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Many thanks to Kyle Stubbs for sending along these photos. Recognize these tugboats below? Answer follows.
He saw and took this photo of Osprey in Vallejo CA in November 2022.
Osprey above is 125′ x 38′ and propulsion power of 6140 hp . Sun Spirit below is 122′ x 37′ and the same hp as Osprey. Ring any bells?
This photo of Sun Spirit he took in Seattle a few days ago.
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And here they were in previous livery, Linda Lee in May 2020 in the sixth boro, and
Robert J. in December 2021 at Algiers Point, a picturesque curve on the Mississippi.
Again, for today’s photos, thanks to Kyle, whose previous contributions A through D can be traced here.
Location 1? Do you know this tug?
Location 2. Tug Rachel is with this
unusual looking cargo ship, Lihue.
Viking pushes southbound past Castle Rock and
Comet northbound along the Hudson River.
Near the west end of the East River, it’s C. Angelo and
near the east end, it’s Navigator with GT Bulkmaster heading west and Ellen McAllister, east.
Working near the TZ Bridge some years back, it’s Tappan Zee II.
And finally, on the northern end of Lake Huron, it’s Avenger IV
heading for the Soo.
To answer the first question, that’s Coney Island with the Goethals Bridge and Linden refinery in the background, making this the Elizabeth River in Elizabethport NJ.
And the second question, it’s Seattle. Photo thanks to Kyle Stubbs. Lihue, ex-President Hoover III, ex-Thomas E. Cuffe, 1971, may be at the end of Rachel‘s towline along the coast of Oregon, heading for the Panama Canal and then . . . Texas for scrap. She’s probably the last of LASH (C8-S-81e) vessels built, along with President Tyler IV and President Grant V, scrapped more than 10 years ago. She’s been a survivor.
Click on the photo below to learn more about a 1970 container ship still moving boxes, up to 482 teu at a time. Explorador!
All other photos, WVD, at points in various places since 2017.
I found it hard to move on from the #300 mile marker, so let me offer up another set, with some of your generous contributions.
Thanks to John “Jed” Jedrlinic, two tugboats from Tahiti, Aito Nui and
Aito Nui II. My machine translator tells me the name means “champions of the universe.” Aito Nui, 98′ x 33′, dates from 2001, built in Concarneau, Brittany. Aito Nui II, 94′ x 34′, is a Damen tug built in 2017. Jed took these photos last October in Tahiti.
From George Schneider, “Here’s one of Curtin Maritime’s remarkable tug rebuilds: Sarah C (501167), 65′ x 24′. She was built in 1965 for Pacific Towboat Co. after they’d been aligned with Foss. She came out as Sea Queen, sister to the Martinolich/Foss M class. In 1974 she was fully fossticized and became Mathilda Foss. She was discarded in the mid 1980’s and was picked up by Mogul Ocean Towing (apparently a corporate name for Campbell Towing) who owned her through 2007. It was then that Curtin Maritime picked her up for reconstruction.”
She’s a beauty. Check out the Curtin webpage here, with its great header photo. George took the photo in February 2020 in San Diego.
Kyle Stubbs: “I found David has appeared on your blog once before, in Something Different 21. [Click on that link for an unbelievable transformation.] At that time, you asked for information about David‘s continued existence and later names. I’m surprised that it had not come out of the woodwork that she’s still around under her original name, working on Long Island Sound. When I took these photos at New Haven in 2017, she was working for a construction company from Branford, Connecticut called Blakeslee Arpaia Chapman. Given that her Coast Guard documentation still lists her homeport as Branford, I’m assuming that’s still the case.”
Again, it’s hard to believe it’s the same hull given the radical superstructure changes.
TS Poderoso I took in Niteroi Brasil in 2013. TS Poderoso (name is Portuguese for “powerful”) was built in southern Brasil in 2007 by a company intriguingly named Detroit S. A. Group.
On the same trip I took this photo of Cape Cumbria, built Appledore Shipbuilders Ltd. in Bideford (southwestern UK) in 1977. Technically, it’s not a tugboat, but beside it,
is C Brilhante, a 2008 built tug.
