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When I saw Anthem of the Seas departing the Narrows as I waited for “da world” the other day, I was aware of a possible shot . . . juxtaposing a large cruise ship with an ULCV. Is there a ULCV/ULCC-type abbreviation for cruise ships . . . eg, ULPV? But I digress. Imagine for now how that juxtaposition would look…
Earlier the same week, I’d seen QM2 at the Brooklyn Passenger vessel . . . so let’s throw the tapes at that. I recall reading the QM2 funnel was designed to accommodate the NYC market, more precisely, the fit under the VZ Bridge.
I know it’s a different vantage point again, but here was YM World entering the Narrows.
And here are World and Anthem, and it surprised me how much more air draft on Anthem this shows.
So here are the lengths: World 1200′ Anthem 1139′ and QM2 1132′
Beams World 167′ Anthem 162′ and QM2 135′
And for air draft, I know World‘s as it came in, but for the two passenger vessels, I’ll estimate air draft from “height minus deep draft,” using published numbers. You naval architects may take issue with that, as may others of you with specific expertise I lack.
Anthem 208′ (Is that possible?) QM2 199′ and World 177′
I’d expected the air draft of YM World to be greater.
So here’s a question I don’t know the answer to: how many crew work on World? Total crew on Anthem is listed as 760 and on QM2 is 1253, for 4905 and 2695 passengers, respectively.
Here are more numbers.
Quick post today . . . with a followup tomorrow. I became somewhat obsessed with the name of this ULCV; I’d expected it to arrive a day earlier and it anchored a dozen leagues out, so you can understand my obsession when my brain told me I was waiting in vain for the “world.” For now, this may be among the largest box boats to arrive in the harbor . . . 1200′ x 167′ x 47′ with an air draft of 177′, if my ears caught the numbers correctly.
Maybe you can participate in my tangent, though. Here’s how. Given the name of this vessel, what comes to mind? What song titles? And, if you worked for YM and needed to come up with a name for a sister vessel, what would you suggest? I don’t believe there is a sister vessel. And I believe this is YM World’s first visit to the sixth boro. If there’s any humor in this post, I intend it to be on me and on the crazy places my brain goes when I consider the (YM) World to be arriving in NYC . . . because hasn’t it always….
Some of my thoughts, in no particular order, would be these: stop the world I wanna get off, world on a string, I’m sitting on top of the world . . . . As to a sister ship, I come up with “other world” and then this one being worldly and the sister being otherworldly . . .
Anyhow, as I said earlier, more of this actual vessel tomorrow. By the way, she’s currently at Global Terminal in Bayonee, arriving here Saturday (4/27) as its first port call after departing singapore on 4/1.
All photos and reactions by Will Van Dorp.
Here’s a repository of song titles--most of which I don’y know–with “world” in the title. And book titles . . . around the world in 80 days has [comic] possibilities. This “world” song comes with its own NYC images in its music video. For many years I was a fan of what record stores (what are they??!) classified as “world music, stuff like this . . . or this.
And hat’s off to the fine machines and skilled crews who guide these behemoths into and out of ports as if the feats were just play.
Stephen B heads light westbound about to pass under the Bayonne Bridge, as
Mary H, especially busy during the cold times of the year, pushes some petroleum product in the opposite direction. Soon leaves will decorate Shooters out beyond her. There’s a pool hall in Queens by the name Shooters, so to clarify, here are some Shooters history posts from way back.
Mr Jim moves some aggregates, also eastbound out of Newark Bay.
James D. nudges Dublin Express as needed into Howland Hook.
Eric and Capt. Brian A. assist a CMA CGM box ship.
Evelyn Cutler moves some petroleum along the supply chain.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who’s burning high octane himself these days.
Related: Let me reiterate Lee Rust’s question of a day or so ago: What is the current working estimate of operating tugs in NY’s sixth boro? For starters, I think it’s hard to count because of the dynamic, transient nature of traffic. Just ballparking it without breaking it down by company and enumerating, I’d say 75 at least. For consistency, let’s say we can count a tugboat as present if it shows up on AIS/VHF/traffic control at least once a month. I’d love to hear you estimates.
A confusing pic?
This is more clearly Capt. Brian A. and Eric, the two newest McAllisters in the boro, bringing up the stern of Gerd Maersk.
Much less similar, Ellen and Patrice here work the bow of an outbound tanker.
That top photo may be confusing as the ninth photo here is. So let me conclude by showing the photos taken seconds before and seconds after it.
For all I know, the smaller Brown tug may have been doing some training. I snapped that top photo when they were neck-and-neck from my vantage point. Eventually Thomas J. overtook Joyce.
The phots in between allow one to see how meticulous the paint scheme is on these boats. I’d love to see the engine room and other interior spaces.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Let’s try a variation: I’ve random tugs and random ships, in which I’ve confined most pics to a single general location and a a single photographer . . . me. “Really random tugs” combines locations, eras, and photographers. So why not do the same with ships, although in this case I’ve taken almost all the photos but in a variety of locations and times.
But this first one launches the concept. What can you surmise or identify about the photo below, not taken by me? Answer at the end of this post.
Spring brings the Great Lakes back to life. Here is a March 11 AIS capture of traffic on the Lakes. The “arrows” are US and Canadian CG doing ice ops. The rivers system around Chicago has some traffic.
The NOAA satellite image below provides the explanation . . . what looks ice covered IS. With the Soo scheduled to open on Monday, March 25, icebreaking carries high priority. Note Green Bay as well.
