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In my effort to catch up on shared photos, let me start with one I’ve heard about for a few years but never seen yet.
Al Circeo shared these next two over a month ago. Is this tug still over at Mariners Harbor? Does anyone know what her owners plan for her?
At one point she went by Sea Monster. .. as in Monster.com. Before that she was the Port Athur-built Mars, launched in 1953 and which you can see in the link here. I don’t know if she’s been renamed, but right now as a yacht she appears to have come out of Monster Garage.
Over a month ago as well, I got this set from Russell Skeris, who took them from his Boston Whaler over by the Moriches Inlet.
Sea Cypress and Hercules were involved, as
were Capt Brennan and
All of them in a group shot can be seen below.
A glance at AIS this rainy October morning shows some of these vessels are still working there, as seen below.
Many thanks to Al and Russell for these photos.
Here are previous installments.
Let’s start with a shot from Oswego. To me, it captures the magic of the Canal in that city and the stately buildings that surround it. The photo is by Jennifer Mays, who calls it “Old man Winter is on his way #headedsouth #oswegocanal. It shows research vessel DelMor (ex-Kaho) upbound in the Oswego Canal between lacks E-8 and E-7. DelMor is in the “canalized” portion of the Oswego River; the wild portion of the river–divided by the ruins of central dock–distinguishes itself by its obvious current. The yellow building farthest left is the 1913 Pontiac Hotel. For more sights along the Oswego Canal, click here. Pontiac, the Odawa leader of his confederacy post-French & Indian War, signed a peace treaty in Oswego in July 1766.
The next two photos come from Patrick Gallagher. The shots taken from the East River show the Brooklyn Bridge and Clipper City beyond that. The colors are the magic of sunset as recorded by a smartphone camera.
Clipper City is a 158′ replica of a Great Lakes schooner built in Manitowoc in 1854. The image below comes from the must-have book The Freighters of Manitowoc by Tom Wenstadt.
And last but certainly not least, Paul Strubeck got a close-up photo of a newcomer in the sixth boro, a floating electronic billboard created by Ballyhoo Media. A floating billboard . . . would that be a bill boat?
Matt OHara caught the billboat departing Morris Canal, leaving the NJCRR terminal to starboard. If you do FB, you can see a sped-up version of it being built here. Since that shipyard is upriver, it must have escaped detection by river watchers upstream. Glenn?
When I saw the billboat Sunday, the image/advert changed every few seconds. The vessel size is estimated at 72′ . . . with 65′ screens. What’s next . . . a billboat that carries sports events, political debates, feature films, documentaries about the harbor? What else?
Many thanks to Jennifer, Patrick, Matt, and Paul for use of these photos.
Meanwhile, I’m waiting for a sunny day and for a certain pink-hulled ship called ONE Stork to either arrive or depart in bright daylight. She arrived in the sixth boro and departed again, twice . . . in the dark hours.
I caught the beginning of Jay Bee V‘s epic here, a few days after the summer solstice. A bit later I caught her here at some different locations on the Erie Canal.
So we are all fortunate that Jake Van Reenen caught her here at a lock in central NYS that I’m not disclosing. The voyage of the Glass Barge is complete, and at some point, the tug will return to the sixth boro and the barge dismantled and repurposed.
The color in the trees speaks to the season.
Folks upstate will talk about this epic for a long time.
And the small tug in the background? I’ll post about that another day . . . maybe tomorrow.
All photos thanks to Jake Van Reenen.
Related: Accompanying Jay Bee V and the Glass Barge all summer were Lois McClure and C. L. Churchill. See them in this retro-season video under sail on Lake Champlain.
I took this in April; I would never have guessed a Corvette was that much lower than an early 1950s (1952?) Pontiac.
Ditto here: Kristy Ann once rescued a motorboat I happened to be on; from the motorboat, Kristy Ann looked immense. Next to . . . Nicole (I think that’s Nicole Leigh Reinauer. I took the photo more than 10 years ago.), she’s a toy.
Notice the raised lettering on the front of the nearer tug’s wheelhouse? It says Bear. Bear was once all red. Bear, believe it or not, had a fleet mate–Little Bear. See it here.
Today these tugs are called Elizabeth Anna and Sarah Ann. Sarah Ann used to be such a brilliant orange you’d never forget it. Above and below, those photos were taken by Glenn Raymo.
Click here for previous “scale” posts.
Thanks to Glenn for use of his photo; all others by Will Van Dorp.
Let’s start with a Jupiter (1990) in Galveston, thanks to Allen Baker. The photo was taken about a year ago, after Hurricane Harvey.
Next, thanks to Lisa Kolibabek, another Jupiter, a much older one, which recently went into dry dock in Philadelphia. Know the date of launch?
Compare her frontal view with that of Pegasus, similar vintage. Click here and here for other Jupiter photos and previous Jupiter posts.
Jupiter dates from 1902. And staying with vessels named for heavenly bodies, Rich Taylor sends along this photo of Pollux.
A delightfully busy photo, here Pollux appears again with two smalll craft, River Ij ferry, and Prinsendam.
Also from Rich, here’s a pilot boat called Pilot on the Trechtingshausen lies between Koblenz and Bingen right in the upper Rhine. Although a pilot boat, it resembles an American tug, albeit a long one. For many similar photo from another photographer traveling from Basel to Amsterdam, click here.
