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Call this the push knee set. And let’s do it this way . . . given all the features that could be discussed, focus of these for oldest/newest, smallest/largest, and least/most horsepower.
CMT Pike. An aside about CMT Pike is that she was not built with a retractable wheelhouse. When launched, she had a fixed wheelhouse, the “stalk” of which can be seen directly behind where the raised wheelhouse is now. I’ve not been able to find a photo of her in that original configuration.
Shiloh Amon aka Jillian Irene
Lightning
Discovery Coast
Miss Madeline
And finally, a photo from January 2013 and showing one that has been sold out of the sixth boro . . . Herbert P. Brake.
Have you written down your final decisions?
All photos, WVD. All info here thanks to Birk Thomas’ invaluable tugboatinformation
Ready? No cheating.
Just guesses.
Oldest is Miss Madeline, and newest is Shiloh aka Jillian Irene. 1976 and 2022.
Smallest considering both length and beam is Herbert P. Brake, and longest is Discovery Coast although both Discovery and Jillian tie at 34′ for beam. Lengths are 60′ and 96′.
Least horses is Brake, and most is Discovery. They range from 375 hp to 3000 hp.
Here’s the first in this series. David sent me some photos earlier this week and offered to write the commentary as well. Hence the quotation marks.
“Marie J. Turecamo steam harmlessly through the harbor.”
“James Turecamo makes a splash as she heads towards the Kill.”
Lincoln Sea sits patiently in the notch of the DBL 140.”
“Two displays of heritage in the form of New York State Marine Highway tug Margot and Ellis Island.”
“Herbert P. Brake pushes a scrap barge (possible future additions to her hull?) through the harbor.”
“Crystal Cutler pushes the Patricia Poling as Andrew Barbieri bears down upon her.”
My take: if a waterborne Rip van Winkle had fallen asleep 80 years ago and awakened today, the bridge and the light might be among the very few structures he would recognize.
“Stephen Reinauer steams lite through the harbor towards her next assignment.”
“Ever ready, ever vigilant.”
Thanks, David. The sixth boor’s the star here, IMHO. To post some corny doggerel in Poetry Month “collaboration is the game and “sixth boro” the star’s name!
Oops . . . I “published” this prematurely and unintentionally if you saw it in disarray. And by the way, today I saw the woodchuck and his shadow; he saw mine and dove for cover. I wonder if that means six more weeks of cold weather. Please, someone advise.
From the wandering eye of Maraki . . . it’s in Nassau and
called Big Crab. No further info. I’ve never been to Nassau, and googling leads to me Nassau tugs on the bottom as well as someimpressive ones one the surface. Maybe I need to get myself to Nassau.
And from a secret salt via Ashley Hutto . . . four days I saw Orange Sun depart the sixth boro here, he caught it inbound Tampa. Thanks . . . salt.
Finally . . from the jaunt captain Fred of tug44, it’s what hibernates at the bottom of Lock 6 of the Champlain Canal . . . front to rear . . . HR Hawk, HR Beaver, HR Otter. You’d think there’d be a woodchuck there too!
September 2013 I took this photo of a sibling of the hibernating tugs . . HR Bass, assisted by Herbert P. Brake. Interestingly, HR Bass used to be Delta Tiger, HR Hawk . . . Delta Parrot, HR Otter . . . Delta Ram, and HR Beaver ???
. .. Mr Lane. I’ll bet you thought I’d say . . . Delta Woodchuck.
Many thanks to Maraki crew, secret salt, Ashley, and Fred.
Some days more than others I’m only a bit more acutely aware of change. Certainly this is true in the sixth boro if you watch it over time. Name boards migrate from
one vessel to another. Actually, I’m told the foto above is Mary Gellatly the third, with the second below. It appears the first was a Navy built tanker. I’d love it if someone know the whereabouts of a foto.
Companies buy and sell floating stock . . . renaming and repainting . . .
Freddie K Miller is the fourth name for this 1966 vessel that was first dubbed New Haven. I can vouch that her interior looks brand spanking new as she nears the mid-century mark.
I don’t know that much about Sam M, 1972, other than that she was fire-engine red around Christmas, and
bleached-out white last summer.
Kimberly Poling, 1994, looks much better with the
modified roofline and more complex paint scheme.
June K in orange was one of my favorites some years back, but pushing old metal or
holding new metal as Sarah Ann . . . the 2003 vessel remains one of my favorites.
Herbert P. Brake 1992 . . . red or
blue . . . I don’t see her that often.
To paraphrase Heraclitus again . . . only change is unchanging . . . and it surely doesn’t happen at a constant clip.
All foto by Will Van Dorp.
Colleen basks in early morning light before the race earlier this month.
Resolute makes a quick turn to assist with a tow.
Discovery Coast turns westbound into the KVK.
Resolute takes the stern of Thomas J. Brown.
Miriam Moran reports for yet another job.
The inimitable Herbert P. Brake leaves the east end of the Kill.
Laura K. Moran . . . speed turning.
