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1959 Dalzellera (launched in Staten Island in 1915 as CRRJJ Bethlehem) at the Bush terminal.
SS United States at its North River Pier. Thanks to my “group-sourcing” friends on FB, I’ve learned that tank was part of “the gas regulator at West 45th Street, part of a manufactured gas plant at that site, likely operated by Consolidated Edison. Erected late 1800’s and demolished in 1965. Some “good” stuff in that ground, part of the reason it’s still a parking lot.” Also, the sign says “gas heats best”, and after WW2, a large banner hung there proclaiming “welcome home.”
1957 East River looking toward Manhattan, and
farther south and west, showing the McAllister yard. Interestingly, the Singer Building, the world’s tallest building from 1908 to 1909, still appears in the photo above, just to the right of the Brooklyn Bridge Towers.
Many thanks to Steve munoz for these photos. You can see more of Steve’s vintage NYC and sixth boro photos here.
Compare the verticality of Evelyn Mae’s “windshield” in the photo below with the rake in the next photos. The photo was taken in April 1946.
The interior photo below shows the helm and the modified “raked” windshield.
Here Evelyn Mae gets some emergency work done at the floating dry dock at Matton’s in Cohoes in July 1947.
In 1959 Evelyn Mae made a trip to the Champlain Canal.
Here’s a closeup of the whole crew.
During that trip, she went up on the marine railway at Velez Marina in Port Henry.
Steve continues with his narrative: “Circe was a sister boat to Evelyn Mae. She is up on beach in Mill Basin Brooklyn after hurricane of Sept 1944. I was told by my uncle that these pics were taken after hurricane of 1946 or 1947, but apparently no hurricane hit NY in those years as per internet.”
“[This was] the last year the yacht club was at Mill Basin because the City of NY condemned the property so a builder could build lots of houses. So the vacant land in background of pic is now all houses. In 1955 the yacht club moved to Paerdegat Basin. My grandfather, Frank, was instrumental in obtaining a 99 year lease from the city as he was working at the NY Dock Company in Brooklyn and “knew” NY City Marine and Aviation people to help with obtaining the land. Midget Squadron Yacht Club is still there today (internet) as well as the Hudson River Yacht Club on the other side of Paerdegat Basin, which was there in the 1950s also.”
Many thanks to Steve for this look to the past, when summer boats” were just gorgeous wood.
More decades-old sixth born photos to come.
There are summer yachts, and then there are summer yachts of yore, those ones magnificent back then and then magnified by time. Evelyn Mae, platform for these posts from last month, is of this second and extraordinary sort. Photos and reminiscence come from Steve Munoz.
Enjoy the photos and I’ll tell you more later in this post and in subsequent ones.
These photos were taken at the Midget Squadron Yacht Club in Canarsie, Brooklyn.
When I asked Steve if he knew the manufacturer, here’s what he said: “The builder’s plaque at the steering stand said built by Fleetwing, Greenport, LI, NY, built 1928, 5 of them built as sisters. My grandfather bought it (used) after hurricane of 1947 when it was up on the beach.”
I search for “Fleetwing Greenport” brought up this Motorboating article from November 1928, p. 154.
A few pages farther on 159, I found this unrelated but stunning image for a GarWood advertisement.
Anyhow, a bit of farther searching tells me I’ve been inside the old Fleetwing Shipyard building in Greenport.
More Evelyn Mae to come. Many thanks to Steve for sharing these stories and images.
A few weeks ago I posted photos erroneously identified as Dorothy J, even though plain as day Robert IV was on the bow. That’s called distraction. But the photo below, plain as day, is Dorothy J. Here was Dorothy J on a foggy morning upriver almost two years ago.
Plain as day again . . . Rebecca Ann in the KVK eastbound, and again
in a photo from Bob Stopper, plain as day way up the Erie Canal just below lock E27 with a barge loaded with reef fodder. Here are previous photos from Bob.
Frances pushes a loaded scow westbound on the KVK, and
Janet D moves a spud barge over to the westside tower of the VZ Bridge, about to duck behind Sider Miami, previously known as Asian Prosperity.
Tug Ireland (renamed Hoppiness) has left the sixth boro for good
and is currently in the fresh waters of the Erie Canal, where I might see her soon.
Closing this post out, it’s an unnamed (to me) tug pushing a deck barge at the intersection of Hell Gate East River and the Harlem River. The bridges there are the Triborough and the Hell Gate.
Thanks to Bob for his photo from Lyons; all other photos by Will Van Dorp, who will be leaving the sixth boro tomorrow for a lot of weeks.
All photos in this post come from Paul Strubeck, who has started a blog here called vintagedieseldesign.
Mary H is the right size to serve the fuel storage in Newtown Creek, a renowned location in the sixth boro. Here are previous posts I’ve done there.
The first oil refinery in the US was sited here, and that industry fouled it, given attitudes at that time toward the environment and disposal of chemical waste.
Today a lot of commerce happens there from oil storage to scrap metal processing.
The creek has its advocates, these folks and others. At its headwaters lies Bushwick, not for everyone but vibrant in its own way. Here’s a post I did last fall after a tour on land and on the water of Bushwick.
Again, thanks to Paul for these photos.
The first photo here comes thanks to Tony aka Phil. Shelia Bordelon has been on this blog before; I believe she has now left the area, mission accomplished.
