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Let’s start with a photo by John “Jed” Jedrlinic, one of Alp Forward, currently off the eastern Scottish coast. She’s a 213′ x 61′ anchor handling tug from 2007 with over 200 tons bollard pull.
From there, let’s go to the Connecticut in US coast and some local boats with
some Seakite by PanGeo Subsea gear aboard. I’d love to see what this package projects onto a screen.
Both Berto L. and Josephine K Miller were up at Lew’s port earlier this spring.
GO Pursuit, fleet mate of GO America, called in there also. “GO” expands to Guice Offshore.
The reminder of photos here come in the past days from Tony A, starting here with Deborah Quinn.
He caught her several times in the East River, and here
with an unidentified covered barge. In the photo above, the Taco Cina sign intrigues me.
In roughly the same stretch he passed Brinn Courtney, whom I’ve yet to see.
And finally, he noticed Nicholas Vinik doing the do si do with Sea Monster, moving her over near the Sandy Hook Pilots station. I’m not sure what that means about Sea Monster. Anyone know?
Many thanks to Jed, Lew, and Tony A for sending along these photos.
Meanwhile, the robots are still doing their unmonitored best at tugster tower while WVD is in the lowland of alligators, shrimp, sugar, fleur de lis and beaucoup de plus for an unspecified time.
The first three come thanks to Steve Munoz . . . HMS Bounty heading up the North River in May 1998.
Taken November 2001, it’s Adventure of the Seas heading upriver with an diverse escort. Given the date, this would have been her maiden voyage into the sixth boro of NYC. John D. McKean and what appears to be another fireboat beyond her, a USCG 140′ cutter, and lots of commercial tugboats see her in. Adventure of the Seas is currently in Sint Maarten, along with at least four fleetmates.
From October 1986, David McAllister is on the starboard bow of Borenquin heading into Port Elizabeth.
From John Jedrlinic, it’s Laney Chouest in Tampa. The blue/white vessel at Laney‘s bow is the Aiviq, the AHTS built for ice. You may recall its challenges back in 2012.
and C-Tractor 8 . . . taken in October 2016.
And from last week, Craig Lewis sent along these photos of McAllister Brothers awaiting its fate in Fall River.
Since launch in 1958, how many tons of grub and coffee have crews ingested in this galley of the Brothers . . !?
And finally, last but not least, Skip Mildrum noticed some interesting cargo in Port Elizabeth recently . . .
Might they be new Kawasaki subway cars, four of an order of 535 R211 cars coming to a subway stop near you one of these days? They might not be, given his estimate of car length; R211s are only 60′ loa.
Skip’s estimate of the trailers was at least 120′. Also, the R211s are built in Nebraska . . .
Many thanks to Steve, John, Craig, and Skip for these photos.
I found it hard to move on from the #300 mile marker, so let me offer up another set, with some of your generous contributions.
Thanks to John “Jed” Jedrlinic, two tugboats from Tahiti, Aito Nui and
Aito Nui II. My machine translator tells me the name means “champions of the universe.” Aito Nui, 98′ x 33′, dates from 2001, built in Concarneau, Brittany. Aito Nui II, 94′ x 34′, is a Damen tug built in 2017. Jed took these photos last October in Tahiti.
From George Schneider, “Here’s one of Curtin Maritime’s remarkable tug rebuilds: Sarah C (501167), 65′ x 24′. She was built in 1965 for Pacific Towboat Co. after they’d been aligned with Foss. She came out as Sea Queen, sister to the Martinolich/Foss M class. In 1974 she was fully fossticized and became Mathilda Foss. She was discarded in the mid 1980’s and was picked up by Mogul Ocean Towing (apparently a corporate name for Campbell Towing) who owned her through 2007. It was then that Curtin Maritime picked her up for reconstruction.”
She’s a beauty. Check out the Curtin webpage here, with its great header photo. George took the photo in February 2020 in San Diego.
