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Well, six names later (George E. Wood, Russell 9, Martin Kehoe, Peter Spano, Edith Mathiesen, and Philip T. Feeney),
125 years after transforming from hull #7 at Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point MD, to a Baker-Whiteley Coal co. boat
after many crews lost to time and countless jobs and
lost numbers of miles in salt water and fresh,
and all the ravages of neglect,
sabotage,
and time
scrapped from the bottom yesterday without
upsetting the crane,
Philip T. Feeney is gone.
Closure I hope.
Many thanks to Skip Mildrum for the first photo and the last three. Click on the other photos to see the tugster post where I first used them.
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Thanks to tugster readers who snap photos and write tugster editorial offices, I sometimes can include dispatches from far-flung places. Today’s post comes thanks to bowsprite who texted me the other day mentioning a pelican at the North Fork of Long Island.
I had limited wifi at the time, so I expected later to see a photo of a haggard fish-eating semitropical bird blown out of its usual habitat by this summer’s storms. Later but before I could open the photo file, she asked about VIMS, and I could not imagine why.
But here is is . . . a vessel named Pelican looking faintly military and with ghost letters midships “VIMS.”
Click here for a thorough orientation to the boat since its adoption as VIMS flagship in 2003. But according to this, a new vessel was ordered, and here it is (as a rendering) . . .
Here’s more about the shipyard in Matane, QC.
Many thanks to bowsprite, who’s especially buoyant these days, for this photo and news.
Click here for previous posts featuring research vessels.
With digressions behind us, let’s resume the journey. In part 4 we descended from the level of the Mohawk at Rome NY into Lake Ontario, approximately 248.’ Canadian pilot boat Mrs C meets us not far from the entrance to the Welland Canal at Port Weller, so named for the lead engineer in building of the first iteration of the Welland Canal.
Below lock W1, Alouette Spirit tied at a dock. The mover is Wilf Seymour, a Canadian-flagged former Moran-owned Texas-built tug I’ve met on most trips here since 2015. I’ve seen her on locations between Lake Huron and the St Lawrence just up from Quebec City. Click here to see her being loaded with ingots.
ITB Presque Isle occupied the Port Weller Dry Docks.
So that you can get a sense of how ungainly this ITB looks out of the notch, I’m sharing this photo thanks to Jeff Thoreson of Erie Shipping News. Usually she’s in the notch and considered a 1000-footer.
Exiting lock W1 was China-built Algoma Mariner, whose bow shows the effect of operating in ice.
Notice how narrow the Welland is here, with less than 100′ between Grande Mariner and Algoma Mariner.
For more info on the Welland, click here.
I drove through Port Colborne–at the 571′ level of Lake Erie–a few years ago, but seeing the names of the shops here, I’d love to stop by and wander. I’m not fanatical about pies, but Jay the Pie Guy sounds too tasty to pass up. Check him out on FB.
Four months ago, I posted photos from Clayton NY on the dead ship tow of the former traversier aka ferry Camille Marcoux. Here’s what she looks like now after the
skilled carving tools of the workers at Marine Recycling Corp in Port Colborne.
See the scrapping in the upper right side of the photo, here the pilot steps off and we enter Lake Erie, turning to port for Buffalo.
After an hour-and-a-half run, the grain elevators of Buffalo welcome us. Seeing the blue G, I can already imagine the smell of the Cheerios plant.
Near the entrance to the Buffalo River, I spot NYPA’s Joncaire II tied up near the merry-go-round. I’d love to see her at work managing the ice boom. I don’t see Daniel on the bow, but I believe the full name is Daniel Joncaire II. ??
Over in Silo City, two older Great Lakes tugs–Washington and Vermont— await between jobs. Of course, they still work. The combined age of those two tug is 195 years. YEARS!!
