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The bridge photo at the end of part A was of Kristin Poling, right after she’d been taken out of service. In her long life from 1934 until 2011, she carried the nameplates of Poughkeepsie Socony, Mobil New York, and Captain Sam, before taking on her last name.
Here’s a shot from the bow, and
here from near the stern looking forward along the catwalk.
This is one of my all-time favorite photos. I wonder where this Coastie is today.
A decade ago, Maurania III worked in the harbor, here alongside the venerable Chemical Pioneer and
here muscling Suez Canal Bridge around Bergen Point.
APL Coral was scrapped in 2017, I believe. Anyone know what those bolts of green fabric are? By their location, I’d guess an anti-piracy measure. Nicole Leigh continues to work.
DEP’s Newtown Creek was in her last days; currently she’s a dive destination in Pompano Beach, FL known as Lady Luck.
Lygra (1979) went to Alang in 2018, after carrying that name as well as Centro America, Nornews Service, and Transfjord.
Does anyone know where Captain Zeke has gone to? I don’t. If I ever did, I’ve forgotten.
Catherine Turecamo assists SN Azzurra away from a dock. The tanker seems still to be working as Augusta; she’s also carried the names Blue Dolphin and Stena Commander. In 2014, Catherine T. went to fresh water and, the last I knew, became a Chicago area based John Marshall.
If you click on no links in this post except this one, you will be pleased; it’s the legendary 1937 commuter yacht Aphrodite. HERE is the link. Those all-caps are intentional.
Note the raked forward portion of Maersk Murotsu, getting an assist from Kimberly Turecamo. The tanker is currently known as Ardmore Seafarer, which I have seen but not photographed in the boro. It’s impossible to keep up . . . hang on to that thought until the end of the post.
And let’s close out with some busy photos, here Barbara McAllister moves a barge, East Coast follows light, and Gramma Lee T Moran assists a tanker. Barbara is now Patsy K.
And finally, the waters here are churned up by James Turecamo, Resolute, and Laura K Moran, as well as a few tankers off to the left.
All photos, WVD, who’s astonished how much changes if not daily or monthly but surely by decade.
And about that thought I asked you hang onto: I’m considering taking a break, a sabbatical, or as Chapter 17 of Moby Dick explains . . . a ramadan, a term used with respect. I say this as a solicitation of advice.
Someday I’ll have to quantify the tanker traffic in the sixth boro. For now, just photos of three that moved all within a few hours. And I have to say again . . . the other five boros and greater geography depend on this watery boro activity.
Kimberly and Jonathan C assist this tanker from Ust-Luga, Russia. Check out this port on the Gulf of Finland and what closely neighbors are there.
Lines go on for the docking right across from the east end of Caddell’s.
A bit later, an interestingly named Chem Bulldog heads out.
She’s was heading for the SC port of Charleston.
Mr. Leo came in from Portugal, a voyage of just over 11 days.
She passed SCF Ussuri on her way into the Kills.
All photos, WVD.
Elli, built in 2010 and with 113k capacity, gets an assist out of the berth from Ellen McAllister.
Kimberly and Brendan assist STI Finchley, 2014 and 38k, out of a dock, and
and Ginga Cougar, 2005 and 26k, heads into that same dock.
See the blurry name above, and somewhat blurry below?
I’d seen it before in the boro as King David and then King Dorian.
Khawr AlAdid is a crude tanker, 2006 and 106k.
When I saw Maersk Navigator on AIS, I’d expected a box ship.
It’s a tanker, 2016 andn 46k.
Seabreeze is 2007 and 54k.
Persepolis, a classical name for a world heritage site,
was launched in 2018 and 74k.
Front Clipper is huge for the harbor, 157k and built in 2017.
And closing it out . . . all rise for The Judge, an asphalt tanker, 2016 and 37k.
All photos, WVD.
Here’s a tanker with a great name I stumbled upon while looking through the November 2016 archives. St Aqua . . . i’ll expand that St to “saint,” who we sometimes need . . .
Most of you know that dawn is my favorite time. Yesterday dawn–between 0545 and 0645–was quite busy; two of the five vessels that transited the KVK were among the largest–so far–that call in the sixth boro.
Pink sky with gradations, faded purple Brooklyn, huge but silent shapes, and spots of artificial lights.
Birds silhouetted and reflections in the still water make the scene as one point over by central western Brooklyn turns a deeper shade of red.
When the ship blocks the blinding rising sun, its name becomes legible.
Once CS Rose passes my vantage point, all that light illuminates the details. Three tugboats along her starboard, one on stern, and one on the far side, the port side.
Not much later–another smaller container ship has passed–the next hulking shape appears, and the light has already turned gradations of yellow.
When CMA CGM Mexico blocks the rising sun, details become available . . .
