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Mary Turecamo, 4300 hp and waiting for a ship at the Narrows, could not look better. She’s an almost 40-year-old product of Matton Shipyard. In fact, she was their last product.
Christiana heads out as
Virginia, 1440 hp and launched in 1979, comes in
from sea, out of the haze.
Christiana was launched in Marinette WI in 2007, a year after Brandywine and a few years after the Molinari class of Staten Island ferries. She’s married to Double Skin 143, another Marinette vessel.
Barney Turecamo (1995 and 5100) and barge Georgia gets rotated by Marie J Turecamo (1968 and 2250). Yesterday I started a re-read of the 1956 book Tug Boat: The Moran Story, and am finding it very satisfying.
Here’s a dense pack over at the east end of IMTT: Josephine, Evelyn Cutler, and Cape Lookout: (2018 and 4560), (1973 and 3900), and (2018 and 5000).
Crystal Cutler arrived here from the shipyard in 2010 and works with 1500 hp.
She’s pushing Patricia Poling.
And finally, a light Hunting Creek, 2011 and 3000 hp.
All photos and any errors, WVD.
Different day . . . different character . . . the Hudson can have thick patches of fog, which
allow Dorothy J to slip past structures on a mysterious shore.
Farther along, Miss Gill guards some incongruous piles of
coal that surely did not arrive through the Delaware and Hudson Canal, which I visited recently but didn’t dip my foot into.
Wendell Sea waits alongside a fuel barge, and
Christiana–not a frequent visitor in the sixth boro–does in her own way
up by the GW Bridge.
Helen Laraway stands by scows of different sized crushed stone.
And this gets us down to the sixth boro.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Choptank . . .
Nanticoke again . . .
Wye River . . . though it looks the same as Nanticoke and Choptank.
Christiana . . . is in a different class, for Vane, although she looks a lot like a certain Reinauer.
Chesapeake . . . thought it could be –at least to my eye– either Wye River, Choptank, or Nanticoke.
Wye River . . . although it could be Chesapeake with nameboards switched?? [No, there’s a slight window difference in the wheelhouse.]
The nameboards say Wicomico.
Wicomico again.
Wicomico a third time, passing what looks like Charles D. McAllister.
Patapsco, according to the nameboards.
Brandywine is a twin of Christiana. At 6000 hp, they’re a smidgeon less than 1/3 more hp than the Patapsco class.
Back to the Patapsco class, it’s Bohemia.
Of that class, I’ve yet to see Patuxent, Anacostia, and Severn.
Has there ever been another company that had 15 identical (are there nuances I’ve missed??) tugboats? And on the Patapsco class, why does the forward companionway lead starboard rather than port?
All fotos . . . Will Van Dorp.
… and random thoughts. A ship with a name that recalls inauguration anchored in the sixth boro Wednesday. It seems that Faithful‘s sibling ships mostly end in -less. Imagine the possible confusion given that siblings are Timeless, Priceless, Endless, etc. “Yes, my dear, I just signed on to sail Faithless.”
All fotos taken by Will Van Dorp since January 20.
Snow’s not falling, but the temperature has
stayed wintry. Ice coats Caspian Sea passing Opal Express, whose name flustered me from a distance when I read the second letter as “r” instead of “p.” “Oral Express calling traffic.” Possible confusion of names there too, like the “Ham Berry” v. Hammurabi of some months back.
New tugs (to me at least)
have arrived. See her launch here!
TGI . . . getting toward spring. Fifty degrees when I left work today.
Photos, WVD.
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