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Call this the push knee set. And let’s do it this way . . . given all the features that could be discussed, focus of these for oldest/newest, smallest/largest, and least/most horsepower.
CMT Pike. An aside about CMT Pike is that she was not built with a retractable wheelhouse. When launched, she had a fixed wheelhouse, the “stalk” of which can be seen directly behind where the raised wheelhouse is now. I’ve not been able to find a photo of her in that original configuration.
Shiloh Amon aka Jillian Irene
Lightning
Discovery Coast
Miss Madeline
And finally, a photo from January 2013 and showing one that has been sold out of the sixth boro . . . Herbert P. Brake.
Have you written down your final decisions?
All photos, WVD. All info here thanks to Birk Thomas’ invaluable tugboatinformation
Ready? No cheating.
Just guesses.
Oldest is Miss Madeline, and newest is Shiloh aka Jillian Irene. 1976 and 2022.
Smallest considering both length and beam is Herbert P. Brake, and longest is Discovery Coast although both Discovery and Jillian tie at 34′ for beam. Lengths are 60′ and 96′.
Least horses is Brake, and most is Discovery. They range from 375 hp to 3000 hp.
Discovery Coast has been around for over a decade now. One of my first times to see her was here.
Lightning has only recently been joined by Thunder, here. Might tugs named for other weather phenomena like hail and fog be coming?
Helen was only renamed that earlier this year; before that, she was Charles Burton.
Thomas D. Witte appeared here only once as Kendall P. Brake, and that was a decade and a half ago with Powhatan, class-establisher for Apache.
Defender last appeared on this blog a year and a half ago here . . . She was
formerly Davis Sea, my favorite photo of which was here, struggling with solid water upriver.
Pearl Coast is a regular at the cement dock on the KVK, here with Cement Transporter 1802, one of a fleet of barges dedicated to exactly that.
And while I was at this location, I caught a convergence of tugboats, Pegasus eastbound and Stephen Reinauer westbound. Stephen has been in the sixth boro for nearly 30 years now.
All photos, WVD.
I’ve seen lots of Lightning around the boro of late . . .
and so of course I’ve been counting . . .
and yesterday I suspected this might be it, a photo of Thunder.
As we made our way past the Global terminal,
we got confirmation.
Indeed . . . Thunder can be photographed, here with bunker barge Jackson Eades.
All photos, WVD, who doesn’t profess to be a storm chaser like John Huntington.
Lightning is here and has been for at least four years, and Thunder is on its way.
From 2014 and therefore two years newer than Lightning, Adeline Marie, previously Denise A. Bouchard, was heading over to the Industry Day on Wednesday. I caught a few photos of her as Rubia in between her original and her latest livery.
The 2006 Kristin Poling first came to the sixth boro as the 5000 hp 111′ x 36′ Chesapeake. Here was my first good view of her as a Poling/Cutler tugboat.
Atlantic Enterprise has been keeping busy with runs with dredge spoils from the North River passenger terminal out to the dump site aka HARS. For a day’s worth of reading, click here for a July 2022 report on HARS.
The 1981 Susan Miller pushes a small deck barge through congested waters here. She’s been working in the boro for as long as I’ve been doing this blog.
The 1968 Marie J. Turecamo has worked in the Moran livery for over 20 years.
Scale is clear from this side-by-side photo of the 2007 Saint Emilion (105′ x 38′ and 4800 hp) and the 1982 McCormack Boys ( 74′ x 26′ and 1200 hp), both hauled out over at Bayonne Dry Dock.
The 2007 Normandy (79′ x 27′ and 1900 hp) has been in the boro since 2015.
The 1981 Navigator (64′ x 24′ and 1200 hp) has to be one among the busiest boats in the harbor and the region.
The 1975 Mary Emma (100′ x 31′ and 3900 hp) has worked under this livery since 2021. I caught her transformation here about a year ago.
All photos and any errors, WVD, who thanks you for continuing to read this blog.
Centerline Logistics is a relatively new name. Or should that be pronounced “sent her lion”?
The orange “centerline” is also gradually being added to the fleet. Andrea was here three years–and sans upper house-– before she became a lion boat; here was first I saw that part of her logo.
Name this one?
Lightning has recently returned to the boro. Named for a horse?
So here’s the unit pushing Long Island, and getting an assist
from Lightning.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
Wrangell, Alaska is almost 7000 sea miles from New York.
Harley does have a number of fleets, but the Olympic fleet
seems to have arrived in the sixth boro this month. Ernest Campbell (1969) is one of several tugs that have retained the last name of the previous owner.
C. F. Campbell (1975) is another.
The other day they cooperated to get Long Island into a dock at IMTT.
