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Let’s jump back to May 2012. Over along the Manhattan side of the East River then, I caught this scene. Since then, there’s been some movement: Peking to Germany, Marion M to the Chesapeake, Helen McAllister to . . . rebirth as new steel.
Cheyenne has migrated to the Lake Michigan for now.
Twin Tube is still around but sans the boom.
Ellen McAllister is also still hard at work in the sixth boro, but I don’t see her doing much indirect towing as here.
Mark Moran was just passing through from the shipyard to Charleston.
Swan, built in 1981 and showing as her last movement three and a half years ago in China, has likely gone to rebirth as new steel.
But a decade ago in May 2012, she was here to move some used tugboats over to West Africa. Here she’s already down and BFT No. 38 with a crew boat strapped on has already been loaded, while
McAllister Sisters and McAllister Girls wait with three Crowley tugs,
Cavalier, Pioneer, and Mars.
After they are floated aboard, the tide turns the anchored Swan.
Socrates and Heron also float aboard, and
overnight, Swan gets deballasted and raises the hull, so that we can see their five-bladed wheels. More of the story here.
Also in the boro those days was Picton Castle, showing the flag and more, maybe recruiting some hands
before sailing away. Does anyone have news about her? Has she really stayed in Lunenburg since late 2020?
All photos, WVD, exactly 120 months ago.
Unrelated to any of this, read this May 2004 article by the late great Don Sutherland and reflect on how much change has occurred.
March 25, 2011 was a busy day. L to r, Maurania III, USNS Yano, Resolute, McAllister Responder, McAllister Girls, Amy Moran . . . with a K-Sea barge at the mooring, and some iconic structures. None of these vessels in currently in the sixth boro. Amy Moran is now John Joseph.
Let’s follow the USNS vessel first, as it’s assisted into the graving dock. Yano is in Newport News at this time, 2021.
Yano is an example of a US-flagged non-Jones Act vessel.
A bit later, more to the west, Davis Sea stands by to assist Taurus
and DBL 25 into a dock. Taurus recently came to the boro from Philly as Joker. Davis Sea is now Defender.
The following day, Maurania III and
McAllister Girls sail British Serenity off the dock. Maurania III is now in Wilmington, and British Serenity is now Champion Timur and is in the Black Sea on a voyage that began in Indonesia. Girls is laid up.
An hour later, Jennifer Turecamo assisted the big OSG 350 moved by
OSG Vision westbound. Jennifer is in Tampa, and Vision runs in and out of Delaware Bay.
All photos and any errors, WVD, who notices the old Bayonne Bridge profile above.
For an update on Ever Given, click here.
And the answer to yesterday’s what and where: Jay Michael off Bridgeport, CT….
I hope you all are enjoying these glances back a decade as much as I enjoy putting them together. If you weren’t paying attention back then, this hints at how much the traffic in the harbor has changed, just as it has on the roads. If you were watching back in spring 2009, you might have this same appreciation at the changes; In addition, you might be amazed how quickly time has passed. Maybe you’ve forgotten about some of these boats.
Pegasus, quo vadis? I’ve heard some ominous scuttlebutt, the kind you’d hear about any 112-year-old vessel. Your project site is still up. Here she was in front of the Hoboken Terminal, which opened the same year–1907–as Peg was launched.
Starboard view and port . . it’s the 1968 McAllister Girls . . . if she’s still around, I’ve not seen her in quite some time. In the background over near the Jersey City river’s edge, Clipper City and Pioneer sail toward each other.
Ditto the 1977 Sisters.
Ellen (1967) and Amy C (1976) are still active in the harbor, but it’s been years since APL Cyprine has called here.
The 1978 Mary Gellatly has been sold up down east, and last I knew, working as Alice Winslow for Winslow Marine Inc. out of Southport Maine.
The K-Sea fleet in the sixth boro in 2009 was quite large. Norwegian Sea was a workhorse on the Hudson; now she’s Miss Rui operating for Smith Maritime.
Houma (1970) has been scrapped.
Taurus (1979) recently reappeared here as Joker.
Onrust was launched into the Mohawk River in May 2009, and I believe she will again be sailing out of Essex CT. Her splash up and over the riverbank trees was quite spectacular.
All photos a short 10 years ago by Will Van Dorp.
First, my take on the identification of the tug from the film in yesterday’s post, it’s a model and filmed in New Deal Studios in LA. That would explain the logistics.
So, for today, let’s start with Miss Katie . . . outbound last Thursday.
