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Barry Silverton first came to the sixth boro five and a half years ago. Her twin Emery Zidell appeared here earlier this year, and i believe this is the first time to catch the ATB light and head on.
Roughly the same size, Haggerty Girls waits alongside as RTC 80 loads.
Mary Turecamo heads out to meet a ship. Mary Turecamo, Haggerty Girls, and Emery Zidell are all over 105′ and 4000 or more horsepower.
Margaret Moran here hangs close to a bulk carrier she’s escorting in.
Like Margaret above, Buchanan 12 is rated at 3000 hp and each has worked under the same name for the same company since coming from the shipyard. Buchanan 12 is a regular shuttling stone scows between the quarries up the Hudson and the sixth boro.
Franklin Reinauer has operated under that name since coming from the shipyard nearly 40 years ago.
I first saw Fort Point in Gloucester here over five years ago.
Joker seems to have become a regular in the sixth boro since this summer. She used to be a regular here as Taurus.
Known as Brendan Turecamo for the past 30 years, this 1975 3900 hp tug is getting some TLC up on the floating drydock.
All photos here where we leave it today, WVD.
I’m on a short gallivant, but I have no shortage of sixth boro photos, mostly of tugboats engaged in commerce. Sometimes I look for meetings, and interesting (how ever that’s defined) ones are best. Like here…. Kristin and Kimberly,
B. Franklin and Dylan Cooper,
Mary H and Joyce,
Reinauer Twins and Pokomoke,
R/V Ocean Researcher (a multirole survey vessel [aka an exotic] for the offshore energy sector) and Emery Zidell,
and Fort McHenry and Philadelphia.
Then sometimes there are more than two at a time that can be framed in a shot, like here, Elk River, Paula Atwell, Chem Bulldog, Kirby, and B. Franklin . . .
More Bulldog soon. All photos yesterday, WVD.
Jeremy Whitman took this photo of the big blue Konecranes #38 crane. Tail boat is Candace Elise, prior to 2015 known as Stephen Dann, as here. OXBO is managing the transport.
They departed Manitowoc a week or so ago and are now in a very wide portion of the Saint Lawrence, downstream from Gaspé Peninsula. Manitowoc, among other things, is the western terminus of SS Badger.
Jake Van Reenen took this photo as they passed Clayton. Molly M I has replaced Candace Elise. The barge supporting the barge is Cashman Equipment Corp.’s JMC 253, with dimensions of 250′ x72′ x16′ deck barge.
René Beauchamp got this shot –and more on FB Seaway News-Voie maritime Infos–of the tow. His vantage point over the South Shore Canal portion of the Saint Lawrewnce Seaway was the Cartier Bridge. ETA for the tow at the mouth of the Piscataqua and Kittery ME is June 17. I look forward to photos from there.
Harry McNeal moved deck barge 1962 with crane away from the IMTT docks the other day,
Face on, the crane appeared to be straight up.
Allan Seymour caught this Denali with tank barge DBL 104 upbound on Penobscot Bay yesterday. If I have the right number, DBL 104 has a capacity is just over 105,000 barrels.
I spotted Paul Andrew with the recycling scow DS 171 heading for the Arthur Kill.
The destination for this is PS&S/Visy Paper.
Erich A. caught Emery Zidell up the Hudson in the notch of 83,000 bbl tank barge Dr. Robert J. Beall.
James Turecamo meets the Centerline unit up in the scenic Hudson River below Albany.
And I saw Eastern Dawn aka Toula pushing two
mini-barges.
The minis, one at a time, carry dredge spoils from the depths of Gowanus Canal. Prior to this project, I’d never seen mini barges, or scows.
All photos, as credited: Jeremy, Jake, René , Erich, and WVD.
Unrelated, the highest bid for tug Grouper as of this morning is $26.00.
Click here for the previous 85 posts with this title. Lead photos today come from former owner of this push boat in West Burlington, Iowa.
The vessel, then known as Izona, has since traveled the Interstates and two-lanes to Highlands, NJ, towed by the much-loved Peterbilt of John Zook, of Lewisburg, PA.
Maybe you saw them on the roads, or since then, at a marina in Highlands NJ?
“Mister __” is a common name for tugboats. Here, from a secret salt is Mister C.
Hobo has appeared here before, but never with this outstanding fendering created here. Hobo is a 1953 product of Caddell Dry Dock. She’s now living the good life, in the hands of Donna and Charlie Costa.
Emery Zidell is a Centerline tugboat, currently in the sixth boro. She’s the older twin of Barry Silverton, a more frequent visitor to the boro. Photo comes from Capt. Anon E. Mous. Zidell is married to Dr. Robert J. Beall.
And finally, currently underway in the western center of Lake Erie, it’s Sarah Dann, pushing this huge crane on a barge from Manitowoc WI to Kittery ME, almost 3000 nm.
Get ready to see Sarah Dann and “Big Blue” in the Welland Canal and Saint Lawrence. You might see them passing Strait of Canso too.
