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I’ve traveled the ICW from Charleston SC to NYC, some parts several times. This is a “revisit” focusing solely on tugboats. I’ll start in Charleston with Elizabeth Turecamo in the fog.
Recycling comments on the boats below from Georgetown SC, by George Schneider: “The little one shows the name Laura , which has one of two possible origins: A 45-foot tug by the Equitable Equipment Company of Louisiana, or a 45-foot Army dredge tender of Army Design 320, mirroring the Equitable design. I’m guessing she’s ON 1060493, originally the Army ST 2051, then the Army Corps Fort Brooke , and now owned by Sampit Towing of Charleston SC.”
And by William Lafferty: “I’m thinking the larger tug is Susan Richards, built in 1909 by the Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation at Quincy, Massachusetts, as the Gen. R. H. Jackson for the Army Quartermaster Corps and stationed at Jacksonville, Florida, later named Fort Sumter and Three Bros. It’s owned by Richards Marine Towing at McClennanville, South Carolina, and has been a fixture at Charleston for decades, originally run by White Stack Towing there.”
Thx George and William.
Crossing the border north to North Carolina, my next stop is Southport, where Sea Oak was working on a dredge project.
And after that, it’s Wilmington and Cape Henry.
The next batch is from Morehead City NC. Atlantic Dawn was working on a dredging project there.
Na Hoku was there also, formerly a K-Sea boat. She currently works out of Jacksonville.
Liz Alma was too.
Morehead City is the deep water export center for potash, mined farther north in Aurora. Grace Moran then waited at the dock. Is she still around?
Beaufort Belle, then PSC Phosphate, is now Norfolk tug. Has she been repainted?
Peter G. Turecamo appears still to be working in Morehead City.
Clearly marked here in Norfolk are Miss Willa, Nancy McAllister, and McAllister Sisters. Second from the left might be Steven Eileen McAllister.
Jack T. Moran was just a year old back ion 2017.
Thunder is one of a trio of Robbins Maritime small tugs with meteorological names: Thunder, Lightning, and Storm.
Camie is also a Robbins Maritime boat.
Anne Jarrett is another Norfolk Tug vessel. It resembles a Vane tug, and at least two former Vane boats are now with Norfolk Tugs: ex-Patapsco and Sassafras.
All photos, WVD. The * denotes that most but not all photos were taken in May 2017. It’s high time I take another trip along the ICW to see what has changed. And we still have more from Norfolk to the sixth boro.
I’m always on the look out for new tugboats in the harbor, and Camie mostly fits that bill. A bit of research, though, finds she’s been on the blog a few times already, however.
Here, l to r, it’s Polar Bright, Ava, New York, and Stephen B.
Robert Burton here is tending a rock scow in front of the very busy Bayonne background.
James Brown moves some scrap barges . . . likely in the direction of the East River.
Weddell Sea stands by with Penn No. 90, demonstrating all the components of “push gear.”
Maybe someone can clarify here, but it appears No. 90 has cargo heating gear.
Helen Laraway moves a scow toward a morning.
And Fort Schuyler heads straight for us–I’m zoomed in–away from a marine/industrial Brooklyn background.
For the last day of November 2019, all photos by Will Van Dorp.
And finally, click here for Paul Strubeck’s Vintage Diesel Design blog post on tugboat Luna in Boston. It expands a post I did on Luna here almost four years ago.
In my effort to catch up on shared photos, let me start with one I’ve heard about for a few years but never seen yet.
Al Circeo shared these next two over a month ago. Is this tug still over at Mariners Harbor? Does anyone know what her owners plan for her?
At one point she went by Sea Monster. .. as in Monster.com. Before that she was the Port Athur-built Mars, launched in 1953 and which you can see in the link here. I don’t know if she’s been renamed, but right now as a yacht she appears to have come out of Monster Garage.
Over a month ago as well, I got this set from Russell Skeris, who took them from his Boston Whaler over by the Moriches Inlet.
Sea Cypress and Hercules were involved, as
were Capt Brennan and
All of them in a group shot can be seen below.
A glance at AIS this rainy October morning shows some of these vessels are still working there, as seen below.
Many thanks to Al and Russell for these photos.
As was true yesterday, all photos today were taken in the first 12 hours of 2016. For Chatham, the last tug I saw in 2015, the year end/start distinction was likely irrelevant. No doubt the same holiday treats were out in the galley in the wee hours of 2016 as were a few hours before in 2015.
From a different angle as last night, here are Michael J,
Camie,
and the “weather tugs.” I’m happy the precipitation of December 31 has ceased.