Miss Katie, 1998
Mister T, 2001
Ruth M. Reinauer, 2008, pushing RTC 102
Discovery Coast, 2012
Kirby Moran, 2015, assisting STI Fulham
JRT Moran, 2015
McAllister Girls, 1968, moving B. No. 231
Amy C McAllister, 1975, also assisting B. No. 231
Brian Nicholas, 1966. Sturgeon Bay, 1987
Eric McAllister, 2014, passing NYK Nebula
Irish Sea, 1969
James D. Moran, 2015, assisting NYK Nebula
And finally, we return to Miss Katie because two days later, she caught some unwanted attention. Details here.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Many thanks to Jonathan Steinman for these remarkable photos. McAllister Girls and Ellen (or Robert?) tow Empire State to the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Indeed, it is a sight to behold a tow like this on the East River!
If there are eight million stories in the naked city, then there are at least 80 million perspectives, and what I love about social media is the ability to share many more of these than can otherwise be seen. Take this one . . . sent along yesterday by Jonathan Steinman. Big Allis sets the location as about a half mile north of the bridge now named for Ed Koch. And the vessel . . . the current and VI version of Empire State on the first day . . . of Summer Sea Term 2014 and not yet out of its East River home waters. Greets to all the cadets on deck enjoying the mild spring morning. Click here for the previous versions of Empire State: I II III IV V.
And tailing . . it looks like McAllister Girls.
Around midday yesterday, Empire State was here (the blue icon off St George) and not quite 24 hours later,
she’s off Montauk.
The previous photo from Jonathan–which I never shared–was this, taken in midMarch. If you’re not from the area, that’s the East River with Roosevelt Island making for a quite narrow channel. That’s Shelby (of shuttle fame) and Freddy K Miller (ever morphing) team-pushing Weeks 533 (lifter of Sully’s ditched 1549).
And if you’ve forgotten what my –and many others’ focus was in midMarch, it was
salt!
Many thanks to Jonathan for sharing these photos.
Here’s a photo I took almost four years ago of the SUNY Maritime training ship returning home from Summer Sea Term.
Here was the first time I used this title, which clearly needs to be used again.
Let me start here at 13:38. Note from far to near, or black hull to black hull . . . Cartagena, Four Sky with Lee T Moran, Red Hook, and Genco Knight.
Twin Tube slides through the opening between Bow Kiso and Genco Knight.
Even the bow of Genco Knight is crowded as their vessel prepares to dock and resupply the salt depot.
Kimberly Turecamo works the bulk carrier’s stern as Evening Star passes with B. No. 250.
Add McAllister Girls in the foreground and Ellen McAllister in the distance against the blue hull, which will appear a bit later.
McCrews heads westbound and Four Sky now seems to be doing the same.
Are you out of breath yet? Only 10 minutes has elapsed.
Linehandler 1 cruises blithely through it, supremely self-assured.
Cheyenne adds color.
Another line handler boat scouts out the set up . . . as a new blue hull arrives from the west, as
. . . does Charles D. McAllister.
Crew on the blue hull–Nord Observer–stows lines as they head for tropical heat, escorted
by Catherine Turecamo although
at the turn on the Con Hook range they meet Mare Pacific heading in with Joan Turecamo and Margaret Moran. At this point . . .
14:12 . . . the mergansers decided to hightail it . . . or at least follow their crests. And I hadn’t even turned around yet to see the congestion on land behind me.
All these photos in a very short time by Will Van Dorp.
My thanks to Brian DeForest and Atlantic Salt, whom Genco Knight was arriving to restock.
Here was a post about a dense traffic day as well as a busy day.
Here was a post I did four years ago. Scroll through and the second image from last is an icebreaking run I did with Cornell in the Kingston NY area. Here were my posts Ice 2 and the first Ice.
Below . . . a foto from Gerard Thornton showing Gary Nelson on Gage Paul Thornton. Gary seems to be keeping relatively good humor in spite of the cold.
Gulf Dawn returns a dredge scow to the AK.
See the icicles on an anchor which less than a month ago was splashed with tropical water.
Margaret and Laura K. Moran assist Valle Azzurra in from sea.
McAllister Sisters heads upriver with
RTC 60 and –I’m speculating– lots of heating oil for New York state homes.
McAllister Girls –here passing Sassafras–is a boat I haven’t seen in a while.
Thanks to Gerard Thornton for the first foto; all others by Will Van Dorp, who believes that one reason to put up such cold fotos is so that we can look back in July and feel delightfully cooled by these images.
I had planned to call this convergence, but the sixth boro or any harbor is much too dynamic a place for that title. Stuff in and stuff out . . . . From near to far here is Dewaruci, Arabian Sea, and Swan. Dewaruci, arriving here already last Thursday, was the vanguard of the flotilla that prompted me to think of this as “convergence,”
When Swan left and sank over the horizon, here’s the track she followed for the rest of the day.
As she headed out, a flurry of other vessels moved out as well, like Mariposa. I’ll bet she’s the updated version of Butterfly, which used to call here. . . and maybe still does. These are non-interactive screen captures of AIS.
