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Is that really USS Cole (DDG 67)?
I’ve not seen it mentioned much in media coverage today.
Ocean survey vessel HMS Scott (H131) and why the
penguin? Answer follows.
USS Oak Hill (LSD 51), a dock landing ship is named after a former president’s residence!
ITS Virginio Fasan (F 591) is an Italian frigate. Click here for the namesake.
USCGC Warren Deyampert (WPC-1151) has a quite interesting namesake story.
Deyampert and Ollis meet.
HMCS Glace Bay (MM 701) is a Canadian coastal defence vessel, as spelled in Canadian English.
USS Wasp (LHD-1) history can be read here.
Is that a Harrier AV-8B?
USNS Newport (T-EPF-12) can transport over 300 troops at almost 50 mph.
I’d love to tour it.
All photos this morning, WVD.
OK, H131 is named for RF Scott, the explorer.
Two days, two ULCVs, and two distinctly different types of weather.
OOCL Brussels glided into a foggy harbor with
Ava ready for indirect towing. OOCL Brussels is 10 years old and has box capacity of 13200 teu.
Here’s the bestickered AMP box ready for use.
Below the AMP box, in the aft mooring station, notice the speck of orange?
It’s still there as Justine passes.
That turns out to be a crewman, his 21st century version of a spyglass turned on me, just as I’d turned my camera on him. Seconds later, I waved and he waved back. Send me an email, sir.
A few days later, actually yesterday morning, Justine played a role again,
possibly a role as a press boat(?) for the gentleman with the camera slung over his left shoulder,
as Zim Sammy Ofer departed port.
Ofer represents another design for large box ships as well as other innovations, such as LNG or dual-fuel propulsion. Keep in mind that no matter how much LNG is touted as “natural” gas, it’s no more natural than any other fossil fuel product. However, it is cleaner and more energy dense. Ofer‘s capacity is 15,000 teu. Also, notice the unusual, non-bulbous bow. More on Ofer here.
This time, Capt. Brian was hooked in for indirect towing with Ellen standing by.
Note the fire monitor at the top of the stack
and the crew sans spyglass at the morning station.
As they departed with Marjorie and
Ava also assisting,
they exited the Narrows and Ambrose and soon were heading SW at 19 knots!
All photos, any errors, WVD.
I don’t want to be too predictable with this title.
Check out Miss Madeline and Emma Rose on a foggy morning.
Later that foggy day, it was Everly Mist and Emma Rose.
That same foggy day, Kirby Moran and Kimberly Turecamo saw Northern Jubilee out of town.
Heading for the next job, Alex and Marjorie B. McAllister pass my location, like a brace of oxen I never photographed when I could have back in the 1980s.
Here Patrice and Ava M overtake Ever Fame and travel to their next appointment.
Justine and Ava see OOCL Brussels into port. Invisible here is Patrice on the far side.
As Nicole Leigh waits with RTC 135 at IMTT, Josephine passes by with RTC 83.
Cape Fear gets an assist from Wye River.
Fells Point gets an assist from Cape Fear.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who will soon be making a major but temporary change of venue.
February 2013 saw Patrick Sky still working in the boro.
The walkway still flanked the west side of the Bayonne Bridge, which allowed images like the ones that follow. Sun Right and Suez Canal Bridge were regulars. Since then the 1993 Sun Right has been scrapped. The 2002 Suez Canal Bridge continues to work under the name Suez Canal. Container capacity for the two vessels comes in at 2205 and 5610, respectively.
Winter 2013 saw these pipelines getting staged and buried across Bergen Point. I believe they were these for natural gas, somewhat controversial at the time. If so, it’s interesting to note the message here on “natural gas” compared with a shift in attitude that seems to be gaining traction.
It was the view of vessels rounding Bergen Point in the morning light I enjoyed the most back then.
Let’s follow Sun Right around, here assisted by Ellen McAllister and Marjorie B. McAllister. Out below, that’s Shooters Island, Port Ivory, and Elizabethport in the distance.
The benefit of the lower bridge was
proximity to the vessel and
crew. Obviously, that proximity was also its drawback; the global fleet increased in size and air draft with the obvious impediment to container ship traffic in the boro.
