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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.
and they skip the sixth boro…. They were in New London some years back and here too . . ., but 2017 has gone from Charleston to Bermuda, and from there to Boston, Quebec City and Halifax . . . All these photos come compliments of Sean McQuilken…
And in order, it’s Libertad, who once long ago in 1969 called at South Street Seaport, here (and scroll) to deliver some original spars for Wavertree ,
Oosterschelde, the 99-year-old,
Alexander von Humboldt II, (the oldster of this set, albeit one with a major reinvention),
El Galeon, whom I first saw in San Juan,
Lynx,
When and If, who traveled the Erie Canal a few years back to get worked on on Seneca Lake, all great ships . . . Maybe one of these years, Wavertree and Peking will join in the fun . . . just maybe… And Peking has its share of adventure awaiting it this summer, with loading anticipated now early in the second week of July.
But I won’t be in Boston, because this weekend is also the mermaid’s conclave . . . and I head to the heartland and off the grid right after that . . .
Again, many thanks to Sean for these photos.
Really random means just that . . . so that’s start with this one, Tutahaco, YTM-524, which has recently been hauled out of the water between Daytona and St Augustine. Michael Schmidt took these photos back last winter.
She worked for a time in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The next two photos come from Allan and Sally Seymour, whose twotugstravelin’ blog was mentioned in yesterday’s post. Kathleen Turecamo (1968) is a staple these days in the Port of Albany.
A bit farther north on the Hudson in Troy is the footprint of NYS Marine Highway Transportation Company. Pictured here from r to l are Margot, Benjamin Elliot, and Betty D; built in 1958, 1960, and 1980, respectively.
The next photo is from Kyle Stubbs, who writes “the original JOVI is still around. The simple answer is yes, and she’s quite a ways from the Sixth Boro, now taking up residence in San Diego in the service of Pacific Tugboat Service as the JAG. I’ve attached an image of her I took this past September.” Kyle sent the photo along in response to a question about Lil Rip I’d posted here some years back.
George Schneider picks up the Lil Rip‘s origins question here and sends along his own photo of Jag, to wit ”
I was very suspicious of the story she was made from part of a Liberty Ship, since hacking up something like that just to make a push boat didn’t make sense. But somewhere along the lines, I realized the LIL RIP was registered at 54 feet long. I found a Liberty Ship was 57 feet wide, so that’s perfect, considering they had to cut away some of the “stern” for the propellers, so the registered length would be a few feet shorter than overall.
That gave me a reason to believe the reputed origins of the boat were true. It makes even more sense, because if you realize the scrap yards generally had no drydocks or slipways, they’d cut a ship like that down to the tank tops while it was afloat, then somehow had to dispose of the double bottoms. Sometimes they just took them out and sank them since it took so much extra effort to clean and cut them up. But in New Jersey, whose coastline is inland, they probably had to cut them apart and lift them ashore, and voile! What a perfect hull to build a pushboat on!
So I’m wondering if anybody has added more to the comments on that day’s page. If anybody has ever seen her “on the hard,” they might have measured her across the deck, and if that measures a perfect 57 feet in length, I’d say that’s pretty close to proof. I looked up the liberty ships sold for scrap 1961-64, and none were scrapped in Elizabeth NJ, nor were any scrapped by her owner.
But several deceptive things are at play here: 1) A ship sold for scrap was not legally reused for anything, so the title to something made out of the pieces couldn’t reflect the original vessel. 2) If the ship wasn’t sold for scrap, was “Sold for Non-Transportation Use’ which was also sometimes authorized, she might not have been included in the list of vessels scrapped, and 3) Vessels were often bought by distant companies, then found the vessel couldn’t practically be towed to their scrapyard, were sold or contracted to other companies for scrapping.
As for the question of the original JOVI (283905), she kept her name long after the JOVI II, working for various East Coast companies, but then made her way out here to San Diego, where she now works. She has worked as TUG JAG, then KODAK, and now simply JAG. I’ve attached, unfortunately, the best and only digital photo I’ve taken of her. You can reproduce this any way you’d like.”
Now I’m wondering about Logan and Mate. Logan shows in the NOAA registry as built in 1974 and formerly called Kodak, Jag, and Guppy. Mate doesn’t show.
Sarah D (1975) worked for White Stack, Turecamo, and Moran (each bought out the previous company) before coming to NYS Marine Highway.