Anyhow, as Swan and Mariposa headed out, notice APL Indonesia and A. r. c. Gloria arriving. As thrilling as it was to see Gloria, I felt the same to see APL Indonesia, which I foto’d here three months ago headed outbound for China; THIS is the return, twice via the Panama Canal.
Let’s follow more KVK outbound shipping.
Sunday night I also noticed Gazela exiting Delaware Bay. Almost two years ago, I stood watch on Gazela inbound from just east of Cape May and upward toward Wilmington, midnight to six, a thrilling experience. If you’re local or can get here by this weekend, come see pirate burlesque on Gazela. Get tickets here.
As Mariposa and McAllister Girls tango eastbound on the KVK, crew retrieve Girls’ line. Just a few days ago, Girls participated in the foggy loading process of Swan.
In the wee hours this morning, I noticed B. E. Guayas (all 257′ loa of her) approach from the south and Eagle from the East.
Line back onboard, crewman flakes it out for the next job.
Also in the wee hours this morning. APL Indonesia heads back for China already, passing between Pride of Baltimore 2 and Cuauhtemoc, converging upon the sixth boro. Here’s a quite poor foto I got of her at Pier 17 five whole years ago . . . before this blog sprouted chin feathers!! For a guide to pronunciation, click here.
Next . . .
Also by Tuesday morning, more Opsail vessels have converged within the sixth boro. See Gazela at Pier 25 Manhattan, and over at the cement pier in Brooklyn is . . . . Alice!!! Alice Oldendorff!! My point is . . . Opsail happens within a context.
More vessels leave via the KVK Sunday to make way for those like APL Indonesia and scores of others arriving. Below are Cosco Kobe and MSC Natalia.
And when I woke up this morning, Eagle was doing a turn in the Narrows while Scotty Sky (52 years young . . . bless her vital Blount-built tanks!) was supplying Gloria with liquid sustenance.
Final shot . . . no one’s walking the plank here. It’s the docking pilot debarking Cosco Kobe (check out her port history and more here.) onto Catherine Turecamo.
Enjoy Opsail and Fleet Week, starting tomorrow. All fotos and captures by Will Van Dorp.
Latest . . . J.S. El Cano (1927 built and 371 ‘ loa) has popped up on AIS; I had seen her in the wee hours. Cisne Branco, La Belle Poule, Etoile, and all the FleetWeek vessels are still out of range or in stealth mode.
Unrelated: Who works at the highest elevation in NYC? Tom Gordon. And, bothered by the rain today? Read this from Zinder.
More context: Click on the word for ships (in no particular order) of the Mexican Navy, Ecuadorian Navy, Colombian Navy, Indonesian Navy, Brazilian Navy, and Spanish Navy.
Unrelated first: trimaran Zamna . .. was identified by Soundbounder‘s Matt Housekeeper, foto’d by Bowsprite’s magic lens in September, and posted on asleep-at-switch tugster twice… most recently two days ago here (scroll to the end). Here’s Zamna’s own site. Is anyone who took fotos of it close-up at Chelsea Piers willing to share them here? . . . apparently it’s currently sailing to Greece. I’m especially curious about the figurehead. Now back to stacks.
It appears a “stacks” series could go on a long time, but within a given fleet, stacks differ in shape, number, and relative size. These fotos go back two or three years, so I don’t know whether all these boats still carry the red-and-white rings. One is a trick: it does NOT carry the McAllister name although it may belong to a subsidiary fleet. Clues exist in the fotos, so I won’t give the names until the end. See how many you can guess. Remember, double clicking enlarges.
Single stack, squat but rounded and trapezoidal. A single large tube protrudes.
Single and tall, like a stoogie.
Two of them, squat but rectangular and again trapezoidal. One wider and two thinner protruding tubes in each.
Single oval cylinder rising just slightly above the top of house, with two protruding pipes.
Quite similar to the previous.
Really high single with no tapering at all. Has guy-wires.
Ditto the first foto: Single stack, squat, rounded and trapezoidal. But two large tubes protrude.
Like the previous but flanked by ladders.
Paired but really squat relative to the house.
Paired and flanking a companionway. One large pipe protrudes quite far from each.
Paired with a dividing companionway, flanked by ladders, and more acute angle in the protruding tubes.
From the top, the boats are: Colleen 1967, Amy C 1975, Charles D 1967, Ellen 1966, Elizabeth 1967, Fournier Girls 1968, Helen 1900 [!!], Justine 1982, Marjorie B 1974, McAllister Girls 1968, Rosemary 2008, and Rowan 1981.
Charles D and Justine are both ex-Exxon boats: Exxon Bayou State and Exxon Carquinez, respectively. Elizabeth is ex-Fournier Boys and ex-J. A. Witte. I’ve not seen Elizabeth in the sixth boro for quite a while.
And from yesterday’s post, why DOES Iona have only one “l” in its McAlister.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
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