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This follows on a post from two months ago, when ONE Blue Jay arrived, and I listed some of the recent Bird-class callers. ONE Owl departed yesterday, and within hours was speeding toward Singapore with an ETA of after day 1 of spring 2024. “Speeding” applies if 16 or 17 knots (approx. 20 mph) is what you’d call speeding, but Singapore by way of Cape of Good Hope is a long ways away.
Bow-first into the berth means stern-first out, and a number of tugboats facilitate the rotation from bow west to bow south and pointed toward the Narrows. Here it’s (l to r) JRT, Doris, and Kirby.
Count the containers? I see 20 wide.
One job done, a new team heads out to meet an incoming ULCV or smaller.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who went looking for references to sea owls.
I found these fish owls and this strangely named one.
A bit over two years ago, OWL 1 was in the boro here.
Rowan M as seen looking southwest over Queens . . . that’s an unusual perspective for this blog. Rowan was on its way to assist the SUNY training ship into its berth.
As JRT assisted this boxship out to sea the day before, it was so foggy
that the WTC, which should have been visible in the shot of Morgan Reinauer below, was masked.
Closeup that made for rich colors, and cold rain
grayed out what the fog didn’t. Maybe what I labeled as cold rain making me wet was just very wet fog.
A bright spot was seeing Lucy venture out. It has been a long time since I last saw Lucy underway.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
My “scale” posts go way back to 2007 here. I’m still wowed easily, and I’m not apologizing for that. You’ll see what I mean here.
Earlier this month, Teal Ray was assisted into her berth by Laura K. Moran and Kimberly Turecamo.
Imagine the view of the ship’s deck from Kimberly‘s upper wheelhouse, compared with the view of Titan here from Grace.
Here Bruce A McAllister assisted Zim Atlantic last weekend.
Yesterday, Capt Brian did assist on an outbound Dubai Express.
Ross Sea and got assisted in by Kirby.
Compared with the view above of Kirby, check out the perspective from JRT of CMA CGM Callisto.
All photos, any errors, WVD
Traffic, when you’re trapped in it, is not fun. Watching commercial marine traffic, for me, never gets old, as you might know. The more things get, the more interesting the harbor seems. A handful of sophisticated and expensive machinery and its skilled operators jam pack this image. I see three Centerline boats, JRT, and Safmarine Nomazwe.
Roughly the same place and hour and some later, Thunder, just off the port side of Caroline M, shares this image with at least three other tugboats that almost blend into the cold humid morning.
Foreshortening makes Laura K and Doris Moran seem a lot closer together than they are.
Here it’s Marilyn George, Coursen, Alex McAllister, and Wye River, I believe.
Besides the three tugs along the left side, that’s Alex, Kristy Ann with RTC 80, Barney, and Kristin Poling pushing Eva Leigh Cutler. Between Barney and Kristin are at least two Kirby boats.
This was several minutes after the previous photo with some of the same boats.
Daisy Mae here pushes a CMT barge with a Vane unit in the distance, in front of an impossibly packed set of cliffs.
This is not so much packed as it is filled with very different examples of marine commercial traffic.
And in closing, clustered in front of USNS Red Cloud, clockwise starting from Cajun, it’s J. Arnold Witte, USACE Haward, and Marjorie B. McAllister.
All photos, any errors or omissions, WVD, who hits the road again tomorrow. Peace on Earth!
Quick post today to try to meet my deadline. CMA CGM Bali came into the boro this morning after a few days of treading water in the Bight. Maybe they were waiting for the moon high tide?
She’s a continuation of the Argentina-class CMA CGM vessels, carrying lots of LNG power stickers on her hull.
Here are previous 15000 teu posts I’ve done, but Bali is the first dual-fuel versions that I’ve seen.
CMA CGM Kimberley was here earlier this year. I wonder whether she is different in some way.
Bali does appear to have some equipment I’ve not seen before.
