Old Hulls, Old and New Names 2

I can’t say if more than unusual number of changes are in fact happening these days, or if my radars are set to detect change.  In either case, I privilege novelty on this blog, so here we go, the first of the series.

April 2016 this was Ellen S. Bouchard alongside Bouchard Boys.

Also in 2016,  Ellen S. was in a crowded channel meeting another fleetmate, Evening Light.

From yesterday coming through Hell Gate I saw this. Name the tugboat pushing B. No. 282?

wearing a Centerline livery and now

carrying a new new.

It’s Jeffrey S,

here slowed down because of the work over near Blount-built William Brewster and the Manhattan side 79th Street bridge.

She’ll round the bend at the Battery and head up to Albany.

All photos, Halloween, WVD.

Happy November 2022.

 

Non-Random Tugs 13

Here’s a post I struggled with yesterday.  The photos are not the best to document what I saw:  a convergence of tugboats that all used to wear the same livery but now bearing new names.

Susan Rose used to be Evening Breeze.  Although you can see part of the name plate, the stack has not yet received the blue/gray Rose Cay paint. 

Next in the anchorage was Adeline Rose, now a Centerline boat but formerly Rubia and before that  Denise A. Bouchard.  See the scant but be-shadowed orange forward of the engine room vent.

A bit farther south in the anchorage were two more former Bouchard units. Left to right now are The Beatrice and Jeffrey (or Jeffery) S, with barges B. No. 282 and B. No. 280.

Jeffrey S used to be 

Ellen S. Bouchard.

 

Rhea I. Bouchard is now The Beatrice.  I’m eager to see these two–ex-Rhea and Ellen–light so that I can confirm photographically the name update. 

Jordan Rose is now clearly visible with her blue/gray stack, although I’m not sure the stack color matches that on Lynne M. Rose.

Maybe it’s just the quality of post-fog light.

All photos this week, WVD, who never saw all these changes coming or he’d have invested in marine paint.

 

New Names, New Hulls 2

Here was the the first in this series.

You can’t see the signage, but I have it on good authority that the 1982 Ellen S. Bouchard is now Jeffrey S.  And heading for the sixth boro is the 1982 ex-Rhea I. Bouchard, newly named, The Beatrice.

Also new to the sixth boro and only recently launched . . .  Charles Hughes, a 90′ x 34′ 3000 hp boat.  

Vane had an earlier tug, launched 1975, by the same name, honoring one of the founders.

And still fairly new to the boro, the 1976 Miss Madeline, in her new sporty Haughland livery. 

All photos, WVD, whose recent posts on newest hulls have feted big orange boats, like this one not yet in service.