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All All but one of the photos in this post come from David Silver, assigned as a cadet this summer on a Maersk vessel going halfway around the world and back. He departed Port Elizabeth on May 21. This post follows his voyage, focusing on what someone like me–mostly fixed–doesn’t see.
May 24. Charleston. Mark Moran.
May 30. Houston. Thor.
May 31. Houston. Wesley A.
June 06. Norfolk. Maxwell Paul Moran.
June 08. Pilot boards in sixth boro of NYC. JRT Moran.
June 08. VZ Bridge as seen from the ship and
as seen from my location, at about the same moment.
June 09. Port Elizabeth. Kirby Moran.
There was a stop in Algeciras–the world’s 10th largest transshipment port– but no photos of assist tugboats.
June 25. Suez Canal. It could be one of the Mosaed boats, maybe number 1.
June 26. Suez Canal. One of the boats called Salam.
After transiting the Red Sea and stopping in Djibouti, July 9. Mont Arrey,
they rounded the peninsula and entered the Gulf.
July 9. Jebel Ali. P&O Venture. That could be P&O Energy off the stern.
July 12. Port Qasim. SL Hodeida with pilot boat and other Smit Lamnalco tugs.
July 13. Port Pipavav. It appears to be Ocean Supreme and another one of the Ocean Sparkle boats in the distance.
I have enjoyed seeing this variety of towing vessels from this trip halfway around the world. Now I hope the return trip brings more photos and a safe return in late August.
Many thanks, David.
Cosco Prince Rupert came into town recently 27 days out of Pusan, Korea.
She was launched in South Korea in 2011, has dimensions of 1095′ x 141′, and has container capacity of 8208. By current standards, she’s upper medium-sized calling in the sixth boro of NYC.
Prince Rupert’s namesake? He was the first governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company.
JPO Capricornus, 2005, 865′ x 106,’ teu capacity of 4132 . . . makes her a smaller size calling these days. She was a week out of Cartagena upon her arrival in NYC. She was built in South Korea.
Atlantic Sky, a CONRO vessel with capacity of 3800 tea and 1300 vehicles, was launched in 2017 in China. The tape has her at 970′ x 121′.
Ever Leading launched in 2012 in South Korea. She has 8452-teu capacity and has dimensions of 1099′ x 151′.
Zim Ukrayina was launched in 2009 in the Philippines. Her dimensions are 849′ x 105′ and her teu capacity is 4360.
She made the voyage from just north of Hong Kong (Da Chang Bay) to NYC in 40 days.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Only 13 months ago, Cosco Glory could not have entered Port Elizabeth. Now the +14,000-teu boats –more accurately called NYC’s 1200-footers, have become routine like T. Roosevelt, J. Adams, and Chongqing.
The geese are not even spooked.
Jonathan takes the starboard, and Kirby . . . port
while JRT and Margaret leverage the stern.
As of this writing, this crewman has most recently been treated to views of the Savannah waterfront.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Ivory Coast
Christian Reinauer
Ross Sea
C. Angelo
Scott Turecamo, New Hampshire, and Brendan Turecamo
Curtis and RTC 82
Mary Alice and Nan Lin Wan
Pearl Coast and Cement Transporter 1801
MSC Maureen, Jonathan C. Moran, and Kirby Moran
All photos taken in April 2018 by Will Van Dorp.
She was waiting on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal just a few weeks ago, so when I figured she was departing the sixth boro, I went out to catch her, esp. since her fleet mate, the 1200′ CMA CGM G. Washington recently arrived and departed in the wee hours before light.
Tugs (l to r) assisting her in the turn outbound are James D. Moran, Miriam Moran, and Kirby Moran.
She draws about 35′ here. I wonder how much of that is ballast.
Enjoy a mash-up photo here to close out the post: I was fortunate to catch CMA CGM Dalila and APL Denver both under the VZ Bridge at the same time.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, still looking for photos of helm seats, captain’s chairs. I’d like to do a post on them. I’m looking for the full range: luxurious to decrepit or basic or high-tech. Email me a photo of the chair and identify the vessel. You don’t need to be sitting in it. I’ve got a good number of photos so far, but I’d like to see greater variety. Thanks to all of you who’ve already shared photos.
Definitely some sort of military truck, probably FMTV made by Oshkosh. Some of the numbering is Hebrew.
