Ports of the western Columbia

For GHP&W 10, let’s gallivant over to the West Coast and look at some photos there by Glen, who moved to the Columbia watershed after a long career working on sixth boro waterways.

Let’s start out with Shaver’s Washington.  Notice anything unusual about this photo?  Answer at the end of the post.

And some more starting with Kirby’s Sirius,

Tidewater,

Shaver’s Umatilla and Foss’ Howard Olsen,

Shaver’s Deschutes,

Portland,

Vancouver,

P. J. Brix, and

and Bernert’s Diane B.

And in that first photo, Washington travels on the river any way forward she pleases.

Many thanks to Glen  for these photos.

 

Relief Crew 19

. . . comes from the same source as Relief Crew 17, Seth Tane, whose most recent work is called Sea Train.  Back in the summer of 2014, Blue Marlin brought in a dry dock named Vigorous–the largest in the US.  It came on the back of Blue Marlin from ZPMC.  That dry dock is now working, and below you see its current load, USNS T-AH-19 Mercy.  Yes, mercy!!  Here are some previous iterations of Mercy.

Photo by Seth Tane, although I tinkered with it a bit.

More Mercy here.

Click here (and scroll) to see sister hospital vessel Comfort in a post I did five years ago.

 

Really Random Tugs 12

Guess this tug?  This and alternate fotos here are taken by Seth Tane.  Answer follows.

Joan Turecamo (1980 and one of the last tugs built at Matton in Cohoes)in the foreground.  Guess the one in the distance?

Natoma . .  1976.

Vessel in the distance earlier was Susan Miller, 1981.  I’m guessing the barge is loaded with riprap for shoreline protection somewhere in Raritan Bay.  I wonder about the origin of those rockaceous chunks.

Craig Foss was launched in June 1945 as LT-648 by Tampa Marine, one of over 700 tugs operated by the US Army at the end of WW II.  For a foto of a Tampa hull, click here.

Peering over crane barge Delaware Bay, it’s Caitlin Ann, 1961.

It’s Shaver’s 1981-built Portland.  For a foto of a 1947 ship-assist tug Portland, click here.

And finally . .  a tug with a tent passing a clock with no hands, it’s Miriam Moran (1979).

Top foto is Amnav’s Revolution at the Rainier Foss shipyard in 2006.