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Thanks to John Paul for this photo of the big crane as seen the land area called Spuyten Duyvil in the Bronx. The tidal strait–entrance/exit of the Harlem river–is also called Spuyten Duyvil. That 328′ boom shrinks the swing bridge it’s assisting with the repair of. Of course the crane is the one that arrived from California 4.5 years ago here to raise components of the new TZ Bridge and lower the old one.
Paul Strubeck caught the crane from the water side, showing relative size of crane and swing bridge. The higher bridge is Henry Hudson crossing. For much more info on that bridge, click here.
I got these photos yesterday from Inwood Hill Park. The railroad swing bridge was opened in 1900, although it was closed for most of the 1980s. Now it carries 30 trains a day and opens about 1000 times a year, mostly for Circle Line boats.
According to this source, maintenance will focus on mechanical and electrical equipment damaged by Hurricane Sandy. “Navigation strikes” may be another explanation.
The crane is rated at lifting capacity of 1929 tons, powered by three diesel 601 kW (806 hp) main generators and one 91 kW (122 hp) auxiliary generator provide its lifting power. It has no propulsion power of its own.
The manufacturer is ZPMC, the same Chinese firm that provides state-of-the-art port gantry cranes here and here.
I’m not sure whose crew boat this is,
but the tugs on the scene are Dorothy J and
Maybe I’ll find time to go back up that way tomorrow.
She was still self-propelled and earning cargo credit in September 5, 2017, when I saw her near Mackinac Island . . .
Ditto two days later in windsor and a bit later
she was running down bound past Wyandotte,
allowing me a close-up of her oxidation.
But today, thanks to Fred Miller II for these photos, she’s down bound again, but behind a tow line of Evans McKeil, with
tail steering provided by the iconic Cheyenne.
Many thanks to Fred for the last two photos. All others by Will Van Dorp.
How about some irony: Evans McKeil, shown here n Montreal in October 2017 with barge Metis,
was built in Balboa, Panama in 1936!! Algoway‘s keel was laid in 1972 in Collingwood, and she’s headed out for scrapping in Turkey.
Cheyenne has appeared on this blog many, many times, most recently after I caught her in the Oswego River in September 2017 as she headed for Detroit.
What is it? Well, to take inspiration from billboards,
I’d say “watch this space.”
Or from t-shirts . . . . “keep calm and pay attention.”
I think the red and yellow here belongs to Jane A. Bouchard, seen here almost a decade ago, but
for the alabaster white, stay tuned. Come on back soon. Pay attention. Stay focused. Be alert.
All photos today thanks to Lisa Kolibabek, whose previous contributions can be seen here.
Let’s start with two photos thanks to Ashley Hutto, first one from last year. Remember the HRSG aka “the cyclops” that came down the Hudson? Tomorrow, another is scheduled to start a journey, then heads for Bridgeport.
Mister Jim above and below as platform, as well as Daisy Mae in the distance, will be involved in the transfer. By Tuesday late afternoon, the HRSC is scheduled to be at the GW Bridge, and will overnight near the Statue of Liberty before entering the East River and into the Sound. I’ll miss most of it, since I’ll be in Albany all next week.
No . . . I’m not entering politics.
Another unusual visitor was captured here by Tim Hetrick; Megan Beyel passes Storm King here, towing a barge upriver. The photo effectively shows the scale of Storm King.
OSVs like Megan Beyel are quite rare in the Hudson Valley, but they do appear. Four years ago Michael Lawrence spent some time in and out of the sixth boro working on a pipeline project.
Of course, there is a sixth boro quasi-resident OSV . . . Rana Miller.
Rana‘s frequent mission is transporting Yokohamas, used to fender tankers transferring product offshore.
And from rubber to rubber, here’s a small USN tug moving rendering barrier around. This photo comes from George Schneider, who writes, “Your photo (scroll) represents the smallest of them, the 19-footers, [like this one] one towing fender-style booms (barriers?), but they also work as gate boats for the anti-swimmer booms (barriers?) mentioned. As you can see this one is officially designated 19BB0212, but has the local designation BB4. They adopt some of the jargon from their origins as log broncs (and scroll to Skillful) and call them “Beaver Boats” to differentiate them from the other boats designed to transport or place the light oil pollution booms. This one was built by Chuck’s Boat and Drive Company (“C-Bad”) of Longview, WA, who also built 25-foot version for the Navy. I imagine you’d find them at just about any station where the Navy ties up their ships. At least 12 of the 19-footers and at least 22 of the 25-footers have been built for the Navy, as well as other designs that begin to look more like conventional pushboats as they grow in size. ” Thanks much, George.
