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Really random means just that . . . and here are previous posts in the series.
So–thanks to Harry Thompson– let’s start with this assemblage . . . barge Amy B, Evelyn assist on the far side, but prominent is the 1941 Bushey built Jared S–ex-Cheyenne II, Sally Carroll, and Martin J. Kehoe.
The closest I ever got to Jared S was here . . . about a mile in from the mouth of the Genesee River in October 2014. See the white buoy 20 feet off the bow of the decrepit Spirit of Rochester . . . that marks the hazard created by the sinking of Jared S.
Also thanks to Harry, here’s a repost of Ocean Queen, cropped slightly tighter than I had two weeks ago . . . but check this link for the particulars. In that link you learn that she sank after getting rammed near Hell Gate. Well, thanks to
Robert Silva, here are some photos of Ocean Queen after she was raised.
You can see exactly where a bow struck her. Thanks, Robert.
I took the photo below last week in Boothbay, Maine, where I checked out the Tugboat Inn. Of course, I needed to know the story, since the superstructure here looked authentic. All the info I collected online and from the staff there said the boat was built in 1917–probably in New York–and worked all its life until 1973 in Maine waters as the tugboat Maine. However, nowhere could I corroborate this.
Thanks to Dave Boone, I received the photos below and learned a different narrative that seems plausible if you carefully compare the photo above with the one below. The Boothbay pub was once the Richard J. Moran, built at Gibbs Gas Engine in Jacksonville in 1920. Actually, it was built in Greenport NY in 1917 as Socony 3. Then it became Maine and still later Richard J. Moran became the name. Thanks again to Dave Boone for the correction.
But was Richard J. scrapped in 1950, as these databases say, or did it get renamed Maine at that point and then get transformed into a pub in the early 1970s? To be continued.
The rest of the photos in this post I took last week.
In Rockland on the hard, it’s the mid-1950s Kennebec, and she’s available.
Here’s the info, but she might be sold by now.
Thanks to Harry, Robert, and Dave for vintage photos. All other photos by Will Van Dorp.
And if you’re interested in collaboration, I invite your help for November posts. All month long I hope to feature different ports–harbors–waterways and their workboats, which means not only towing vessels, but also ferries, fish boats, maintenance vessels, even yachts with professional crews. I’ve been traveling a lot the past few months and have a fairly large backlog of boats from ports–harbors–waterways mostly in New England. But as a social medium, this blog thrives on collaboration, so no matter which waters are near you, I’m inviting you to send along photos of workboats from ports I might not get to. I’d need at least three interesting photos to warrant a focus on a port. Here are examples I’ve already done that illustrate what I’m thinking to do.
The 94′ Red Star tug Ocean Queen, Bushey-built in 1941, towing the barge Bouchard No. 110 with 20,000 barrels of petroleum, was going up the East River on 12 March. The 572′ tanker Four Lakes, (likely not the ESSO tanker shown here) was going south when she rammed the Ocean Queen just below Hell Gate. The captain of Ocean Queen was lost; four other crew were rescued, and the barge did not sink. Click here to find the “findings of fact and conclusions of law” by Judge Motley, September 1974. Unrelated, Four Lakes was lost in February 1972 when it exploded during tank cleaning 60 miles off Galveston.
Click here (and scroll) for a photo of this tug–Lac Manitoba–taken in May go this year. In June, Lac Manitoba was one of two tugs that capsized in Cornwall, ON, sucked under while working upstream of a spudded barge.
I also took a photo of Lac Manitoba here seven years ago in Ogdensburg, NY.
Many thanks to Harry Thompson for the top photo and to Jan van der Doe for the bottom one.
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