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Mary Turecamo, 4300 hp and waiting for a ship at the Narrows, could not look better. She’s an almost 40-year-old product of Matton Shipyard. In fact, she was their last product.
Christiana heads out as
Virginia, 1440 hp and launched in 1979, comes in
from sea, out of the haze.
Christiana was launched in Marinette WI in 2007, a year after Brandywine and a few years after the Molinari class of Staten Island ferries. She’s married to Double Skin 143, another Marinette vessel.
Barney Turecamo (1995 and 5100) and barge Georgia gets rotated by Marie J Turecamo (1968 and 2250). Yesterday I started a re-read of the 1956 book Tug Boat: The Moran Story, and am finding it very satisfying.
Here’s a dense pack over at the east end of IMTT: Josephine, Evelyn Cutler, and Cape Lookout: (2018 and 4560), (1973 and 3900), and (2018 and 5000).
Crystal Cutler arrived here from the shipyard in 2010 and works with 1500 hp.
She’s pushing Patricia Poling.
And finally, a light Hunting Creek, 2011 and 3000 hp.
All photos and any errors, WVD.
At first light, Navigator passes a docked Saint Emilion.
This 1981 build has called the sixth boro her home since 2015. Saint Emilion (2007) has been here in two previous liveries and names.
Barney Turecamo was launched in 1995. Note her cutaway forefoot.
Barney, married to Georgia, gets an assist from Doris Moran, 1982, as she departs the dock.
Meaghan Marie, 1968, follows a box ship into port but is not involved in the assist.
Meaghan Marie is a former fleetmate of Margaret Moran, 1979, doing the assist.
Emily Ann, 1964, moves a sanitation scow.
And finally, coming in from sea with a dump scow, it’s Captain Willie Landers, 2001.
When she first appeared on this blog in 2015, she had a prominent mast, not an upper wheelhouse.
All photos, WVD.
When the temperatures drop and days are short, tug and barges units in the NE get busier than in summer.
RTC 42 here gets pushed by Franklin Reinauer, as Gracie–-above–waits at the dock with RTC 109.
A bit later, J. George Betz moves her barge B. No. 210 toward the east.
Navigator appears from the east with her barge.
Barney moves Georgia toward a Bayonne dock, with assistance from Mary.
And Curtis comes in with RTC 81 for more product.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, currently in the state of Georgia, but a few days back when I took these, needed some of that fuel to stay warm. Here from 2007 was my first post by this name.
The first two photos above were taken from Mariner’s Harbor, Staten Island on Dec. 17. The next three were taken inbound Savannah, GA on Dec. 20. The last one is Dec. 21 . . . As of today–Dec. 27–I’m wondering where Maersk Denpasar is . . . All photos by Will Van Dorp.
I didn’t understand the name Bulldog until I put together the fact that the University of Georgia team mascot is Uga, the bulldog. And there have been Ugas going back for a long time. Google it.
Meanwhile, I’m hoping to get from the #4 US port for volume to the #3 port by the end of Sunday. All photos here by Will Van Dorp.
Georgia. Peacemaker. What a name . . .! If only we all agreed on what that would have to be . . . . Happy all-the-holidays in all the languages. I like this one I learned from frogma: mele kalikimaka. Or this one I made up: mare. eek! charisma’s.
Type peacemaker into the blog search window for some info on her Brazilian provenance.
To see the four Savannah posts from almost five years ago, type “savannah” into the search window on left side of the blog page. It hardly seems possible that a half decade has passed since the last time I was here.
Anyhow . . . on the road and enjoying seeing these Sun, Moran, and Crescent tugs . . . and all the rest.
Barney Turecamo with barge Georgia and
Buchanan 12 light, under the same wintry sky. The last time I saw the 12 was back when tugster last took a swimming day. I’d love to see the high and dry hulls of Barney and Mary.
Franklin Reinauer and Taft Beach leaving Erie Basin and
Franklin here refueling with Ruth M.
Robert E. McAllister, passing where warehouses are being transformed into park equipment and
Passing the cranes at the former Military Ocean terminal it’s Mary Gellatly and headed the other way
Marjorie B. McAllister.
Joyce D. Brown westbound past IMTT and here a few minutes later Joyce with
Meredith C. Reinauer right behind.
Shelby slings some barges and
magnificent Maryland –as seen from a low angle–made to the dock.
A Vane unit . . . I don’t recall and can’t identify . . . a few minutes after sunrise.
All fotos taken the past month by Will Van Dorp.
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