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This photo of aframax BW Thalassa I took on Friday. Note the green BW slash about a third of the shiplength back from the bow.
Here’s a photo from Saturday, 24 hours later, after rain and fog have moved in. Note the green BW slash on the tanker beyond the Evergreen ship?
Ever Focus appears to have a maximum load aboard as she speeds toward Colon PA. A bit beyond Ambrose, AIS showed her at 19.2 kts, 22 mph.
See the Manhattan skyline? Not much. A few outlines appears along the shore of Manhattan, but nothing more shows. The new Janice Ann Reinauer is among the tug/barge units anchored there.
Bruce A. heads for a job,
as do Miriam and Helen.
CL Christina was inbound for Claremont, but again, fog obscured the bright shiny detail. Of course, the scrap loaded in Claremont has no bright shiny detail either.
All photos, WVD, who finds the fog frustrating even though it was around 50 degrees F, but this is how the harbor looks sometimes.
Unrelated: I just finished Shadow Divers, an account of the discovery of a U-boat wreck 60 miles off Point Pleasant. It’s a compelling read. It turns out there’s a counter-narrative also, Shadow Divers Exposed by Gary Gentile.
This Odfjell tanker has 47 tanks!
I took this recently along the KVK. Today the 1998 tanker is in the Mississippi River heading for New Orleans.
Guess the age here?
She’s just two years old, launched in January 2019.
Elandra Willow has departed for the next job, but this morning Elandra Oak arrived in the sixth boro. Here is the rest of the fleet.
Phoenix Admiral is a regular here, this time arriving after five days from Point Tupper.
Of the three tankers here, she’s by far the largest. The other two are 600’x 32′, and Phoenix Admiral is 820′ x 144′.
All photos, WVD, who has several times prepared a “random tankers” post and several times left them in the “drafts” folder.
More “threes” here.
More Gowanus soon, but for now, this follows a post from a few years back called “boxes on ships,” but what begs for attention here is the number of less common containers, these by a company called Agmark.
Maersk Vallvik actually has two centers of liquid bulk containers, Agmark toward the stern and Bertschi farther forward.
Bertschi is a Swiss company that transports, among many other things, cocoa butter, i.e., their self-described “heaven.”
All this brings me to what appears to be the biggest concentration of tanks . . . . Agmark’s. According to their site, they transport the following: “Dairy products, concentrated and single strength fruit juices, vegetable oils, spirits, wine, chocolate, alcohol, beverage preparations, essences, hot or cold bulk liquids, food products, chemicals, and fuels.”
So, this could have cold fruit juice, just like these, but in parcels rather than “shipfulls.” Others carry “rock juice” either by the shipfull or in parcels.
But i digress. I don’t know what Vallvik carried in those tanks; my point here is simply that she carried a lot of those tanks.
Back in 2013 this same vessel called attention for another type of container as here.
All photos, WVD. And that small craft in the photo above, maybe that’s in tomorrow’s post.
Another unusual container type, CATS, was featured here 10 years ago.
A new tug in town . . . Osprey? Built in 1961, she’s a sibling of Kodi. Photo thanks to Tony A.
B & B . . . it’s Brendan Turecamo in the distance and Bruce A McAllister. It turns out they are not clones: Brendan is a year newer, and Bruce A. is few feet longer and packs a few more horses.
Curis Reinauer is the third tug to carry that name. This Curtis dates from 2013. The previous one was sold to Nigeria, and the one before that has been reefed.
Emily Ann dates from 1964; she appeared on this blog just a few weeks ago but out of the water then.
Mister Jim, 1982, has been in the sixth boro for about eight years.
Doris Moran, also 1982, is a powerhouse.
Navigator, 1981, is the only boat currently operated by Balico Marine Services.
Gulf Coast, 1982, got her upper wheelhouse up at Feeney‘s on the Rondout.
Patrice, 1999, has so far spent half its life working on the Great Lakes.
Shannon McAllister is a rare one in the sixth boro, but she passes through here once in a while. like this week. She dates from 1991.
Thx to Tony for that first photo; all others, WVD.
From the east . . . and
from the west . . .
launched in 2010 and carrying up to 8500 teu, and
to the left, launched in 2011 and . . 4520 teu…
they meet near midpoint in the Kill van Kull.
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They seem much closer than they are.
Charles D. is exactly where she needs to be.
Another sail completed from his perspective, the docking pilot returns to the tugboat.
All photos, WVD.
That big “300” is beckoning, so although I had other posts planned . . . let’s increment closer to that 300. I’m inviting your participation here so that i can make it the best “non-random” random post. Random Tugs 001 was here. Random Tugs 100 was more than seven years later, and 200 was about four years after that.