Has this 60,000 bbl barge been sold out of Moran’s fleet? If so, when did that happen?
Then last week I caught the 2012 Lighning in the boro,
a 2000-hp tug of the Gulf fleet.
The 1999 Andrea (3000 hp) has been here for almost three years, if my recall is correct.
They’re all Harleys, along with Dr. Milton Waner, HMS St. Andrews, HMS Liberty, and more. And thanks to Kyle Stubbs, here and here are a set of Harleys from the Pacific Northwest. And here’s one more . . . from San Francisco.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Naming the setting is easy, but can you name this tug? I thought it was Emerald Coast with a modified paint job.
It’s a newbie in town from the Harley Gulf fleet, appropriately named Lightning, given that sky. .
Iron Salvor I’d seen before, but at the dock. The other day she loaded some fuel at the IMTT pump. Her intriguing history was commented on here from two months ago.
I don’t believe I’ve seen Kodi before.
She comes from across Raritan Bay, from Belford.
Let’s mix things up with a photo from about 10 years ago . . . Swift, a 1958 tug out of New Haven.
I’ve never seen Miss Circle Line away from the dock, but getting this photo on a stroll along the Hudson the other day led me to discover (maybe again) that she’s a 1955 product of Matton’s shipyard, although she doesn’t appear on this shipyard list, unless my eyes fail me or the list is incomplete.
To go over to Europe, from Jed . . . it’s Union 5.
photo date 15 JUNE 2017
And a rare shot from Jed, it’s Japanese tug Azusa. Since then, she’s been sold to Indian concerns and operates as Ocean Marvel out of the port of Krishnapatnam. Scroll down on that link to see a drawing of elephants being loaded . . . likely more than a half century ago.
photo date 16 Jan 2008
And in closing, here’s Decker and Matilda, photo I took on May 26, 2008. Where does the time go?
Thanks to Jed for use of his photos, many more of which are in the hopper. All others by Will Van Dorp.
As was true yesterday, all photos today were taken in the first 12 hours of 2016. For Chatham, the last tug I saw in 2015, the year end/start distinction was likely irrelevant. No doubt the same holiday treats were out in the galley in the wee hours of 2016 as were a few hours before in 2015.
From a different angle as last night, here are Michael J,
Camie,
and the “weather tugs.” I’m happy the precipitation of December 31 has ceased.
Although some people movers waited in reserve,
another was cross-crissing the Elizabeth. By the way, is this the same James C. Echols? Is it still LNG powered? Does anyone know where the new ferries are being built and delivery dates?
The quick side ramp system impressed me. It was in fact similar to a system on “water bus” I saw near Rotterdam a while back.
Surrie heads back to base, passing BB-64 USS Wisconsin.
Recognize this vessel, which spent a little time in the sixth boro a bit over a year ago?
It’s HMS Justice, slinging Bryant Sea now in the curvaceous Elizabeth River and
passing Mahan, Stout, and
Oscar Austin, far right.
Closing out today . . what can you do with $12 million and a 1962 North Sea trawler? Check here for this story on explorer yacht Discovery. Here’s another story with much better photos. Docked astern of Discovery is Shearwater, which was doing a project in the sixth boro back in sumer 2013.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
One of my (formerly) secret heroes is Guy Noir, secret because I may be revealing too much about myself in admitting that. But life’s too short to care about drivel like that. Noir has an office on the 20th floor of the Acme Building in a “city that knows how to keep its secrets,” yet each week a different mysterious woman seems to find him in quest of a favor. So imagine this as a view from Noir’s Portsmouth VA office around 1600 hrs . . . on the last night of the year. It’s rainy but warm and all the creeks feeding into the estuary course in, with color and warmth of some old coffee . . . I was last here, though on the river then, about six weeks ago here. And notice the hammerhead crane to the right. Here’s
the deal. But I’ll come back to this history stuff later.
For now, this is a record of the last night of the year, what my parents used to call “old years night.”
In the fading light, there’s Michael J. McAllister, another McA (Nancy??) behind it, Camie, and a trio of Robbins Maritime minis called Thunder, Lightning, and Squall. AND if you look carefully beyond the McAllister tugs, you’ll see Dann Ocean’s Neptune and the Colonna Shipyard, where a Staten Island ferry is being overhauled. Click here for previous posts referring to Colonna.
In the driving rain as the last hours of the year ebb away, Vane tug Chatham heads south; the oil must move . . . . even when the postal stream sleeps.
Shadows . . . on a rainy night paint the river. And under the “tent” inside
And so ended 2015 for me . . . not a low-flying aircraft but a high flying window perch.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, private and public eye.
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