Below, Jeremy Whitman caught a fabulous photo of the unit passing the 10th Street lift bridge in Manitowoc WI. Thanks much, Jeremy.
Here’s part of the story from John Buellesbach and MKE Marine Reports in “Around Wisconsin” “Konecranes of Finland partnered with Illinois-based Broadwind to build several large cranes for the U.S. Navy at the Broadwind Heavy Fabrications yard in Manitowoc, former site of Manitowoc Shipbuilding. The first, a portal jib crane for the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, was completed in early May. It weighs 2.7 million pounds, has a lifting capacity of 140 tons, and stands about 160 feet tall. This custom designed crane incorporates unique features that allow it to be operated on the multiple rail section sizes, straight or curved, located at the naval base.”
ETA in New Hampshire is around the 18th. Track them on AIS.
Thanks to Jeremy, John, the Powells and the Costas, Great Lakes mariner, and other nameless contributors.
By the way, does anyone have photos to share here of CMA CGM Marco Polo and from the same day, Kurt J. Crosby?
Note the line boat off B. Franklin‘s starboard. Also, faintly to her port and beyond the green buoy hull down is a Kirby tug, probably one of the Cape-class boats.
Actually part of the same scene panning to the left–note the line boat on the extreme right side of the photo–it’s Joyce D. Brown with a crane barge off to do a salvage job.
Not long afterward, Caitlin Ann heads west past Treasure Coast on the blue-and-yellow cement carrier.
Brendan Turecamo and Margaret Moran bring a ship in.
Kirby Moran follows a ship in with a Reinauer barge right behind.
And again, a few minutes later, Paul Andrew follows the Reinauer unit and the ship westbound.
Resolute, back in the sixth boro, heads out to assist a USN vessel into Earle.
Genesis Victory passes Doris Moran alongside the Apex Oil barge,
Another day, l to r, it’s Barry Silverton, Saint Emilion, and the A87 barge again. Barry‘s sister vessel–Emery Zidell--was in the sixth boro recently, but I got just
a very distant photo.
I can’t put names on these vessels, but it’s the Wittich Brothers fleet, formerly (I think) known as Sea Wolf Marine. And I see Sarah Ann in the extreme left.
And let’s end on a puzzle . . . William Brewster with a new paint job. Last time I saw her, those dark green stripes were red.
All photos, WVD.
Here are some more Harley tugs, thanks to Kyle, who sent along all the photos AND text for this post also.
“MILLENNIUM FALCON built by the Marine Construction & Design Co (MARCO) at Seattle, at used for long-haul fuel barge tows on the Pacific coast. OLYMPIC SCOUT was built in 1976 in-house for Pacific Towboat & Salvage Co of Long Beach, CA as AVENGER. In 2004 she was purchased by American Navigation Co and renamed PACIFIC MARINER, then sold to Harley in 2007.
KESTREL was built in 2012 by Halimar Shipyard and is based off of the design of Vane Brothers Sassafras-class tugs. She is currently used for operation in Southeast Alaska.
JAMES T QUIGG was built in 1971 by Houma Welders as BRETT CANDIES for the Otto Candies company. Later owned by White Horse Marine of Norfolk as PEGASUS, Portland Tugboat & Shipdocking of Portland, ME as FOURNIER BOYS and American Workboats of Honolulu as AMERICAN CHALLENGER. Purchased by Harley in 2001.
MICHELLE SLOAN is Harley’s newest delivery, built by Diversified Marine of Portland, OR. Based on a design by Robert Allan Ltd of Vancouver, BC, she is used for shiphandling around LA.
Another shot of MILLENNIUM STAR
ALYSSA ANN, built in-house in 1966 as J.V. ALARIO for Nolty J. Theriot Offshore and participated in the North Sea oil boom in the late 70’s/early 80’s, pictured with ERNEST CAMPBELL, built in 1969 by Southern Shipbuilding as GATCO FLORIDA for Gulf Atlantic Transport Co of Miami. Later owned by Mobile Bay Towing as MOBILE PRIDE. In the background, the brick clocktower belongs to the headquarters building of Starbucks. You might have heard of them… The building was built in 1912 as the West Coast catalog center for Sears Roebuck.
EMERY ZIDELL is a newly-delivered ATB unit, built by Conrad Shipyard and partnered with the barge DR ROBERT J BEALL.
Another shot of LISSY TOO, this one compliments of Seth Tane.
TIM QUIGG, pictured in the Port of LA, is a predecessor to MICHELLE SLOAN, built by Diversified Marine in 2004 and also used in the Port of LA/Long Beach.”
And who is this Harley? Click here.
As to the small sixth boro contingent of Harley, I miss the bow puddings I first associated them with more than half a decade ago.
Kyle, again . . . many thanks.
Unrelated: my mission today is to see if the mermaid parade brings any tugboats; of course, I’m likely to get distracted. See you there, maybe?
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