Port of R’Dam 4

More photos by taken by Jan Oosterboer showing traffic quite different from what you’d see on our parts of the watery globe.

Let’s start with Matador 3.  With the North Sea as the densest area of the globe for offshore wind turbines, floating cranes like this–with lift capacity of 1800 tons– keep busy.

And Wei Li . . . self-propelled and with lift capacity of 3000 tons.  Before we move to a different type of vessel, do you remember Pelicano from Guanabara Bay?

Seven Rio is a recent launch . . . deep sea pipe layer.

Kolga, the larger tugboat here, is 236′ x 59,’ yet

it’s dwarfed by its tow, crane vessel Hermod, with two cranes whose lift capacity surpasses 8000 tons.

K. R. V. E. 61 is a highly visible crew tender.

Here’s another view of Hermod.

SD Sting Ray (104′ x 39′) is like a mouse at a foot of an elephant here,

the elephant being Stena Don, a Stena drill rig.

 

Many thanks to Jan Oosterboer for these photos which came via Fred Trooster.

Bowsprite’s People Movers 3 and MUCH More

Click here for the index to this series.  The elusive Bowsprite’s work is not elusive here.

MV Alice Austen‘s namesake was a pioneer photographer from Staten Island. The other ferry of the Austen class was named for another famous Staten Island artist here.

Rich Taylor, who has sent along other photos including this one, which I suspect MAY have been converted into a dredge scow, took this from near Yank Marine recently.  It’s the future NYWaterWay’s Molly Pitcher.  See more here.

Ashley Hutto took this photo recently of the grand dame taking on fuel and lube.

In Montreal, with Habitat as backdrop, it’s Cavalier Maxim doing a Montreal-from-the-water tour.

From Jan Oosterboer via Fred Trooster, here are the Stena Britannica and

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Stena Hollandica, which shuttle between Hoek van Holland and Harwich.

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Also, from our Dutch friends, here’s a photo of semisubmersible floating platform vessel Hermod, which has accommodations for 336 people.  So . . .

these orange pods could be called “people removers,” essential and in need of regular drills.

Here’s a people mover–LARC XV-75– that for a time belonged to the Harbormaster of Bridgeport.

And finally for today, if a “people mover” is defined as a vessel that moves terrestrials through the water, then I guess this is a “mermaid mover,” moving less land-mobile water folk over the pavement.

Thanks to Rich, Ashley, Jan, and Fred for sending along these photos.  If you send me a photo and I don’t use it right away, please be patient.  Photos not otherwise attributed are by Will Van Dorp.