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Usually when I see an MSC vessel, it’s a container ship, but as this post shows, that is not always the case. Melissa, though, IS a container ship. When she passed the other day, I also saw a lot of people, not surprising on a warm but not torrid summer’s morning. See the crew in the line boat?
Here’s a closer up showing a deckhand on the bow of Miriam and another crewman at the top of the tanker companionway.
On Mary Turecamo, a crewman gets a line to MSC Melissa.
MSC Melissa dates back to 2002, and at 6402 teu, she was a large vessel of that time almost two decades ago.
Crew . . . I wonder how long they’ve been aboard. What was breakfast this morning? What are nationalities of the crew? Where all has the vessel called in the past 12 months? Here‘s a partial answer that may prompt more questions. And of course, what is in all those containers? And the crews on the tugboats, what are their stories.
All photos, WVD, who has lots of questions sometimes and not many answers, which is the story of my life.
Marjorie B. McAllister is one of those tugs that confused me when I first started paying attention. Below the house is down, and
and here the hydraulics have raised it up to look over Bulkmaster.
Ava M. McAllister‘s elegant lines are shown off as she assists a tanker to the Arthur Kill.
Cohoes on the Hudson River was the launch site of Mary Turecamo, the last tugboat to be built there.
Thomas D. Witte originally had a telescoping wheelhouse to fit under bridges on the Erie Canal and elsewhere, but I’ve never seen photos of that superstructure.
Ever sharp-looking 2006 Pegasus goes to a job.
The veteran Ellen McAllister escorts in a tanker. I’ll do a tanker post here one of these days soon, maybe later this week.
Capt. Brian heads eastbound on the KVK to a job.
Pathfinder is rarely seen light, but here she heads over to pick up the TUP at the trash transfer station.
Twins . . . at the 10-year mark . . . looks to need some TLC.
Here was Twins a minute earlier, coming out of a busy but typical traffic pattern on the KVK. I count five tugboats besides Twins.
The mighty Patrice powers her way east to pick up a job. Note the crew aboard Chem Singapore.
And to end this post, which of course could go on and on, the 4610 hp Doris powers along a container barge from one NY/NJ container port to another, a local example of short sea shipping.
All photos, WVD.
A new assist boat in town bringing 3800 hp to the job?
Right . . . I was kidding. It’s Jones Act non-compliant anyhow.
Genesis Eagle is a 6140 hp pin boat.
JRT Moran and Capt. Brian McAllister do an assist of an ULCV.
Pegasus gives Mount St. Elias an assist as it moves DBL 82 out of IMTT bound for New Haven.
Andrea gives HMS Liberty an assist as it delivers a bunker barge to Port Elizabeth.
Miriam Moran delivers a pilot to the ship.
Mary Turecamo assists a container ship.
Doris waits for a job to approach in the Upper Bay,
and finally, Kirby Moran moves in closer to an incoming ship.
All photos, WVD.
Elli, built in 2010 and with 113k capacity, gets an assist out of the berth from Ellen McAllister.
Kimberly and Brendan assist STI Finchley, 2014 and 38k, out of a dock, and
and Ginga Cougar, 2005 and 26k, heads into that same dock.
See the blurry name above, and somewhat blurry below?
I’d seen it before in the boro as King David and then King Dorian.
Khawr AlAdid is a crude tanker, 2006 and 106k.
When I saw Maersk Navigator on AIS, I’d expected a box ship.
It’s a tanker, 2016 andn 46k.
Seabreeze is 2007 and 54k.
Persepolis, a classical name for a world heritage site,
was launched in 2018 and 74k.
Front Clipper is huge for the harbor, 157k and built in 2017.
And closing it out . . . all rise for The Judge, an asphalt tanker, 2016 and 37k.
All photos, WVD.
Here’s a tanker with a great name I stumbled upon while looking through the November 2016 archives. St Aqua . . . i’ll expand that St to “saint,” who we sometimes need . . .
It should be no secret that I’m an early riser, have always been one to get up in the “o’dark” hours for the morning golden hour, the best time of day. Here are two Miller’s Launch OSVs, possibly Rana and Rosemary.
A bit later on a different day, I caught Dylan Cooper westbound, with another Reinauer unit off in the distance.
Janet D headed into that same morning, here eastbound.
Ditto . . . Charles D McAllister and
Mary Turecamo. In fact, in the photo below, you see all three. Did you get the golden hour this morning?
All photos, WVD, who thinks this morning’s overcast skies here blocked any gold.
