What Düsseldorf Showed Me

Thanks to Les Sonnenmark and Peter Lellow for helping me “see” what I was just looking at.  Last week I got some fotos of Düsseldorf Express leaving the sixth boro via the KVK.  See anything different?

Watch the vessel . . . .

There . . . the aftmost starboard container.  What is so special about it?

Here’s a foto Peter sent me . . . a container ship in port hooked up to shore power.  Cold ironing . . . I’d heard about it but never known what it looked like.  I don’t know if the service already exists in Port Elizabeth . ..  but this vessel is equipped.

Click here and here for more info on the system to reduce ship emissions in port.

I took the first three fotos.  Thanks much to Les and Peter for directing and educating my eyes.

Random Tugs 120

This first foto is by a secret salt . . . showing Dory (1978) and Captain Zeke (1980) tandem towing  beach-lounging 125′ deck barge back onto the water.

And  . . . attributed by the watermark . . . fotos from last week before Janus chilled the town,  Atlantic Conveyor gets an assist from Charles D. McAllister (1967).

Shelby (1978) also worked in the January fog.  Thanks, Brian.

And the rest of the fotos are mine:  the seldom-seen Specialist (1956?), here close and

closer.

Two Coasts . . . Chesapeake (2011) and Emerald (1973).

Resolute (1975) about to pass Düsseldorf Express (1998),

And from Philly . . .  High Roller (1969) with The Recycler (1989 . . . from THE George Steinbrenner’s yard in Nashville, TN.  Here’s some history on The Recycler and its twin.

Many thanks to the secret salt and Brian DeForest for their fotos.  All others by Will Van Dorp.