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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.
Divemasters MV Atlantic Surveyor came into Tony A’s lens the other day.
Click here for some of the diverse projects this boat has been involved with.
Kapitein Rob caught a few tugboats in the foggy west end of Long Island Sound last week: Mister T and
Navigator.
Tony A caught this view of Pacific Reliance and this one of
Helen.
Phil little sent this along, a “dramatic shot of the Douglas J in front of the ‘Sail on the Hudson.'”
And finally, how about a formerly saltwater boat now on the inland seas, Caroline McKee, sent along by Great Lakes Mariner.
Thanks to Tony, Rob, Phil, and GLM for sending along these photos. Below is a photo I believe I’ve never posted . . . I took it from the Mississippi River in November 2016; Coastal 303 was later to become Southern Dawn and then Caroline McKee, depicted above. Does anyone know the story of the snapped mast?
Here‘s a freshwater-to-saltwater Coastal 202.
Janet D, product of 2015, comes in a 67′ x 26′.
Ellen McAllister, the oldest here launched in 1967, measures 102′ x 29′.
Marjorie B McAllister, from 1974, is bigger than I imagined . . . 112′ x 30′.
The two McAllister tugs were heading to assist tanker Sakura Belle, 26960 dwt contained within 558′ x 88′, launched in 2011.
Janice Ann Reinauer, the newest tugboat here, came off the ways in 2020. She measures 113′ x 35′.
And finally, doing dredge spoils runs, we have Douglas J, 2004, 110′ x 38′ and
Atlantic Enterprise, 1976, and the largest tugboat in this post, measuring 136′ x 40′.
All photos, this week, WVD.
It’s been over 12 years that this boat has had this appearance; before then, it was orange.
Ten years ago, this one was green.
I must admit I’ve gotten used to seeing them both in Donjon blue, and they look great.
A year ago, this boat had not yet entered the state of New York, but when she did, I caught her here and here about to enter the NYS Canal system from the Great Lakes.
Since then, she’s been quite busy.
As have all the Donjon blue boats.
Have a look at Meagan Ann in the 2013 tugboat races here. And speaking of those races, here and here are photos/videos of Meagan Ann and other from 2009.
Has anyone heard specifics about a 2022 tugboat race in the sixth boro? Here are some photos of boats that participated in the 1952 (!!!!) race on the Hudson.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
While I’m at it, let me throw in a photo from the tugboat race in 2010.
I’ve compartmentalized my photos from the Pioneer sail the other night, in part because in a short two-hour sail there was so much to see. For starters, Stephanie Dann had earlier just rushed eastward and came back with Cornucopia Destiny, a dance partner on her starboard side. I can speculate about this, but I don’t know the details.
As we headed into the Buttermilk, we met Susan Rose AND
Jordan Rose, ex- Evening Breeze and Evening Star, respectively.
This sweet downeaster passed.
I suspect Jordan came along to assist
Susan into the notch.
Meanwhile, a ways down the piers, Stasinos Jimmy and currently still Evening Tide were rafted up for the moment.
Whatever brought Jordan to the Red Hook piers, by the time we had sailed passed the gantries, she was overtaking us.
On the return, as night began to fall, we met Thomas D. Witte and
then her fleetmate Douglas J.
At this point, my photos were pixelating, but I still managed to get Eastern Dawn, heading back to the “barn” at dusk.
All photos, WVD, who has handed the keys to the tower over to the robots again for a while.
Here are previous iterations of this title. Currently there’s a dredging project going on just NW of the St George ferry terminal. Donjon’s Delaware Bay does the dredging, and Stephanie Dann shuttles the scows away toward the VZ Bridge.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think this is maintenance dredging.
The other day Douglas J was making the run to HARS to dump and returning the light scows back to Delaware Bay.
Once Douglas J returns a scow at the dredge and makes it fast,
Douglas J goes off and takes the loaded scow from Stephanie Dann,
Delaware Bay gets to digging,
and Stephanie Dann returns to stand by as the next scow is loaded. And so on until the “excess” is removed. different days, different tugboats are involved.
Any errors, all photos, WVD.
Adeline Marie was at anchor off the Coney Island Light.
Douglas J and a dump scow were shuttling to and from HARS.
Mary Emma was arriving from sea.
Joyce Brown passed a big unstuck green ship,
Stuff is always happening, and all photos, WVD.
I was alarmed when the steam and flare caught my eye, but when I saw that silhouette to the left, I knew it might be a good morning to take some photos.
I was [finally] going to see Douglas J close up, Douglas J, ex-Mediterranean Sea for two companies and Donald C before that.
She looks impressive in that new Donjon blue paint. Twice before I’d just missed seeing her, but “thems the breaks” when a person has limited time to come out and photograph while sitting on the dock of . . . somewhere.
As I said, the 110′ x 38′ 4800 hp Douglas J looks good in this livery.
Long may she work.
All photos yesterday, WVD, who has no explanation for all the flaring in Linden yesterday.
ACV Enviro provides boom service at IMTT; this means they use a small boat to deploy and retrieve oil containment precautionary booms around vessels transferring petroleum products there. Here and here are examples appearing here previously. I don’t know how long booming has been required– years, I suppose; it’s not new.
Miss Beth, however, is a new boat. At least, this is my first time to see her. My question is . . . what was her previous life? She looks military.
The photo quality below is not the best, but I hope you find it as interesting as I do: Left to right, most prominently that’s Martin Explorer and Douglas J., whose livery says Donjon and whose lines are unmistakably those of the former Mediterranean Sea. Before that, she was Donald C. Interestingly, I believe I see the stack of Lilac there too, just forward and above the stack of Douglas J.
Also, this is not a great photo of Annie Moore, a relatively new hull in the boro, given that this Bristol Harbor Group-designed (Or was it designed by TAI Engineers??) workboat was delivered at most a half year ago to work the Statue of Liberty for the National Park Service. This is my first sighting for this boat. Her namesake is a 17-year-old Irish immigrant, the first person to pass through Ellis Island in early 1892 from steamer Nevada. Click here for more of the Annie Moore immigrant story.
Many thanks to Tony A for catching the Douglas J photo; all others, WVD.
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