I add this photo because it was taken in Beirut harbor by Godra. Click on the image for fuller info. Thank you, Godra. I’d love to know more about the ports of Lebanon.
Harold Tartell shared this photo years ago, but I never used it until now because I wondered who’d taken it, when, and what the context was. Maybe Capt. Bill VanVoorhis took it? Fannie J is currently working in Haiti as Sisters. She was built in . . . ready for this . . . . 1874!! 1874!!! Here‘s a photo of her as Sisters.
I took this photo on the Chesapeake in October 2012 . . . Norfolk Rebel in the Great Chesapeake Schooner Race. She’s the world’s only tugantine.
This was the Donjon Shipbuilding yard in Erie PA Febuary 2018. From left to right, Dorothy Ann (the world’s largest z-drive tug at 124′ x 44′), Joyce L. Van Enkevort (135′ x 50′), and Elizabeth Anna (54′ x 17′).
Salvage Monarch (98′ x 29′) here was crossing Lake St. Clair. Notice the jetski as her workboat.
And I’ll close this post with Mackenzie Rose, the latest iteration of the 2000-built boat from Fall River MA.
Many thanks to Jed, Kyle, George, Godra, Harold and whoever took that photo. All other photos by WVD. Thanks for continuing to read the blog.
Time to move on to RT 301 soon.
Happy 4th of July. Here’s some sixth boro, some heartland, and some Pacific Northwest. Here‘s the series.
But let’s start with Robert IV, a workhorse who last appeared in this blog here.
Hundreds of Cheyenne photos have appeared on this blog, showing her in a range of colors and trims; this photo was taken last week in Manitowoc by a Great Lakes mariner, who, by the way, at one time worked in the sixth boro.
Ellen McAllister has worked in the sixth boro longer than I’ve been taking photos here; as a result, hundreds of photos of her can be found here.
For a red-white-blue tug today, what could be better than a Nicholas Vinik photo.
An outa-towner has come through the sixth boro twice this week with an unusual bargeload; bad decision-making means this is the best photo I got. Sorry, Elizabeth Anne. Did anyone get a better photo? Any idea what the “marshmallow” load on that barge is?
Two of the tugs assisting in a Cosco Shipping ULCV, Brendan Turecamo and JRT Moran, seem small but bring adequate power to the task.
Another view of Cheyenne shows her location on the Manitowoc River, adjacent to Erich.
Thanks to Kyle Stubbs for sending along this photo of a raft of Boyer tugs. L to r, it’s Sea, Billie H, Gretchen H, and Kirsten H. You might have recognized Sea as the former Java Sea, a regular operating out of the sixth boro. Despite what’s on the bow, she’s now called Kinani H. In the back row, that looks like Sonja H.
How about another red-white-blue boat for today? This is from over 11 years ago. It’s the 1951 Dorothy Elizabeth, ex-Gotham, Christine Gellatly, Mobil 11, Socony 11.
To close out the set, Iron Salvor, a Vanuatu-flagged tug, is back in town. Anyone know her story . . . who she works for?
Many thanks to Great Lakes mariner, Kyle, and Tony A for some of these photos; photos not otherwise attributed by WVD.
I took the photo below–near my neighborhood in Queens– March 21, 2015, exactly a year ago.
I took this photo this past weekend. Question: Where on Long Island is this light located? Answer follows. Be careful . .. it’s a trick question.
Actually, here’s a clue. And I don’t mean to be ornery . . . but water boat? Are there land boats? Air boats actually I’ve seen. And stone boats I used for farm work as a kid.
How about this one . . . any guesses on location of this tugboat? Answer follows.
March madness? See the hoop on
house of Bow Riyad, here last week and currently in the mouth of the Mississippi. And off to the right, it’s HMS Liberty.
Here’s a question I wish I knew the answer to . . . this pier currently exists just west of the St George ferry racks and 9/11 monument. My question is . . . will it remain there after the New York Wheel construction ends? Has anyone seen it already used to move in components of the Wheel complex?
Here’s a closer-up of what I call Omega Beam, but if you want to add Trinity Prod Ucts . . . it’s fair.