Taurus heads for the mooring.
Treasure Coast crosses in the foreground after Taurus gets to the mooring.
Discovery Coast cruises back to home base.
It’s Choptank light about to cross the Upper Bay for Brooklyn, and
a whole bevvy of McAllisters, including Helen. in Mariner’s Harbor . . . also just before the tugboat race almost three weeks ago.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp, who does a short gallivant starting later tomorrow.
Petroleum products make up a large percentage of barge cargoes in the sixth boro, but other loads exist, like supplies/services here
pushed by Shawn Miller
bottom sculpting remnants (how’s that for a euphemism?) moved elsewhere as towed here by Atlantic Coast,
a four-wheeler moved by this unidentified “be-spudded vessel,” (Anyone identify it?)
paper for recycling down at Visy aka Pratt Industries escorted by the venerable James Turecamo,
metal for recycling moved by the “recycled” tug Herbert P Brake , and
finally, the most important liquid of all . . . potable water, carefully shepherded by Nathan E. Stewart.
Got other barge cargoes? Send them along.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
I made my way to the Kills looking for the wayward Ilya, and several times a surfacing cormorant startled me, but alas. Except for knowing that the origin is Carib, I’d make a lame joke that Ilya should be called a woman-atee rather than a man-atee. OK, I’m sure it’s been done. Anyhow, instead, believe it or not, I spotted a motley group of tugs, ships, and boats. I’ll start with the tugs, both ones I saw and others I remembered.
Bismarck Sea ex-John H. Malik (who was he?) and ex-Gulf Ruler, built 1976. Notice the oval on the stack awaiting a K-Sea logo.
Remember the color scheme? It’s John H. Malik, foto taken winter 2007 in the sixth boro. Malik was a “founding Roehrig employee who helped to guide and grow the company until he passed away in 2001.”
Here’s that Roehrig color scheme on Eileen M Roehrig, now North Sea, built 1982 and pictured a week and a half back here.
Herbert P Brake . . . built 1992 of recycled steel by Bart Brake. Anyone tell more about the evolution of this tug?
Foto by Jed of Michigan Service, ex-Kevin Candies, 1981. I love those Gowanus Bay gravel piles in the distance.
Frederick E Bouchard, 1975.
Atlantic Coast, 2007!
Adriatic Sea, ex-Diplomat, 1978.
Linda Moran, 2009
All fotos but the two Roehrig boats taken in the past week.
Michigan Service by Jed; all others by Tugster. Some info thanks to Harold Tartell.
William Oscar (W. O.) Decker, the restored tugboat operated by South Street Seaport, is available for charter. I wrote about it here last year. We crossed paths in Kingston Memorial weekend Saturday night. Here she’s docked beside Mathilda, shorepiece of Hudson River Maritime Museum in Kingston, NY.
Mathilda dates from 1898; Decker from 1930. Both originally used steam power; Mathilda was never converted. Other connections between Mathilda and Decker . . . at South Street Seaport exist.
Decker slipped out of Rondout Creek with little more than a horn blast Sunday morning. I heard no line commands.
I recently saw an issue of Lekko, whose website I urge you to check out. The explanation I got for the title is this: “Lekko” is the spelling of the line command Dutch dock workers (my ancestors) “heard” as English sailors were leaving the dock. Maybe there’s another magazine called “kastof.”
To round out this post, here’s Crow headed north off Yonkers. Mathilda, Decker, and Crow–built 1963 in Brooklyn–are each spaced about a human generation apart.
Crow works for Port Albany Ventures, owner also of the mystery tug in Random Tugs 17, identified by Harold E. Tartell, who also supplied the close-up below, as Herbert P. Brake. Check out this link to learn of Mr. Brake and materials he used to construct this push boat. More on Brake in this really interesting blog.
This is a post that wants to go on and on. Alice, for example, is in Marseille. Yeah! and I”m outa the sixth boro and may/may not post from the Ohio River. On verra.
Random Tugs 16 ended with a mystery vessel on Long Island Sound. Harold Tartell and Greg Walsh separately identified it as Peggy Winslow now hailing from Falmouth, ME. Thanks! The fotos on Winslow Marine‘s site remind me of coastal New England. Thanks to Harold for the foto below and the next one, which
shows Peggy Winslow in her first life beginning in 1970 as Mister Chris, then out of Port Aransas, Texas.
Moving a light barge under the Brooklyn Bridge Sunday was the best-named tug I’ve seen in a while: Outrageous, out of Philadelphia.
Outrageous is my term for what’s happened in Red Hook in the past few years, reacted to in this You Tube clip. See the film maker’s myspace here. … not to malign the truckable tug working there recently. I think it’s Big K, but I can’t confirm that.
Two minutes later this “pickup-truckable” tug appeared; judging by the bow gear, it’s a floating forklift bearing some semblance of Ikea colors?
To end this installment, a mystery tug, headed Sunday morning past the east side of Bayonne making for the KVK. Anyone know it?
Photos, WVD.
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