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Moran is one of the quintessential NYC marine companies, formed before the boros existed as such. The harbor then was THE water boro. Since I’m upstate right now, I was intrigued to find a Moran Street in the canal town of Lyons, not far from a asphalt depot on the canal which used to be served by Moran tugboats. Maybe someone can fill in when Moran adopted the distinctive dark red color.
Since I’ve not yet devoted a non-random tug post to Moran yet, I’ll call these part one.
Above JRT takes the stern of Wonder Polaris, while
Jonathan C has the port side.
Same day, Miriam has the port side of NCC Tabuk.
Marie J meets them on her way to a job.
Having returned to the sixth boro, Laura K here heads to a job.
Laura K stays quite busy.
James D here returns from assisting a container ship into Port Elizabeth.
All photos, WVD, who has at least another part of this post coming soon.
More relevant Lyons photos can be seen here and here.
Tugboats, large and powerful as they are, seem to shrink when beside a global container giant, like Ava here beside Adrian Maersk. What comes to mind, and if a paraphrase of Archimedes is acceptable, give me a tug and position alongside, I’ll move that world-traveling behemoth and make it look easy.
Capt. Brian here and Ellen get OOCL Singapore for the always preferred routine entry, shift of boxes, and then nudge back out to sea.
Ditto Laura K, CSCL Bohai Sea, and Kirby.
Ava stands by here with Mustafa Dayi, in an anchorage usually filled with tankers.
Jonathan C sees Ever Legion in the door.
Mary Turecamo stands by with Endo Breeze.
Ellen escorts a loaded tanker into the Kills. Notice here that the antenna deck is flush with the deck of the tanker, quite unlike the case with the largest container ships into the boro, as in the last image farther below in this post.
MSC Azov gets Kimberly and Laura K as assist boats.
James D has already terminated her business with Cosco Harmony and is now traveling to the next job.
And let’s conclude this post here, as mentioned earlier, the 6000 hp Kirby (?) looks insignificant beside 15000+ teu container ships. The key word here is “looks.”
All photos, WVD.
I’ve seen lots of pairs in winter, some in spring, but never until now in fall, at least not acknowledged until this post.
Two sets of pairs appear below, one Centerline and another Moran, the latter escorting in CSCL South China Sea.
Ellen and Patrice here are going to different jobs.
Mary Turecamo and James D Moran here work on the CSCL box ship.
Lots are boats here; clockwise from the farthest, Haggerty Girls (I think), James D, Margaret, Marjorie B, and James William.
Around 0900, a brace of migratory birds headed north . . . F-18s maybe.
B. Franklin got an assist from Matthew Tibbetts.
Two old ferries ply their trade: Barberi with the highest flagpoles and Marchi.
Two top of the line sixth boro McAllister tugs joins forces.
Two old style boats: Manhattan II and Wanderer, the latter from the Sippican River.
And finally, this juxtaposition passed and allows a comparison of the lines of the 2015 6000 hp Kirby Moran with the 2008 5100 hp Laura K.
All photos in the past week, WVD.
More photos here thanks to Pete Ludlow.
The Amigo is an asphalt tanker. That means she moves her cargo around at almost 300 degrees F.
She was eastbound with assist by James D Moran.
What do you suppose Vinik No. 6 had in tow?
Nicholas and Liz assisted as well.
But of course, it was the venerable training ship . . .
from the shipyard on its way back to Fort Schuyler.
Again, many thanks to Pete for sharing these scenes not previously seen on tugster.
Unrelated: Since we robots monitor harbor events and share news, here’s a surprise that will astonish tugster upon his return: The Brown tugs have been sold to Seward Marine of Chesapeake VA.
As of March 1, 2022, CMA CGM Adonis was still in the shipyard, not yet delivered. By March 31, the vessel was in Qingdao and loaded, casting off lines. And April 29, 2022, she had a Sandy Hook pilot on board and was proceeding up the Ambrose Channel, making her first ever cargo call anywhere.
And here, as a SeaStreak fast ferry overtakes it off to port, a Moran tug is about to land a docking pilot on board for her first call.
