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To highlight the variety, this post will focus on size, horsepower, and age.
Matthew Tibbetts, 1969, 92′ x 27′, 2000 hp. All numbers rounded up if .5 or more.
Brendan Turecamo, 1975, 107′ x 32′, 3900.
Crystal Cutler, 2010, 67′ x 26′, 1500.
Bruce A. McAllister, 1974, 112′ x 30′, 4000.
C.F. Campbell, 1975, 100′ x 31′, 3400.
Ava M. McAllister, 2018, 100′ x 40′, 6770.
Saint Emilion, 2007, 105′ x 38′, 4800.
Christian Reinauer, 2001, 119′ x 40′, 7200.
Magothy, 2008, 100′ x 34′, 4200.
All photos, WVD.
Two blog-related issues: Sarah Dann and the big blue crane are now below Quebec City. And, bidding has begun on Grouper and Chancellor.
Spring, for a few more weeks, means it’s no longer winter. Warmer temperatures bring mariners out, to clean glass,
to plan the docking procedure,
to flake out the lines,
to retireve the boom . . . although these boom guys have to be out all year round, as do all the crew above.
Spring temperatures just make it more pleasant to stay out,
on the way to work,
catching fresh air,
or just contemplating all the oceans this cargo vessel has already transited and will still transit in future months.
All photos recently, WVD.
Because the name and focus of this blog is tugster, you’d expect to see a lot of tugboats, both within the confines of New York harbor, aka the REAL sixth boro, and I hope you are satisfied that you find a plethora of tugboats in installments of this blog. So here’s Random Tugs #337, post 4877, and the tugboat is Foxy 3 moving an aggregate scow.
In the foreground, it’s Crystal Cutler; off in the distance it’s Normandy.
Diane B here heads east with a cargo in John Blanche. I did an article on this unit some years back.
Joyce D. Brown pushes an empty scow east. Notice anything on the scow that identifies it? See the end of this post.
James E. Brown passed sister Joyce D. that morning in the Kills.
Franklin Reinauer that morning may or may not have been under control of the author of a tugboat captain who shared his tales a few years back. I will stay mum. Off to the left, that’s Capt. Brian A. McAllister.
HMS Liberty muscled a barge full of bunkers to deliver to a thirsty ship over in New Jersey.
Centerline operates both Liberty above and HMS Justice below.
Susan Miller moves some material and equipment over to the project just west of the St. George ferry terminal.
Brendan Turecamo heads over to the next and the next and the next job.
Bruce A. McAllister assists a container ship into port.
Bergen Point came off the ways at Blount Shipbuilding way back in 1958.
So that scow Joyce was pushing above is called Maria and
this logo says it was once in the Disch fleet, now sold off in many directions.
All photos, WVD.
Where’s there’s a “1”, a “2” must follow, right? Let’s start with Brendan Turecamo on the starboard side of APL Dublin.
Enter a Maersk ship with Bruce tendering the port side.
APL Dublin has Kirby on the stern.
Gerda has Capt. Brian A. on her stern, and
Patrice and
Ava. That makes a total of four tugboats on Gerda Maersk.
Note the rust stains on Maersk Columbus, a US-flagged ship.
Yet, no tugboats work the port side of Columbus,
but on her starboard side, Margaret has been all along, and Kirby has left APL Dublin to assist Columbus as they head for the bridge and Bergen Point.
All photos and interpretation by WVD, who’ll never see this identical concatenation repeated. Hat tip to all the crews who make this happen.
Can anyone explain the story of the rust stains on Maersk Columbus?
Looking back a year, here‘s where April 11, 2020 found us.
Excuse the obscure word; it’s not one I regularly use, but concatenation, i.e., a series of interconnected things or events, random and unlikely ever to recur, came to mind as I put together this set of photos. Follow along. Early one morning recently, Kristin Poling made up to a loaded Eva Leigh Cutler,
and Normandy came to assist.
They eased out of the slip and turned to the west and
passed the moored crude tanker SKS Jersey.
Behind them came Bruce A. McAllister.
From the turn at Bergen Point, there appeared one of the Moran 6000s with Mandalay, a 2345 teu container ship launched in 2019.
Mandalay evokes much… all the way back to here.
She generally makes stops along the coast of North America and South America, hitting a port or two in the Caribbean.
As she passed between my vantage point and SKS Mersey, Morgan Reinauer heads west.
As of this posting, Mandalay, with her evocative name, is in Savannah.
All photos and perception, WVD, who has more concatenations to come.
Mornings on the KVK can be busy.
Above, Sea Fox (1971) follows Barney Turecamo (1995), and below, Kimberly Poling (1994) is followed by Mary H (1981)
Kimberly Turecamo (1980) and Marjorie A. McAllister (1974) head east to escort different incoming ships.
Chesapeake Coast (2012) assists Gulf Coast (1982) moving the cement barge out into the current.
Bruce A. (1974) and Patrice McAllister (1999) hasten out for work.
Thomas A. Witte (1961 when she was called Valoil) returns to Port Newark.
Joyce D. (2002) passes the docked Normandy (2007).
And Cape Canaveral (2019) makes for her yard.
All this and much more during a few hours one bright, mild morning recently by WVD. Any errors, my blame.
FB won’t display a preview photo because I made them full size. Oh well.
Picking up from yesterday, Kimberly released her line on the lower recessed bitt of MSC Bilbao and spun around to head back home. Jonathan C goes to retrieve the docking pilot.
Victoria Highway comes in . . . .
Life saving steel cage?
Lines are prepped for the next job.
Brendan Turecamo is on the stern.
Meanwhile, over in Global, there’s a lot of shifting going on.
See the crane operator’s cabin beneath the rail just to the right of the red/white tip of the rail? An operator sits there the whole shift shuttling backing and forth lifting and lowering containers more than a hundred feet below.
Frances leaves for her next job.
Emily Ann moves a brace scows . . . likely to Claremont.
And Bruce A. comes over to hang on the wall between jobs.
Here ends my spring morning series. On a day like this, I couldn’t be happier. I’ve posted only ten percent of the photos I took, of course, in the interest of creating some narrative. Obviously each of these photos could develop into a narrative in itself. And other photos creating differing narratives remain in my archives . . . for now.
All photos, WVD.
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.
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