Finally, thanks to Steve Munoz, another one of these small tugs, this one spotted near the USS Constitution in Charlestown MA.
Many thanks to Ashley, Tim, George, and Steve for the photos and info. The photos of Rana Miller by Will Van Dorp.
On a windy day recently in the Beerkanaal section greater Rotterdam harbor, Jan Oosterboer took these photos, passed along by Jan van der Doe.
The small boats here are operated by the KRVE, self-translated as “rowers” but more likely we’d call them linesmen. The more distant KRVE boat is alongside Smit Cheetah. The link that follow are mostly for previous instances these boats have appeared on this blog.
Here’s their own site in English.
Multratug 31
In the distance newly-launched LNG carrier Vladimir Rusanov, shuttling between Rotterdam and Russian Kara Sea port of Sabetta. I had to look up Sabetta, since I’d not heard of it: average annual temperature is 14 degrees F, -10 C
Above and below, that’s Smit Hudson.
Iskes tug Venus is about three years old.
Above and below FairPlay X,
which has not been on this blog before. Multratug 5 shows her Japanese origins,
here with Beagle, new this spring.
Many thanks to Jan and Jan for these photos. Any errors in text are mine.
I’m happy to lead with two photos Lydia Wong took last September when CMA CGM T. Roosevelt arrived on her first voyage into the sixth boro. Like “new car smell” T. Roos carried an atypically uniform CMA CGM container load, at least along the edges; they’re ALL blue.
When Lydia took these, I was somewhere on Lake Michigan or its edges. Since then, T. Roos arrived three more times, but it happened in the dark hours, or I was either away or distracted.
So last week, I was ready to camp out just to get these photos. A camp out was unnecessary, the weather was mild, and –although cloudy–the light was not half bad.
First thing I noticed was the typical mosaic of container color, mostly non-CMA CGM.
Joan and JRT pushed her stern around Bergen Point
while James pulled on the bow;
Margaret did what all was needed on the starboard side.
For comparison, here’s a post I did a little over a year ago of a smaller CMA CGM vessel rounding this bend.
Traffic was light, so I got onto Brooklyn turf before she cleared the Narrows.
CMA CGM’s fleet of 74 ULCS, i.e., ultra large container ship, one carrying more than 10,000 boxes, ranks it third; currently the largest fleet of ULCS is MSC (90), with Maersk in second place with 86 ULCS. Here’s more detail on those numbers.
Thanks to Lydia for use of her photos. All others by Will Van Dorp, who can’t help but imagine that ULCS must be a near-rhyme with “hulks” in its gargantuan meaning.
What is the possible identity of the Moran tug below? We really don’t know.
The source is Xtian Herrou, a regular tugster reader and commenter. He writes: “Seen yesterday during a local model expo at Crozon in Brittany, France. The tug is very small (scale 1/400) and there is not really a name, just white tag. For details about the SS Brasil (1957), you can read the panel on picture 6326
Personally, I’m thrilled that a model maker in France does a Moran tug.
And a question from a reader, Mike Hatami, who did not take the photo. Mike provided follow-up on the repurposing of NYC DEP vessel Newtown Creek two years ago here.
What is this vessel? Is it a USN vessel?
A possible answer is found here. “We use these specifically in San Diego. I don’t know where this picture was taken, but we have a least a couple of these things tied to the pier right across from all the submarines. This exact type of tug. I don’t know how you guys do it in Norfolk, and hopefully I’ll never find out.” And
“It’s a security tug. Those protective barriers surrounding the water portion of the navy base don’t move themselves. It’s the equivalent of opening the gate for cattle to go in and out. Unlock it, unlatch it, swing it open, and close it when the ship has passed. Source: Submariner.”
Is this true? Is this really a USN commissioned vessel?
Thanks for reading and contributing, Xtian and Mike.
It seats one to power nothing, but makes a good puzzle here in the PowWow River some years ago. In dry season, you walked through the gate and sat here to fish or just sit.
Poseidon’s Sea-Bee Pusher power unit has
has no seat, so you make your own with your own, complete with a foot rest.
You notice you can’t drive Urger from a seat; but there is a seat
for the engineer of this bell boat.
