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Most of you know that dawn is my favorite time. Yesterday dawn–between 0545 and 0645–was quite busy; two of the five vessels that transited the KVK were among the largest–so far–that call in the sixth boro.
Pink sky with gradations, faded purple Brooklyn, huge but silent shapes, and spots of artificial lights.
Birds silhouetted and reflections in the still water make the scene as one point over by central western Brooklyn turns a deeper shade of red.
When the ship blocks the blinding rising sun, its name becomes legible.
Once CS Rose passes my vantage point, all that light illuminates the details. Three tugboats along her starboard, one on stern, and one on the far side, the port side.
Not much later–another smaller container ship has passed–the next hulking shape appears, and the light has already turned gradations of yellow.
When CMA CGM Mexico blocks the rising sun, details become available . . .
By now, 0645, the light suggests the sun has created daylight.
Tugboats on Rose include James D, Mary Turecamo, Kimberly Turecamo, and Kirby. Tugboats on Mexico include Marie J Turecamo, JRT, Kimberly Turecamo, and Miriam.
All photos, WVD.
A big bridge and two large ships, Atlantic Sky , a
CONRO vessel, and
Hyundai Speed, part of the Together class of 13,082 teu vessels out working the oceans since 2012 already.
Can anyone help me understand the yellowish tinge to that plume?
In contrast to a fully loaded Hyundai Speed,the 2012 Al Qibla had some vacancy although she’s capable of 13500 teus.
This is the wall of containers this bridge was raised for.
CMA CGM Mexico, and sister ships of the Argentina class, are the current biggest behemoths of the sixth boro.
YM Width (14000 teu) and
YM Warmth, 13892 teu,
are both CSCB in Taiwan built.
My vantage point, 20 years ago, would have been quite different.
All photos, WVD.
Not quite half a year ago, I caught Rose from the sunny side.
This undifferentiated mass in the Ambrose Channel yesterday was quite impressive as well.
As a reference, the towers of the VZ Bridge towers in 693′. The length of the tugboat in the foreground is just under 90′.
I’ve not pointed out Robbins Reef Light in a while, and that’s part of the Manhattan skyline beyond, also an undifferentiated mass in the morning fog.
The 13,500 teu vessel came off the ways at a Hudong-Zhanghua shipyard about two years ago.
She was assisted in by four tugboats.
Margaret, Jonathan C, Kirby, and Kimberly.
The three-mile strait called KVK, or the very Dutch name Kill van Kull, is hardly straight.
As she rounded Bergen Point, a trailer crossed over from Bayonne to Staten Island, harbinger of what will happen to whatever number of containers leave the ship in the next two days in Port Elizabeth.
All photos, WVD.
0545 at the Narrows . . . in the hazy days of summer . . . nothing beats it.
I had not come here just to beat the heat.
Surprisingly, Turecamo Girls (I believe) delivered the docking pilot.
Then she dropped back, to where one of the 6000s took the stern and
another the bow.
Only a couple hours into the day, another ULCV appeared in the offing . . .
Hyundai Drive, which sounds almost like a car ad framed as an order if you reverse the words . . . .
In the clearer light, you can clearly see Drive‘s crew asisting the docking pilot, boarding from Capt. Brian A.
For scale, notice the deckhand on the bow waiting . . .
. . .
for the messenger line.
To digress a bit, in July 2018 Hyundai Jupiter was in the sixth boro, and the company was still called Hyundai. On March 31, 2020, it rebranded itself as HMM. Jupiter, 1059′ loa, had a capacity of 10,000 teu.
In March 2013, Hyundai Grace, a 2007 build, had a capacity of 4571 teu on her 964′ hull.
In April 2009, Hyundai Voyager was in town . . . built in 2008 with the same dimensions as Grace.
So in a decade, typical Hyundai (HMM) vessels calling here have increasing carrying capacity by nearly 300%. If you consider HMM calling elsewhere, the increase has been greater than 500%.
