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First, see these three photos from 2009 with updates. I passed by this spot in Seaford DE this past week . . . on a mission, and the former Flagship Nanticoke Queen restaurant is no more. Only a graded lot remains where the USS McKeever Brothers (SP-683) WW1 patrol and minesweeper vessel and fishing boat both before that and after the war once was. Route 13 has a bit less character. The wooden hull was likely buried in a landfill.
From 2009, this is the 1958 Jakobson-built Dalzelleagle and then McAllister Brothers. And yesterday, she was was towed away to be scrapped. At temperatures between 2500 and 2750°F, that steel will puddle and take new shapes. Tomorrow I’ll post more photos of this 1958 beauty.
Another photo from 2009 of the 1907 Pegasus . . . now also history and headed for the same high temperatures and red hot puddles.
A photo from 2012 . . . Siberian Sea, still afloat, and currently called Mike Azzolino.
Also still extant, in fact, David Silver took this photo less than a week ago, the May 1921 launched Day Peckinpaugh. Yes, that is the Erie Canal between Locks E2 and E3. The canal water level is drawn down in the winter/spring for maintenance.
May 21, 1921 precisely was the day Interwaterways 101 came off the ways at the McDougall-Duluth Company shipyard. Shouldn’t we hold a socially distanced party for the freight ship?
Here was the neat and active Eriemax freighter in 1961.
Thanks to David and Craig for use of their Day Peckinpaugh photos; the others from 2009 and 2012, WVD.
As to the tragedy of 231′ x 71′ Seacor Power, Seacor Supporter, 131′ x 66′ , came to do some work in the sixth boro here a few years ago. Brazos is 145′ x 100′.
This series I use to feature others’ photos that are different from what I typically shoot, different in either location or perspective or subject. I am very grateful to you, readers, when you send these photos in.
David Silver sent this in just yesterday, taken in Norfolk.
Down in Norfolk, Mike Vinik and Rhino had just finished a tow there, and stopped by David’s workplace. I visited Vinik No. 6, Mike, and Rhino earlier this year, although it seems several years ago now. In case you’re wondering, Rhino weighs in at a trim 140 pounds.
Xlime promenaded along the East River in Brooklyn the other day and saw some sights. She writes: “I happened upon three Brown tugs this morning – Thomas, who’s always so picturesque and the mighty James and Joyce (a literary pairing) who I’ve seen together twice now bringing reinforcements to the piers project in Brooklyn Bridge Park. I happened to be on Pier 3 this morning when they pulled up. Okay, maybe I doubled back when I realized where they were going. “
I’d never thought about the literary ring of these names.
A few (2013!!) years ago Brad Ickes sent me photos of Cable Queen. Recently she was hauled out and here are the photos he sent. Brad writes: “Queen was just cleaned up, repainted and made pretty again.”
Pretty she is, and I still hope some day catching her at work.
One more here . . . although I found this on youtube . . . a streaming music/light show on Bannerman’s Island, coming up in a few days. Tickets are available now.
And a last one, survey vessel Shearwater was working at the Narrows the other day. Her track on AIS illustrates what she was doing.
Many thanks to David, xlime, and Brad for use of these photos.
I could also call this “other peoples photos” but here is yesterday’s arrival of the hospital ship as seen from three friends’ perspectives.
Phil Little took this, and referred to it as his Normandy landing shot, an appropriate name given that this asset, arriving with a large support group, marks a surge, a counteroffensive against the invisible foe. Note that the top of WTC1 is obscured, as is most of the VZ Bridge, center right.
To reiterate, Comfort‘s 1000 beds and 12 operating rooms will take overflow from other hospitals, overflow of NON-covid-19 patients. Click here for much more info on the ship, medical facilities and operating life. Click here for video of the hospital ship arriving.
The flotilla is almost to her berth, here passing Hudson Yards.
Renee Lutz Stanley took this one from a pier south of Intrepid while trying very hard to practice social distancing.
Phil calls this the “turn-in.”
This last two come from David Silver, taken looking south.
Cruise ships and hospital ship are roughly the same color, but that color gives a profoundly different impression in each. Comfort with its relatively few “port holes” and glass is a place of intensive inward examination, a place apart, one hopes, for healing.
Many thanks to Phil, Renee, and David for use of these photos. Please do continue social distancing and hand-washing.
Polling has not yet ended, the clock goes on for two more days now, since I got a bunch of votes last night. With all certainty, though, polls will close on December 21 . . . earlier if two days elapse without a single new vote. Your votes and suggestions –in comments and in emails–have already influenced the design of the calendar.
Many thanks to David Silver for this photo . . . can you guess where it was taken?
You might want to see where previous photos shared by David Silver were taken here. You can find the answer at the end of this post.
While you’re trying to figure out the answer using the title and the night pics, have a look at the project of converting a Responder class OSRV into a new Sandy Hook Pilots “mothership”.
For a complete Marine Spill Response Corporation (MSRC) equipment list, click here.
As I understand it, Maine Responder was sold out of MSRC because it was considered excess. Maybe someone can confirm that.
Here’s the wheels.
Have you guessed where David took the top picture? The answer is . . . Elizabethport, NJ. In the darkness are three exquisite exotics: Regulus, Kelly Ann Candies, and Highland Eagle. Kelly Ann came into the sixth boro yesterday just before dark, but it was so foggy in the Narrows that in the 500′ or so visibility she was as invisible to someone there as she’d be 500 miles at sea. And then, she left before good light this morning. I caught Kelly Ann entering Guanabara Bay almost six years ago. Regulus I caught in Bayonne earlier this fall, and Highland Eagle I caught in northern Lake Huron this summer, where she was doing some sounding work.
Many thanks to David for this photo. The others by Will Van Dorp, who is eager to see how the ex-Maine Responder evolves.
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.
Type the word training into the search window to the left on this page and you’ll get a variety of posts, as here. And truth be told, many other options exist for summer training and sea time for ocean academy students; I met cadets from at least three on my “go west” trip. Yesterday David Silver got me advance notice of when this training ship would leave port; thanks to him, I got these photos.
Kimberly Turecamo assisted, as did Julia Miller and Amy C McAllister.
By 1230 Friday, she was west of the Brooklyn Bridge and headed for sea,
for Maine, and by
this posting, she’s already east of Cape Cod.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Click here to watch David Silver’s 20-minute video of her departure from pier side.
Here’s the first in this series. David sent me some photos earlier this week and offered to write the commentary as well. Hence the quotation marks.
“Marie J. Turecamo steam harmlessly through the harbor.”
“James Turecamo makes a splash as she heads towards the Kill.”
Lincoln Sea sits patiently in the notch of the DBL 140.”
“Two displays of heritage in the form of New York State Marine Highway tug Margot and Ellis Island.”
“Herbert P. Brake pushes a scrap barge (possible future additions to her hull?) through the harbor.”
“Crystal Cutler pushes the Patricia Poling as Andrew Barbieri bears down upon her.”
My take: if a waterborne Rip van Winkle had fallen asleep 80 years ago and awakened today, the bridge and the light might be among the very few structures he would recognize.
“Stephen Reinauer steams lite through the harbor towards her next assignment.”
“Ever ready, ever vigilant.”
Thanks, David. The sixth boor’s the star here, IMHO. To post some corny doggerel in Poetry Month “collaboration is the game and “sixth boro” the star’s name!
Resolute and her crew set a new speed record for the course. Thanks to David Silver and a recording he made in the wheelhouse during the race, you too can experience those five exhilarating minutes. Double click on the foto below to hear it all.
David, thanks much.
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