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I’ve observed that docking pilots often board just south of or north of the VZ Bridge.
Note the two crew, one with a backpack.
U-turn and
preparations are made
and then a pilot boards along the KVK.
Any idea who/where Shekou is?
It’s in Guangdong Province, but of course it’s not Singapore.
All photos, WVD.
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Got that name, not the one midships but the one on the bow? Torm was co-founder of the company in 1889!
“Republican” . . it’s just a name for a Torm Medium Range IMO Type 2/3 tanker, Danish International Shipping register, one of at least two dozen Torm tankers that have appeared on this blog. This ship’s name has nothing to do with blue or red, US or Spain or Ireland . . . this list goes on and on.
Two Moran tugboats traveled south in the Upper Bay and
assisted it into a berth at the east end of IMTT.
The low angle light made pronounced areas of light and shadow.
In the photo below, extreme right, note the two crew on the starboard bridge wing, no doubt
calling out directions for Kirby and
JRT to ease the tanker into the dock.
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.
I’ve seen lots of pairs in winter, some in spring, but never until now in fall, at least not acknowledged until this post.
Two sets of pairs appear below, one Centerline and another Moran, the latter escorting in CSCL South China Sea.
Ellen and Patrice here are going to different jobs.
Mary Turecamo and James D Moran here work on the CSCL box ship.
Lots are boats here; clockwise from the farthest, Haggerty Girls (I think), James D, Margaret, Marjorie B, and James William.
Around 0900, a brace of migratory birds headed north . . . F-18s maybe.
B. Franklin got an assist from Matthew Tibbetts.
Two old ferries ply their trade: Barberi with the highest flagpoles and Marchi.
Two top of the line sixth boro McAllister tugs joins forces.
Two old style boats: Manhattan II and Wanderer, the latter from the Sippican River.
And finally, this juxtaposition passed and allows a comparison of the lines of the 2015 6000 hp Kirby Moran with the 2008 5100 hp Laura K.
All photos in the past week, WVD.
Earlier in the month, I got views of the first details marking the October awareness of the scourge, one of many. Since then, I saw more, which I honor here.
Eastern Dawn marked it.
Kirby Moran shows the awareness.
So do Mary Turecamo and Laura K mostly obscured.
ONE Stork and ONE Wren have that color as livery.
Marie J Turecamo does too.
Sapphire Coast does.
All photos, WVD, who tips this hat.
It’s another dark, rainy day in the sixth boro, so let’s recall the vibes of a warm, sunny September last week and BBC Kimberley swooping through the KVK.
Does it get more photogenic?!
Kirby Moran escorts at a distance until needed.
Name the country of “St. John’s” registry? Answer follows. While we’re at it, how about BBC . . . what does it expand to? British broadcasting . . uh, no.
Here rounding Bergen Point and heading into a berth, later BBC Kimberley stayed in port only a short time.
All photos last week, WVD.
St. John’s is the capital of Antigua and Barbuda. It’s also the name of the capital of Newfoundland and Labrador, whereas St. John [no apostrophe or s] is the port city of New Brunswick.
The ship registry was established in 1986 and lists 1400 vessels.
And BBC expands to “Briese Bischoff Chartering,” a shipping group of more than 150 general cargo vessels based in the Ems watershed. “Briese” refers to BBC partners Captain Roelf Briese and Bruno Bischoff. Anyone visit much along the Ems international border and the outlying islands? If you’ve not read Riddle of the Sands, put it on your list.
The whale happens to be a 2007 1284-teu container ship previously called Beluga Constitution and CMA CGM Corfu, but has carried the “whale” name for almost a decade now. I’ve seen other Warnow–named for a river in NE Germany– vessels in the sixth boro, but never posted any of them until now.
Some time ago I saw Warnow Dolphin and was intrigued, but I never followed up.
So I felt fortunate the other day
when I passed Kirby Moran assisting the Whale into Red Hook container port.
Light and color and composition all came together as
her crew eased her in.
She’s left port now and is currently heading for the Panama Canal.
All photos and any errors, WVD.
I had a different post and an entirely different morning planned, until I looked at AIS, and saw that after almost exactly four years, Big Lizzie (HMS Ro8) was inbound. So whose was this when
these were coming into view?
More specifics in the link above the first photo, but check out the info here.
“But sir, I’ve been fighting this trophy striper . . . !”
Notice Stockham (T-AK-3017) in the distance?
Why eight?
Danmark, owned by the Danish Maritime Authority, is simply called that; although a naval training ship, it does not go by Margrethe II. More photos of Danmark appeared own this blog earlier this week.
Note a second helicopter now?
Wednesday and Thursday the “Atlantic Future Forum” will occur no doubt right there.
Kirby has the stern as they Ro8 enters the nUpper Bay.
HMS Richmond (F239) escorts Queen Elizabeth in.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Do you have associations with the term “banana boat,” like maybe a song . . . this one? I’ll bet you’ve sung along.
Get my drift? Maybe not yet?
I’m no good judge of how common the word “platanos” is in English because it’s been in my vocabulary for too long.
Painted battleship gray and sporting a name like platanos might be considered subterfuge . . . ,
a crude oil carrier getting named as “plantains” . . . well, bananas. I know banana boats and this is not a banana boat, even if it comes from that banana-producing area called Point Tupper, right, Jack?
I’m pushing it here, but maybe port of registry should say “maduro,” at least that’s my favorite format. Maybe the fleet mate is called “papa criolla”?
All photos and warped humor, WVD, whose previous “names” posts can be seen here.
It’s been months since I used this title, so let me play some catch-up.
with a RORO and an ULCV. The RORO RCC Africa is the oldest vessel in this post, launched 2004. Its dimensions are 656′ x 105′ and at this moment it’s heading from the east to the west side of South American via the Magellan Strait. Triton, 2016, is the largest vessel here: 1210′ x 167′ and it’s currently heading for Colon PA.
Wye River is the tug meeting above; Kirby Moran provides an assist to a tanker below.
Angel Star, 2006, is the shortest in this post, measuring 590′ x 105′ and it has recently transited the Panama Canal on its way to the Baja California port of La Paz, seen here in a post from three years ago.
Another ULCV, Cosco Shipping Orchid, 1200′ x 157′, is the newest vessel here, launched in 2019 and currently making for Busan. Note the gaggle of Centerlines, once Bouchards.
In closing, two years ago I’d not heard of Wan Hai, or if I had, it made such little impact that I quickly forget the name. Wan Hai 315 dates from 2006, and measures 699′ x 105.’ At this time, she’s headed for the Suez from this departure out of the sixth boro of NYC.
Speaking of names, Wan Hai is as creative with names of ships as trucking fleets are with tractors or I am with series of blog posts. This one was Wan Hai 315.
All photos and any errors, WVD, who never ceases to be amazed by the range of traffic calling in the sixth boro, often the forgotten boro.
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