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In case you’re new to this blog,”retro” means I’m looking back to my photo archives exactly 10 years to June 2011. The “38” here means this is the thirty-eighth month I’ve done this. It’s a fresh look at June 2011 photos, in some cases informed by whatever the past 10 years has wrought.
Bridge Builder 26 doing what it is named for.
F. Dawson, 1969, 66′ x 22′ and 1000 hp, in 2011 was working on a bridge project in the Harlem River. I’ve no idea where either of these boats is today.
Patapsco, 2004 and 96′ x 34′ and now known as Steven Wayne, was one of the first Vane boats into the sixth boro.
Susquehanna is a Patapsco-class tugboat, meaning mostly a clone and three years younger, and still in the Vane fleet.
Marlin (1974, 96′ x 35′, and 4200) and Penn No. 6. Marlin‘s now registered in Panama, and the No. 6 is now Vinik No. 6.
Kathleen Turecamo is now buff and green, a Stasinos boat, seen here as Meaghan Marie.
Matthew Tibbetts is still in the sixth boro and at work.
This was the only time I saw Hercules, ex-YTB-766. In June 2011, it was towed here and then loaded aboard a semi-sub for Nigeria.
Barents Sea came back to life as Atlantic Enterprise, and is currently working on a salvage/recovery down south.
All photos and memories, WVD.
There will be a mermaid parade later this summer; in 2011, it took place on the Saturday closest to the solstice, which would be today.
Alongside Pilot No. 1 New York, the current one, it’s the newest-in-name vessel in the sixth boro . . .
Meaghan Marie, ex–Kathleen Turecamo, has become part of the same green & buff fleet as Joseph John.
Here’s a photo I took of her in port of Albany, September 2013.
A different use of green . . . Vane’s Philadelphia, a 4200 hp tug launched in 2017.
A slightly darker buff, it’s Matthew Tibbetts. What I didn’t realize until I looked it up just now, Tibbetts was launched as Dann Ocean’s first boat to carry the name Ocean Tower. More on that later.
It’s always a good day when I catch two Reinauer tugboats together, Haggerty Girls (4000 hp) and Ruth M. Reinauer (4720 hp), with a deeply loaded RTC
Alex puts its 4300 hp to bear on Viktor Bakaev.
I mentioned Ocean Tower earlier . . . here’s the current tugboat by that name. It’s about a decade newer, one-third more horsepower, and 15′ longer, and 5′ broader than the earlier boat, now Tibbetts.
Kristin Poling began life as Chesapeake, an early version of Patapsco but longer, broader,and with a full 5000 hp.
And to conclude, examples of the classes of the two largest tractor tugs in the sixth boro . . . Capt. Brian A. and
JRT, each approaching their next job.
All photos very recently, WVD, who has more tugboat race photos from previous years . . .
Really random means just that . . . so that’s start with this one, Tutahaco, YTM-524, which has recently been hauled out of the water between Daytona and St Augustine. Michael Schmidt took these photos back last winter.
She worked for a time in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The next two photos come from Allan and Sally Seymour, whose twotugstravelin’ blog was mentioned in yesterday’s post. Kathleen Turecamo (1968) is a staple these days in the Port of Albany.
A bit farther north on the Hudson in Troy is the footprint of NYS Marine Highway Transportation Company. Pictured here from r to l are Margot, Benjamin Elliot, and Betty D; built in 1958, 1960, and 1980, respectively.
The next photo is from Kyle Stubbs, who writes “the original JOVI is still around. The simple answer is yes, and she’s quite a ways from the Sixth Boro, now taking up residence in San Diego in the service of Pacific Tugboat Service as the JAG. I’ve attached an image of her I took this past September.” Kyle sent the photo along in response to a question about Lil Rip I’d posted here some years back.
George Schneider picks up the Lil Rip‘s origins question here and sends along his own photo of Jag, to wit ”
I was very suspicious of the story she was made from part of a Liberty Ship, since hacking up something like that just to make a push boat didn’t make sense. But somewhere along the lines, I realized the LIL RIP was registered at 54 feet long. I found a Liberty Ship was 57 feet wide, so that’s perfect, considering they had to cut away some of the “stern” for the propellers, so the registered length would be a few feet shorter than overall.
That gave me a reason to believe the reputed origins of the boat were true. It makes even more sense, because if you realize the scrap yards generally had no drydocks or slipways, they’d cut a ship like that down to the tank tops while it was afloat, then somehow had to dispose of the double bottoms. Sometimes they just took them out and sank them since it took so much extra effort to clean and cut them up. But in New Jersey, whose coastline is inland, they probably had to cut them apart and lift them ashore, and voile! What a perfect hull to build a pushboat on!
So I’m wondering if anybody has added more to the comments on that day’s page. If anybody has ever seen her “on the hard,” they might have measured her across the deck, and if that measures a perfect 57 feet in length, I’d say that’s pretty close to proof. I looked up the liberty ships sold for scrap 1961-64, and none were scrapped in Elizabeth NJ, nor were any scrapped by her owner.
But several deceptive things are at play here: 1) A ship sold for scrap was not legally reused for anything, so the title to something made out of the pieces couldn’t reflect the original vessel. 2) If the ship wasn’t sold for scrap, was “Sold for Non-Transportation Use’ which was also sometimes authorized, she might not have been included in the list of vessels scrapped, and 3) Vessels were often bought by distant companies, then found the vessel couldn’t practically be towed to their scrapyard, were sold or contracted to other companies for scrapping.