What better way to start than with these two photos of W. O. Decker, taken yesterday by Glenn Raymo. Yes, that’s the Walkway over the Hudson. Decker is taking a freshwater cure.
Many previous posts featuring Decker can be seen here.
Kimberly Turecamo assisted an MSC box boat in recently. A less dynamic photo of Kimberly appeared yesterday. The founder of MSC, Gianluigi Aponte, is alive and well in Italy.
Sarah D was on this blog recently with a unique tow; usually she pushes vessels like this. But hey . . . it pays the bills.
Andrea follows a box ship to the NJ portions of the sixth boro.
Reaching back into the archives a bit, here was Honcho in San Juan PR. I took this photo in March 2013. She’s been all around. I’ve forgotten, though, whether she actually worked on the Great Lakes. I need to find out also what she looks like now that she’s a Moran boat.
Back in April 2012, I caught Bruce A. McAllister bringing in Mars, marked as registered in San Francisco. Mars went onto a heavy lift ship over to Nigeria. The photo makes me curious about traveling to Mars.
See the tugboat here? Name the bridge in the background?
Between Algoma Olympic and CSL Laurentian, it’s Leo A. McArthur, built in Penglai China in 2009. Believe it or not, Penglai was the birthplace and boyhood home of Henry Luce, the magazine guy!
Did you recognize the last two photos as the Detroit River, and the bend between Detroit and Windsor. The reason I asked about the bridge . . . the Ambassador Bridge is that the owner died yesterday. Manuel “Matty” Maroun was 93. The 1929-built bridge, as well as the duty-free stores in its vicinity, have been owned by Maroun since 1979.
Many thanks to Glenn for use of the Decker photos. All others by WVD.
Here’s another calendar’s worth . . . starting with Josephine. I have many more of this bot coming up soon.
Capt. Brian heads out through the Narrows to meet a tow.
Cape Lookout returns for her anchored barge.
Nathan G delivers a brace of scows.
Ava M heads out for a job.
The “new” Kristin Poling returns to her barge as well.
Ellen and Bruce A follow a job.
St Andrews heads east and
Ernest Campbell, west.
Challenger, some weeks ago, brings a Weeks crane up for a lift.
Stephen B has some additions to her paint job since last I saw her.
CMT Pike heads back across the Upper Bay.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who can’t believe it’s already mid-November 2019!!
Here’s the previous post of this focus. I had others ready to go at one point, but . .. ships sail, horses leave barns, and ideas slip away. Yesterday I spent one hour on the Upper Bay and concluded that it’s a diverse place, starting with this water rising up and obscuring whatever lay beyond it. Of course, I knew what it was, but I recall the first time I saw such a misting–in the Gulf off Kuwait–and my brain could not process what my eyes were sending it.
Regular and irregular cargoes juxtaposed, boxes and rocks.
Framing a shot puts together what is actually quite far apart.
I’ve done a number of posts on winter fishing, but fall fishing must be super right now, with some fisherman torn between landing that next fish and
staying out of the path of YM World and all those tugs assisting it into Global terminal.
I know foreshortening plays a role in giving a sense of crowding, but there IS undeniably some crowding going on here. The ship DID sound a warning at one point.
And that mist in the top photo . . . it came from Firefighter II.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who still has lots of photos from the trip from Montreal.
See that lineup . . . it can mean only one thing, and it’s not the invasion of 300 enemy warships.
Here are some of those meeting the fleet . . .
And here the fleet, part of the vessels . . ..
Three Forty Three does the honors.
The lead gray ship has a unique appearance, seen on this blog here from about a year ago.
LCS-5 will be docked on Staten Island, a tour I might be interested in doing. For the complete schedule, click here.
Ellen McAllister, following her to the dock, is another product of Wisconsin shipbuilding.
Following the LCS was DDG-109, USS Jason Dunham. Please read the story of the namesake here.
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More tomorrow, but here, passing in front of USS Jason Dunham and USS Milwaukee, is the 98-year-old HMCS Oriole, with an interesting bi-national history you can read here. HMCS Oriole has appeared on this blog twice before, once on the West Coast and once on the Great Lakes.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, whose previous fleet week photos can be seen here.
Many thanks to Robert Simko and Lee Gruzen for sending me some photos and lots of questions yesterday morning.
This large gray vessel–SS Cape Avinoff (AK-5013)–arrived under tow
from, I believe, National Defense Reserve Fleet on the James River, where it has been used for training.
As SS Cape Avinoff is moved stern first closer to GMD Shipyard in Brooklyn, Chris Kunzmann got this photo.
Many thanks to Robert, Lee, and Chris for use of these photos. Can anyone confirm why she was moved to a NYC shipyard?
Robert publishes The Broadsheet. Click here and here for info on GMD Shipyard.
Previous posts involving “dead ships” can be found here.
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