Random Tugs 411

It’s almost Fleet Week, so I’ll start with this photo.  That’s MSC’s Charles L. Gilliland in the background.  In just subtle contrasting version of gray, Mackenzie Rose comes in from sea.  CMT’s livery is not quite the same as USN gray.

Without the benefit of the contrasting gray, entering the Kills here is CMT’s newest, Erin Elizabeth.  If, like me, you’ve not looked at the evolution of the Carver Companies, have a look here.  Their range of services and bases has proliferated dramatically, more than a simple rebranding of their marine division.

Does anyone know an authoritative history of all the companies and equipment that have streamed into Buchanan  Marine since 1912?  That would be satisfying to read, or write.

Diamond Coast has been frequent in the sixth boro recently.  Thanks to Birk Thomas, her history can be found here.

Fleetmate Pearl Coast crosses Mary Turecamo here in the Con Hook Range.  Correct me if I’m wrong, Pearl Coast is the Dann Marine flagship, if such a designation exists?

Elizabeth has been a Weeks tugboat since its initial launch.  Weeks Marine, more than a century old as a company, might be another candidate for a history document, unless one exists that I’m unaware of.

Laura K. Moran is one of a long line of Washburn & Doughty products currently active.

Charles Hughes is among the newest vessels operated by Vane Brothers, another venerable company that has evolved since 1898.  Charles Hughes became part of the Vane organization in 1920, schoonering.

All photos, any errors, much left incomplete, WVD.

 

North on Gallatin’s Ditches 6

Actually, only part of this leg is through the ICW, or another way to say this is that from Cape May to NYC you need to be in the ocean.  For a map that shows this, click here. This leg takes us from Baltimore to New York City, which in this case is not the end of the trip.  More on that later.

Below, Key’s Anthem is Baltimore’s new Inner Harbor water taxi, the first vessel of 10, one that’s all local vernacular . . . a Hooper’s Island drake tail.

Tiwai Point prepares to discharge a load of sugar, from Colombia, I think . . .

Bridget McAllister (and other McAllister boats) waits at the dock.

We head out past Natty Boh and Brooklyn . . . ,

Vane’s Carlyn,

and Justin with an unidentified load.

Was it Justin that towed Tamaroa out to the reef site last week?

At the Chesapeake side of the C & D Canal, it’s Dann Ocean’s home base, with (l to r) First Coast, Diamond Coast, New England Coast, Sea Coast, and Gold Coast.  By the way, Gallatin called this the Delaware & Chesapeake Canal and estimated it as 22 miles long with 18 locks.  The current Chesapeake & Delaware is 14 miles long and all water is at sea level, i.e., no locks.  Here’s the history.

Defender (I think) steams inbound for Pennsauken with Cape Cod tailing a Crowley barge.  Depending on which barge this was, capacity is 400–500 teus.

Gulf Venture/Carrier anchors off Salem . . .

And then morning brings a jagged island up out from the deeps and we

line up some towers . . . while Le Grand Bleu waits in Gravesend Bay.

Note the unusual wake and splash pattern on Jonathan C.‘s stern?

And an unfamiliar Kirby vessel– Mount St. Elias–moves DBL 77 upriver.

 

All photos by Will Van Dorp.