It turns out that James D did the honors, not JRT, which took the stern.
Click here to learn some of the invisible but significant technology built into Adonis to make it safer and cleaner.
All photos, WVD, who wishes to say “welcome to the sixth boro, CMA CGM Adonis.“
Miriam Moran looks to be alone, with a half dozen other units in the distance, but
she’s converging with a pack.
Minutes later, Kirby takes the stern of the ULCV, and
James D. emerges from the far side, where she landed a docking pilot.
Then, Miriam and Kimberly
like choreography
assume their positions and paths
and assist Monaco Bridge into the terminal.
All photos, WVD, who can’t get enough of this.
It’s hard to beat morning light for drama, as is the case here with QM2 getting assisted by James D. and
Doris Moran into her berth in Red Hook, as I shoot into that light.
Taken only a few minutes later, this photo of FV Eastern Welder dragging the bottom in front of the Weeks yard had me shooting with the rising sun behind me.
Bayonne dry dock is full of business. Note the formerly Bouchard tug Jordan Rose and Cape Wraith off its bow. I’m not sure which Miller’s Launch OSV that is. To the left, that’s Soderman.
Hyundai Speed and Glovis Sirius shift cargo.
More shooting into the light here toward Bay Ridge, where lots is happening.
Torm Louise‘s color just looks cold.
Afrodite has been around the world several times each year since the hoopla of her moving Bakken crude from Albany has subsided. Note the unidentified formerly Bouchard tugboat to the extreme left.
And with the drama of morning light, wild clouds form the backdrop to three tugboats seeing CMA CGM Pegasus out the door on a windy day.
All photos earlier this week, WVD, who feels fortunate to live in a place like this where my drama exists only in photos.
Someone asked a question about nomenclature the other day and it may have been on FB. The name I know is “shipside door,” and it appears to be used in cases that the pilot’s ladder would exceed 9 meters (29.5′).
In that case the pilot would enter/depart the ship via the shipside door.
Sometimes a combo of companionway and pilot’s ladder is used.
Other times it’s the shipside door and a ladder as below and
below.
Here’s one more batch.
Note the ladder above and the winch reel below.
All photos and any errors, WVD, who hopes this adds some nomenclature.
Two separate parties sent me this article from the LA Times. With a title including the phrase “humble tugboat,” I was interested but not prepared for the fantastic photos. Thx John and George. Enjoy. Meanwhile, here are some more of my recent photos.
James D. Moran assisting on a towline above and Robert Weeks leaving the fuel dock below,
Andrea walled off from her barge above and Sarah Ann light below,
Gregg McAllister returning to base and Pegasus heading to work,
A light William Brewster and an equally light Daisy Mae,
Mackenzie Rose and Philadelphia, and
to close out this installment . . . Kimberly Turecamo assisting a ULCV.
All photos, WVD, who never associated the adjective “humble” with tugboats or their operators, and that’s not a bad thing.
If you’re new to this blog (or even if you are not), I’m always looking for photos from other people and places, especially, tugboats seen in South America, Asia, Oceania, and Australia.
Yesterday’s post ended with Timothy L.
Sarah Ann, and
Treasure Coast at different amounts obscured by the fog.
Treasure Coast spun around before my location to set Cement Transporter 7700
into the Lafarge North America Bayonne
dock with assist by Pegasus. I wondered about the vintage of Cement Transporter 7700; she was launched from Todd Shipyard in Houston in December 1981 as Ideal II, then Midnight 1, and now its current moniker. Todd Shipyard has a distinctly Manhattan origin in the form of DeLameter Iron Works.
Meanwhile, from the western end of the KVK came
a Manzanillo-bound Lars Maersk assisted by James D. Moran.
At that same moment, Pegasus, after having completed the Treasure Coast assist, heads west of the Bayonne Bridge.
From that same fog bank west of the Bayonne Bridge emerge Daisy Mae pushing a light scow and
Cape Henry, returning to its barge at the west end of IMTT.
All photos, WVD, who is happy days will soon be getting longer.
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