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The “4” here refers to the dry dock, not the fourth post in this series. The last post on Caddell was Something Different 57. And in the “high and dry” series, this would be number 11. I’m just trying to anchor this post in the previous body of work. Also, I believe this dry dock was originally built as an auxilliary floating dry dock (ARD) by the USN to lift submarines out of their watery habitat, but I can’t corroborate that.
In Dry Dock 4 a half dozen years ago was the pilot boat New York. I put this first so that the vessels in the rest of the photos can be compared against a standard, the dimensions of the same dry dock.
See above for scale. On this date, winter 2014, Dry Dock 4 was shared by W. O. Decker and schooner Pioneer, currently both in Albany getting refurbished and improved.
This boat’s a mystery to me; the livery on upper pilothouse says it’s a Reinauer boat, but I took this photo over 10 years ago and have lost track of its identity. You may know?
McAllisters Brothers was originally called Dalzelleagle. I believe it’s currently in the sixth boro but mothballed.
The Fireboat John J. Harvey had some work done in Dry Dock 4 . She has a long and storied career.
Doris Moran is a 4610 hp tugboat that does some sixth boro work, although she’s currently in Louisiana.
East Coast has not appeared on this blog very often. She used to tow the sugar barge, and she may well still do so.
Let’s get to the end of this post with Clipper City, having some bottom work done on a cold winter’s day eight years ago already.
All photos, WVD, who’d love to know more about the history of Dry Dock 4.
Let’s do 2013 and 2014, or redo them, same conditions as I stated yesterday. But first let’s look at the 2013 crowd, packing in like you wouldn’t with covid. Here was the crowd at 1010 and
by 1035 they had grown significantly.
The compulsory muster takes place, irrigated by fireboat John J. Harvey.
Once the race begins, a front-runner like Decker
might soon get left in the wake.
The fire boat slices up from behind and
propels itself between two Miller boats.
Pushoffs happen next, sometimes quite equally matched like here, with 3900 hp countering 4200.
Let’s jump ahead to 2014, with the arrivals on the watery carpet,
the processing to the starting line,
and get straight to racing without all the preening and posturing.
Someone seems a bit oversize in that gray livery.
This is a fairly mis-matched pair: Wayne at 5100 hp, and Ellen at 4000. Maybe a re-match is in order Wayne v. Ava.
Thanks to Jeff Anzevino for this shot, the Media Boat has military background in common with Wayne.
After Wayne has strutted its stuff in the push-offs, some of the boats lined up for the roping the bollard.
Let’s hold it up here. All photos, WVD.
This is an unexpected post, but I watched a movie the other day that involved D.S. 78 barge moving garbage away from a marine transfer station
somewhere in Manhattan. John J. Harvey shows up in the movie. And the crewman above, would he be crew or an actor?
And here’s the tug. Likely someone seeing this can identify it, but I can’t. Anyone help? And which transfer station would this be, given the docks and other structures on the other shore? My guess is north of the current passenger terminal, and that’s a maritime Hoboken on the other side.
And which movie was this?
Here’s your last chance to guess. The biggest clue you’re getting here is garbage and mention multiple times of black-n-white glossy photos, unlike these.
The movie involved some young people getting arrested for dumping garbage in the wrong place.
Got it?
Alice’s Restaurant! You can spend two hours watching the whole movie, or zoom to about an hour and twelve minutes in and you’ll see the scene.
Two massive but indistinct enterprises loom offshore while a ketch motors in. I understand that if I were near to one of those “loomers” . . . they’d be moving faster than I could swim, row, paddle, or walk . . . .
I couldn’t identify the ketch, with the ever-ready bike on deck.
What time is it?
Time to watch the colossal screen? I’m trying to imagine some applications . . . circle the boats at the float-in cinema? harbor church service? a candidate’s debate? a floating classroom?
Only today did I understand that Harvey‘s paint treatment was part of a World War 1 memorial called 14-18 Now.
Click here for 14-18 Now background, leading up to the November 11, 2018 centennial remembrance of the end of the war that was supposed to end all wars . . . . Even Richard Thompson, one of my favorite singer-songwriters, put out related music.
I NEED to now the story here, this 1930s wrecker on a pier in Red Hook . . . Will that be loaded onto a ship and sent away? I hope not. Related . . . I’ve got fodder for another truckster post soon.
Over in Sunset Park (or is this already Bay Ridge??), are these the legs for the Staten Island Wheel that will never stand?
All photos and questions by Will Van Dorp.
More Great Race tomorrow.
Let’s finish up Whatzit 38, which started here with a plain white canvas. Below is a photo I took during the tugboat race in September 2015 of John J. Harvey, an FDNY fireboat in commission between 1931 and 1995.
And here’s one I took in April 2010, making an up-to 18,000 gpm water display to welcome the 343 into the sixth boro. Pumping water, which makes these designs in the sky, is the whole point of a fireboat. So . . .
check out her summer 2018 look.
This is a thorough
thorough dazzle paint job, white spray all over the boat, including the decks.
From this angle below, she really looks like a WW1 Norman Wilkinson production.
I can’t wait to see her in glass calm water . . . to enjoy the reflections.
I believe this is the current John J. Harvey website.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Remember tug Hackensack about ten years ago? I’ve read some negative opining about the paint job on FB . . . here’s the concept.
Let’s start with a baseline, exactly seven years ago. I got this photo of Harvey putting on a water display just south of Yonkers on June 12, 2011.
These next photos came from Lisa Kolibabek a few days ago, following up on the post of a week ago where I said “watch this space.”.
Never has a vessel been painted thus!
Note the master plan lower left.
The art is in progress . . .
so I hope you’re intrigued enough to continue watching this space. Once the superstructure is painted, watch the space between the KVK and Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Many thanks to Lisa for snapping these photos as she works on W. O. Decker, which you can see at work 39 years ago here.
I seem to recall bowsprite had a similar idea back in 2010.
Who else greeted Wavertree on the rest of the way home? John J. Harvey is always in on celebrations.
Lettie G. Howard was there,
as was the helicopter. Feehan presented herself on the far side of Rae.
Pioneer accounted for
herself with crew in the crosstrees.
Pioneer and Lettie teamed up at times.
Wire showed up.
New York Harbor School had two boats there, including Privateer and their
newest vessel Virginia Maitland Sachs, about which I’ll post soon.
Melvillian throngs came down to the “extremest limit of land” on Pier 15 and 16, for one reason or another, but who were about to be treated to some excellent ship handling.
Rae took the lead, showing the need for tugboats of all sizes.
The larger tugs pushed and pulled as needed to ease into the slip
until all lines were fast and
and the shoreside work needed doing.
Bravo to all involved. If you want to take part in a toast to Wavertree, you can buy tickets here for the September 29 evening.
If you haven’t read the NYTimes article by James Barron yet, click here.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who hopes I left no one out and who as before is grateful to the South Street Seaport Museum and the photographers’ boat provided by US Merchant Marine Academy and crewed by a set of dedicated cadets.
Often folks ask how one can learn about the harbor or is there a book about the sixth boro. Volunteering at South Street Seaport Museum is a great way available to all to get access to the water, to learn from like-minded folks, and to start on a journey of reading the harbor and its traffic for yourself. Each volunteer’s journey will be unique, and willing hands make institutions like this museum survive and thrive.
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