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Before I left the boro, I took a quick survey trip to check on some painting I’d expected had happened. I took some photos, knowing I’d be away for a while. No, not upriver, as they used to say.
Buchanan 5 runs a shuttle.
Margaret Moran has worked the harbor since lajnch, i believe. This perspective shows her triangular profile.
That’s Rockaway moving in the opposite direction and Margaret waiting for her container barge to be loaded.
This is a rare view of Robert Burton not moving sanitation containers across the boro.
Sea Lion was running
alongside Charles James, almost as if they were joined on a mission, which
possibly they were.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who’s left the wordpress robots in charge for a few days. I hope they water my plants.
With greater focus today, let’s start where we left off yesterday . . . here, with that large red mooring ball behind tugboat Maverick.
The mooring was attached to a section of flexible dredge hose that
was getting towed. Any guesses on Maverick’s date launched? Decide that for each of these and arrange them by age, before checking the answers at the end?
Carolina Coast came in light the other day, possibly just off a sugar barge.
Meagan Ann was eastbound, maybe heading north for scrap.
Michael Miller was moving who knows what. As a reminder, have you decided the launch date on each of these as you’re going through? Answers are posted at the end here.
Miss Madeline a bit earlier was working on a dredge project.
Charles A was in from another dredge project.
Susan Rose was pushing oil.
Stephen Dann has since gone to Bridgeport.
Charles James is still the the boro as of this writing.
And that’s where we leave it today.
All photos and any errors, WVD.
Maverick 1967
Carolina Coast 1970
Meagan Ann 1975
Miss Madeline 1976
Charles A. 1979
Charles James 1985
Stephen Dann 1999
Susan Rose 2019
Daisy Mae . . . time flies and this 82′ x 30′ and 3200 hp boat has been around since 2017 already.
Crystal Cutler, 67′ x 26′ and 1500 hp, I remember when she first arrived in the boro. I mist be getting old here.
Evelyn Cutler, 117′ x 32′ and 3900 . . . I recall when she was Melvin E. Lemmerhirt.
Discovery Coast, 96′ x 34′ and 3000 hp . . . she’s been around by that name since leaving the shipyard a decade ago.
Capt. Brian A. McAllister, 100′ x 40′ and 6770 hp . . . half a decade here.
Brian Nicholas, 72′ x 23′ and 1700 hp, I never saw her as Banda Sea, although I saw many other Seas.
Charles James, 77′ x 26 and 2400 hp . . . I recall her as Megan McAllister.
Navigator, 64′ x 24′ and 1200hp**, arrived here as that. Saint Emilion . . .105′ x 38′ and 4800hp, I’ve known her as Arabian Sea and Barbara C before that, and this blog has been doing this since before she was launched.
All photos and any errors, WVD.
**We know about autocorrect. Here’s a message from Capt. Tugcorrect: “Re 1200 hp, she’s been repowered and info should reflect that she ‘boasts two MTU 12V2000s rated at 900hp each for a total of 1800.’ ” Thx, Tugcorrect.
We alternate back to Albert Gayer (1897-1976) tomorrow, but to maintain connection with the contemporary sixth boro, especially in the cold, crisp January light, enjoy these five varied boats from this past week. Name the one below?
Pelham, of course. The mighty Pelham was launched in 1960, loa is 80.4′, and has 3000 hp.
Who was rotating Marjorie K?
On the bow was Miriam Moran, 1979, 99′ loa, and also 3000 hp.
Name that boat?
Harry Mcneal is a busy boat launched in 1965, 53.3 loa, and 800 hp.
Which boat is this crewman on the bow of?
It’s the robust Rae, launched 1952, 46′ loa, and packing 450 hp.
And this one?
It’s the unmistakable Charles James, which started as a GLDD tug in 1985, 77′ loa, and 2400 hp.
All photos and any errors, WVD; numbers from tugboatinformation.com
More Albert Gayer tomorrow.
January is named for Janus, the one who looked forward and backward . . . transitions, this Roman. The connection is this . . . one day i post photos from 2022 and the next or two I post photos from the 1950s, supplied by Albert Gayer.
Charles James, framed here by the big green Tokyo Triumph and an Apex barge, pushes a bow wave in front of her.
Here’s the 13, 600 teu Tampa Triumph class ULCV that followed Charles James. You also notice Maersk Vilnius following the ULCV.
I know that names are just for convenient, but I wonder why this class of five Costamare ships carry the names Tampa, Tokyo, Toledo, Taipei, and Texas Triumph. Surely there are larger cities starting with T. In fact, Tampa and Toledo don’t even make the top 50 by population. And if Texas, then why not Tennessee? Taipei is fine because it’s home to Evergreen, the operator.
She’s deep, although I’ve seen deeper.
From the time she starting moving from her berth to the time she departs through the Narrows takes avbout an hour.
The fact that all those containers can leave safely makes an hour a short time.
She meets Oleander coming in for her usual Thursday appointment, and this meeting shows relative scale of these two cargo ships.
I mentioned Maersk Vilnius earlier in this post; I don’t recall ever seeing one container ship overtake another as they race out toward the Narrows.
All photos, WVD.
The sixth boro offers many vistas. Enjoy a few, starting with Sarah D towing a deeply loaded scow past Bay Ridge.
At sunrise, Atlantic Salvor and Patrice McAllister head in the same direction for different tasks past Stapleton Heights.
Jonathan C works shipside on the ConHook range in the sixth boro
Julie Anne heads north or so inside the VZ Bridge. I should know what buoys are there, but . . . I don’t.
Sarah D again and here shipside in the KVK.
Mary Turecamo assists alongside a rust-flecked box ship.
Seeley pushes Weeks 250 eastbound in the Kills.
Kirby Moran, Patrice McAllister, and Gregg McAllister assist another box ship, as Marie J Turecamo heads in their direction.
Sea Fox moves a barge past Global terminal in Bayonne.
Navigator rotates clockwise away from St George and heads north.
And finally, Charles James stands by with a scow off Sunset Park.
All photos and any errors, WVD.
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