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That stretch of waterway can be pretty busy, though not nearly as busy as the automotive traffic arteries of the five boros. Count them below . . . seven tugboats contained in a single photo frame!! You can try to name them. Let me know if you need help.
One by one, though, they are more interesting to look at. Can you arrange these by size, power, and age?
Barney Turecamo.
Allie B.
Mount St Elias.
Discovery Coast.
Mary Emma.
All photos, WVD.
Largest is Barney Turecamo at 116′ x 36′. Shortest by a foot Mount St Elias at 95′ x 34′, and Discovery Coast is 96′; least beamy is Mary Emma at 31′.
Most horsepower is Barney Turecamo at 5100. Least is a tie between Discovery Coast and Allie B. at 3000 each.
Newest launch is Discovery Coast at 2012. Oldest by two years is Mary Emma at 1975, and Allie B. at 1977 1976. I only recently learned Allie B used to do the sugar run into Dominos on the East River.
It’s not the best photo maybe, although–hey– it was the golden hour when B. E. Lindholm came into the boro recently. They’ve been working along the east side of Sandy Hook.
Some small craft traffic the boro all seasons of the year. I suspect this is going out fishing, but I’m not sure.
Daisy Mae here southbound along Newport . . . in a clash of horizontal lines.
This morning had Meaghan Marie, Eastern Dawn, and Evening Mist rafted up in Red Hook.
I’ve often seen David Auld Scudder on AIS, but not until the other day had I seen the boat,
diminutive beside Pegasus Star.
As have appeared here before, Millers Launch has a lot of small workboats like Erin Miller.
Discovery Coast has been working a fair amount in the boro in recent weeks.
Too distant to tell, but Twin Tube here is lifting new life rafts onto Nordic Harrier.
Hayward dates from 1974, when the drift collection vessel came out of a Boston shipyard.
And there we’ll leave it. All photos and any errors, WVD.
Call this the push knee set. And let’s do it this way . . . given all the features that could be discussed, focus of these for oldest/newest, smallest/largest, and least/most horsepower.
CMT Pike. An aside about CMT Pike is that she was not built with a retractable wheelhouse. When launched, she had a fixed wheelhouse, the “stalk” of which can be seen directly behind where the raised wheelhouse is now. I’ve not been able to find a photo of her in that original configuration.
Shiloh Amon aka Jillian Irene
Lightning
Discovery Coast
Miss Madeline
And finally, a photo from January 2013 and showing one that has been sold out of the sixth boro . . . Herbert P. Brake.
Have you written down your final decisions?
All photos, WVD. All info here thanks to Birk Thomas’ invaluable tugboatinformation
Ready? No cheating.
Just guesses.
Oldest is Miss Madeline, and newest is Shiloh aka Jillian Irene. 1976 and 2022.
Smallest considering both length and beam is Herbert P. Brake, and longest is Discovery Coast although both Discovery and Jillian tie at 34′ for beam. Lengths are 60′ and 96′.
Least horses is Brake, and most is Discovery. They range from 375 hp to 3000 hp.
Daisy Mae . . . time flies and this 82′ x 30′ and 3200 hp boat has been around since 2017 already.
Crystal Cutler, 67′ x 26′ and 1500 hp, I remember when she first arrived in the boro. I mist be getting old here.
Evelyn Cutler, 117′ x 32′ and 3900 . . . I recall when she was Melvin E. Lemmerhirt.
Discovery Coast, 96′ x 34′ and 3000 hp . . . she’s been around by that name since leaving the shipyard a decade ago.
Capt. Brian A. McAllister, 100′ x 40′ and 6770 hp . . . half a decade here.
Brian Nicholas, 72′ x 23′ and 1700 hp, I never saw her as Banda Sea, although I saw many other Seas.
Charles James, 77′ x 26 and 2400 hp . . . I recall her as Megan McAllister.
Navigator, 64′ x 24′ and 1200hp**, arrived here as that. Saint Emilion . . .105′ x 38′ and 4800hp, I’ve known her as Arabian Sea and Barbara C before that, and this blog has been doing this since before she was launched.
All photos and any errors, WVD.
**We know about autocorrect. Here’s a message from Capt. Tugcorrect: “Re 1200 hp, she’s been repowered and info should reflect that she ‘boasts two MTU 12V2000s rated at 900hp each for a total of 1800.’ ” Thx, Tugcorrect.
Discovery Coast has been around for over a decade now. One of my first times to see her was here.
Lightning has only recently been joined by Thunder, here. Might tugs named for other weather phenomena like hail and fog be coming?