I’d love to learn more about this also . . . photo said to have been taken in Bayonne but I know not when or what.
Here’s a photo from Kyle Stubbs. It’s AJ, a triple stacker recently arrived in the Salish Sea, sister of the sixth boro’s Andrea’? Thanks, Kyle, a photo of this newcomer to the Harley fleet.
Here’s a clue to the tug question from earlier . . . answer is
Thailand. Many thanks to Ashley Hutto for passing it along.
Now, for that Long Island lighthouse question . . . it’s Long Island Head Light, located on Long Island in Boston harbor.
Again, thanks to Kyle and Ashley. All other photos by Will Van Dorp.
Unrelated . . . Boaty McBoatface, you have got to be kidding, but here it is. Here’s NERC’s site.
Kyle’s words: “Collecting postcards, mainly of shipping, is … one of my hobbies. I came across recently showing a parade of vessels with many more in the background, apparently in New York harbor. While most are distant, the closest tug is closest enough to see that it is under Lehigh Valley operation, however the name is just blurry enough to not be readable. Doing a quick search, I believe the Lehigh Valley tug is the CHEEKTOWAGA of 1902.”
My two cents: “It could be the christening of the boat, given the pennants? I was searching but you beat me to it. Here is some info on the yard that built Cheektowaga, assuming that is the boat.”
My anteing up: “Oops! It can’t be Cheektowaga because that was built for the Lehigh Valley subset called the Easton and Amboy Railroad.”
Following up on Kyle’s first line, I decided to search for some postcards online. Quickly I came to this, which tantalizes as you scroll. His is by Harris Post Card Co.
Click here for other posts Kyle contributed to.
The top three photos in this post come thanks to Kyle Stubbs, who has contributed photos here before, not to mention many photos on uglyships, which is how we first met. He’s not Sea bart.
I’ll tell you more about this fishing boat in a bit, but that mud says it has been below the surface of the water, and it ain’t a submarine.
Some claim it’s the most famous fishing boat in the world, although that sounds hyperbolic. Guesses?
It’s Western Flyer, the boat chartered by John Steinbeck AND Ed Ricketts, which served as the platform for their expedition to the Sea Of Cortez aka Gulf of California. Click here for an interesting article on how marketing removed Ricketts’ name from the Log from the Sea of Cortez account. The vessel is currently undergoing a $2 million restoration.
Log from the Sea from Cortez is well-worth reading, although my favorite is Cannery Row, in which Ricketts is portrayed as the marine biologist. For a portion of Log, click here. My favorite pages in that excerpt are the second half of p. 6 and all of p. 7, and the second half of p. 14 onto top of 15.
Tangentially related: the elusive bowsprite has responded to an updated book on the Sea of Cortez here.
Many thanks to Kyle for these photos, taken in Port Townsend.
If you’re wondering why December has brought a run on dates, i.e., years and numbers as part of titles, it’s classic and/or antique boat month.
Sarah Elizabeth Banks, below, began life in the UK as SS Fire King. In fact, it had a mate, SS Fire Queen, now long scrapped. Today, it’s a yacht owned by the grandson of the manufacturer and based in Seattle. Many thanks to Kyle Stubbs for this photo, which he sent me months ago and I never figured out how to use.
And since we’re talking old fireboats, let me add this never-posted photo of Edward M. Cotter, the Elizabeth NJ-built fireboat still in use in Buffalo NY. As the Buffalo Fire Department says on their website here, Cotter was working Lake Erie’s margins three years before the Wright Brothers made their Kitty Hawk flight!!! Click here for another photo of Sarah Elizabeth Banks. Click here for photos/text about another old fireboat named Alki.
Many thanks to Kyle for sending along the top photo. For other posts with photos from Kyle, click here.
For my previous Seattle area posts, click here.
Know Apra? Actually I didn’t, so let’s make this about guessing the location. All photos come from Kyle Stubbs, who has previously contributed these photos. Most of the text here is also from Kyle, who took these photos in summer 2010.
The Ha. 62-76 is a World War II Japanese Type C Ko-hyoteki-class midget submarine. It ran aground across the island from Apra.
