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Sarah D is here because before wearing the attractive NYS Marine Highway colors, she wore Moran colors for about 20 years, as seen here.
What I thought remarkable about that afternoon is that all the photos here were taken in the space of half an hour the other day. An outatowner watching traffic on the sixth boro would have concluded that all tugboats in the boro have an M on the stack. What was happening in fact was that three ships were moving and this was a surge to assist these ships.
If you follow this blog, you’ve seen them all before, but you may not have seen a Moran wave before quite like this.
As you can tell, I maintained mostly the same vantage point while taking all these shots.
All photos, WVD.
Call this a continuation of yesterday’s post, but this is a model bow set . . . . Given all the features that could be discussed, focus on these for oldest/newest, smallest/largest, and least/most horsepower. Also, one of these does not fit with the others, although all are tugboats.
Douglas J
Doris Moran
Philadelphia
Again, identify the oldest/newest, smallest/largest, and least/most horsepower.
James William Here she appears to be towing a mooring into Erie Basin Brooklyn.
Millie B and Louis C. These two certainly do not fit in with this post, but . . . I’m posting this photo anyhow. Previously, Millie B has appeared here. Louis C has appeared here. I hope you’re getting ready with your answers.
Rowan M McAllister
Adeline Marie
All photos and any errors, WVD. All info here thanks to Birk Thomas’ invaluable tugboatinformation.
Ready? No cheating.
Just guesses.
Answers?
Oldest is Rowan M, and newest is Philadelphia. 1981 and 2017.
Smallest considering both length and beam is James William, and longest is Doris Moran although Douglas J is the beamiest. Lengths are 77′ and 118′.
Least horses is James William, and most is Douglas J. They range from 2800 hp to 4800 hp.
Besides Millie B, the outlier is James William because she has a push-knee bow–rather than a model bow. Also, she’s the only triple screw here.
Every day is Thanksgiving, but we dedicate one day to talk about it. One undeniable detail of the US popular T’giving narrative involves a transAtlantic vessel, Mayflower. Some of this info about the Mayflower might be new. Less than a decade after arriving in North America, it may have been dismantled and used in a barn building project. Reference to Mayflower, original and replica, can be found in these previous blog posts.
Of course, instances of earlier thanksgiving in the US exist, like this one from 1607 and involved a vessel named Virginia, in Maine. My point is . . . it’s a story of migration by ship.
That’s the connection: this blog features ships, and this post is a sampling of vessels that’ve called in the sixth boro in recent weeks and months, like The Amigo, a 2012 Croatia-built asphalt/bitumen tanker. Cargo in the tanks needs to be kept well above the boiling point to maintain liquidity.
MSC Shirley is a 2000-built Polish-built container ship with a capacity of 2024 teu.
Seaways Redwood is a 2013 South Korea-built crude tanker. South Korea currently builds the highest percentage of global shipping, although other Pacific Asian countries are in second and third places, as you’ll see in this sampling.
Grande Texas is a PCTC built 2021 in China, off Ningbo. She has the capacity of 7,600 ceu (car equivalent units).
Ardmore Dauntless and Ardmore Enterprise, both built South Korea but in 2015 and 2013, respectively. Enterprise has slightly larger capacity.
Aruna Berk is a drybulk carrier launched in China in 2011.
Thor Maximus is a 2005 Japan-built drybulk carrier.
ONE Wren is a 2018 Japan-built 14000 teu container ship.
Atlantic Spirit is a McKeil tanker, launched in 2011 from a shipyard in China.
McKeil is a Canadian company. McKeil tugboats work mostly the Great Lakes; one company tug visited the sixth boro a few years back here.
Thundercat is a 2008 crude carrier built in China.
Given a 1980s cartoon series, I had to chuckle at this name.
Key Ohana is a 2010 Japan built bulk carrier.
MSC Agadir is a Korea-built 8886 teu container ship dating from 2012.
Note the scrubbing add-on for emissions. MSC Shirley, above, also has an exhaust-filtering system.
Northern Jaguar is a 2009 8400-teu container ship built in South Korea. Small size as it is relative to the ship, the rudder and prop spray size relative to a single container is gigantic; think of following that down the highway as you would a trailer-mounted container.
Jag Leela is a 1999 South Korea built crude tanker. She appeared on this blog back in 2010 here.
Poorly-lit but I include this photo anyhow because it shows Ever Forward, the newest and likely the best-known ship in this post, due to her not moving forward earlier this year. She’s currently heading south in the Red Sea, getting chased by a friend named Mike.
All photos and any errors, WVD, who offers this as an assortment of commercial vessels in and out of the sixth boro. Post 98 in the series appeared here way back in April.
None of these vessels will ever maintain the lasting hold Mayflower has on the US psyche, but the fact is that much of what folks will list as what they are thankful for involves conveyance of vessels like these in and out of the sixth boro. That’s part of why I do posts like this one.
Happy thanksgiving today.
Let’s jump back to the present . . . and Doris Moran, both light
and moving containers across the harbor to the other container port back fields. If I count right, that’s 160 containers not on chassis pulled by trucks on the BQE, SIE, or other such clogged arteries.
Brinn Courtney is moving a scow, as
is Eastern Dawn.
Mister Jim and all the CMT boats seem to
be getting
a makeover.
Marjorie B. might be going to pick up her daily train cars.
Kimberly Poling basks in the dawn liight.
All photos, recently, in the sixth boro, WVD, who won’t be in the boro for the rumored tugboat race this weekend. If you’re out there, take photos, especially ones with splash!