And finally, here are two more from Phil Porteus. Below is a small yard tug on the Rondout and
here’s a tug near the Bayonne Bridge but typically along the coast of New Jersey . . . Pops.
Many thanks to Allen, Lisa, Rich, and Phil for these photos.
Thanks to Jeff, who caught Lucy H moving an oversize cargo through a sylvan stretch of Canal. Recently Lucy H brought Ward’s Island across more than half the Erie Canal.
Thanks to Maureen, who caught these shots of two tugboats moving a Celebrity ship through the busy harbor of Venezia. Here, here, and here are previous Venezia posts.
Thanks to Phil, who caught the elusive, Damen-styled Candace in the KVK.
And finally thanks to Jan, who caught Vigilant I departing a creek in Toronto
with a stone scow. Vigilant I was built by Russel Brothers for the Canadian Navy.
Also from Jan, the tug with my favorite name of all time, Radium Yellowknife. It starts to make sense when you learn that she worked in the Arctic for over half a century.
I first became aware of her when looking for something on AIS on Lake Ontario; Radium Yellowknife definitely caught my attention.
Thanks to Jeff, Maureen, Phil, and Jan for these photos.
I’ve posted photos of USS Little Rock on this blog last winter, when it was frozen rock hard into the Montreal winter. Its lines helped me identify these vessels some weeks back as I was driving along the eastern shore of Wisconsin, where I had stopped to see what was in the Marinette Marine yard; my guess is that these will be LCS 13, 15, and 17.
The yard has also turned out Staten Island ferries like Molinari, Powhatan class tugs like Apache, coastal buoy tenders like Katherine Walker, YTBs like Ellen McAllister, LCMs like Jennifer Miller . . . and lots of RB (M)s . . .those are some that I know.
Here’s a link to Marinette Marine and its parent company.
And while we’re looking at Wisconsin-built government boats, check out these photos on Grasp. They were taken in Scotland last year by Tommy Bryceland, a North Sea tug captain.
You may recall that just last week, Grasp was south of Fire Island doing training and a memorial service on USS San Diego.
Justin Zizes sent me these photos a few weeks back also, even captioning them as government boats.
Absolutely, an NYPD personal watercraft is a diminutive government boat.
Thanks to Tommy and Justin ; the others by Will Van Dorp, who will be heading for the Great Lakes soon, so any disruption in posting is no cause for concern. Keep an eye on the sixth boro and beyond, please.
DeWitt Clinton was built in the 1920s, delivered before the crash. She came out of a shipyard in East Boothbay, I’m told, but I can find no record of this. Here she was in Lockport in early October 2014.
Here is a view from the wheelhouse, and
another from a slightly different vantage point. That’s tug Urger (1901) on the wall up ahead.
Fast forward to this year, here’s one of the latest additions to the Canal tug fleet, and
here’s the view from the wheelhouse. And yes . . . again, that’s tug Urger on the wall ahead. this time in Fonda NY, where she may or may not be today.
How about some more pics of Dewitt Clinton, all from October 2014.
Here she rounds a bend on the western Canal.
And since we’ve seen Urger from Dewitt, how about ending with Dewitt as seen from Urger.
Photos 4 and 5 by Jake van Reenen; the others by Will Van Dorp.
No, it has nothing to do with dance, but refers to my bird guide which calls “exotic” anything appearing outside of its usual habitat. Here are the previous exotics posts.
These photos were all taken by Mike Abegg in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
It’s Beverly M I, a McKeil tug. I quote from the site linked: “built in 1993 by Imamura Shipbuilding of Japan as the Shek O for Hong Kong Towing and Salvage.” Remember, Canada has no Jones Act-type origin rules.
A tug registered in St. John’s . . . I’d call that exotic. Anyone know the story? Since it delivered a barge that went into the graving dock, I’m guessing it was an emergency repair.
I’ve seen her fleet mate–Sharon M I— several times on the Great Lakes.
Many thanks to Mike for getting these photos. Click here to see his previous catches.
All All but one of the photos in this post come from David Silver, assigned as a cadet this summer on a Maersk vessel going halfway around the world and back. He departed Port Elizabeth on May 21. This post follows his voyage, focusing on what someone like me–mostly fixed–doesn’t see.
May 24. Charleston. Mark Moran.
May 30. Houston. Thor.
May 31. Houston. Wesley A.
June 06. Norfolk. Maxwell Paul Moran.
June 08. Pilot boards in sixth boro of NYC. JRT Moran.
June 08. VZ Bridge as seen from the ship and
as seen from my location, at about the same moment.
June 09. Port Elizabeth. Kirby Moran.
There was a stop in Algeciras–the world’s 10th largest transshipment port– but no photos of assist tugboats.
June 25. Suez Canal. It could be one of the Mosaed boats, maybe number 1.
June 26. Suez Canal. One of the boats called Salam.
After transiting the Red Sea and stopping in Djibouti, July 9. Mont Arrey,
they rounded the peninsula and entered the Gulf.
July 9. Jebel Ali. P&O Venture. That could be P&O Energy off the stern.
July 12. Port Qasim. SL Hodeida with pilot boat and other Smit Lamnalco tugs.
July 13. Port Pipavav. It appears to be Ocean Supreme and another one of the Ocean Sparkle boats in the distance.
I have enjoyed seeing this variety of towing vessels from this trip halfway around the world. Now I hope the return trip brings more photos and a safe return in late August.
Many thanks, David.
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