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Call this grand finale, third of three on Nola traffic . . . but of course, that’s contrived; there is no finale except to my reporting. Powered traffic has operated here since Roosevelt, the great grand uncle and aunt of TR, Nicholas Roosevelt and Lydia Latrobe Roosevelt, their second arrival there in 1811! I’d love to time travel back to join them on their first trip by flatboat and their second by steamer New Orleans.
I’d put money on a bet that Federal Crimson is going to load grain for export. The grain comes down river in barges pushed by the likes of Penny Eckstein. Penny is part of the huge Marquette Transportation fleet, and at 4600+ hp, she’s one of the least powerful.
The 2015 Crimson is part of the Montreal-based, foreign-flagged dry bulk fleet called FedNav.
Only recently have the old Algiers ferries—Armiger and Porteriere–been replaced by the sleek catamarans, including RTA 2. In the link for RTA 2, there’s an unexpected SUNY Maritime connection.
Blanco is part of the huge Kirby inland fleet, approximately 250 tugs and over 1000 barges.
The 2012 Pan Unity, loaded along the big Muddy is on her way to the Mediterranean, and who knows where beyond that.
The 2012 Capt Niles Shoemaker comes from a shipyard in Bayou LaBatre.
Ensemble here was headed for Altamira MX, and has already departed there back to the US port of Houston.
Capes Kennedy and Knox have been at the ready here since 1996 and served post-Katrina.
I love the grand stairs here, and find I’m not the only person who frequents them as a platform.
The 1992 Capt. Bud Bisso has operated in these waters under that name since her launch.
Salvation, 2009, is another tugboat out of Bayou LaBatre. Salvation is also a Marquette Transportation boat.
Creole Queen stays busy.
War Emblem has carried many liveries since 1982, including Kirby colors, but her current name is rather unusual. Her operator, Turn Services, operates over three dozen vessels.
I took photos of a sister of the 2017 tanker Stena Imprimis in the sixth boro, and I’ve yet to post them. I AM remiss!
Mark Dougherty operates for ACBL has over 3500 barges and almost 200 towboats on the Mississippi.
The 1981 Joseph Merrick Jones has been part of the Canal Barge Co. fleet almost since its launch.
All photos, WVD, who refuses to call this a finale of any sort since the river flows on, the boats traffic 365/24, and I hope to return soon. And although this blog may seem obsessive, I try to keep my own personal levees in place to confine that energy to recording vessel traffic on this blog.
Three 2022 calendars remain in the market stall at tugster tower, $20 each. After they’re gone, I close the merch division for another 11 months. If interested, email me your USPS address.
Kirby pushboat Niceville, named for a Florida town that used to be Boggy, rounds
the bend at Algiers Point.
Marquette’s St. Peter heads
downbound.
Classic 1956 George W. Lenzie . ..
was built at the Calumet Ship Yard & Dry Dock in Chicago, where Daryl Hannah was also built in 1956, launched three months after George W. Lenzie.
Gregory David heads downstream under the spans of the Business 90 Bridge.
The water tower in the background is on Guadalcanal Street in Federal City.
Affirmed is a 2009 boat, here headed downstream.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, but if you want a great database for inland river tugs, check out Dick’s Towboat gallery. Here are the previous posts in this series.
Apologies if you received a premature version of this post; I hit the wrong button.
“Light” here refers not to load but to sunshine and clouds. These photos were taken just below Algiers Point in unsettled December weather. Some buildings of New Orleans are visible on the horizon to the left.
These photos of Capes Kennedy and Knox were taken
about an hour apart. As part of the Ready Reserve fleet, they can be deployed with five days’ notice.
SFL Kent–photos taken about an hour apart–as of this posting, she’s en route
to Morocco.
Notice the EO on the stack beyond the starboard side of SFL Kent?
It’s Alice‘s sister Elsa!
UBC Saiki is currently in Veracruz.
These photos were taken within minutes of each other.
Since this photo was taken, Century Royal has sailed to the DR.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Despite the distance and the fog covering the escutcheon, I could immediately identify this tug–once a regular on the Hudson and in the sixth boro– on the Mississippi.
Let me end out this series with tugboats and other vessels: Sydney Ann
and Brandi,
Mary Parker and
David J. Cooper and
Bulk Guatemala with selfie-shooting watch stander,
Sonny Ivey and
Connie Z,
Moose,
Jena Marie C,
Capt CJ, and
fireboat Gen. Roy S. Kelley,
Jo Provel with the 9th steamboat named Natchez.
Now all of this has nothing to do with the photo below, which nevertheless deserves recognition . . . interactive art which really seems to have caught on. Thanks, Candy Chang.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who’s even now in the cold NYC air plotting a return to
Nola.
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