Retro Sixth Boro 68

I really enjoy putting together this monthly feature, opening the archives from a decade back to see what I did and saw.  I just happened to walk past South Street Seaport that morning and caught Lettie G. Howard returning from repairs in Maine.  See more from the set here.  She turned 130 in the Great Lakes this year.

The 1977 McAllister Sisters continues to carry that only name she’s ever had.  Two changes, though, are she’s lost the upper wheelhouse and she’s moved to Baltimore.

It’s the time of year for clamming in the sixth boro.  I’ve not seen Dutch Girl yet this year, although I believe I spotted Eastern Welder . . . the nearer boat.

The 1997 Ever Decent was scrapped in Alang in 2020;  the 2012 Evening Star has become Jordan Rose and continues to operate through the sixth boro.

This Mount Saline in Port Newark has been replenished several times, and its granules may have kept you safely on the road.

The 1963 Crow, high in the water here, would never again move on its own power and was scrapped in 2015.

These two Thornton boats–Gage Paul and Bros— are gone as well, one scrapped and one growing into undersea habitat deep in a Caribbean trench and will likely never be seen again.

The 1951 Twin Tube here squeezes in between the pier and Balder as Balder discharges more Chilean salt.  More on the surprising contents of Balder‘s belly here. She may now be laid up as Ventura in West Africa.  Check out the harbor supply boat on her mission that day here.   Twin Tube continues to operate in the boro.   

I don’t know what has become of the 1954 Ticonderoga;  she may still be behind Prall’s Island.

I don’t have any updates on this government boat, said to date from 1929.

The 1966 Patrick Sky has long left the boro.  Summit Europe is now Myra and is anchored near Istanbul.  Indeed, the sixth boro is connected to the rest of the watery parts of the planet.

If you want to breeze back through the entire month, click here.  And I do hope you enjoy these glances in the rearview as much as I do.

Happy December.

 

Random Tugs 117

I’ll start here for a reason.  This 1941 vessel built in Stamford, CT,   was originally YTL 169, 61′ loa.  In November 1997 she was called Spuyten Duyvil and used to transport the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree from Stony Point to the East river.  I’ve mentioned this before, but although I’ve searched high and low, by letter, word-of-mouth, and electronically . . . I’ve located NO fotos of that event.  None!!  Can this event have completed eluded the photography crowd?  If you know of a foto, please get in touch.   Click here for a foto of this tug–I believe–I took almost 8 years ago now.

Ever Decent . . .  foto taken 10 days ago, here being passed by Evening Star, is already well into the Pacific Ocean.

Turecamo Girls, here in the KVK, was waiting on the outside of the Amtrack Prtal Bridge last week, but of course I didn’t have a camera.

Amy C McAllister slings in a Bouchard barge, and

McAllister Sisters does the same with a Reinauer barge.

Bering Dawn moves another dredge scow out to sea.

Bob-tailed B. Franklin heads back to her barge, and

Eastern Dawn heads west into the Kills.

So, does anyone know of a foto showing Spuyten Duyvil with the 1997 Rockefeller Christmas tree heading south from Stony Point?

All fotos except the top one by Will Van Dorp.

Random Ships 27

All ships are basically containers.  They are –after all– sometimes called vessels.   And just as is true of a FedEx aircraft or a semi or a plain-brown wrapper . . . ship’s names give little clue about what’s in the holds.  So for now, let’s just look at a few and leave it at that:  they are a delight to look at.

Would this be pronounced “pango?”

And finally from Maureen . . . our elusive and fast Afrodite, southbound for St. John.

Thanks to Maureen for this last one.  All other by Will Van Dorp.