As for the question of the original JOVI (283905), she kept her name long after the JOVI II, working for various East Coast companies, but then made her way out here to San Diego, where she now works. She has worked as TUG JAG, then KODAK, and now simply JAG. I’ve attached, unfortunately, the best and only digital photo I’ve taken of her. You can reproduce this any way you’d like.”
Now I’m wondering about Logan and Mate. Logan shows in the NOAA registry as built in 1974 and formerly called Kodak, Jag, and Guppy. Mate doesn’t show.
Sarah D (1975) worked for White Stack, Turecamo, and Moran (each bought out the previous company) before coming to NYS Marine Highway.
And finally, once again out and about in the sixth boro, it’s W. O. Decker, the 1930 wood-hulled tugboat of South Street Seaport Museum.
Click here for some of the dozens of posts I’ve included Decker in.
The last three photos are by Will Van Dorp; thanks to Michael, Allan, Sally, Kyle, and George for the other photos.
or I can call this Port of Albany 2, or better still Ports of Albany and Rensselaer. Albany’s fireboat Marine 1 has been on this blog here. Anyone know where it was built?
The port has not one but . . .
but two large cranes.
And bulk cargo is transferred through the port in both directions, whether it be solid or
dusty.
Over on the Rensselaer side, scrap seems to be a huge mover.
North of Port Albany is USS Slater, about which lots of posts can be found here. But it’s never occurred to me until now that the colors used by Slater camouflage and NYS Marine Highway are a very similar gray and blue!
Kathleen Turecamo (1968) has been in this port–135 miles inland–for as long as I’ve been paying attention, which is only a little over a decade.
This September, NYS Canal Corp’s Tender #3, which probably dates from the 1930s, traveled south to the ports of Albany and Rensselaer.
The port is also a vital petroleum center, both inbound and out.
With the container train traffic along the the Hudson and the Erie Canal, I’m only less surprised than otherwise that Albany-Rensselaer currently is not a container port.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Here’s general info about the Port of Albany, although a lot of info there seems a bit out of date. For a blog that visits visits the ports of Albany and Rensselaer more regularly, check here. Here’s the port of Albany website.
And last but not least, check Mark Woody Woods’ broad sampling of ships heading to and from Albany-Rensselaer.
Darell T. Gilbert took this foto . . . a hot air balloon over the water in Red Hook around the 5th of January. WTF?!@#@!! Anyone know the story?
Thanks to Sam Zapadinsky . . . can you identify this creature walking on the icy upper Hudson? Coyote? Here’s a post from a few years ago of eagles on the mostly frozen river.
Sam also took this foto from the tug Frances, which
is the forwardmost tug in this foto by Bob Dahringer. Frances and Kathleen Turecamo move crude oil tanker Afrodite into the dock in Albany, one of many water tasks that happens whether the temperatures are 0 or 100.
And finally, Mike Abegg took this foto of Alice Oldendorff in the Brooklyn Navy yard, taking on
fuel. Quantico Creek and a Dann Marine boat (either Chesapeake or Discovery Coast) assist with this operation in the ice-choked area around the docks.
Thanks much to Darell, Sam, Bob, and Mike for these fotos.
Click here for Bob Dahringer’s YouTube videos, recently with a lot of ice.
Check this video report on USCG ice-breaking in the upper Hudson as well as this one of Ellen McAllister shifting ships safely on cold days.
Now here from Harbin, China is a completely other reaction to cold weather.
Not Afrodite although Apollon is otherwise a twin.
This IS Afrodite. All the rest of these fotos are compliments of Paul Strubeck.
In this set of Paul’s fotos, you may conclude that his conveyance is overtaking Afrodite, but I’m reversing the order as the vessel Afrodite–leaves the upper Hudson running towards sea and St. John.
Click here for the rest of the TCM (I’m not sure why the T-E- N) fleet.
This looks like Kathleen Turecamo and Frances assisting Afrodite out of the berth.
I took the first foto, but all the others I am grateful to Paul Strubeck for.
I’ll ‘fess up . . . this is the picture in my head when I think of Afrodite. And here is a former USN vessel by that same name!
Tomorrow–Columbus Day–I’m launching a new blog called Henry’s Obsession. Henry refers to Mr Hudson, and obsess he did!. For the next year or so, bowsprite and I will use research and imagination to get inside the head of the first European to travel up the river that bears his name. We plan to post twice a month, or “halfmoonthly.” Shouldn’t we celebrate a Hudson Day in September rather than a Columbus Day in October?
Take one container vessel —Saudi Tabuk– northbound in the Buttermilk against an ebbing tide and heading for sea. Bring on Moran tugs Cape Cod (portside of Tabuk) and Kathleen Turecamo.
As they approach the Brooklyn Bridge, Cape Cod drops back to Tabuk‘s stern
Kathleen Turecamo no doubts shoves the bow toward Manhattan and Cape Cod presses the stern to Brooklyn.
Plan continues until the ebb tide assists Kathleen, and Tabuk rotates counterclockwise.
The ebb is unstoppable,
and Tabuk
pivots her 814 feet quite dramatically
leaving no room for error.
Soon Tabuk has steering
outbound toward the Narrows and
bound for the Red Sea
but not for Tabuk, an inland desert city.
Photos, WVD.
I recently discovered the blog “blue water: news of my escape.”
Paul the pirate writes it, and it seems he’s recently been working in the sixth boro.
Paul’s boat right now happens to be . . . Kathleen Turecamo.
Give Paul a read and take a ride. Check out GeneC55’s great Kathleen foto here from Flickr.
Photos, WVD.
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