Government Boats 45

Who even knew such a vessel as Integrity existed?  I can imagine all manner of things they dive for.  Here’s more info on requirements and job description.

Unrelated, the East River gets shut down sometimes if high profile traffic travels through the heliport.  One such event happened about a week ago.   Here besides two (of five) Gladding Hearn NYPD boats in the distance is FDNY’s Feehan, all asset in the sixth boro for under 10 years years now. Here and here are photos of Feehan— a FireStorm 70— before she ever arrived in the sixth boro.

I can’t tell you anything about State Trooper URT-7  (underwater recovery team??), but it looks legit.

USACE locally has a set of these small boats boats, which I believe do bathymetric surveys. It’s instructive to see this list of USACE missions.  In the distance, one of NYPD’s 55′ patrol boats can be seen.

The blue/yellow logo marks the NJ State Police . . .

here traveling in twos.

Sentinel II was hauled out when I last traversed the Troy lock in October,

but in summer 2016 I caught her just south of Albany serving as a push boat. 

And in closing, here’s a photo I took summer 2016, but so far as I can tell, I’ve never posted it, until now.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

 

Freshwater Tugs 2

The first in this series posted eight years ago!

Of course, tugs currently working in freshwater haven’t necessarily started there, as is true of Manitou.

Victorious had to traverse halfway around the world before quite recently beginning its life on the Great Lakes, such as it is now pushing hot asphalt seething within John J. Carrick.

 

Ditto G. L. Ostrander, here pushing LaFarge barge Integrity.

 

 

Josephine (ex-Wambrau) has likely had the greatest amount of saltwater time and distance before coming to the Great Lakes watershed.  Here she’s docked in the Maumee river with the Mightys . . .  Mighty Jimmy, Mighty Jake, and mighty small.

All photos by Will Van Dorp, who has more Mightys and more freshwater tugs to come.

 

Go West 10

Daylight on leg 10 saw us near the Ontario, Ohio, and Michigan border, where we met GL Ostrander pushing Integrity.

We pass the abandoned amusement park at Bois Blanc,

Canadian Coast Guard’s Caribou Isle,

and ferry Ste. Claire moving cars between the Amherstburg, ON and Bob-lo “island marina community.”

Here’s the channel looking south.

Furuholmen heads north to Sarnia,

and our vessel’s twin, Grande Caribe, meets up in Wyandotte.

 

Meanwhile traffic continues down bound–like Sam Laud and John D. Leitch.

 

This post closes out with a regular down in the sixth boro . . . Calusa Coast pushing Delaware.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.