Kyle Stubbs: “I found David has appeared on your blog once before, in Something Different 21. [Click on that link for an unbelievable transformation.] At that time, you asked for information about David‘s continued existence and later names. I’m surprised that it had not come out of the woodwork that she’s still around under her original name, working on Long Island Sound. When I took these photos at New Haven in 2017, she was working for a construction company from Branford, Connecticut called Blakeslee Arpaia Chapman. Given that her Coast Guard documentation still lists her homeport as Branford, I’m assuming that’s still the case.”
Again, it’s hard to believe it’s the same hull given the radical superstructure changes.
TS Poderoso I took in Niteroi Brasil in 2013. TS Poderoso (name is Portuguese for “powerful”) was built in southern Brasil in 2007 by a company intriguingly named Detroit S. A. Group.
On the same trip I took this photo of Cape Cumbria, built Appledore Shipbuilders Ltd. in Bideford (southwestern UK) in 1977. Technically, it’s not a tugboat, but beside it,
is C Brilhante, a 2008 built tug.
I add this photo because it was taken in Beirut harbor by Godra. Click on the image for fuller info. Thank you, Godra. I’d love to know more about the ports of Lebanon.
Harold Tartell shared this photo years ago, but I never used it until now because I wondered who’d taken it, when, and what the context was. Maybe Capt. Bill VanVoorhis took it? Fannie J is currently working in Haiti as Sisters. She was built in . . . ready for this . . . . 1874!! 1874!!! Here‘s a photo of her as Sisters.
I took this photo on the Chesapeake in October 2012 . . . Norfolk Rebel in the Great Chesapeake Schooner Race. She’s the world’s only tugantine.
This was the Donjon Shipbuilding yard in Erie PA Febuary 2018. From left to right, Dorothy Ann (the world’s largest z-drive tug at 124′ x 44′), Joyce L. Van Enkevort (135′ x 50′), and Elizabeth Anna (54′ x 17′).
Salvage Monarch (98′ x 29′) here was crossing Lake St. Clair. Notice the jetski as her workboat.
And I’ll close this post with Mackenzie Rose, the latest iteration of the 2000-built boat from Fall River MA.
Many thanks to Jed, Kyle, George, Godra, Harold and whoever took that photo. All other photos by WVD. Thanks for continuing to read the blog.
Time to move on to RT 301 soon.
Many thanks to John Jedrlinic for sending along these photos, and thereby piquing my interest in the Kiel Canal. At just over 60 miles with draft of 31′ and airdraft of 131′, it strikes me as a model of what could have been with the almost equally-long Delaware and Raritan (D&R) Canal. The Kiel Canal cuts distance and challenging waterways off a transit between the North and the Baltic Seas; the D&R at one time cut off even more distance and challenging waterways between the sixth boro and Philadelphia.
photo date 14 June 2018
Tugboat (aka schlepper) Kiel works the Canal for STK, Schlepp- und Fährgesellschaft Kiel, translating as tugboats and ferries, Kiel. The tug is 104′ x 36’and powered by an ABC diesel generating 5632 hp.
John took all these photos the same day.
Tailing this barge transporting what appears to be a refinery module
is Stein, 88′ x 32′ and rated at 3554 hp.
As I said earlier, many thanks to John for these photos. Kiel Canal just landed on my list of places to see, waterways to transit.
February is turning into tugster “thanks” month, as I work on some projects that are keeping me housebound.
Unrelated but just plain interesting, check out this new installment from vintagediesel.
Another tug Jed photographed in Rotterdam is
photo date 17 june 2018
Jaro II.
photo date 17 june 2018
The 1990 Damen STAN 2909 appears to have a stop in the Netherlands after having worked in the Dutch Antilles and before going to Portugal. Unlike a lot of Damen STAN products, Jaro II was built in the Netherlands.
photo date 17 June 2018
photo date 17 june 2018
Thanks much, Jed.
Jed–John Jedrlinic–has been busy, but recently he sent some photos from Rotterdam.
photo date 17 june 2018
ALP Winger is a huge anchor-handling tug: 213′ 59′ x 25′
photo date 17 june 2018
He got these photos in Rotterdam, but the boat is currently in the Azores.
photo date 17 june 2018
With her five mains, she generates over 18000 horsepower.
photo date 17 june 2018
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This is definitely a boat for a niche. Many thanks to Jed for these photos. more to come.