All photos, WVD.
I’m still not over how large these vessels are. Note the two Moran tugs off the stern of ONE Minato.
As for numbers, she’s 1200′ x 167′. They’re all approximately this length, which is roughly what the Empire State Building is without its spire. She has capacity of 13,900 teu. She was built near Hiroshima in 2018. Currently she’s off Algeria and heading for the sixth boro, eta August 21.
CS Jasmine is the same length as ONE Minato, but at 157′ is 10 feet less broad.
Her capacity is 13,500 teu. She was built in Shanghai in 2018. Currently she’s eastbound in the Pacific, expected to arrive at the Panama Canal on August 22.
CS Rose is basically identical to CS Jasmine. She’s expected to arrive in her sixth boro berth on August 19, ie, next week.
Hyundai Pride has the same dimensions as CS Jasmine and Rose.
Pride is currently in Busan, not far from where she was built in 2014. Her capacity is 13,500 teu.
There are more to come, but for now we end with YM Witness. By the numbers, she’s 1207′ x 167′, carrying capacity of 13,800 teu. She was built in 2015 in Ulsan, not far north of Busan on South Korea’s SE coast.
She’s currently heading for Vietnam from China, passing Hong Kong.
These are not the largest container ships currently afloat. HMM Dublin, appearing quite similar to Hyundai Pride, is 1312′ x 200′ and has a carrying capacity of 23000 teu and is currently underway between Rotterdam and Singapore around Cape of Good Hope, a 24-day voyage.
All photos and reported numbers, WVD.
Jasmine and Rose are two of eight, all ordered mid-year 2015 At about $120 million each, that’s close to a billion dollar order handed to the Shanghai Jiangnan Changxing Shipbuilding Ltd. co., right across the river from Shanghai proper. Google-map that to get a sense of the shipbuilding and shipping infrastructure along the mouth of the Yangtze.
Mary Turecamo overtook Jasmine at the perfect moment to give the sense of projected power, while Jonathan C holds back and otherwise guides the stern.
A few days later, a clone arrives from the Ambrose Channel . . .,
one of the clones that I’ve not yet seen. I’ve have seen Peony, Camellia, and Sakura. I believe I’ve yet to see Azelea, Lotus, and Orchid. I’ve seen some of them come and go, but just didn’t have reason enough to go out to see a clone.
Whenever you see a clutch of tugs like this, you know they’re waiting, and the more tugs, the bigger the escortee.
Maybe someone can instruct me on the air draft of these ULCVs.
JRT delivers the docking pilot.
To conclude with an echo back to the scale posts . . . see the 2014-built Taipei Trader off the port bow of Rose. Both are container ships but their size is vastly different. One way to think of it, it would take 13 Taipei Traders to carry the same number of containers as Rose.
All photos, WVD, who wants to know if there is a term used for small “feeder” box boats like Taipei Trader.
Here are all the previous installments of this title, going back to 2007.
Yesterday I caught one of these megayachts heading inbound in the Ambrose Channel. Without the zoom, it looked even bigger, even sci-fi . . . It was Lady Lara.
And big it is, compared with the Moran 6000hp tugboat. . . . maybe Jonathan C. Moran. Let’s do a tale of the tape: Lady Lara: 299’loa x 49′ x 13’draft. She powered by two MTU 16V4000s that generate a total of 5178hp. I’m not sure what else is in the engine room. Jonathan C. Moran: 89′ x 38′ x ? draft. She’s powered by two EMD ME 12G7-T3s that generate 6000hp.
Lady Lara entered the Narrows after overtaking Cosco Shipping Rose.
Simplified tale of the tape: Lady Lara: 299’loa x 49′ x 13’draft, 5178hp. Cosco Shipping Rose: 1201’loa x 157′, 65254hp!
Rose departed Shanghai on May 13.
All photos, WVD, who would love to know the particulars of the ULCV engine that generates that 65000hp.
The yacht owner is Alex Mashkevitch.
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