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Moran is one of the quintessential NYC marine companies, formed before the boros existed as such. The harbor then was THE water boro. Since I’m upstate right now, I was intrigued to find a Moran Street in the canal town of Lyons, not far from a asphalt depot on the canal which used to be served by Moran tugboats. Maybe someone can fill in when Moran adopted the distinctive dark red color.
Since I’ve not yet devoted a non-random tug post to Moran yet, I’ll call these part one.
Above JRT takes the stern of Wonder Polaris, while
Jonathan C has the port side.
Same day, Miriam has the port side of NCC Tabuk.
Marie J meets them on her way to a job.
Having returned to the sixth boro, Laura K here heads to a job.
Laura K stays quite busy.
James D here returns from assisting a container ship into Port Elizabeth.
All photos, WVD, who has at least another part of this post coming soon.
More relevant Lyons photos can be seen here and here.
A small 14-year-old general cargo vessel named Industrial Emma
was inbound from Salvador Brasil. Any guesses on how long that voyage would take?
She’s a 5800 hp ship coming in with an assist from Miriam Moran, a 3000 hp tug.
Industrial Emma is the product of a Polish shipyard, Remontowa, whose 1960s history I find not surprising but interesting.
Her container capacity is 535 teu.
Travel time from Salvador was 17 days and 3 hours. The Intermarine vessel’s next port of call is Houston.
All photos, WVD.
Truth be told, I should have passed this 100 milestone long ago, but I forestalled a number of times by differentiating within the title: for example, besides the August 2007 starting point of random ships 1 but also random ships *1 and really random ships 1 posted inAugust 2016 and March 2019.
Forestalled or not, we are here, and I still enjoy doing this. These photos all date from this month and December . . . like B. Franklin Reinauer here lightering Atlantic Blue.
Atlantic Crown here has a deck barge alongside delivered by Susan Miller, while in the distance you see the Bayonne peninsula and beyond.
The next two photos show Laura K Moran assisting MSC Greenwich as an outbound Seaspan New York
shares the KVK as it heads for sea.
If I’ve learned anything from these years of documenting the traffic the watery boro, it’s the value of light to (duh!) photo graphy. When you have the dawn light illuminating the orange hull of vessels like NCC Tabuk, with red and shadow image of Miriam Moran, and the cold black steel of the barge to the left, what more need I say about the joy of spending time in the cold morning solitude watching and “recording.”
What’s not to enjoy about shivering while taking photos of a CMA CGM with the name of a huge tropical city.
Before completing this post, any ideas about the reference in Tabuk or the age and population size of Surabaya? Answers follow.
One more dawn photo here . . . the enigmatic name Eco Revolution on a tanker escorted into the KVK by a 6000 hp Moran tugboat.
All photos, WVD.
Tabuk, in Saudi Arabia, and Surabaya, on Indonesia’s Java Island, have both been settlements for over a millennium.
As for Surabaya, some of you might know the lyrics of the Kurt Weill song here by Marianne Faithfull, but I prefer this one from Javanese myth.
Happy please-go-vote day. If you know anyone at all who is eligible to vote but won’t, have a chat with that person. As a New Yorker, I voted over a week ago . . . early voting on a Saturday afternoon.
Some photos . . . and your part is to 1) rank these boats by highest to lowest horsepower, and 2) identify which if any were built north of central sixth boro. I’ve provided dates of initial construction, but tugboats are required to be well-maintained, sometimes repowered and extensively rebuilt.
The 1979 Miriam Moran looked this way in her October markings. Cancer is a scourge, and I know this remembrance each October means a lot to folks who’ve seen the disease from nearby.
HMS Liberty has worked in the boro for over a decade now.
Laura K. Moran came off the ways in 2008, spent some years here, some away, but now she’s back in the boro.
Mister T, 2001, has carried that moniker ever since.
Andrea, 1999, has been in the boro a half dozen years. Here‘s how she looked back in 2016.
Shannon Dann was built in 1971.
Dace Reinauer dates from 1968 but has been considerably rebuilt from the first time she appeared on this blog here. See pre-2010 photos of her here and here.
Brian Nicholas, 1966, has been in the boro about as long as I’ve been doing this blog. I did post a photo of her with Banda Sea name clearly on her bow here 12 years ago.
Foxy 3 was built in 1974 and first appeared on this blog as Barker Boys, a name she carried until 2009, when she was renamed Buchanan 16. I don’t believe I ever saw her in the Balico livery as BF Jersey although I did see her with BF Jersey nameboards here. Note the folded back upper wheelhouse.
All photos, WVD.
Answers?
Laura K 5100 horsepower, Dace 3400, Andrea and Miriam at 3000, HMS Liberty and Mister T and Shannon D all at 2400, Brian Nicholas 1700, Foxy 3 1600.
Built north of the sixth boro: Laura K in Maine and Mister T in Rhode Island; all others were built in Louisiana.
Ten years ago, the WTC was incomplete, no supertalls/superskinnies were up, and Taurus was not yet Joker.