Helen was only renamed that earlier this year; before that, she was Charles Burton.
Thomas D. Witte appeared here only once as Kendall P. Brake, and that was a decade and a half ago with Powhatan, class-establisher for Apache.
Defender last appeared on this blog a year and a half ago here . . . She was
formerly Davis Sea, my favorite photo of which was here, struggling with solid water upriver.
Pearl Coast is a regular at the cement dock on the KVK, here with Cement Transporter 1802, one of a fleet of barges dedicated to exactly that.
And while I was at this location, I caught a convergence of tugboats, Pegasus eastbound and Stephen Reinauer westbound. Stephen has been in the sixth boro for nearly 30 years now.
All photos, WVD.
This sight might have confused some folks looking at vessels in the Stapleton anchorage yesterday. The brightly lit vessel arrived a bit before sunrise.
Here’s a closer shot. That’s Discovery Coast with bunkers.
She spun with the tide.
Although, like me, you might not recognize the shape and colors of this vessel, Grimaldi is not an unusual name in the harbor. Grimaldi owns the ACL fleet as well as ROROs with names that begin with “grande” except the Blount boats.
Eurocargo Bari is one of 10 sister ships, all named for “Mediterranean” port cities, the class referred to as the Genova class.
If you’ve not clicked on the links, she’s 656′ loa x 87′ and carries 1255 ceus. She’s also fast, max speed of 22 knots. She departed the sixth boro yesterday after dark and is already off the Carolina Capes, bound for Altamira MX.
Busy livery and
over styled? Yes, IMHO, but it is a European look.
All photos and opinions, any errors, WVD.
Anyone know the story of this lobster tug over at Pier 81 Hudson River? Its current name?
Discovery Coast was standing by a tank barge at Pier 8 Red Hook.
Next pier south, Pier 9, Evening Tide hibernates. I guess it’s not true that all parts of “time and tide wait for no one.”
Continuing in that direction to the south of Erie Basin, a Dann Ocean fleet waits: l to r, Captain Willie Landers, Sarah Dann, and Ruby M.
In the anchorage, Susan Rose awaits her next appointment with the RCM 250.
Fells Point heads to the Narrows to retrieve her bunker barge.
Bruce A. McAllister escorts bulker Thor Fortune into Claremont for a load of scrap.
And finally, Everly Mist is the newest renaming I’ve seen. Ellen S. Bouchard has also been renamed Jeffrey S, but I’ve not caught a photo yet.
All photos, WVD.
May 2012 was a month of verticality, as in these twin tugboats,
as in the towers of these bridges with a low, long riverboat transiting beneath, and
and in the 156′ air draft of this mega yacht once owned by one of the oligarch’s now sanctioned and hiding his other yachts wherever he can.
It was also time for Opsail 2012, the sixth of six such events to date.
I recall an evening sail around Gravesend Bay one May evening to see some of the tall ships that overnighted there prior to parading into the confines of the sixth boro.
Above and below were tall ships from Colombia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Mexico, and Brasil.
The tall ships have scattered to the seven seas, but these tugs each returns to the sixth boro as work dictates.
All photos, WVD.
Dace lighters STI Excel.
Neptune comes into town again.
Buchanan 12 makes a rare appearance light, but everyone needs to refuel periodically.
Janet D follows Seeley into the Kills.
How a bout a four’fer . . . counter: Marjorie, Kristin Poling, Nicholas, and Jordan Rose.
Sea Lion heads eastbound.
B. Franklin travels west, and
Discovery Coast, east. . . both light.
Nathan G moves a deep scow into the Kills with Cape Wrath lurking in the background.
Traffic never stops, and it’ll outlast me, the photographer, WVD.
The sixth boro, like any location, offers infinite perspectives, compounded by equally countless nuance of season, hour, weather, and activity variation. This view of Kimberly in the stalls at Caddells the other day differs considerably from the dynamic ones of the past 18 months.
Just a few days different but quite different location and atmospherics . . . Weddell Sea came into the Narrows the other day as we began feeling the effects of Fay. She had Penn No. 90 on a wire.
Further to the west in another spot, Discovery Coast was on the outside, mostly blocking Brooklyn, who’s been in here for a few months already.
In clear weather, land would be visible beyond the tug, but Fay changed that for a while.
Dace Reinauer was high and dry in Dry Dock No. 7.
And finally, just west of Dry Dock No. 7, stacked up were at least seven Bouchard boats, sadly waiting.
All photos, WVD, who’s starting to think about random tugs three hundred. If you have a photo of a tug never depicted on this blog, send it along. The big three hundred COULD be all never-here-before tugboats.
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