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Call this “thanks to Steve Munoz 20: the 9th Annual North River Tugboat Race September 2, 2001.” As Steve writes, “The tug race on 9/2/2001 was nine days before 9/11/2001. I was on board the tug Janet M McAllister for the race. My son was on board a Seabulk oil tanker docked in Bayonne and he could see the Twin Towers from his cabin porthole. As the tug headed up the Upper Bay I was going to take a picture of the Twin Towers and decided not to since I had so many already. Little did I, or anyone else, know that they would not exist nine days later. I wish I had taken a picture.
[Participating] include tugs McAllister Bros, Janet M McAllister, Empire State, J George Betz, Mary L McAllister, Irish Sea, Dory Barker, Powhatan, Dace Reinauer, Beaufort Sea, Resolute, Growler, Z-TWO, Janice Ann Reinauer, Katherine, Amy C McAllister, James Turecamo, Kathleen Turecamo, Emil P Johannsen; also, includes fireboats John D McKean, John J Harvey.
I’ll not identify all the boats here. As you know, some of these boats, like Dace Reinauer, look quite different now. Also, many boats here, like Janet D. McAllister and Powhatan, are no longer in the sixth boro,
Z-Two is now Erin McAllister, and in Providence RI.
Emil P. Johannsen is laid up, I believe,
in Verplanck NY.
Beaufort Sea has been scrapped.
There were tugboats to port and
tugboats PLUS a fireboat to starboard. Two things here: I love the water thrusters deployed from Z-Two. And Powhatan is now a commissioned Turkish naval vessel known as TCG Inebolu; as such it was involved a month ago in the tow of a Bangladeshi corvette, BNS Bijoy, which had been damaged in the explosion in Beirut harbor.
Again, many thanks to Steve Munoz for taking us back to September 2, 2001 with these photos.
A different series of tugboat races happened decades earlier, as attested here. An indicator of how different the world then was is the fact that back then, a rowing contest was included, and crews of ships in port took part. Those days of break-bulk cargo had ships in port for much longer periods of time, and “port” included places along the Hudson.
Traffic on the East River captivates, in part, because of the context, the vertical density shrinks even large vessels, or flotillas like this.
Weeks 531, I’m thinking, must be fairly new, not only because I’ve seen her only in 2018, but more so because she doesn’t show up on the Weeks crane pages. For a 500-ton lift capacity crane, she’s strangely absent online.
Unlike most crane barges that I’ve seen, she has a prominent superstructure.
When she was “west” bound the other day, Katherine was out front, tailed by
Susan and Michael (ex-Freddie K) Miller.
Back in January I caught the next two photos of Weeks 531 headed directly from the AK into Newark Bay. At first view, I assumed Weeks had a huge new tug.
That’s Bergen Point between the equipment and my lens.
All photos by Will Van Dorp. Can anyone fill in more info on the 531?
Previous posts featuring Weeks equipment can be found here with the Shuttle Enterprise and here with USAirways Flight 1549, in both cases involving Weeks 533, another 500-ton capacity crane.
Here were the previous in this series.
The first three photos here come from John “Jed” Jedrlinic, whose previous contributions can be found here.
Coral Coast is a venerable 3000 hp 45-year-old, like some others I know, although they might not see all that horsepower as complimentary.
photo date 8 FEB 2011
Katherine, same horsepower, is nine years newer.
photo date 8 FEB 2011
This Michael S is based in Port Canaveral, where Jed took this photo.
photo date 4 MARCH 2011
Harry Thompson, whose previous contributions include this one, sent this along of Russell 11 (I believe that’s eleven, not two) compliments of his brother. Does anyone know Russell 11‘s years of service?
And the rest of these come from Barrel, who has sent along many others I will share this month.
Tug Bay Hawk dates from 1942. Thanks to Birk’s site, here’s some info on her.
Here’s Crowley’s Ensign on the Delaware River, 7200 horsepower. Here and here are tugster posts of similar Crowley tugs. In the distance, that looks like a Vane Brothers tug.
Teresa McAllister, 1961, was most recently on tugster here.
And to close out today’s post, it’s Tenacious, now a 55-year-old freshwater tug.
Many thank to Jed, Harry, and Barrel for these photos.
First . . . this foto by Bob Dahringer of Katherine (1979 in Louisiana). As of this writing, Bob is back upriver playing with Hudson River ice cubes.
Next . . . this foto from Key West, thanks to my sister, who’s gotten a camera upgrade. Yay! A few years ago, I was snorkeling–sans camera–off a Key West beach and came up to notice two tugboats that looked a lot like these. My first thought then was–wow! K-Sea tugs in the Conch Republic. My second thought was . . . I have no camera and therefore no one will ever believe me. I’m now pretty sure I saw Titan (1974 in Long Beach, CA) and Ocean Atlas (1964 in San Diego, California).
Brian DeForest took this foto of Marjorie B. McAllister (1974 in Louisiana) last week of a very icy sixth boro.
And recently . . . in a springy waterboro of NYC, Brendan Turecamo (1975 in Louisiana) assisted a tanker on its way out to sea,
Doris Moran (1982 in Louisiana) assisted a chemical tanker into port, and
Miss Niz (2003 from Alabama) moved some dredging equipment around. Note the survey boat–Michele Jeanne–reading the bottom contours over on the Bayonne side.
Thanks much to Bob, Maraki, and Brian for use of their fotos.
Finally, a relatively close-up foto of Katherine.
Bruce A. McAllister pushes through the snowflakes, as do
Blue Fin . . . still gray,
Brooklyn and Patapsco,
and finally Pegasus.
And finally . .. escuse the poor quality, but these are cam-captures of Miss Lis at the Gatun Locks last Thursday, six days ago. Although it’s not legible here, the container at the bow of the barge reads “FLUOR.” Let’s keep a watch for this tow at the Narrows in the next few days . . . from the Left Coast and headed here for the Tappan Zee project, I presume.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Crow languishes here in Port Newark.
A detail-impoverished foto of Manson Construction‘s hopper dredge Glenn Edwards along with tug Kendall J. Hebert. Actually Samantha Miller is hiding in the haze near starboard stern of the dredge, anchored in Gravesend Bay.
Click here for a coloful foto of Kendall J. Hebert.
Some of the other boats I’ve seen recently are Susan E. Witte,
Katherine, (Last summer I caught Katherine pulling a dredge scow in Morehead City, North Carolina)
Pati R. Moran,
Ron G, which I first read as Rong. Often she’s in Philadelphia.
Gabby L Miller,
Miriam Moran returning to base after retrieving the docking pilot,
And finally, a boat I’ve never seen before . . . Navigator. Anyone know her story? I took this foto Sunday morning.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
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