March 22 marked the opening of the Welland Canal. The first upbound ship this year was Thunder Bay; this photo I took in Quebec in October 2017. The first down bounder through the Welland was Algoma Spirit, but I’ve never gotten a photo of her.
Kaye E. Barker was the first springtime vessel out of Duluth; I took this photo in the last week of navigation before the Soo closed on January 15. The Soo is scheduled to open on Monday, March 25.
The KVK is a busy place all year round, although it’s not uniformly busy. On this day last month, Alpine Maya followed Port Richmond, which followed Atlantic Sun.
Stolt Integrity here stemmed while waiting to replace the tanker in the distance to leave the berth.
Tankers come in a variety of sizes; Selasse is a particular small one.
By now, have you figured out that first photo? I’ll give you a clue: vessel name is Nggapulu and as of last night she was in BauBau.
Traffic moves at all hours; night photos turn out quite unsatisfying, but golden hour ones I enjoy. Can you guess the hull color on this one?
Foreshortening belies the amount of distance actually between the stern of the Evergreen ship and Diane B/John Blanche.
The colorful Stena tankers, bears and all, seem to appear mostly in winter.
So here you have the answer, sort of. Indonesia, being a far-flung archipelago supports a ferry system called Pelni, an acronym. As an example of distances here, find Jakarta lower left. From there to Makassar roughly in the center is 1000 miles! Pelni operates about two dozen ferries of various designs. Ngga Pulu has classic lines and was launched in 2002.
Here’s an English language site about traveling the archipelago. Restless? Aye peri!
Many thanks to Hannah Miller for sharing the photo of Ngga Pulu. I’m not sure how that’s pronounced, but it’s named for a mountain. Learning about Pelni and seeing this map gives me a whole new appreciation of Dewaruci.
Here goes another 3-fer, three cargo vessels making their way again through the KVK simultaneously. JRT here at dawn assists orange juice carrier Orange Blossom 2 through the ConHook Range.
Jonathan C passes in front of them, returning from assisting another vessel now bound for sea.
Right behind the juice carrier is a box ship.
As the juice ship nears midpoint in the KVK, notice a RORO rounding Bergen Point at the west end of the KVK.
As I said, congestion . .. that’s routine. Kimberly travels along the starboard bow of the RORO,
Meanwhile, that box ship mentioned earlier has Eric on port
and Capt Brian A. at the stern.
Glovis Safety . . . headed for Philly and as of this moment is midAtlantic on its way to Zeebrugge.
As I said . . . skillful mariners make a congested waterway seem just routine.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
It might as well be spring already. Well, maybe my wish is that spring were here. I heard a spurious claim on a TV I visited the other day that March 20 is the planetary beginning of spring in the north but March 1 is the meteorological start of spring. But it must be true since I heard it on TV!??
But pairs, not Paris. Capt. Brian and Charles D. . . . interesting pair showing evolution of design 50 over the half century between the launch of each.
Fells Point landed Doubleskin 302 with Stephen B doing assist. That’s the first I seen Stephen B in the assist role.
Miss Julia could be Dylan Cooper‘s workboat.
CF Campbell heads east passing Scott Turecamo/New Hampshire and then
makes for the Upper Bay, where JRT is assisting Orange Blossom 2, herself a bloom in the dawn light. The photo above and the one below I took less than a minute apart, yet you’d think the light was saying hours separated the two.
Kimberly passes Eric.
Marie J Turecamo and Mister Jim run side by side under the Bayonne Bridge. Does anyone know when the pedestrian walkway on the bridge will open?
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Here are previous posts, and yes, it’s twelve o’clock somewhere . . . which means POSTING Time.
What would be your guess for the nationality of the mariner on the tug? How about the mariners on the ship?
I’ll let you ponder a clue that might be here.
It’s like spotting a unicorn to see a US-flagged tanker in the sixth boro.
She’s 2009 NASSCO built.
I can’t say much else about her, but it was good to see.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Unrelated: Here’s a fact I stumbled on yesterday: although there are ships and boats named for former presidents on the US, can you name one that’s namesake for two US presidents? Answer is here.
Beyond Capt. Brian . . .
Stena Penguin prepares to exit the KVK for the Upper Bay and up to the Saint Lawrence.
Anchored in the Upper Bay, it’s Stenaweco Elegance and
Venus R. now both away south . . ..
Eric McAllister here passes Harbour First, and later
escorts in RHL Agilitas.
Meanwhile crude oil tanker Alpine Confidence, somewhat down by the bow, turns in the tide just inside the Narrows.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who always finds change in the sixth boro, whether it be every day or every decennial.
By the way, see Tugster Tower in the distance . . . somewhere out there in the haze.
I missed Josephine Reinauer (actually I saw her but couldn’t get a clear shot) when she visited town recently, but I did catch Jacksonville, the latest Vane machine in the harbor.
For some reason I expected her to look different, but it’s an Elizabeth Anne class tug, which’ll look a lot like most of the rest of the Vane fleet.
Eric and the other McAllister escort tugs have been quite busy recently.
Ernest Campbell has been here about a half year doing bunkering, I believe.
Trevor usually works as a dredge tender, focusing on the Jersey shore this fall.
Brooklyn was called Brooklyn Service when I first discovered the sixth born.
Daisy Mae is just over a year old.
Normandy came to the sixth born from Colombia a few years ago.
Rowan has been working in the sixth boro of late.
In fact, almost seven years ago, it was Rowan that brought Patrice McAllister into the boro after the tragic fire during her delivery from the Great Lakes to this salt water. These days, Patrice is looking great.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who has heard about but not yet seen Hunter D.
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