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I don’t want to be too predictable with this title.
Check out Miss Madeline and Emma Rose on a foggy morning.
Later that foggy day, it was Everly Mist and Emma Rose.
That same foggy day, Kirby Moran and Kimberly Turecamo saw Northern Jubilee out of town.
Heading for the next job, Alex and Marjorie B. McAllister pass my location, like a brace of oxen I never photographed when I could have back in the 1980s.
Here Patrice and Ava M overtake Ever Fame and travel to their next appointment.
Justine and Ava see OOCL Brussels into port. Invisible here is Patrice on the far side.
As Nicole Leigh waits with RTC 135 at IMTT, Josephine passes by with RTC 83.
Cape Fear gets an assist from Wye River.
Fells Point gets an assist from Cape Fear.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who will soon be making a major but temporary change of venue.
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.
Kimberly headed out on a mission, as
did Mary.
They converged alongside Bow Chain,
where crew mustered.
As daylight opened between Bow Chain and the dock,
Kimberly moved to the opposite side
and with guidance
Bow Chain moved slightly forward and toward port and
rotated counterclockwise
with Kimberly helping the bow around while
Mary pushed the stern.
Pilot and crew directed from the bridge wing
and once sailed, Bow Chain began a voyage to the Gulf of Mexico.
All photos, WVD.
Tugboats, large and powerful as they are, seem to shrink when beside a global container giant, like Ava here beside Adrian Maersk. What comes to mind, and if a paraphrase of Archimedes is acceptable, give me a tug and position alongside, I’ll move that world-traveling behemoth and make it look easy.
Capt. Brian here and Ellen get OOCL Singapore for the always preferred routine entry, shift of boxes, and then nudge back out to sea.
Ditto Laura K, CSCL Bohai Sea, and Kirby.
Ava stands by here with Mustafa Dayi, in an anchorage usually filled with tankers.
Jonathan C sees Ever Legion in the door.
Mary Turecamo stands by with Endo Breeze.
Ellen escorts a loaded tanker into the Kills. Notice here that the antenna deck is flush with the deck of the tanker, quite unlike the case with the largest container ships into the boro, as in the last image farther below in this post.
MSC Azov gets Kimberly and Laura K as assist boats.
James D has already terminated her business with Cosco Harmony and is now traveling to the next job.
And let’s conclude this post here, as mentioned earlier, the 6000 hp Kirby (?) looks insignificant beside 15000+ teu container ships. The key word here is “looks.”
All photos, WVD.
Bet you can guess where that line leads from the bow of Kirby Moran?
Here you go.
Jordan Rose has been tied up in Bayonne for a while, but
Gregg McAllister passes her on the way to an assist.
Michael Miller is one of the venerable tugs of the sixth boro,
having worked here since the mid-1960s.
Cape Fear has been here for a few years, although I’ve not yet seen
her two sisters, Cape May and Cape Henry.
Ava M. is one of the workhorses, certainly.
Does anyone know when and if Capt. Brian A. will return to service here?
Kimberly Turecamo has worked the harbor consistently for going-on 30 years.
Here she heads into an orange sherbet dawn.
All photos in the past week, WVD., who has more Canal Society archival photos coming but some contemporary posts demonstrate my temporary anchor. Also coming up, a photographer high above Hell Gate has shared a new trove of photos from a perspective I’ve missed. Many thanks for your continued interest.
Miriam Moran looks to be alone, with a half dozen other units in the distance, but
she’s converging with a pack.
Minutes later, Kirby takes the stern of the ULCV, and
James D. emerges from the far side, where she landed a docking pilot.
Then, Miriam and Kimberly
like choreography
assume their positions and paths
and assist Monaco Bridge into the terminal.
All photos, WVD, who can’t get enough of this.
Back to historical Barge Canal photos tomorrow, but today I’m back in the boros, where the birds are singing in the sunny low
60s! Because I’ve been inland, all photos come from very recent archives, like Balsa 85, a small general cargo carrying a bulk cargo of sugar in the holds of her petite 348′ x 62′ hull.
Navig8 Perseverance could not be more different: a crude oil tanker 817′ x 144′, carrying oil from somewhere on one planet earther.
STI Brooklyn is a Panamax oil/chemical tanker, 600′ x105′. Want more STI (Scorpion Tankers Inc.) names? Click here.
Stena Impulse has exactly the same dimensions as STI Brooklyn, but a very different superstructure.
Here and here are other Stena Imp…. tankers.
Steam Atlantic, nice name, is smaller: 482′ x 79′. Her sister vessel Stream Pacific can be found here.
Suddenly ships and containers marked Wan Hai are appearing.
Wan Hai 301, 984′ x 105′, follow the nomenclature pattern this blog does. Numbers in lists may not be elegant, but they are effective.
And among the largest container ships in the boro, it’s
CMA CGM Argentina, measuring in at 1200′ x 167′ and some change.
All photos, WVD, from my oceanic archives and on the first real day of winterspring.
Two separate parties sent me this article from the LA Times. With a title including the phrase “humble tugboat,” I was interested but not prepared for the fantastic photos. Thx John and George. Enjoy. Meanwhile, here are some more of my recent photos.
James D. Moran assisting on a towline above and Robert Weeks leaving the fuel dock below,
Andrea walled off from her barge above and Sarah Ann light below,
Gregg McAllister returning to base and Pegasus heading to work,
A light William Brewster and an equally light Daisy Mae,
Mackenzie Rose and Philadelphia, and
to close out this installment . . . Kimberly Turecamo assisting a ULCV.
All photos, WVD, who never associated the adjective “humble” with tugboats or their operators, and that’s not a bad thing.
If you’re new to this blog (or even if you are not), I’m always looking for photos from other people and places, especially, tugboats seen in South America, Asia, Oceania, and Australia.
Deck the hulls . . .
the bell sound signal device and railings too.
And I’ll leave that song right there.
Kimberly Turecamo has a wreath around the bell also, but
consistent with the Kimberly crew, there’s more.
Merry Christmas all . . .
All photos, WVD.
Here was last year’s M is for Merry.
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