By now, 0645, the light suggests the sun has created daylight.
Tugboats on Rose include James D, Mary Turecamo, Kimberly Turecamo, and Kirby. Tugboats on Mexico include Marie J Turecamo, JRT, Kimberly Turecamo, and Miriam.
All photos, WVD.
Mornings on the KVK can be busy.
Above, Sea Fox (1971) follows Barney Turecamo (1995), and below, Kimberly Poling (1994) is followed by Mary H (1981)
Kimberly Turecamo (1980) and Marjorie A. McAllister (1974) head east to escort different incoming ships.
Chesapeake Coast (2012) assists Gulf Coast (1982) moving the cement barge out into the current.
Bruce A. (1974) and Patrice McAllister (1999) hasten out for work.
Thomas A. Witte (1961 when she was called Valoil) returns to Port Newark.
Joyce D. (2002) passes the docked Normandy (2007).
And Cape Canaveral (2019) makes for her yard.
All this and much more during a few hours one bright, mild morning recently by WVD. Any errors, my blame.
FB won’t display a preview photo because I made them full size. Oh well.
Picking up from yesterday, Kimberly released her line on the lower recessed bitt of MSC Bilbao and spun around to head back home. Jonathan C goes to retrieve the docking pilot.
Victoria Highway comes in . . . .
Life saving steel cage?
Lines are prepped for the next job.
Brendan Turecamo is on the stern.
Meanwhile, over in Global, there’s a lot of shifting going on.
See the crane operator’s cabin beneath the rail just to the right of the red/white tip of the rail? An operator sits there the whole shift shuttling backing and forth lifting and lowering containers more than a hundred feet below.
Frances leaves for her next job.
Emily Ann moves a brace scows . . . likely to Claremont.
And Bruce A. comes over to hang on the wall between jobs.
Here ends my spring morning series. On a day like this, I couldn’t be happier. I’ve posted only ten percent of the photos I took, of course, in the interest of creating some narrative. Obviously each of these photos could develop into a narrative in itself. And other photos creating differing narratives remain in my archives . . . for now.
All photos, WVD.
Following from yesterday, which covered 0900 to 0930, today we pick up from the mystery vessel and do 0930 to 1000. Identify this blue ship?
Here’s a clue and a hint that traffic is busy, as another vessel comes around Bergen Point.
As MSC Bilbao clears the bridge, you get a sense of all the boats over on the NW side of Staten Island. Anyone know the passenger vessel at the shipyard to the left? I don’t.
As MSC Bilbao approaches from the west and Adams heads out to sea, a RORO arrives.
The random curves of waves and reflections seem just perfect as a vessel named Bilbao passes by.
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Kimberly has released the line to Bilbao and is about to rotate to starboard and head back west.
All photos, WVD.
I recall my first time seeing the KVK, astonished by the density of commercial traffic. Of course, I’d just come from northern New England’s freshwater meandering rivers, surfable sandy coastlines, and marsh creeks.
Patrice steamed westbound, light,
Kimberly eastbound,
Josephine,
Daisy Mae, moving a half acre of scows…
Helen Laraway,
Daisy Mae again a few seconds later.
But to put it all together, here are Pegasus, Josephine, and Cape Henry.
Pegasus and Patrice,
Josephine, Kings Point, and Cape Henry….
It was a busy morning. All photos, WVD.
All small craft working in January get my attention, but
this one attracted me even more because of its lines. Is this a one-off or can someone identify the manufacturer? An indicator of my severe case of cabin fever this year is that I’ve been looking at lots of small boat ads. I’d really be happy to find a Grover 26 or 28. . . if anyone knows of one that’s available.
Crewboats, like the one with the cyclopean light, make their way among lots of other traffic in places like the KVK.
As you know, foreshortening compresses space in a frame . . . .
As close as this looks, it’s entirely safe.
Patricia is a small boat in this pond though
NYS Naval Militia Moose 440 patrols year around.
All photos, WVD, who’s serious about that Grover built search.
Usually the cargo is invisible, but that’s not always true. I hadn’t even noticed the cargo when I took this photo of Kimberly Turecamo leaning into the rust streaked Maersk container ship.
But above and then below, you too see the cargo. No attempt even half-hearted has been made to cover that cargo, as was the case here.
We’ve seen military vehicles before as cargo, here, here, and here.
We’ve even seen aircraft as in here and here.
And given that military vehicles make up part of the load, I was not surprised when I saw it was Norfolk registered, i.e., US-flagged but not Jones Act . . . given that it was built in Korea and previously sailed under a British flag.
All photos, WVD. Keep your eyes peeled because you never know what you’ll see. By the way, Kinloss arrived yesterday and has already departed; I don’t know if the military vehicles were discharged in our port.
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