And finally, once again out and about in the sixth boro, it’s W. O. Decker, the 1930 wood-hulled tugboat of South Street Seaport Museum.
Click here for some of the dozens of posts I’ve included Decker in.
The last three photos are by Will Van Dorp; thanks to Michael, Allan, Sally, Kyle, and George for the other photos.
As Aleksandr travels from port to port in Western Europe, he periodically sends photos like this one from Gdansk . . . Herkules is barely six months old . . . and doing what it was designed and built for. These photos also show the global homogeneity of the shipping industry.
Ditto this photo of Svitzer Rota. Notice on the cranes beyond Annaba and Wilhelm, ZPMC also built and transported most of the state-of-the-art cranes in the sixth boro–as is true of the last batch of cranes, I think to arrive here– and everywhere else. Places that once made cranes, like Clyde Iron Works, no longer do.
Svitzer Rota and Vidar and the rest of these photos come from Bremerhaven, Europe’s fourth largest port. Click here for a photo of Svitzer Vidar arriving in port on a heavy lift ship.
Svitzer is a Maersk company with hundreds of tugboats like this, and is certainly a strong argument for the Jones Act remaining in place.
Svitzer Mallaig and
Marken are both Dutch-registered and built in 2005.
Many thanks to Aleksandr, whose photos and drawing previously appeared here.
This post follows up on Whatzit 36 . . . here.
Yup, it’s more parts for “the vessel.”
The two photos above come from Tony Acabono. The rest come from Will Van Dorp.
Here Emily Ann moves some parts on Witte 1402 westbound, which confused me until I understood the routes.
So the parts arrive in USA/sixth boro from an Italian port on the Gulf of Trieste via a ship calling in Bayonne. Then they are stored in Port Newark until all efforts converge on getting
them here . . .
over in the the section of midtown Manhattan aka Hudson Yards, yards as in
train yards just of the west side of Penn Station Manhattan. And there,
this monster called “the vessel” has begun rising. At that link, you find a great slideshow featuring both with DonJon equipment and heavy lift trucks.
Since we’re talking public art, here is more I’ve seen recently . . . Dale Chihuly’s blown glass creations displayed in the New York Botanical Garden, now until late October 2017.
Here’s more info on NYBG.
Then there’s this–which I just noticed yesterday– in Rockefeller Center, and which thankfully comes down after today . . . a 45′ gas balloon where the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree stands in late fall/early winter . . ..
Many thanks to Tony for his photos; all others by Will Van Dorp.
It turns out, I’ve done a post like this once before . . . in 2012 here. When I took the next two photos on Tuesday, I’d thought all the fleet week vessels had already departed. Well, wrong . . . there went LHD-3 USS Kearsarge . . .
which reminded me this would be
a good time to use a photo by a jolly tar back about 10 years ago. Notice the long-gone, long transformed Odin bunkering LHD-3….
Mid afternoon Tuesday this was a sight to behold along the East River, here approaching the Williamsburg Bridge . . . whatzit?
It’s another of the fleet leaving town . . . USNS Yuma (T-EPF-8). The photo above and next two come from an alert Tony A doing his commerce on the East River. In the photo below, it’s the green-fronted UN Building along with river with Trump Tower (dark) rising behind it.
When I caught notice of this, I thought I could hurry to Fort Wadsworth to catch photos of Yuma with Manhattan behind it, but my underestimation of EPF’s speed and the coincidence of hitting every stoplight on Bay Terrace meant that when I got to the Fort,
Yuma was already making almost two dozen knots and headed for Norfolk, a trip that took less than 24 hours.
The EFTs are a further evolution of the HSTs, which I posted about here. By the way, Alakai was renamed USNS Puerto Rico, but then later that name was removed, since there’s a new EFT with the name USNS Puerto Rico in the offing. So is the former Alakai now nameless?
Many thanks to Tony A for sending along the East River photos. Thanks to JED for the Odin/USS Kearsarge shot, and all the others by Will Van Dorp.
Happy June!
It’s not just mea culpa. I’ve done it, you have too, most likely. “What?” you ask? I’ll get to that.
Foreshortening does make for dramatic photos. And that looks like a spare prop high up on the port side deck.
Watch out there, Madame Mallard . . .