Miriam and the archway at Sailors Snug Harbor are all the same, although that dock is gone from there.
The 1969 Barbara McAllister is now Patsy K, operating out of the Gulf coast of Florida.
The 2003 Jane is now Anna Rose, and I’ve seen her in the boro a few times.
Amy Moran is now John Joseph.
Crow was in her last days here, and has been scrapped more than a half decade already.
Charles D. McAllister has now been five and a half decades in service and still working in the sixth boro.
Gage Paul was lost in transit after being sold overseas. Note the seaplane on the East River.
Last I knew, Buchanan 10 was laid up upriver.
In June 2012, I had the opportunity to tour USNS Apache near Norfolk. A few years later, Apache was the vessel credited with locating the black box of El Faro, after its tragic sinking.
Sharing the dock with Apache that day was USNS Grapple.
All photos, ten years ago, WVD, who is currently traveling again, out of tugster tower for an indefinite period of time, getting more indefinite every day. I have re-activated the robots, but we’ll see how reliable they are this time.
Miriam Moran looks to be alone, with a half dozen other units in the distance, but
she’s converging with a pack.
Minutes later, Kirby takes the stern of the ULCV, and
James D. emerges from the far side, where she landed a docking pilot.
Then, Miriam and Kimberly
like choreography
assume their positions and paths
and assist Monaco Bridge into the terminal.
All photos, WVD, who can’t get enough of this.
Back to historical Barge Canal photos tomorrow, but today I’m back in the boros, where the birds are singing in the sunny low 
60s! Because I’ve been inland, all photos come from very recent archives, like Balsa 85, a small general cargo carrying a bulk cargo of sugar in the holds of her petite 348′ x 62′ hull.
Navig8 Perseverance could not be more different: a crude oil tanker 817′ x 144′, carrying oil from somewhere on one planet earther.
STI Brooklyn is a Panamax oil/chemical tanker, 600′ x105′. Want more STI (Scorpion Tankers Inc.) names? Click here.
Stena Impulse has exactly the same dimensions as STI Brooklyn, but a very different superstructure.
Here and here are other Stena Imp…. tankers.
Steam Atlantic, nice name, is smaller: 482′ x 79′. Her sister vessel Stream Pacific can be found here.
Suddenly ships and containers marked Wan Hai are appearing.
Wan Hai 301, 984′ x 105′, follow the nomenclature pattern this blog does. Numbers in lists may not be elegant, but they are effective.
And among the largest container ships in the boro, it’s
CMA CGM Argentina, measuring in at 1200′ x 167′ and some change.
All photos, WVD, from my oceanic archives and on the first real day of winterspring.
I’ve mentioned before that I’m always looking for novelty. Here’s one, new to me at least,
the 4400 hp Chincoteague with Double Skin 802. I’d love to get closer-up pics one of these days.
Nicole Leigh Reinauer, a 7200 hp beauty twenty years almost senior, passes Chincoteague on her way to
rejoin her barge, RTC 135.
Meanwhile Miriam Moran follows in a ship as one of the assists.
Moments earlier, the 1979 3000 hp Miriam had accompanied 1982 4610 hp Doris Moran to meet the ship.
The 2021 4000 hp Jordan Rose, ex-Evening Star and now in Rose Cay colors, is high and dry alongside Sorenson (?) Miller on the hard at Bayonne Drydock.
The 2008 4200 hp Pocomoke passes the KV buoy, which made soothing noises as it rose and settled in the chop.
The 1999 4500 hp Patrice heads out to meet a ship.
And finally, 1999 3600 hp Stephen Dann looked particularly good as she headed out to her next job.
All photos, this week, WVD.
Let’s go back to winter in the sixth boro today, with photos I’ve taken in the past two weeks. As of the other day, this was the last Bouchard, unless I’ve missed some others somewhere.
Do you recognize this McAllister tugboat?
And this one has been here the past few weeks as well. Rowan is about 30′ longer than Gregg with a few hundred more horsepower as well.
Miriam here has a hold on one of the lower chocks.
Without magnification, I couldn’t tell how many people were descending the gangway from the ship, but it seemed to be a crowd.
I love the morning light.
All photos, WVD.
We alternate back to Albert Gayer (1897-1976) tomorrow, but to maintain connection with the contemporary sixth boro, especially in the cold, crisp January light, enjoy these five varied boats from this past week. Name the one below?
Pelham, of course. The mighty Pelham was launched in 1960, loa is 80.4′, and has 3000 hp.
Who was rotating Marjorie K?
On the bow was Miriam Moran, 1979, 99′ loa, and also 3000 hp.
Name that boat?
Harry Mcneal is a busy boat launched in 1965, 53.3 loa, and 800 hp.
Which boat is this crewman on the bow of?
It’s the robust Rae, launched 1952, 46′ loa, and packing 450 hp.
And this one?
It’s the unmistakable Charles James, which started as a GLDD tug in 1985, 77′ loa, and 2400 hp.
All photos and any errors, WVD; numbers from tugboatinformation.com
More Albert Gayer tomorrow.
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