I’m guessing this is LNG power related.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Let’s start in the SLSW. Algoberta here transits the South Shore Canal; that’s the Saint Lawrence itself to the left of the barrier. The river drops there about 45′ in three miles of distance. Today, a month after I took the next several photos, snow already has dusted the bank.
From 2007 until last year, its operated as Chiberta.
Zelada Desgagnes began her career in China, as Beluga Freedom.
Above, note the heavy machines on the dock waiting to be loaded, and vehicles already placed aboard, below.
She currently supplies settlements in northern Canada.
Going from the freshwater portion of the Saint Lawrence to a saltwater port, ULCV OOCL Singapore, arriving in the sixth boro recently. She’s currently making her way back to Asia.
The next three vessels are all ONE pink. Note some differences.
Grus above and Apus below are from the same order.
Their measurements are the same and both date from 2019.
See the crewman waiting to send the messenger line in the hull opening between the O’s?
ONE Monaco dates from 2018.
As recently as February 2023, she appeared on this blog as Monaco Bridge.
Note the differences in the stern between Apus and Monaco.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Pink
has many associations. Since 2014, Moran has painted their “M” pink to promote awareness of breast cancer. Since then, other towing companies followed suit.
In solidarity with those efforts, I’m posting these photos of four Moran boats
assisting in a ULCV into the Bayonne terminal yesterday.
In the fog that obscured much of the usual background,
the pink really burst through.
This is my first time to see ONE Grus, which translates as crane in keeping with the bird names for these box boats.
Hawk, Wren, Ibis, Stork, Apus, and the list goes on here but scroll through to the ONE alphabetical section . . .
All photos, any errors, WVD, with hat tip to Moran for getting this started. Here was 1.
. . . and the 40%, which I’ll explain at the end of this post.
A half dozen of these vessels float the oceans, the previous ones I’ve covered in the sixth boro being 24, 20, and 10. In order, these vessels appear to be heading for somewhere in West Africa, renamed Hua Jing 001, and scrapped in India since 2017. Newer versions, or at least higher numbers 34 and 35 are in order, in Mombasa and heading for the Singapore Strait. This makes me wonder how many of these trips can these custom-modified vessels make. Zhen Hua 29 dates from 1987, although that gleaming orange recently applied might suggest otherwise.
Preparing to assist with the turn at Bergen Point, perhaps, tug James D Moran rotates 180 degrees to place the winch toward the 29.
With a Hong Kong registry, I’m wondering the nationality of the seafarers.
Messenger line gets sent down, and
heavy line soon goes up.
I predict about two weeks before the 29 leaves town light. On a separate note, might ZPMC soon have competition for these cranes?
All photos in the sixth boro yesterday, WVD, who will be here just another week, before heading back for mermaid and cetacean research on the freshwater seas. It is exciting to learn of Rangifer tarandus along the Alpena/Amberly ridge at 60 to 160 feet down. More sixth boro photos for the next few days, however. It’s great to be back.
About the 40 and 60% . . . . three of the five cranes were offloaded in Houston. I’m impressed by the crew/vessel ability to lighten the load by three of five cranes and still maintain longitudinal stability.
Checking the IMO# of Zhen Hua 29, her previous lives include this Merbabu. I’m unable to find photos of her as Cook Spirit or Blue Sky River.
Sarah D is here because before wearing the attractive NYS Marine Highway colors, she wore Moran colors for about 20 years, as seen here.
What I thought remarkable about that afternoon is that all the photos here were taken in the space of half an hour the other day. An outatowner watching traffic on the sixth boro would have concluded that all tugboats in the boro have an M on the stack. What was happening in fact was that three ships were moving and this was a surge to assist these ships.
If you follow this blog, you’ve seen them all before, but you may not have seen a Moran wave before quite like this.
As you can tell, I maintained mostly the same vantage point while taking all these shots.
All photos, WVD.
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.
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