Silo City may not sound all that exciting, especially for folks who know farms, but this complex made Buffalo and forged a link with another boom city . . . . the six boros of NYC. I like the quote here that it was grain elevators and the nexus of the Great Lakes and the Erie Canal that led Buffalo to surpass London, Rotterdam, and Crimea as then the #1 grain handling port in the world. I also recently learned about the influence the grain elevator form had on modern architecture a la Gropius.
Check out this Gropius design.
A few years ago, I’d never consider exploring Buffalo, and I have so many other photos that I might revisit the city on tugster, but for now, I suggest you go there too and
stop at Buffalo Harbor Museum, Pierce Arrow Museum, and Swannie’s, for starters. I started from Erie Basin and walked to all of these in the same day.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
This is the third of three digressions before getting on with the account of my trip west.
The saga of SS Binghamton started in 1904,
and I last saw it from land on January 6, 2017, when demolition was said to have started. Demolition had started but defined as “asbestos abatement” by the alien looking figures clustered near the tender and the stack.
As a relative newcomer in the sixth boro, I first set foot on the ferry in 2011, when some thought a chance still existed to save her or parts of her. I’ve also been holding off doing this post in hopes that more photos of the demolition process would surface. I hope I can still do another post if such photos emerge. I would have been there, but I was on my trip west.
The next two photos I took on July 16 from the water, the last it turns out.
Paul Strubeck took the photo below as he passed by about 10 days later when the stack had just been removed . . . as in a decapitation.
Only a few days later, Glenn Raymo took the next two shots from the Walkway over the Hudson, rubble going up the river.
Here’s a TV commercial once intended to attract patrons to the now gone restaurant.
Thanks to Paul and Glenn, more of whose work is available here.
This is the second of three digressions I’m making from the GWA series, and what a digression it is.
How can one postpone posting these photos of the largest ever single unit transported by barge down the Hudson! And with outstanding photos like these. By the way, the first two, by Glenn Raymo are available to purchase here.
I post about this cargo, which has been covered extensively on FB, because not everyone enters the labyrinth called FB.
Two of the same tugs made the high profile tow to Rochester via the Erie Canal earlier this year as seen here.
When this tow entered the Kills, many hours later, the passed the salt pile, where Brian DeForest took these shots.
Click on the photo below to read the banner, part of which says “union built in the USA.”
Hats off to all involved. Many thanks to Glenn and Brian for photos I couldn’t chase.
Click here for more prints by Glenn.
Previous photos of Mister Jim here, CMT Otter here, and Helen Laraway here.
Here was the first post with this title, from almost 9 years ago! But for the first image of Cheyenne, I can go back to February 2007 here.
Anyhow, less than a half hour after leaving the dock in Port Newark, she rounds the bend near Shooters Island,
departs the modified Bayonne Bridge,
exits the KVK for the Upper Bay and North River . . .
and a half day later, shows up in Poughkeepsie, as recorded by Jeff Anzevino and
Glenn Raymo.
Jeff and Glenn, thanks. Uncredited by Will Van Dorp.
And Cheyenne, tugboat of the year but not present then at the 2015 Tugboat Roundup in Waterford . . . she’ll be there this year on her way to a new home a good 1000 nm to the west. Here and here are my photos from 2015, which already seems long ago. I’ll miss the Roundup this year because I’ll be eastbound on the waterways from Chicago, but there’s a chance we’ll pass Cheyenne on the way!!
Is she the last Bushey tug to leave the sixth boro? If so, it’s a transition in an era or something . . . .
Safe travels and long life in the fresh waters out west.
Many thanks to William Lafferty, who has things to teach me about research. He sent along this Agfa black&white photo version of
this photo below that I put up a few days ago . . . Here’s what he writes: ” the mystery vessel at Milwaukee is the Leona B., built by and for the Advance Boiler and Tank Company (founded in 1919 and still with us, although located in West Allis now). I believe Advance still owns the property on Jones Island where you saw it. It was used for welding repairs at Milwaukee and nearby harbors. The image shows it while still afloat and operating, a mere forty years ago. I believe it was purchased to be converted to a tug to shuttle coal barges in Milwaukee harbor, but proved unsuitable for whatever reason for the conversion. The firm bought the Hannah tug Mary Page Hannah (third of that name) and renamed it Leona B. for the coal shuttle.
