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By numbers of boats, Vane Brothers has the largest fleet operating in the sixth boro, or maybe it just seems that way because the boats appear uniform, but there are subtle differences in size, power, vintage, and some of you know what else. It helps to think of this fleet as several classes, not all of which are shown in this post. The classes here are Elizabeth Anne, since 2015; Patapsco, since 2004; and Sassafras, since 2008; here I’ll abbreviate these classes as EA, PTS, and SAS.
Elizabeth Anne is now part of the Vane NW fleet working on the Salish Sea aka Puget Sound. Both Patapsco and Sassafras, now Steven Wayne and George Holland, respectively, have been sold out of the Vane fleet.
Nanticoke was launched in 2004, 4200 hp, and 95′ x 43.’ These are common to all/most PTS class. Assisting here is Fort McHenry, 2016, 3000 hp, and 90′ x 32,’ standard for SAS class.
Philadelphia dates from 2017, 4200 hp, 95′ x 34,’ standard for the EA class.
Wye River is a 2008 PTS-class boat, 4200 and 96′ x 34.’ I’m not sure of that 96′ loa number.
Choptank is a 2006 PTS boat.
Elk River is a 2009 SAS boat.
New York is a 2017 EA boat. I took this photo in the Black Rock Canal, in Buffalo. This is the only non-sixth boro image in this post.
Cape Fear is 2018 SAS boat. Fort McHenry in the distance has been mentioned above.
Charleston is 2018 EA.
Pocomoke is a 2008 PTS.
Fells Point is a 2014 SAS boat.
Kings Point is SAS, 2014. Jacksonville is a 2018 EA boat.
And to close for now, Fort Schuyler is a 2015 SAS boat.
All photos, any errors, WVD. Transiting the sixth boro now and then and some stick around, Vane Brothers has at least three other classes of boats in their fleet.
A previous all-Vane post can be found here.
Here are previous posts in the series.
Look closely at the image of William F. Fallon Jr. below; something is unusual there.
Note that Bluefin below is juxtaposed with the Whale on shore. The Whale might be an interesting location to visit someday.
Bayonne Drydock has Schuylkill high and dry and Go Discovery along the bulkhead.
Hull design and bridge configuration are unusual. Who designed this vessel?
Big rocks
await some jetty project, I suppose. Anyone know where?
See the difference in ladder configuration between Charleston and
Jacksonville? Both boats are Elizabeth Anne class boats, so why the difference in ladders?
Since 2014, October has been breast cancer awareness month, a tradition begun by Moran.
Other companies like Kirby and Bouchard joined in previous years as well.
This year so far, Stasinos is the only other company I’ve seen mark awareness of the disease this year. Have I missed anyone?
Finally, getting back to the Fallon photo that led off this post. Fallon is a pin boat, and yet, she’s attached to the barge Long Island with push gear. Does this combination really operate this way? I’m just curious.
All photos and questions, any errors, WVD.
I have lots more Gayer Barge Canal tugboat photos coming, but this set of photos had me puzzled until just now.
I’d seen the Merritt-Chapman & Scott crane barges Charleston and Concord with a tugboat in between. Focussing on trying to identify the tugboat as well as the location on the Barge Canal blinded me to the activity in the photos. I’ll give my interpretation later in the post, but first . . . tell me how you read the photos.
I love the lines on the small workboat Contest.
All undated photos by Albert Gayer.
First, I think the photos were taken on the Rondout, not the Barge Canal, but I don’t know where on the Rondout that quarry might be located.
Second, it appears that Charleston and Concord have just raised that tugboat from where it sank.
Alternative interpretations, especially if mine is wrong and yours is correct, are welcome.
I’m not disparaging, but my first thought was “just another” Vane tug heading across the bow, until
we passed and I noticed it was Charleston, which I believe is Vane’s newest tug in the sixth boro.
The new “ubiquitous” vessels on the sixth boro waterways move containerized trash. Pathfinder is one of the tugboats assigned to this duty. Covanta first got the contract for this business in 2013, and my first knowledge of these barges was here.
Two different generations of McAllister tugboats headed out recently, Capt. Brian A. and
Ellen. Launched a half century apart and having a difference of almost 3000 hp, they are both working daily assisting ships in the harbor.
Janet D is a mere five years old and works in marine construction, working for the aptly named Construction and Marine Equipment Co.
Franklin Reinauer was built and christened by that name in 1984.
It appears to me here that Linda L. Miller, the truckable tug, is the prime mover, pushing Catherine C. Miller. Click to enlarge the photo and you’ll see a handsome spread of Manhattan architecture, sans the peaks.
