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All these photos were taken in the second half of January 2013. This 1973 livestock carrier Falconia was in the Brooklyn Navy Yard getting some work done. I’d love to see a cargo layout for the vessel. Also, just back from the foremast, those are large bales of either hay or straw for the livestock. What would you guess her disposition in second half of January 2023? Answer follows at the end of this post.
The tanker here is today in the Gulf of Guinea on a run between Gabon and Netherlands. Kristy Ann Reinauer was scrapped in 2015.
The green tug Mary Gellatly was transformed into the very busy CMT Mackenzie Rose.
The behemoth Rebel has become Ken Vinik, awaiting a makeover in the Arthur Kill.
The name of the hull–we’d spell it “Sovkomflot“–is one you will not see in the sixth boro these days, and it seems the icebreaking tanker is currently
anchored where it has been for at least the past six months in Murmansk.
The Penn Maritime Coho has become the Kirby Coho, currently in Savannah.
Note the ice and snow on the boats above and below; January a decade ago was frosty! Barbara McAllister has become Patsy K, which I’ve never seen. She’s in Panama City FL right now.
It’s clamming time in the boro, and many of these clam/fish boats come out of this creek in NJ. More Dutch Girl tomorrow.
Grey Shark may be a dead ship or even a scrapped one by now, last recorded in the DR.
And finally, Megan McAllister is alive and well, busy as Charles James.
All photos from January 2013, WVD.
And the answer to the question about the current disposition of Falconia: she’s renamed Dragon and in Midia, Romania on the Black Sea, flying the Togolese flag, and still working, having just arrived in from Libya. For a tour of a much newer and sophisticated purpose-built livestock carrier, click here. More on this category of vessel here, and Dragon specifically on page 49.
For a disturbing report–if you choose to followup here–google Queen Hind livestock carrier, which capsized in Midia in 2019 and resulted in the “lost cargo,” i.e., death 14,000 sheep.
Here’s a shot of a 1962 tug named Kristy Ann Reinauer I took in August 2008 near Howland Hook/Elizabethport
and another in Bayonne in December of that year.
By August 2015, she was waiting to be scrapped.
In late March the 2018 Kristy Ann anchored in the Upper Bay with her barge.
I can’t make out the barge name.
Here’s Kristy Ann light, just leaving the fuel dock.
The new tug is rated at 4560hp and the hull is 110′ x 33.’
Her twin, Josephine, I’ve yet to see close up.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
I took this in April; I would never have guessed a Corvette was that much lower than an early 1950s (1952?) Pontiac.
Ditto here: Kristy Ann once rescued a motorboat I happened to be on; from the motorboat, Kristy Ann looked immense. Next to . . . Nicole (I think that’s Nicole Leigh Reinauer. I took the photo more than 10 years ago.), she’s a toy.
Notice the raised lettering on the front of the nearer tug’s wheelhouse? It says Bear. Bear was once all red. Bear, believe it or not, had a fleet mate–Little Bear. See it here.
Today these tugs are called Elizabeth Anna and Sarah Ann. Sarah Ann used to be such a brilliant orange you’d never forget it. Above and below, those photos were taken by Glenn Raymo.
Click here for previous “scale” posts.
Thanks to Glenn for use of his photo; all others by Will Van Dorp.
Here were 1 and 2, going back quite a few years. Back then, I used to describe photos beneath them, instead of my current practice . . . above.
So, below . .. it’s a light Stephen-Scott, which way be the oldest vessel (1967) in the Reinauer Transportation Company fleet today.
Morgan Renauer (1981), here pushing RTC 101, was originally built for Poling Transportation.
Jason Reinauer (1968), up in Albany since last winter’s ice, dates from 1968.
Laurie Ann Reinauer (2009), dating from the first generation of facet tug construction, moves RTC 85.
B. Franklin Reinauer (2012) is the first of the second generation of facet tugs. Click here for a Professional Mariner article on what a “facet tug” is.
Reinauer Twins (2011)–referenced in that PM article above–if compared with the photo above, shows design differences between the two facet tug generations.
Dean Reinauer (2013) is similar to Reinauer Twins and
Haggerty Girls (also 2013) resembles B. Franklin Reinauer.