The other nine ALP vessels can be found here. Their largest, ALP Striker, was built in Niigata, Japan. Specs here, including over 24k horsepower, and dimensions of 291′ x 69′ x 28′
It’s been a while since I posted any of Jed’s shots, but I hold them to concentrate them rather than posting them one or two at a time. Anyhow, of the photo below, Jed writes: “[Atlas 1974] is my first Estonian tug . . . .” although this photo shows her in Dutch waters.
photo date 6 june 2015
Esvagt Connector (2000) is a prime example of a North Sea anchor-handling supply tug.
photo date 12 Jume 2015
The photo below provides a bit more context: Esvagt Connector is towing a high voltage subsea station for the North Sea wind farm GODE SEA. Assistance is provided by Esvagt Don and Smit Emoe. Click here for more of the Esvagt fleet, with some interesting names.
photo date 12 june 2015
Smit Emoe is a new boat for me. Some previous Smit tugs posted on tugster can be found here.
photo date 12 June 2015
FairPlay X and a crewman take a wave while alongside MSC Venice,
photo date 16 sept 2016
here with a bit more context.
photo date 16 sept 2016
MTS Taktow is British built but with a Dutch language name.
photo date 11 june 2015
Let’s end this post with a boat on an entirely different continent: it’s Yankee in the KVK. Yankee worked for K-Sea when I first started this blog, but I believe I have no photos of her in that livery.
photo date 2 dec 2016
Many thanks to John Jedrlinic for these photos.
Jack Ronalds took this photo of Ontario (Jeffrey K. McAllister) and Erie (Missy McAllister) in Canso back in August 2016.
John Jedrlinic took this in the sixth boro in December 2008.
I took the photo below a few months earlier in 2008, as the transfer from Normandy to Ross Sea was happening.
Grouper has been featured here many, many times over the years, but you’ve never seen this much of her out of the water; it’s “draw-down” time on the Erie Canal near lock E-28A. These photos come from Bob Stopper a few weeks ago.
From Bangkok, Ashley Hutto sends along photos of a decidedly pastel Thai tug
with two barges
on a hawser.
Thanks to Jack, Jed, Bob, and Ashley for these photos.
This post follows on one I did seven and a half years ago, here.
The first photo--Donna J. with B. No. 272— comes thanks to Jed, whose Caribbean tugs you may recently have seen here. Donna J. is moved by two EMD R20-710G7C-T3 generating 10,000 hp. Also notable is her fuel capacity of 301,504 gallons of fuel, which if I used the right formula, converts to 1055 metric tons of diesel.
Here are more recent Bouchard units photos starting with Jane A. with B. No. 225 on the North River,
Evening Star passing IMTT Bayonne,
Boys crossing the southern tip of Newark Bay,
Buster with B. No. 255,
Ellen with B. No. 280 in the same anchorage same day,
Buster and Evening Mist . . . and how about the one to the left? Guesses?
It’s Doris Moran last week.
Thanks to Jed for the photo of Donna J; all others by Will Van Dorp.
Really random means photos from widely separated places by different people. So here goes . . . the first two from Jed, who took them in the former Dutch Antilles about a year ago. Triton is home-ported in Ijmuiden, another must-see place in the Netherlands if you’re interested in workboats. Click here for some posts I did about Ijmuiden, the mouth of the waterway out to sea from Amsterdam. Click here for a photo of Triton I took a few years back in Ijmuiden.
photo date 23 APRIL 2016 by Jed
Andicuri, named for a beach which itself is named for an Arawak chief, was built just south of Rotterdam in 1983.
photo date 23 APRIL 2016 by Jed
Until about a year ago, Sand Master worked out of the sixth boro mining sand; recently it was sold to interests and was spotted–not photographed–in Surinam.
photo date January 2012 by Will Van Dorp
Here’s a strange photo taken in April 2012 by Don Rittner, and part of a post called “Jets Along the Mohawk.” Maybe I should have called it “early Cold War jets up the Flight of Five.”
And finally, here’s a photo I took in Beaufort NC in June 2013, Fort Macon tied up near the phosphate dock.
I hope you enjoyed these bounces within the northern half of the American hemisphere.
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