It’s hard to beat morning light for drama, as is the case here with QM2 getting assisted by James D. and
Doris Moran into her berth in Red Hook, as I shoot into that light.
Taken only a few minutes later, this photo of FV Eastern Welder dragging the bottom in front of the Weeks yard had me shooting with the rising sun behind me.
Bayonne dry dock is full of business. Note the formerly Bouchard tug Jordan Rose and Cape Wraith off its bow. I’m not sure which Miller’s Launch OSV that is. To the left, that’s Soderman.
Hyundai Speed and Glovis Sirius shift cargo.
More shooting into the light here toward Bay Ridge, where lots is happening.
Torm Louise‘s color just looks cold.
Afrodite has been around the world several times each year since the hoopla of her moving Bakken crude from Albany has subsided. Note the unidentified formerly Bouchard tugboat to the extreme left.
And with the drama of morning light, wild clouds form the backdrop to three tugboats seeing CMA CGM Pegasus out the door on a windy day.
All photos earlier this week, WVD, who feels fortunate to live in a place like this where my drama exists only in photos.
It’s March in the boro, so Sunday the temperatures surged up to 70, and this morning’s rain turned into snow at 36 degrees; yesterday was windy, with dramatic clouds scudding across the sky on chilling gusts. So when Jonathan C. Moran headed back into the KVK after assisting a ship out the door, this was the scene as . . .
she turned into the wind.
Let’s follow her back, seeing her backgrounds: Doris going for the next assist, QM2 back in Red Hook, a ferry on a Staten island-bound run,
the Manhattan skyline and Robbins Reef Light,
the gray ships along the Bayonne drydock side . . .
and everywhere Jonathan C. getting spindrift blowing back on itself.
All photos, WVD, yesterday.
I’ve mentioned before that I’m always looking for novelty. Here’s one, new to me at least,
the 4400 hp Chincoteague with Double Skin 802. I’d love to get closer-up pics one of these days.
Nicole Leigh Reinauer, a 7200 hp beauty twenty years almost senior, passes Chincoteague on her way to
rejoin her barge, RTC 135.
Meanwhile Miriam Moran follows in a ship as one of the assists.
Moments earlier, the 1979 3000 hp Miriam had accompanied 1982 4610 hp Doris Moran to meet the ship.
The 2021 4000 hp Jordan Rose, ex-Evening Star and now in Rose Cay colors, is high and dry alongside Sorenson (?) Miller on the hard at Bayonne Drydock.
The 2008 4200 hp Pocomoke passes the KV buoy, which made soothing noises as it rose and settled in the chop.
The 1999 4500 hp Patrice heads out to meet a ship.
And finally, 1999 3600 hp Stephen Dann looked particularly good as she headed out to her next job.
All photos, this week, WVD.
Two boats working for the same company. Mary Turecamo dates from 1983, and built in NYS at Matton Shipyard, their last build. She’s 107′ x 32′ and brings 4300 hp to her work.
Doris Moran dates from around the same time, but built by McDermott in Louisiana.
She’s a bit larger and more powerful than Mary, at 118′ x 34 and 4610 hp.
It’s always a joy to see them at work.
All photos, WVD, who has more Matton and Turecamo boats from the Canal Society archives coming soon.
Thanks for following me down memory lane the past few days, or should I say up recollections river. My plan for the next bit is to alternate current sixth boro activity with photos from archives of the Canal Society of New York.
I love winter light, when it’s light, as it illuminates parts of NCC Reem and Captain Dann with the bunker barge.
The hot exhaust/cold air differential makes for more shimmering light this time of year.
Images are clear, but fata morgana distortions are more pronounced; Ellen and Doris here are less than two miles away.
Here the Moran 6000 in MSC Vittoria’s shade is silhouetted, whereas the one following catches the light on its superstructure facets.
At 2 to 3 miles, it’s shimmered again, as two of the Moran 6000s sail Monaco Bridge.
Margaret returns from sailing Conti Cortesia.
And finally, with Coho in the background, it’s Eastern Dawn pushing an almost color matching fuel barge, in Balico colors.
All photos less than a week old, WVD.
How about a new day, a new month, a new year, and a new hull in the sixth boro! Can you recognize the profiles sans color?
As it passes Norton Point inbound, you begin to make out the color.
Once well inside Gravesend Bay–that’s the west end of Coney Island in the background–the colors increase in their vividness.
Here is the moment when the new ferry,
Sandy Ground, actually enters the Upper Bay portion of the boro, where she will work, if ferry JFK is her model, until the year 2078!! That’s 56 years from now, and I’ve no clue what the sixth boro will look like–or what vessels will traffic it– 56 years from now. Here‘s more context on Sandy Ground, Staten Island.
Once she was inside the VZ Bridge, I ran from South Beach, where I got the photos above, to Fort Wadsworth, and caught Margaret Moran sidling up to Sarah Dann.
I first thought the final portion of the tow would be Margaret‘s, but I was wrong;
while Susan Miller provided a close-up platform, Margaret then delivered
crew to the new ferry, and
lines came across from Doris Moran, the tailboat for the last several miles to Caddell‘s , where the protective gear will be removed and the ferry prepped for service.
By this hour, the fog had cleared just enough that the iconic skyline of Brooklyn and Manhattan was blotted out, giving the illusion that the tow is still at sea.
All photos December 31 morning by WVD, who likes illusions and unreality sometimes.
Healthy, harmonious, hard-working, hearty 2022 from all of us at tugster tower.
And if you’re not going on a First Hike today, check out Trevor’s Seapixonline from New Zealand and beyond. Tell him tugster suggested it.
For some other high profile tows done by Sarah Dann recently, click here.
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