By now, clearly you can identify the body of big water. Taisei Maru No. 28 is a longline fishing vessel built at Takuma, Japan in 1991. She stopped for a port call at Apra Harbor presumably to take on supplies.
Natsushima, a Japanese research vessel built by Kawasaki at Kobe in 1981 is operated by Nippon Marine Enterprises, Ltd.
CSC Brave is a 2007-built chemical/product tanker.
Goliath was built at Yokosuka, Japan in 1980 as Kinuura. Ready to guess?
Super Shuttle is a compact container ship built in Germany in 1977 as Passat. It is used to transport cargo between the islands. Now here’s a clue; it’s operated by Seabridge, Inc.
And here’s another big clue with Matson’s 2004 Philadelphia built Maunawili.
Chamorro, now operated by Seabridge, Inc., was built by Halter at News Orleans in 1974 as Mister Bob for Jackson Marine Corporation. One of a large series of tugs, you’ve previously seen photos of her sisters Mister Darby, now Atlantic Salvor,and Mister Peter, now the blighted Barents Sea.
USNS Vadm K. R. Wheeler, T-AG 5001, built by North American Shipbuilding at Larose, LA in 2007, is operated by the Navy as an “Offshore Petroleum Distribution System (OPDS),” designed to facilitate the transfer of fuel from tankers to onshore installations from up to 8 miles offshore. Alongside is her tender, the 160′ loa crew boat Fast Tempo.
And finally, it’s USS Pearl Harbor, LSD-52.
Apra is a deepwater port in Guam.
Again, many thanks to Kyle for sharing these photos.
Here are some more Harley tugs, thanks to Kyle, who sent along all the photos AND text for this post also.
“MILLENNIUM FALCON built by the Marine Construction & Design Co (MARCO) at Seattle, at used for long-haul fuel barge tows on the Pacific coast. OLYMPIC SCOUT was built in 1976 in-house for Pacific Towboat & Salvage Co of Long Beach, CA as AVENGER. In 2004 she was purchased by American Navigation Co and renamed PACIFIC MARINER, then sold to Harley in 2007.
KESTREL was built in 2012 by Halimar Shipyard and is based off of the design of Vane Brothers Sassafras-class tugs. She is currently used for operation in Southeast Alaska.
JAMES T QUIGG was built in 1971 by Houma Welders as BRETT CANDIES for the Otto Candies company. Later owned by White Horse Marine of Norfolk as PEGASUS, Portland Tugboat & Shipdocking of Portland, ME as FOURNIER BOYS and American Workboats of Honolulu as AMERICAN CHALLENGER. Purchased by Harley in 2001.
MICHELLE SLOAN is Harley’s newest delivery, built by Diversified Marine of Portland, OR. Based on a design by Robert Allan Ltd of Vancouver, BC, she is used for shiphandling around LA.
Another shot of MILLENNIUM STAR
ALYSSA ANN, built in-house in 1966 as J.V. ALARIO for Nolty J. Theriot Offshore and participated in the North Sea oil boom in the late 70’s/early 80’s, pictured with ERNEST CAMPBELL, built in 1969 by Southern Shipbuilding as GATCO FLORIDA for Gulf Atlantic Transport Co of Miami. Later owned by Mobile Bay Towing as MOBILE PRIDE. In the background, the brick clocktower belongs to the headquarters building of Starbucks. You might have heard of them… The building was built in 1912 as the West Coast catalog center for Sears Roebuck.
EMERY ZIDELL is a newly-delivered ATB unit, built by Conrad Shipyard and partnered with the barge DR ROBERT J BEALL.
Another shot of LISSY TOO, this one compliments of Seth Tane.
TIM QUIGG, pictured in the Port of LA, is a predecessor to MICHELLE SLOAN, built by Diversified Marine in 2004 and also used in the Port of LA/Long Beach.”
And who is this Harley? Click here.
As to the small sixth boro contingent of Harley, I miss the bow puddings I first associated them with more than half a decade ago.
Kyle, again . . . many thanks.
Unrelated: my mission today is to see if the mermaid parade brings any tugboats; of course, I’m likely to get distracted. See you there, maybe?
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