If we assumed the engineer’s seat, this handle would be our major control over this 19-ton Atlas-Imperial. You can see the seat on this youtube clip of the engine running.
Since we’re on the Erie Canal, check out the wheel and controls of Seneca, which is also steered by standing crew.
I know I know . . . this is hard to read, but tug Seneca (1930) had a career with the USN in Boston and Brooklyn before it was purchased for work in the Erie Canal, in 1960. GE? yes, it’s diesel electric.
I’ve got lots of helm seats (or lack thereof) from Bart Hakse aka Zee Bart, who delivers vessels around the world with Redwise. He took the photos below on a naval vessel. Nation? Zee Bart also finds time to do a blog called Uglyships.
The seatless helm above is from an unidentified vessel of the Vietnamese Navy. Clearly it’s not a MetalShark.
Below, it’s the helm seats of MF Hornelen.
Note the flag on the left shoulder of the jacket.
And another from Zee Bart, FV Alpha.
I have many more helm seat photos from Zee Bart, but I’d love to have others to dilute Bart’s.
All the first photos here by Will Van Dorp; the others, thanks to Bart.
My trickster truckster hopper is filling and will dump one of these days soon, but this photo fits better in the “seats” category.
But to put this back on the water, here’s the power seat on ex-Catherine Turecamo now John Marshall. I’d love to see this vessel in her current colors and working in her current environment . . . the tri-state ports along southern Lake Michigan. I wonder if this is the original 1972 seat. For the photo, thanks to Mike Fiedler, who also sent along this photo of the helm seat for Lake Express here (scroll).
Here she was in the East River in 2008.
To take on a Peacemaker with a 50-horse Boston Whaler look-alike, your seat must provide a sense of power.
Now this is a well-appointed seat of power, currently a training seat for other seats of power. It’s Pentagoet (1980), platform for tug and barge skills acquisition at Maine Maritime.
Can you identify this seat of power? The exterior colors could be a giveaway.
The “sticks” move the rudders on Grand Erie, flagship of the Canal Corp, former Mississippi River system Corps of Engineers pusher tug.
Any ideas of this? I’ll call it the mystery seat until the end of this post.
Here’s a clue: those are my shoes and below the seat is a glass floor.
Here is the locus of power award Fournier Tractor (1984), which currently works mostly in Penobscot Bay. I took these other photos of the Maine boats here almost five years ago.
And the last seat of power comes from George Schneider. Orange is the color of Edison Chouest. George writes: “It was 2011, and I was sent out on the ROV support ship MAX CHOUEST while they did an ROV survey of the wreckage of the DEEPWATER HORIZON. The MAX, of course, is dynamically positioned, and so the operator needs to have all the DP displays nearby, plus controls to tell the system how to maneuver the vessel. But being a workboat, it needs to be able to operate forward (in transit) or aft (when doing industrial work). So the controls move with the operator, and the “Cyber Chair” slides fore and aft within the bridge as well as swiveling. The whole concept was completely overwhelming to me.”
Thanks to Mike and George. All other photos by Will Van Dorp, who’s planning at least one more “seats of power” post, so if you have photos of a bridge/helm/wheelhouse seat, please send it along.
Oh, the mystery seat . . . was in a dockside gantry crane operator cabin.
Delta Mule was Grand Eagle before that. Today it’s better known around the sixth boro as Eastern Dawn.
Sea Ox was the second name of this vessel, after Lief S. Since Inland Sea it moved on to Brooklyn and now is known as Charlotte V. If raised letters were changed each time, all that heat would make for enough of a ceremony, a necessary requirement to avoid Poseidon’s penalty.
Thanks to Lisa Kolibabek, here’s a view of the step by step erasure and replacement, which reminds me of tattoo removal.
Chesapeake needs to come off along with the place of registry before Kristin Poling comes on.
The final result looks shipyard-launch new.
Some tired old vessels might beg for a renaming in steel; Resolute today is called Ocean King.
This one puzzles me, because I found that the current ARC Patriot used to be Aida. Why the F and the O, Fidelio?
Here’s another puzzle . . . Iron Salvor has been in Tottenville for a few weeks, but
in raised letters, she was Ocean Raider 17. Anyone know what she’s doing it the bro? Was she US built?
Thanks to Lisa for the photos of Chesapeake–Kristin Poling. All others by Will Van Dorp.
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