Kristy Ann Reinauer (1962) either has been of will be scrapped.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who accepts blame for any errors in information and who would love to see a launch at the Senesco yard, where many of these have had their first splash.
Kristy Ann 2000 hp
Jason 3000 hp
Stephen Scott 3400 hp
Morgan 3900 hp
B. Franklin 4000 hp
Laurie Ann 4720 hp
Twins 4720 hp
Dean 4720 hp
Here’s a first-timer for me in the sixth boro . . . Miss Emily, a saltwater member of the huge Marquette Transportation fleet. Look carefully and you’ll see she sports equipment not commonly seen here.
One of my favorite harbor vessels . . . now called Ellen McAllister, used to do gray-work in Holy Loch, Scotland. Here’s more on Holy Loch and its role in the Cold War.
Zachery Reinauer was built upstate at Matton 42 years ago.
Kristy Ann Reinauer, 51 years old, offers some style hints of 1960s trucks like this one.
I’ve no idea how long Harry McNeal has worked the boro, but she was launched in Louisiana in 1965.
Ditto my question on history of Robert IV . . who launched in Louisiana in 1975.
Ruth M. Reinauer is the mother of facet tugs launched in Rhode Island around a half decade ago.
Discovery Coast might be the newest tug in this installment. It’s the creation of Frank Basile, whose bio as written by Brian Gauvin can be found here. For a portfolio of his work, click here.
JoAnne III Reinauer, a 1970 vessel with a 2008 aluminum tower is one of the more unusual tugs in the sixth boro. For a before-after look on tugster, click here.
Finally, a 1980 Oyster Bay, NY built vessel . . . now called Siberian Sea.
And that equipment unique to Miss Emily . . . it’s this knotted rope escape system. To see this in use, look at fotos 7 and 8 in this tugster post from three years ago.
All fotos taken–with icy fingers–by Will Van Dorp, in the past few days.
Over six years ago, here was the last time I used this title. At 09:23 this morning, E. R. Denver was at Howland Hook as an outbound tanker eased by. E. R. seems to have been created by erasure from MaERsk.
. . . nine seconds later, it’s
Mount Everest.
This is serious, precision navigating,
with even less tolerance of errors because of the channel work, and
surrounding traffic, like Kristy Ann Reinauer and Paul Andrew and dredge units.
This short stretch of Arthur Kill, where serious dredging is enlarging the channel, were featured here and here (a blast!!) back last October. I’m not given to playing video games or using simulators, but if such a thing were available, I can imagine spending time playing “games” imitating professionals piloting different types of vessels through ports of the world in every sort of conditions. Hats off to the professionals.
All fotos today by Will Van Dorp.
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Lord Byron’s poem “She walks in Beauty” might eventually be parodied rather updated in this post. If you’ll click on this link, you’ll get the entire poem AND a Botticelli Venus. I admit I had a long discussion with Botticelli about this work while he was creating it: have her turn around, I pleaded. Oh well. I long ago gave up trying to argue with Sandro’s about anything. Meanwhile, seeing how bows got us to Dolly Parton, who knows how an examination of sterns might lead, how it could descend . . . or rise.
The name’s the thing sometimes like here or
here: behold ex-Jaguar.
Sure, it’s fuel barge bow but a survey stern.
Look upon ex-Exxon Empire State. Why is Responder on recycling duty so much?
uh . . . ? Anyone help? [Thanks to Jeff and James: Psara meaning “of fish.”]
Check out Doris Moran and Cable Queen. Anyone know the Cable Queen story?
Catch a glimpse of Ruth M. Reinauer, class of 2009.
Drool over John J. Harvey. By the way, to learn more about this legendary fireboat, come hear author Jessica DuLong read at Atlantic Gallery on October 21, or read her book My River Chronicles. I immensely enjoyed it.
Relish the lines on what for 40ish years has been the sixth boro’s very own mostly stay-at-home some of the time flat-bottom, Pioneer.
Marvel at Maryland, as she wonders about this island. Yeah, and wanders about it, too.
Oh . . . posteriors. Send in your favorite.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
By the way, Patricia Ann bounced me around quite a bit, I hung on, but I haven’t seen her since.
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