Fugro Enterprise has been here before also, that time on a day that the red did not photograph well. This morning she headed out to sea, mission ongoing, i believe.
Neptune (1977) is a first timer on this blog; the past few days she’s been docked in Bayonne. Since 1977, she’s had more names than . . . Steve Earle has had spouses!! If you don’t know Earle, sample this. I enjoy his music and don’t mean to disparage him, but he’s just been married a lot.
And finally, another from Tony aka Phil, Conti (2005) is a platform supply vessel that’s been in the New York Bight for some time now.
Thanks to Phil for sending along these photos.
For more specialized vessels like these featured on this blog, click here. The exotics category overlaps somewhat here; click here for the exotics appearing on this blog.
75 was in Paris, so let’s stay there. Many thanks to Lew for these photos from Paris.
Moving cargo on European rivers brings with it a very different lifestyle. For starters, check out the Opel automobile nestled rear starboard abaft the house of Belcanto. I posted many cars on barges before, as here, second photo.
The live aboard community is well-established in some old boats,
well-maintained but old boats. You too can rent a barge or a bed in one for your stay in Paris . . . or London . . . or Toronto . . . or for that matter, Timbuktu.
And Lew points out that the marine fire fighters are considered part of the French military. I didn’t know that, but here’s corroboration. Note the logo on the farther red-hulled boat. Click here to read the resume of the current fire chief of the Paris Fire Brigade (BSPP). Commandant Beinier appears to be a barracks barge, also called CS la Monnaie. Click here for a photo of the entire vessel.
I said it before, and I’ll repeat . . .
it’s high time I get back to Paris, where this place
would look different.
Thx much, Lew.
This post was inadvertently launched last week but I re-boxed it. I received these photos more than a year ago from Jonathan Steinman, who has shared many other photos here. Can you guess where these photos were taken? There’s a significant clue in clear view.
Titanic might not be an auspicious name for a vessel, but then some people like the excitement.
As Titanic sails toward the next bridge, you might start to get a sense of where this is. If it helps, the Titanic photos were taken from Passarelle Leopold Sendar Senghor.
By now, you’ve probably guessed France, Paris, and maybe even not far from the Louvre. I’ve been there only once, and that was shamefully long ago . . . 1977!! gotta go back.
I’m eager to see all this commercial traffic on the Seine.
Here’s more on that first clue . . . the Franprix boxes.
Thanks, Jonathan. I’d received these just before traveling last year, and it was a pleasure to rediscover them again recently.
Some time ago, I posted photos of small craft including one not-so-small Florida Bay Coaster (FBC). Since then, I learned that the FBC is called SAILS and operated for many sea miles by a gentleman named Jay Wigginton, whose blog you can read here.
Many thanks to Jay for sharing a set of photos from his most recent northbound trip, including Army tug ST-911 Enduring Freedom on the ICW, actually the Alligator River,
a tug and barge on that waterway,
some ship encounters,
this one in the C&D Canal,
And finally, his other boat.
Many thanks to Jay for passing these along.
This next batch were all taken from the deck of tug Dalzellaird. Steve writes: “Captain Bob Munoz helped us aboard the tug Dalzellaird at 0800 hours. His tug was normally the Dalzellera, but it was out of service for many months because of damage to the variable pitch propeller and awaiting replacement parts from Holland. Looking out across the East River toward Brooklyn, Brooklyn was not to be seen because of the fog. It looked as if the parade wasn’t going to happen. However at about 0900 hours we pulled away from the pier with our portion of the press corps. The Dalzellaird headed down the East River, swung around Governors Island where we should have been able to see the Verrazano Bridge. It was not there.”
Vessels included Bluenose II, currently doing the Great Lakes Challenge 2019. She recently appeared on tugster here.
Gorch Fock II at anchor.
Sagres musters the crew forward to ready sail,
With crew high in the rigging, USCG Eagle passes USS Randolph-CV15 . . .
. . . with lots of small boats being reviewed as well.
Marie J Turecamo and Mobil 12 make an appearance,
Libertad unfurls sails
Bluenose II moves through the Upper Bay,
Esmeralda gets underway,
tug Esso Massachusetts sails with ceremonial flags,
St Lawrence II and Esmeralda and a brace of USCG 40-footers , and we’ll end this series with
Esmeralda passing the NY skyline, such as it was in 1964.
Let’s close the narrative getting back to Steve’s words: “Toward mid-afternoon it was time to return to pier 8 and let the press return to their offices to make the deadline for their stories in the newspapers. As we were about to come alongside the dock and all of the press were anxious to get off the boat, Capt. Munoz stopped and went full astern with the engine and stopped again. He leaned out the pilothouse window and looked down at the press as they looked up at him. He asked them if they got good pictures, got good stories, had a good lunch and had a good day. They all answered with a resounding yes. He said that he was busy all day making sure that they got their good pictures and he didn’t have time to take one picture. Because the Dalzellaird was a bell boat, he told them his arm was about to fall off from the constant bell ringing to allow them to maneuver in and around the ships-all for them. He asked if any one of them could possibly send him a few photos of the day’s activities.
The overwhelming response was, of course, ‘Cap, give us your address.’ He pulled the Dalzellaird up against the dock and they all rushed off. All these years later, he is still waiting for a few photos.” Maybe they got his email address wrong?
Thanks much, Steve, for sharing this.
Any errors here are entirely mine.
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