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Red Hook with Alice Oldendorff in background.

Lia with Stolt Effort on the far side.

Hellas sisters with Left Coast Lifter in the background.  Anyone know when the gargantu-crane will move toward the TZ Bridge site?

Ever Divine has seraphic lines . . .

Zim Luanda follows a sinuous path through the KVK with assistance from Brendan Turecamo…

… as does Hanjin Durban, escorted by Miriam Moran…

maintaining a steady course between the two container ships as MOL Excellence bounds seaward…

and encounters a sister MOL Expeditor waltzed in with Marjorie B McAllister.

So . . . what do you know about this ship?

Answer tomorrow.  All photos here by Will Van Dorp.

 

Names 17

Such great names on steel vessels that . . . ply our waters

Indefatigable vessels like   Hyundai Grace, which left Shanghai on 6 February, entered the Narrows on 2 March–when I got these shots–and by 1 April will

be back in Korea!  And what bright orange tanker could ever carry claim for being stealthy . . .

this one with a stack logo like this wedge.

I’m starting to get a hankering to travel . . . to follow FSL Tokyo out the Narrows,

drawn by places like these . . . Handytankersmarvel of Majuro!

While I still have the stamina, I’m going to put my gallivant shoes on and  follow Hellas Endurance.

I’m especially intrigued by this one . . . Grande Guinea is a Grimaldi Line RORO, this one named for a sub-Saharan city whose history is linked to that of Timbuktu, a place until recently I’d always hoped to get to, a place that later served as namesake for a coin.

I’m not sure when next I’ll post.  All fotos in the past month by Will Van Dorp.