Although some people movers waited in reserve,
another was cross-crissing the Elizabeth. By the way, is this the same James C. Echols? Is it still LNG powered? Does anyone know where the new ferries are being built and delivery dates?
The quick side ramp system impressed me. It was in fact similar to a system on “water bus” I saw near Rotterdam a while back.
Surrie heads back to base, passing BB-64 USS Wisconsin.
Recognize this vessel, which spent a little time in the sixth boro a bit over a year ago?
It’s HMS Justice, slinging Bryant Sea now in the curvaceous Elizabeth River and
passing Mahan, Stout, and
Oscar Austin, far right.
Closing out today . . what can you do with $12 million and a 1962 North Sea trawler? Check here for this story on explorer yacht Discovery. Here’s another story with much better photos. Docked astern of Discovery is Shearwater, which was doing a project in the sixth boro back in sumer 2013.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
One of my (formerly) secret heroes is Guy Noir, secret because I may be revealing too much about myself in admitting that. But life’s too short to care about drivel like that. Noir has an office on the 20th floor of the Acme Building in a “city that knows how to keep its secrets,” yet each week a different mysterious woman seems to find him in quest of a favor. So imagine this as a view from Noir’s Portsmouth VA office around 1600 hrs . . . on the last night of the year. It’s rainy but warm and all the creeks feeding into the estuary course in, with color and warmth of some old coffee . . . I was last here, though on the river then, about six weeks ago here. And notice the hammerhead crane to the right. Here’s
the deal. But I’ll come back to this history stuff later.
For now, this is a record of the last night of the year, what my parents used to call “old years night.”
In the fading light, there’s Michael J. McAllister, another McA (Nancy??) behind it, Camie, and a trio of Robbins Maritime minis called Thunder, Lightning, and Squall. AND if you look carefully beyond the McAllister tugs, you’ll see Dann Ocean’s Neptune and the Colonna Shipyard, where a Staten Island ferry is being overhauled. Click here for previous posts referring to Colonna.
In the driving rain as the last hours of the year ebb away, Vane tug Chatham heads south; the oil must move . . . . even when the postal stream sleeps.
Shadows . . . on a rainy night paint the river. And under the “tent” inside
And so ended 2015 for me . . . not a low-flying aircraft but a high flying window perch.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, private and public eye.
Let’s go farther south–i.e., up the Elizabeth. Covered barge . . .
pushed by Gram-Me. Coal?
Capt. Woody and Alexis of w3marine have the best logo. See it better here. Fleetmate Ocean Endeavor was in yesterday’s post.
Lorette is one of two Norfolk tugs that used to be Moran boats.
As you can see by the livery, Ellie J is also a Norfolk tug, but although
similar, Stevens Towing’s Island Express is not.
Here’s a small portion of McAllister Virginia‘s fleet: Nancy and Eileen. The last time I saw Eileen she was returning a Staten Island ferry post rehab.
Vulcan construction has its logo on a number of tugs here, including Arapaho,
Aries,
Capt. Ron L, and
VMC Chattanooga.
Alexander Duff is a Vane tug.
Kodiak, here I think leaving the soybean depot– used to be Vane’s Capt. Russi.
Kodiak has been in the sixth boro on a few occasions. Here’s more of her current fleet: Maverick, ?Southern Star?, and Challenger.
Hoss, like the boats immediately above is also an Intracoastal Marine boat. Hoss is a close relative via Wiley Manufacturing of the sixth boro’s Patricia. Sun Merchant, which I saw here in Savannah, is a Vane boat.
Corman Marine’s Captain Mac is yet another tugboat in the Elizabeth owned by a construction company.
Camie and Cajun look alike but may be owned by Robbins Maritime and Bay Transportation, respectively.
Three Sisters seems to be owned by a family-oriented company called Smith Brothers.
Elizabeth Ann, operated by Atlantic Gulf Towing, used to be known as El Hippo Grande, a truly satisfactory name for a workboat.
And finally, we seem to have two Skanska-owned boats, Ranger and
Cap’n Ed.
All photos here by Will Van Dorp, who imagined there’d be only about 10 photos in this post about a short section of the waterway in the Norfolk/Portsmouth VA area. For the entirely delightful travel through the area, I am very grateful to the USMMA Sailing Foundation.
A request, though. Over by the Norfolk Dredging yard, I saw their small tug Palmyra through the trees and could not get a good shot. Has anyone taken one over the years? If so, could you share it on this blog? Send me an email, please.
Finally, some of you got an earlier version of this last night when I pushed the wrong button. Sorry about that. I could give other reasons for that error, but it was a slip and I had not intended you to think I had started using placeholder gibberish as captions.
Cheers.
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