See at what point you can read the name of this tanker. Then ask yourself what it’s registry is.
Launched in 2009, her previous name was Caspian Galaxy.
Backlit photos have their own mystery.
So now you’ve got the name, I suppose . . . what’s the registry?
China Dawn is a fairly large crude tanker to be coming into the Kills . . . 805′ x 138′ and with a capacity of 115000 dwt, rounded up, and Aframax size.
All photos, WVD, who is currently away from the sixth boro. In case you missed this article on the “sixth borough” in the Post, here it is.
And related to my being “away,” here’s what I posted on May 13: “The 16000 teu, biggest ship yet on the East Coast US CMA CGM Marco Polo will arrive in the sixth boro at some time on May 20. However, I won’t be here. I’ll be far inland on higher elevations. If anyone gets good photos and wants the (dubious) fortune and fame of having photos posted on tugster, please get in touch. I’ll have some access to WIFI, so there may also be gaps in my posting, no DP class 2 position holding for me.” Do get in touch. Since then, I’ve learned that the mega ship will be entering the Narrows late morning on the 20th.
With Eastern Dawn in the foreground, the massive scale of these box boats is apparent.
Foreshortening gives the illusion that MSC Lauren cannot possibly avoid a collision.
Although this may be her first arrival in the sixth boro, this 12400 teu vessel has sailed the seas for a decade already.
See the crewman near the port bow quarter?
Now you see him?
If I recall correctly, she arrived here from Jamaica; from here she travels to Italy.
Again . . . Linda L. Miller and the 6000 hp tugs show scale. MSC Lauren is one of 560 container vessels operated by MSC, the second largest shipping company in the world. Know the largest? The third largest? Answers are here.
So here’s a merger of truckster! and ULCVs, a photo I took last week from a parking lot. I know what was loaded into that 20′ MSC container. I invite you to guess. Answer will be posted tomorrow . . . .
All photos, WVD, who is always happy to collaborate.
Most of you know that dawn is my favorite time. Yesterday dawn–between 0545 and 0645–was quite busy; two of the five vessels that transited the KVK were among the largest–so far–that call in the sixth boro.
Pink sky with gradations, faded purple Brooklyn, huge but silent shapes, and spots of artificial lights.
Birds silhouetted and reflections in the still water make the scene as one point over by central western Brooklyn turns a deeper shade of red.
When the ship blocks the blinding rising sun, its name becomes legible.
Once CS Rose passes my vantage point, all that light illuminates the details. Three tugboats along her starboard, one on stern, and one on the far side, the port side.
Not much later–another smaller container ship has passed–the next hulking shape appears, and the light has already turned gradations of yellow.
When CMA CGM Mexico blocks the rising sun, details become available . . .
By now, 0645, the light suggests the sun has created daylight.
Tugboats on Rose include James D, Mary Turecamo, Kimberly Turecamo, and Kirby. Tugboats on Mexico include Marie J Turecamo, JRT, Kimberly Turecamo, and Miriam.
All photos, WVD.
Mackenzie Rose and Paul Andrew are eastbound, and Mary Turecamo, westbound.
A light Haggerty Girls westbound,
passing Laurie Ann Reinauer.
Kimberly Poling moves a barge out of the Kills.
A bulker in the anchorage gets bunkered by
Kings Point. Katya Atk needs to repaint the name on the starboard bow.
And Helen Laraway makes her way east.
All photos, WVD.
Mary Turecamo, 4300 hp and waiting for a ship at the Narrows, could not look better. She’s an almost 40-year-old product of Matton Shipyard. In fact, she was their last product.
Christiana heads out as
Virginia, 1440 hp and launched in 1979, comes in
from sea, out of the haze.
Christiana was launched in Marinette WI in 2007, a year after Brandywine and a few years after the Molinari class of Staten Island ferries. She’s married to Double Skin 143, another Marinette vessel.
Barney Turecamo (1995 and 5100) and barge Georgia gets rotated by Marie J Turecamo (1968 and 2250). Yesterday I started a re-read of the 1956 book Tug Boat: The Moran Story, and am finding it very satisfying.
Here’s a dense pack over at the east end of IMTT: Josephine, Evelyn Cutler, and Cape Lookout: (2018 and 4560), (1973 and 3900), and (2018 and 5000).
Crystal Cutler arrived here from the shipyard in 2010 and works with 1500 hp.
She’s pushing Patricia Poling.
And finally, a light Hunting Creek, 2011 and 3000 hp.
All photos and any errors, WVD.
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