When I research Jones Island, I learned of a new (to me) ethnic group who settled here as a fishing village: Kashubians. Here’s something of Kashubians from an extraordinary obituary for a son of the island . . .
In my fishing tug post the other day, here was a photo of Islander. William writes: “Attached is a photograph (Agfachrome!) I took of the Islander in 1992 at Sheboygan while it was still working. It appears to have been ridden hard and put away wet quite a few times. The Islander, launched 16 November 1936 and took off for Washington Island two days later where it fished for Albert Goodmander, was a product of the Sturgeon Bay Boat Works, earlier called the Palmer Johnson yard. It had a 45-bhp Kahlenberg (and maybe still does).”
Looking at Islander 1992 and 2017, it’s hard to imagine the type of sport luxury yachts they produce today (in the Netherlands!)
One could spend lots of hours looking at and for the siblings (like Bascobel, which saw its end of the graveyard featured in Graves of Arthur Kill in Rossville) of John Purves, product of the shipyard in Elizabeth NJ across from Howland Hook. William writes: “The regal John Purves thirty-eight years ago at the Bultema dock (now Andrie) at Muskegon. It was named for Captain John Roen‘s right hand man, and every owner afterwards kept the name out of respect for Mr. Purves, a Sturgeon Bay boy.” Here’s more on Roen.
Finally, once more . . . I’m looking for more images of the McAllister boat below. ” M. L. Edwards was built at Chicago in 1923 as a 60-foot steel steam-powered coastal freighter for upper Lake Michigan service, and served for McAllister for about forever. ”
Credit for photos as attributed.
Thanks a lot, William.
First, thanks to Joseph Chomicz . . . it’s Rebel and Dolphin over by the Philadelphia Navy Yard . . .
Quo vadis, Rebel?
And the second batch comes from Ingrid Staats with likely the most unusual backstory ever on this blog . . . Ingrid took the photos from a room in New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where her healthy baby was born. She writes, “We had an amazing view of the East River and for four days as Mom & babe recuperated. I amused myself by capturing as many tugs as possible.” Congratulations to all and here they are:
Sea Lion above moving recyclables and and Evelyn Cutler pushing petroleum product.
TJ and Catherine Miller . . . and is TJ really doing all the work here?
And finally . . . Navigator light and Gulf Enterprise pushing a petroleum barge westbound.
Many thanks to Joseph and Ingrid for these photos. And I’m happy to hear that one of the next generation of tugboat watchers has been born.
Again, these photos come via Jan van der Doe from Vianen at the Merwedekanaal, and taken by Huug Pieterse from Arkel and Leo Schuitemaker from Klundert. By the way, Klundert became a city in 1357!
Noorderlight dates from 1941. I’m not sure which small tug she’s towing.
Wiepke, 1946.
Zuiderzee, 1930.
Maartje Anna, 1923.
Finally, for now, Noorman, 1939.
Many thanks to Jan. I’m working on catching up. All these photos–today’s and yesterday’s–were taken in the second half of May.
These photos come via Jan van der Doe from Vianen at the Merwedekanaal, and taken by Huug Pieterse from Arkel and Leo Schuitemaker from Klundert. By the way, Klundert became a city in 1357!
I’m making an attempt at matching these up with some basic info. So Storm dates from 1909 and David from 1947.
Harmonie is 1919,
Jan, 1917; and
Guardian is 1926.
Elizabeth . .. I don’t know.
I have many, many more photos from Jan to catch up on, and will try to do so. What always amazes me is how many restored tugboats/yachts there are in the Netherlands.
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