, the 1951 Twin Tube was the boro’s premiere delivery service.
Meagan McAllister still had the red/white striped stacks. Currently she’s Charles James.
And some waterways in the boro could be as congested as the roadways around the watery boro. Note three tugboats with Cheyenne to the left, Kimberly Turecamo forward, and Gramma Lee T assisting in Four Sky.
Laura K heads out for the next assist while Robert E. works another vessel to its berth. Mare Pacific and another tanker line up along the opposite shore.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who wishes you a happy Imbolc aka marmot’s day.
Decker‘s still around as Decker, but over beyond her and the covered workbarge is Peking, now living well way up the the Elbe.
The 2002 Joyce D Brown is now Geri T and operating for Seward Marine. I’ve not seen her back in the boro since she left in 2022.
B. Franklin was a year old when I took this; she’s still active in the Reinauer livery.
The nearer boat, 2004 Patapsco, has gone through name changes, but is currently working out of the boro as Poling-Cutler’s Marilyn George. Following Patapsco is Brooklyn, a 2000 tugboat that has seen a long list of names, currently Charlotte V. Here was possibly her first appearance on this blog as Inland Sea.
I believe Susan E. Witte was scrapped in 2016, after a short 12-year life. Anyone know the story?
APT’s Diane B was fairly new in the boro when I took this photo on a cold December 2013 day. She’s still busy, particularly in the heating months.
Pushing RTC 27, Zachery Reinauer is a 1971 Matton product. I’ve not seen her working in about five years now.
Miriam Moran worked then, and she works now, all the time, or so it seems to me. She’s worked the boro for almost a half century now and almost seems timeless . . . . of course those are my personal impressions.
Resolute still works for McAllister but mostly in ports on the Sound. I’m not sure she still has the lush fibrous fending she sports here. APL Pearl, carrying boxes and more than one military vehicle, was scrapped in 2016.
And finally, Bluefin was technically already a Kirby boat in late 2013, but was still sporting Penn Maritime livery. I’m not sure where she’s working at the moment.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who’s back in the boro for a few days. It seems we had a lot of snowy days back in December 2013.
Here are previous riverbanks posts, although for some inexplicable reason, they are not indexed in order.
Name the riverbank in the image below?
Above and below, that’s Manhattan, as seen from about 30 miles out. It would take another four hours before we passed the 59th Street Bridge. The darker image in the center of the photo below is Vane’s Brooklyn, which we were following.
The sunset colors below in the photo below taken about an hour after the top photo were stunning.
Three hours later we approached the Hell Gate bridges. See Thomas D. Witte hidden in the lights?
Passing the northern tip of Roosevelt Island, the refurbished lighthouse looked like this, compared with
this image of the very same lighthouse I’d taken only eight days earlier. The Nellie Bly “faces” tribute there is worth seeing by day. The main channel passes to the left in the photo below.
Here is said 59th Street Bridge looking at the Graduate Hotel (No, that’s not a 1967 movie reference.) and some buildings of Cornell Tech.
New on this bank of Manhattan are the American Copper Buildings, here
framing a seasonally-lit Empire State Building . . . ESB. That belt joining the two . . . that houses a swimming pool.
The repurposed Havermeyer Sugar building has just added a new but retro sign, alluding to the former enterprise of the building.
Behold the 120-year-old Williamsburg Bridge
and then eventually the 140-year-old Brooklyn Bridge. The 113-year-old Manhattan Bridge is in between the two.
After rounding the “horn,” we headed up the North River for the Hudson, passing other new buildings framing the ESB. This twisting pair is called The Eleventh. The ghostly white tower is the Bank of America Tower, and below it is IAC.
Notice a pattern here in framing the ESB? The “web” of course is The Vessel, a structure whose origins by water I posted about here and here.
Looking toward the Manhattan side of the GW Bridge, that red speck at its base is the “little red lighthouse” at Jeffreys Point made obsolete by the GW itself.