And there’s a bunch of them, up there
squeezing under
the Bayonne Bridge, as they and the rest of the cargo
aboard the Norddeusche ship
rounds Bergen Point on the way to Port.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who has seen military trucks and other vehicles atop the boxes previously here, here, here, and here. Once I even spotted a cigarette boat way up there.
A different post was scheduled for today, but when good fortune smiles, I smile. Behold J. Adams bound for sea, as she could not have a year ago . . . in fact, she may very well not even have been completely fitted out a year ago. As of this writing, I believe that J. Adams and T. Roosevelt are the only two of CMA CGM’s 14,414-teu vessels calling in the sixth boro. CMA CGM has just launched a 20,600 tee vessel, not scheduled to call here.
I’ll smile even more once the walkway on the bridge opens, allowing photos from a different perspective. Such a change in capacity from the vessel carrying the first containers outbound from the sixth boro back on April 26, 1956! This tech spec sheet starts out with an interesting graph of vessel capacity since 1980, and much more.
Kirby Moran (6000 hp) looks small here, and notice the two bow thrust symbols on the bow, which–if I interpret this info correctly–operate with 5000 hp.
Captain D and her trash barge provide some sense of scale here.
For cleaner port air, she’s equipped with an HVSC by Wärtsilä , which also provides the propulsion power.
Kirby Moran–work on this vessel complete– heads back to sail the next ship out of port.
Following are James D and JRT.
I don’t know the calling ports for the other two 14,414 teu vessels: A. Lincoln and T. Jefferson.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Suppose we go back to “random tugs 2,” which was 10 years and two and a half months ago. What might be the same? Answer follows. These photos I took last week. Alex and Capt. Brian were not around when I did the #2 post.
Craig Eric Reinauer was, but the barge RTC 103 likely was not.
In 2007, Diane B had a different name and was a Kirby machine. Now she’s a creek-specialist and pushing John Blanche.
Here’s the best photo I got of Millville and 1964, the newest unit most likely to pass through the harbor.
Emerald Coast heads westbound.
Oleander passes Normandy. Anyone know why Bermuda Islander (I got no photo.) was in town last week?
And Evening Tide is eastbound in the KVK. So just by chance, if you look at Random Tugs 2, Evening Tide is there as well.
And since we started with a team of escort boats, have a look at these: (l to r) JRT, Miriam, James D, and Kirby Moran.
All photos taken last week by Will Van Dorp.
Yesterday morning two container ships with length (loa) of 366 meters or more occupied dock space in Port Newark. To my knowledge, no longer cargo ship has yet called here, and since they’d each been in port more than a day, I figured I’d get some photos of them outbound under the Bayonne Bridge. One was 366 m x 48 m (144,131 dwt), and the other was possibly 367 m x 42 (116,100). Either would be great, both would be superb.
And remember last month I had the photos of JRT Moran underway moving astern? Well, check out the photo of James D Moran below, on a towline with the 367 m Gunhilde.
I’ll identify these tugs (l to r) so that you can trace their evolution in this turn. James, Brendan, JRT, and Kirby tethered to the stern.
Translating that 42 m breadth, I count 17 containers across.
James D efficiently drops the line and pivots to starboard.
Here I assume Brendan is still on the portside. Was Miriam (farthest left) involved all along or simply passing through?
In that clutch of three Moran tugs, 18,000 horsepower labors.
Kirby Moran is still on the towline.
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Ringkøbing sounds like a pleasant place to visit in summer, not really a port.
So here’s a puzzle: Gunhilde left port around noon yesterday, but by evening she was back after merely traveling to the outside of the Ambrose Channel , making a wide turn to port, and then re-entering the Channel to anchor overnight in Gravesend Bay. As of this writing, she appears to have set out for Norfolk once again. Any stories?
Also interesting, if the AIS info was correct, Gunhilde arrived in NYC after a nearly 19-day voyage from Salalah, the old spice and incense port. Look it up.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who wonders what Gunhilde‘s air draft is.
And as it turned out, the 144, 131 dwt vessel left port . . . after dark.
Check out what British Cygnet looks like less laden . . later in the post.
MSC Marina heads for sea in the morning light.
Panamax Christina has some cargo (coal, I think) transferred before leaving town. I believe that’s Weeks Seeley alongside.
Hafnia Leo waits in the anchorage.
Poland Pearl offloads salt for ice to come after our current supply melts and gets replaced by many more days of winter.
So . . . I wish I could have gotten a bow-on shot of British Cygnet. There’s a lot of hold under the water when she’s loaded.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who lost track of time today.
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