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April 1, 2011 … and this was not a joke. More on this distressed vessel at the end of this post.
McCormack Boys and
Turecamo Girls with Barney Turecamo. All three are still working in the same liveries, I believe.
Long Island-built Escort was phased out as a certain coal-fired power plant shut down. She’s taken on new life as Northstar Innovator, based on NJ’s
Maurice River, although I’ve yet to see her.
Stad Amsterdam is not currently in Amsterdam; she’s not far away though in Scheveningen. If you want to pronounce this shibboleth as a Dutch speaker would, have a listen.
Spring sunrises . . . Coming into port is the 2017-scrapped Atlantic Cartier
escorted by Ellen McAllister and
passing Bow Clipper and Maria J. That tug is now Nicholas Vinik. Bow Clipper is now in Santos Brasil.
The venerable Chemical Pioneer was ushered in by Ellen McAllister and McAllister Responder. I say “venerable” because she was built using the stern of Sea Witch, after a massive conflagration in the port, told here by the Fire Fighter site. .
Two small USMMA boats made their way through the fog. I’m not sure the name of the vessel to the left, but the one to the right was Growler and she’s back (though hidden away) in the sixth boro.
Of course, I post a photo of Kristin Poling, which had only a few months of service left at this point. She started service in 1934 as Poughkeepsie Socony.
Marion M . . . I’ve been told she was sold to parties in the Chesapeake who planned to restore her and put her up for sale in 2018. Does anyone have an update on that?
And finally, we return to Le Papillon . . . the 48′ steel schooner was dragged off the beach but I lost track of her after that. I believe she was cut up.
It all seems like stuff from long ago . . all photos, WVD.
Ten years ago . . . it seems like a lifetime sometimes. Minerva Joanna is still afloat, albeit at anchor along with dozens of other tankers off Lomie, Togo. Laura K Moran, currently working in Savannah.
Mel E. Lemmerhirt is now Evelyn Cutler, currently anchored off the Palisades.
Cosco Panama is now called Minerva and working among the islands of Indonesia. She was a 2005 Blohm & Voss build, with capacity of 2702 teu. She’s NOT to be confused with Cosco Shipping Panama, at 9443 teu.
Escort was still calling in the sixth boro. Now I understand she’s working in southern NJ, but I’ve not seen her in much at all since 2010.
Sassafras has left the Vane fleet; now she’s George Holland of Norfolk tugs, and again, not around here.
Colleen McAllister . . . she’s in the Great Lakes, although I’m not sure she’s working.
Maurania III is busy, now in Wilmington NC.
I never did learn the name of this boat, not the manufacturer, but it has simple beautiful lines in wood. Is it still around? For sale?
And sailing . . . I don’t think this’ll be happening this month in the sixth boro, given the number of passengers.
We’ll hold it up here.
All photos, WVD, who has begun going out by private transportation. It really is somewhat odd to walk around this way, but it makes sense to me.
I have represented these “retro” posts as a slice of the sixth boro exactly a decade ago, but it more like . . . what in the boro caught my attention. So welcome back to December 2009, as seen from today, December 2019, taking advantage of 20/20 hindsight. And, to digress, I’ll bet the term 20/20 [2020?] hindsight will seen a bit strange in the next thirteen months.
Over at South Street Seaport, a group of vessels then is no longer there: Marion M, Peking, and Helen McAllister. Of those, Peking, though not the oldest, has the longest and most convoluted saga.
Sea Raven is no more, but with those high pipes, she always caught my attention.
Cable Queen seemed to have a future back a decade ago, but naught seems to have come of it, since last time I looked, she was still docked in Port Richmond. For context to this photo of the 1952 vessel, click here.
NY Central No. 13, scrapped in 2017 . . . also seemed to have a future back in 2009, although the owner was not in a rush to complete the job.
In 2009, the sixth boro was in the midst of a several-billion-dollar dredge project, as folks were talking about these ULCVs that would be arriving after the opening of the new Panama Canal locks. GLDD’s dredge New York was part of that effort.
I don’t know if Volunteer is still intact, but I’ve not seen her in years. Here she lighters Prisco Ekatarina while Mark Miller stands by. As of this writing, Prisco Ekatarina is in the Gulf of Finland.
Does anyone know if Horizon Challenger, built 1968 in Chester PA, still floats?
Patriot Service currently works as Genesis Patriot.
I believe Escort is laid up.
And let’s close with these two. Below it’s the now modest looking Ever Divine and Tasman Sea, and assembling photos for this post, for the first time I see the Taz’ devil sign on the stern of Tasman Sea . . . Maybe I’d seen it before and just forgotten. Ever Divine is currently crossing the Indian Ocean.
There it is . . .
All photos taken in December 2009 by Will Van Dorp.
Here are the previous installments. Today’s photos all were taken in August–October2008.
Let’s start with part of the line-up for the 2008 tugboat race. If I’m not mistaken, the only boat left standing, as is, in this photo is St. Andrews, fourth from the left.
Escort, a Jakobson boat, is currently laid up.
Sea Raven, an intriguing “composite” vessel, whose hull was composed of two hulls of 1941 hulls, has been scrapped.
She was called Lone Ranger when she was in the sixth boro in 2008, owned by the CEO of Progressive Insurance. The former oil-platform towing vessel is still on the seas, now as Sea Ranger.
Ah! Cheyenne . . . she been on this blog countless times.
Frances, as she’s called now, . . . back then I feared she was not long for this world…
Baltic Sea . . . I’d love to see her now as she works the Gulf of Guinea.