What would Captain Ahab make of this profile? Onyx Arrow was in port for less than a half day yesterday, arriving from Halifax and Europe before that. Early afternoon I got these photos of her leaving town…
So this “we’re all at fault” title in Latin above? We’ve all hit animals while driving: birds, bats, other folks’ pets, turtles . . . I’ve never hit a deer, but over a million are hit on US highways each year . . . .
Here’s what I’m getting at . . . see it on the bulbous bow? Here’s more info on ship strikes . . .
It’s sad to see . . . like deer along the highway, but mitigation seems not so easy. I know of a sailboat sailing with no engine running that hit one that may have been asleep on the surface . . . middle of the night.
The last two photos come thanks to the always alert Tony A; the others by Will Van Dorp.
Here from Lock E-28A, Bob Stopper’s photo of Canal Corp’s efforts to get the Canal open for season 200!
The rest of these photos come from Jan van der Doe, starting with Sandra Mary, 1962, in McNally colors and built by Russel-Hipwell at Owen Sound in 1962.
W. N. Twolan, also 1962 built, alongside Menier Consol.
At the end and off the stern of W. N. Twolan, it’s the last side-wheeler ferry to operate on the Great Lakes, PS Trillium, launched in 1910. To see Trillium after a 1975 refit, click here.
In what I first thought was an unusual military dazzle pattern is actually a 1966 Davie Shipbuilding former cargo vessel that’s been reborn as a floating dry dock. Click here for Menier Consol transporting pulpwood.
Last but not least, it’s William Rest, 1961. Toronto Dry Dock is one of so many places I need to visit.
Many thanks to Bob and Jan for these photos.
Here are previous posts with this title. Another unusual cargo that passed through here were these barged US, British, and Russian jets five years ago also in May.
I owe all these shots to Mike Pelletier and other folks who were at E2 in Waterford yesterday, as the Erie Canal opened for its 200th consecutive season. It’s cause for celebration that Day 1 brings significant commercial cargo into the Canal.
The job will entail moving a total of 12 identical tanks from the Hudson River level to the Rochester level. At the end of this post, I share a photo I took at the Rochester area a few years ago in the fall. Can you imagine what that part of the Canal looks like? But I digress.
If you don’t know the story, let me highlight some details, although you can read more here. The cargo here consists of three tanks, each 20′ x 60′ and fabricated of stainless steel. If each tank holds 2000 barrels, or 661,000 cans, and if I drink an average of two six-packs a month, one tank holds a 4,500 year supply of Genesee for me…. Another way to think of it . . . if a party was held and each guest had three beers, all twelve tanks would contain enough beer for 2,644,000 guests! That would be enough beer @ two or three beers each for every 21+ person in Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, and Alaska . . and quite a bit more left over. But I’ve really digressed.
Here the tow lies alongside the wall below E2. #Toast the tanks is the tag Genesee wishes “social media makers” to use to group-document this journey.
Here CMT Otter pushes the tow into the opened lower gates of E2. Here is a previous post featuring Otter and fleet mates.
So, here the tow is inside and the lower gates closed. The shot above was shot from midpoint on the catwalk over the gates beyond the stern of the tug. The lock chamber valves are now set to fill. The two crew lower photo are radioing distances to the captain.
Now the camera is back to that same catwalk. What else do you see? I missed it the first times I looked at this photo….
See the drone? It’s between the catwalk rail and the portside stern of CMT Otter. I’m guessing this is CMT’s camera team.
Believe it or not, this is the Canal through which these tanks will travel near the end of their journey to Gates . . . Rochester, beyond E33. From the Canal, Rochester is mostly invisible.
Now some speculation . . . I believe the tanks arrived in the US aboard Wladyslaw Orkan on a voyage that began in Shanghai around March 13. My guess would be that the manufacturer is Lehui, possibly in Xiangshan Ningbo. If all this is true, I’m curious about this stated goal on the Lehui site: “During a two-decade-plus journey, Lehui exercises “European Quality, Chinese Price” philosophy, which won Lehui “the most outstanding beer/beverage equipment manufacturer” in China.” Where were previous Genesee tanks fabricated? With concerted several decades effort, a 21st century plan to return more manufacturing to the US might be held on course with a mantra something like ““European Quality, Chinese Price, US Essence, ” . . . concerted effort . . .
Click here to see the tentative schedule.
Thanks again to Mike Pelletier.
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