As down broke, we were north of Poughkeepsie, breaking ice and about to turn into the Rondout.
All photos, WVD, who hopes you’ve enjoyed this phantasmagorical sequence of the five boros as seen from the sixth.
If you’re unfamiliar with NYC, most of the photos in this series are from Roosevelt Island, likely off most visitors’ list of places to see. That’s too bad, since it offers a lot, including great views of Manhattan and the strait (East “river”) in between. If you’ve not seen the Nelly Bly memorial at the north end, you’re in for a treat.
Here are previous posts in this series. Let’s start with the NYS-built Ava Jude, a 600 hp boat not seen on this blog in a while.
It’s also been a while since Shannon Dann was last on the blog, but that’s because she has had her 2400 hp engines working elsewhere.
Ava Jude‘s 1200 hp fleet mate, William Brewster, has been working on the bulkhead project under the 79th Street bridge for some time.
This Brooklyn, a Vane boat now but formerly Labrador Sea , also brings 2400 hp to the task, and like Brewster, is Blount built.
I notice King’s Point‘s training vessel too late to get a side profile shot, but her “name” 142, is a number of great significance at the USMMA. If you click on no other link in this post, do click on that one.
Coastline’s Kodi is another New England (Gladding Hearn) built small tugboat, the perfect boat for certain jobs.
See more Gladding Hearn boats here, although that’s not a complete list, since I notice that Benjamin Elliot and others are missing in that link.
Michael L. Daigle has appeared on this blog only about once before. She’s a 4200 hp boat that once wore Kirby colors on the west coast as Mount Bona, named for a major North American peak in Alaska.
All photos and any errors, 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!
The other morning was without wind and busy, so this next “hour” is actually 30 minutes, and these are only a few of the photos I took between 0900 and 0930 of this extraordinary morning from my single vantage point.
A team of Dann Marine tugs leave the dock, framing Nicole Leigh at the Reinauer dock.
Vane’s Brooklyn leaves her dock; notice the Moran barn (red with the white M) and Pegasus at the Metropolitan dock.
Charles D heads to job.
Bulker Maina heads for sea, passing Elandra Blu and
Marjorie comes to retrieve the docking pilot. Do you see four people in the photo below? Elandra tankers are based in Latvia.
The calm here is barely broken by MSC Korea.
Brendan waits to retrieve the pilot. Note the scrubber and its effects on emissions?
Over by IMTT Glory and Potomac stand by with their barges.
And we’ll leave it here, actual 28 minutes elapsed . . . name that approaching ship?
All photos, WVD.
Here’s an extraordinarily busy photo; Nicole Leigh is about to ease right around Shooters. Beyond that tug, a half dozen or so more tugboats, an antenna, a bridge, a refinery, steam . . .
Gulf Coast waits in front of a 12-pack of IMTT silos.
Navigator continues shuttling around, moving fuel.
Buchanan 5 is not a common visitor here, so I was happy to see her pass.
Brooklyn and Dorothy J head west although with different goals.
St Andrews moves a barge eastbound.
Ava M. waits for a container ship at sunrise.
Sea Fox moves a loaded recycling scow toward the Arthur Kill, and
Caitlin Ann moves an empty one back.
And finally, C. F. Campbell, first photo here with her upper house, heads west. Light.
All photos, WVD.
Sea Fox as a cold front moves across the Upper Bay.
Mary Turecamo off to the next job.
Dorothy J returns from an assist. I’ve lots more photos of the assist to post soon.
Joyce and James eastbound in the KVK to start the work day.
Dean Reinauer heads over to fuel up.
Kings Point going over to Gowanus Bay.
Brooklyn going to pick up her barge.
Fells Point returning from a job.
The very busy Patrice waiting for a ship as Dobrin heads over to her daily projects.
The always moving Brendan making money, as all these boats and crews are.
And finally Sea Lion outbound in the Lower Bay.
All photos, WVD.
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