I recall the crew below seemed eager to have their photos taken. I wonder where these guys are, a decade on. See the whole series differently here.
All photos in early February 2013.
This will be the last post for a few days . . . William F. Fallon Jr. at the Statue.
Thomas D. Witte, dredge Delaware, Durham, and some smaller boats in the Upper Bay.
Marjorie B. McAllister with NYNJR 200 on the Brooklyn side.
Jessica Ann and another RIB appear to be involved in diving ops. Brrr.
Schuylkill moves a tank barge across the boro.
James William tows a mooring into Erie Basin.
And finally, the ever busy Chandra B heads for the Kills.
All photos recently, WVD, who hopes to be back by week’s end.
For scale, the “small” tugboat on the near side of the tanker here is over 100′ loa.
That means … there’s a lot of crude oil capacity in the vessel she’s assisting. however, to complete the scale comparison, this tanker is 816′ loa. The largest tanker currently operating–Euronav Oceania–is 1246′ loa, and the largest ever–Knock Nevis et al.–was 1504′ and that’s just looking at the length. Imagine how these tugboats would look alongside either of these tugboats!
The tug on the far side is 100′ x 40′. Also, keep in mind that when zoomed in on a subject several miles away, distortion happens, refracted light.
The line connecting tugboat and ship is incredibly strong.
To this photographer’s delight, the KVK twists and turns, complicating navigation but allowing photography of first one side and then the other side of whatever traffic there.
In low angle light of dawn, the shadow image replicates whatever creates it without distortion.
All photos, WVD.
As for the vessel SFL Trinity, you can learn more here. And why “S F L,” here is the expansion of that abbreviation.
Marjorie moves her train cars.
Nathan G goes for fuel.
Crystal Cutler pushes her barge.
Paula Atwell travels light for a change.
CMT Pike does her harbor rounds.
Mister Jim here looks brighter than usual in the morning sun; in cloudy weather, that gray livery
obscures details.
Robert IV assists at the stone anchorage.
Cape Henry leaves her barge to take care of some business.
Captain Willie Landers makes a pass through the boro.
And a rare sighting, Sea Crescent transits the boro on her return from Port Hawkesbury NS to Fort Eustis VA. It’s likely that Sea Crescent originated this voyage from a port on the Saint Lawrence or even the Great Lakes.
All photos, any errors, WVD, whose 380 in this series was posted here.
This series goes back more than a decade to here.
But this is only the second time the 2019 NYNJR200 (rail) carfloat is identified. Metal Trades of Yonges Island SC built it less than a half dozen years ago.
The previous time the carfloat appeared here, it was handled by the Brown boats, now history. James E. Brown is now Kayla T. Any updates on Thomas J. Brown?
The contract to move cross-harbor rail is currently with McAllister, and Marjorie B. does that and other jobs daily. Click here and here for more on this car floating operation.
There’s also a NYNJR100 float here.
All photos this week, WVD.
Janet D, product of 2015, comes in a 67′ x 26′.
Ellen McAllister, the oldest here launched in 1967, measures 102′ x 29′.
Marjorie B McAllister, from 1974, is bigger than I imagined . . . 112′ x 30′.
The two McAllister tugs were heading to assist tanker Sakura Belle, 26960 dwt contained within 558′ x 88′, launched in 2011.
Janice Ann Reinauer, the newest tugboat here, came off the ways in 2020. She measures 113′ x 35′.
And finally, doing dredge spoils runs, we have Douglas J, 2004, 110′ x 38′ and
Atlantic Enterprise, 1976, and the largest tugboat in this post, measuring 136′ x 40′.
All photos, this week, WVD.
Let’s jump back to the present . . . and Doris Moran, both light
and moving containers across the harbor to the other container port back fields. If I count right, that’s 160 containers not on chassis pulled by trucks on the BQE, SIE, or other such clogged arteries.
Brinn Courtney is moving a scow, as
is Eastern Dawn.
Mister Jim and all the CMT boats seem to
be getting
a makeover.
Marjorie B. might be going to pick up her daily train cars.
Kimberly Poling basks in the dawn liight.
All photos, recently, in the sixth boro, WVD, who won’t be in the boro for the rumored tugboat race this weekend. If you’re out there, take photos, especially ones with splash!
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