And let’s conclude with Mister Jim, who back in 2016 did not have the gray/red livery.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who missed the return of Atlantic Enterprise this morning, back from the work in Georgia.
This post is dedicated to one of my most devoted readers/commenters. It’s you, Mage!
Actually, this is what 3000 people stuck in traffic looks like. Carnival Fantasy was scheduled to sail at 4 pm New Years Day, but two incoming vessels had priority. Here was 4:18. Note the red flag hanging from the bow.
4:47.
5:06.
5:31 and some dolphins had just glided by.
5:47.
5:51.
6:02, and when the shore crew slipped the line over the bollard, passengers cheered from the upper deck. Thrusters move it laterally, Bahamas bound.
6:09. Notice the car carrier Hoegh Brasilia that has assumed a place directly astern of Fantasy at the Union Pier Terminal.
6:12. Notice the tug (Ann Moran?) assisting Brasilia.
6:15. Fantasy in reverse.
6:19. I imagine the lines of the Ravenel Bridge as masts and sails. Well, if I squint, of course.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp, who will post more “road fotos” tomorrow.
Rumor circulated that fireworks would scintillate over Yorktown on the opposite side of the Cooper, so we made our way to the river behind where revelers in evening dress emerged from stretch-Hummers, over by the container port
where Fairload was the only vessel in port.
We waited on the pier accompanied, we thought, only by a night bird as
fog moved in. Yorktown disappeared, as did the Bridge. But sounds intensified: music from the balls and bars, drunken whoops and hollers, popping blasts of pyrotechnics, a deep exhalation followed by another … and two dolphins swam by in the pier light.
Who needs fireworks, I thought, when the contented sighs of mammals can fill the night. Bring on morning to light up the the likes of WLIC 75301 (a class I’ve not seen before) Anvil
and day birds.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp, who finds iPad WordPress app uncooperative.
Last sunset of 2010 in Charleston, SC, sees YM Seattle headed for sea in the distance and
pilot boat Fort Moultrie (another Gladding Hearn vessel of the … no surprise … Charleston class) waiting for the next job.
Happy New Year!
is the name of Pamela Talese’s show (til end of October) at Atlantic Gallery at 135 W 29th Street Suite 601 in Manhattan. Pamela and I share some large interests . . . like her take on Alice Oldendorff and
and mine.
Hers of Penobscot Bay, now
gearing up for ice-breaking duty, and mine.
Charleston, being painted in dry dock and
fotograffed in KVK.
Pamela has worked in cold weather and
and warm to
capture the ubiquitous
changes wrought by rust and paint . . . in paint. Below, she travels to her “studio” via the paintcycle.
See her website here. See her work at the Atlantic Gallery soon.
A description of people along the waterfront in the first chapter of Moby Dick omits a class; Melville mentions some “posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks . . .” To do the unthinkable of completing Melville, my annotation here: “still others women as well as men devoted to the arts, brush in hand, gazing in turn at ship and then at canvas . . or notebook, then searching with paints or inks or charcoal . . . ” Go Pamela. Go others! I love it. More waterfront art soon.
Farley Mowat talks about the “throng” in People of the Deer, a memoir of his time among the Cree, the throng being the brown river of caribou stopping his train as he journeyed toward Hudson Bay. Gravesend Bay has an avian throng I eavesdropped on yesterday. Btw, that’s Coney Island beyond the buffleheads and brent’s geese.
Brent geese (Genus branta and species “gearheadus“) expressed raucous admiration of ATB in background. “Wonder what the ATB is called?” they said before setting out to investigate.
“Oh, it’s Pati Moran, conjoined with barge Charleston,” said the fastest goose.
“I noticed Pati , 5100 hp, in KVK a week or so ago,” said another.
Yeah, and with her twin, Barney Turecamo, nestled up here to Tintomara, a Croatia-built tanker,” said yet another.
See this link for Pati Moran in pristine? Boothbay Harbor.
Odds and ends: Check out this blog I’ve just discovered. It has the perfect title: The cure for anything is salt water. Even without the salt, I’d agree. Also, John Seabrook’s “American Scrap,” in the 1/14/08 New Yorker takes you inside the biggest export moving out of the sixth boro. What happens to that wrecked car or non-functioning air conditioner you put out for trash collection?
Finally, more follow-up to the Newark Bay collision [collusion?:)] of juice tanker and dredge vessel here.
And check out this blog “el mar es el cami” = the sea is the path) from Spain for references to judgments on culpability in the 1999 sinking of Erika and some powerful! French music via YouTube.
Photos, WVD.
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