I’ll repeat this photo . . . as a parting tribute shot, and since St Andrews is the only survivor, let me
show her tangling it up with Edith Thornton, with Dorothy Elizabeth watching.
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Many thanks to barrel for this continuing series of old USACE vessels. Chester below was built in the mid-1930s at a yard where this set of vessels was also built.
The above shipyard link says that later she became Elizabeth, but that leads me nowhere. Anyone help?
Frankford is older . . . 1924, built in the same yard as Wilhelm Baum, 1923.
Here’s Escort . . . Wisconsin built. A 2001 photo of Escort appears at the end of this post: prepare yourself to gasp.
And finally, for the oldie photos today, it’s Woodbury, about which I have no info.
About the Baum . . . I know it sank two years ago, at the dock, and was raised. But since then, no updates. I took this photo and the next one back in 2008 while spending an enjoyable time at the Michigan Maritime Museum.
And here, thanks to John Curdy, is a photo of Escort taken in 2001. I believe that since 2005, it has been part of a reef near Sea Isle City, NJ. Has anyone dived on it?
Many thanks to barrel to his archives. And thanks to John Curdy–with whom I took these photos and more– for his poignant last look–that I know of– at Escort.
For some similar vessels, see tugster posts here and here.
And for a clue where I’ll be tomorrow morning, click here.
Sunrise to the left of Coney Island Light and tug Escort, a Jakobson boat. Note how calm the water is.
The mighty Resolute passing the lofty Chesapeake Coast, with a loftier tower off in the distance.
James Turecamo–a Matton boat– tailing Stolt Aquamarine
Gulf Dawn with GL 54
Escort six hours after the lead foto . . notice what 22+ knot wind out of the west does. That’s Taft Beach disappearing behind the island.
And Potomac heads eastbound. I’m thinking to use Robbins Reef light as the terminal punctuation for all posts this week. Do you remember these signs that used a product name in the same way? I’m gathering if you are over 55 and a US resident, you’ll know about Burma Shave. Otherwise, you’ll think I’ve lost it again.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp, this morning.
And check out this Staten Island Advance story on Robbins Reef light rehab work, featuring my foto!
Random . . . all fotos taken in the past week, and . . . let’s start with a tugboat that’s NOT mostly painted white, the 1958 Thornton Bros. This foto, courtesy of William Hyman, also shows the color of foliage on the New Jersey bluff across from upper midtown.
2000 Brooklyn, which also has had a long list of previous names.
1979 Margaret Moran
2002 Gramma Lee T Moran
1974 BF Jersey
1966 Gulf Dawn
1979 Patrick J Hunt
And some fotos of vessels operating by night. .. 1983 Escort
1969 Robert E McAllister
1976 Atlantic Salvor. Notice the tallest building in the distance . . . that’s WTC1. Eleven months ago, I took these fotos of Salvor steaming int the sixth boro with segments of the antenna that are now assembled and in place atop the tower.
And once again, the green 1958 tug that started out this post.
Thanks to William for the first foto; all others by Will Van Dorp.
Twas the eve of Christmas Eve, and straight through my many layers of clothes, the wind was howling, starting a process like anesthesia. Escort came in unescorted or unescorting. . . no money or sport in that! And no warmth at all did she offer me!
No hesitation or expectation in either party when she passed Zim Haifa or Nordstrength, only a sliver of bow visible. Big as a vessel like Zim Haifa is, she has only about a third the capacity of the largest boxships now dashing across the oceans. Witness MSC Danit.
MSC Levina raced in, and a portion of the crew seemed delighted enough to see New York by brilliant sunlight that they ignored the 20 degrees (-6 C) temperature with bone-numbing wind.
I love below freezing light.
Another container ship Maersk Wisconsin came in, and I hope these precariously perched parcels did NOT contain the new paintboxes purchased by a certain presently unplugged painter seeking solace in warmer climes.
Said container ship’s escutcheon contrasts nicely with the orange of E-Balt.
By this time, hypothermia had started to wreak havoc enough with my judgement that I considered this must be a hallucination.
Nope . . . not seeing figments yet. It’s Jerry, pushing Mr. Upright. Welcome home.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
or a few hours on the KVK. First . . . she almost wouldn’t be here, Linda Moran delivered August 2008 after the W&D fire, towed from the flames by a lobster boat. Is Linda currently the newest vessel on the sixth boro?
Ocean Tower ex-Gulf Falcon. 1978. Does it “tower” rhyme with “power” or “lower”?
Sea Raven ex-Dixie Commander and Star Providence. 1980. Why does it have such long stacks?
Thomas D. Witte ex-Kendall P. Brake, Reliance, Tammy, Matty J, June C 1961. Is scrap metal the boro’s greatest real export?
Megan McAllister ex-Arthur Zeman Jr. 1985.
George Burrows. 1981.
Escort. 1983.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp, late September 2008.
My regrets for not having gotten closer, but the self-unloading bulker called Eastern Power is discharging its cargo into the barge owned by Express Marine. So what do you suppose the cargo might be? Click here to see close up of this vessel and evidence that it’s a sibling of … Alice!!
Shipspotting provides this foto of Eastern Power. Until recently their archive had a foto of her loading in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Why is it that fotos disappear from shipspotting.com? Anyhow, what “grows” in Sydney? Coal. And here is a link to an Express Marine vessel at the coal-fired power plant in Jersey City.
Images here by Will Van Dorp.
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