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That stretch of waterway can be pretty busy, though not nearly as busy as the automotive traffic arteries of the five boros. Count them below . . . seven tugboats contained in a single photo frame!! You can try to name them. Let me know if you need help.
One by one, though, they are more interesting to look at. Can you arrange these by size, power, and age?
Barney Turecamo.
Allie B.
Mount St Elias.
Discovery Coast.
Mary Emma.
All photos, WVD.
Largest is Barney Turecamo at 116′ x 36′. Shortest by a foot Mount St Elias at 95′ x 34′, and Discovery Coast is 96′; least beamy is Mary Emma at 31′.
Most horsepower is Barney Turecamo at 5100. Least is a tie between Discovery Coast and Allie B. at 3000 each.
Newest launch is Discovery Coast at 2012. Oldest by two years is Mary Emma at 1975, and Allie B. at 1977 1976. I only recently learned Allie B used to do the sugar run into Dominos on the East River.
Photos from the sixth boro . . . although I’m a thousand miles away and in the eastern mountains… 1974 ex-Exxon Ocean State and
and slightly smaller 1975 ex-Exxon Granite State, now Marjorie B. McAllister and Brendan Turecamo.
The 1999 ex-Crosby Knight now Stephen Dann was pushing a Centerline barge.
The 2009 ex-Allison Crosby is now Mount St. Elias, is one of the Kirby boats in the boro that I perceive as a winter boat. Where was she all summer?
The 1975 Robert IV has been in the boro since 1989. Where was she for her first decade?
And finally, the 2020 Janice Ann Reinauer is the newest, largest, and most powerful tugboat in this post, here overtaking the 2010 6589-teu Maipo.
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.
Saving fuel . . . Foxy3 has Rae alongside and they’re passing a wall of a hull, or is that a hull of a wall….
Coral Coast is usually on a cement barge, but not now . . . .
Can you name that tugboat?
Let’s do regression, with Foxy3 and Rae approaching that tanker hull.
Double Skin 36 is what Coral Coast is pushing.
Name the tugboat pushing DBL 82?
Notice Foxy3 and Rae and SKS Mersey they’ve just passed? Progression going on here with Mount St. Elias and
Coral Coast, whereas
the Fox boats are regressing.
All photos, WVD.
Unrelated, and a bit late, but do you remember the “green boat” below, AQS Tor? It was deck cargo lost off a yacht carrier Eemslift Hendrika abandoned off Norway earlier this month. Click on the image to see the disposition. More AQS here.
Name that tug? She’s 91.5′ x 26.8′ and used to be called Traveller. Answer follows.
Part of a defacto ghost fleet around the sixth boro, it’s J. George Betz, and mostly invisible beyond, Rhea I. Bouchard. J. George is longer, stronger, and newer.
Also in the dry dock a week or so back, it’s Emily Ann. My favorite story of this tug dates from a time she was called Cabo Rojo.
Lincoln Sea was featured in my second ever tugster post, back in November 2006. In the background, that looks to be Mount St. Elias.
I usually see Captain D alongside a DUP barge, but behold, in good light, she’s light. That’s my acronym, DUP.
Ditto . . . Robert Burton.
Ruth M. Reinauer was just a year old when it appeared here in 2009. Ruth is 112.9′ x 35′.
Ellen McAllister . . . what more can I add to what I’ve written already about this former USN YTB. I know three of her dozen or so siblings, ex-USN YTBs, include Robert E., Timothy, and Stacy.
Miriam and Doris Moran follow along a ship, ready to put their force where needed when needed.
More fleetmates to Captain D and Robert Burton above, it’s Paula Atwell and Pathfinder . . . all unusually light.
And finally . . . that tug in the top photo . . it’s Marie J. Turecamo.
All photos, WVD.
But first, can you guess the date? Answer follows.
Mackenzie Rose is the newest name for this 2000-built boat, after Vernon C and then Mary Gellatly.
Ellen, ex-YTB-793 Piqua, here assists a box boat with a boat on top. Ex-YTBs can be found in some unusual places.
Capt. Brian A. approaches the pilot’s door of this ULCV.
Jay Michael is painted a flat red, or maybe that’s a faded bright red.
Mount St Elias heads east with a loaded DBL 82.
Robert IV is off to a job.
Anacostia goes out the Ambrose with Double Skin 509A on wire.
Sea Lion returns, as does
Lincoln Sea and DBL 140 arrive from the south.
And finally, James D and Miriam meet a box ship to escort her into port.
Did you guess the date of the McAllister Bros. photo? It comes thanks to Steve Munoz, who sent more along as well. The answer is 1973, and the photo is taken from the Hoboken side.
All photos, except Steve’s, by Will Van Dorp.
Unrelated but interesting: How one small town grocery store in Alaska keeps the shelves stocked here. More southern Alaska boat infrastructure here.
Excuse the branches and tendrils reaching out over this dense pack of tugboats: five Bouchard boats plus a Harley behind Denise and a Genesis on the drydock.
Crystal Cutler here in profile is heading for the Kills; this photo prompts me to wonder how this wheelhouse “window” configuration has worked out.
Stephen B assists Fells Point leaving IMTT with Double Skin 302.
Marie J Turecamo heads east on the KVK.
I can’t recall now whether this is my first time to see Vane’s New York, here with Double Skin 53.
Seeley moves a scow eastbound.
Mount St. Elias goes west here.
And finally . . . J. George Betz heads east, possibly to pick up a barge.
All photos and interpretation by Will Van Dorp, who is solely responsible for content . . .
The challenge here is to have clear photos and lights. Evening Star with B. No. 250 starts us off,
Jean Turecamo is on assignment with a barge,
Reinauer Twins heads back for the Kills,
TRF Memphis waits in Stapleton anchorage,
Mount St. Elias departs her barge,
and Alice Austen, usually the wee hours ferry, runs early.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Actually, only part of this leg is through the ICW, or another way to say this is that from Cape May to NYC you need to be in the ocean. For a map that shows this, click here. This leg takes us from Baltimore to New York City, which in this case is not the end of the trip. More on that later.
Below, Key’s Anthem is Baltimore’s new Inner Harbor water taxi, the first vessel of 10, one that’s all local vernacular . . . a Hooper’s Island drake tail.
Tiwai Point prepares to discharge a load of sugar, from Colombia, I think . . .
Bridget McAllister (and other McAllister boats) waits at the dock.
We head out past Natty Boh and Brooklyn . . . ,
Vane’s Carlyn,
and Justin with an unidentified load.
Was it Justin that towed Tamaroa out to the reef site last week?
At the Chesapeake side of the C & D Canal, it’s Dann Ocean’s home base, with (l to r) First Coast, Diamond Coast, New England Coast, Sea Coast, and Gold Coast. By the way, Gallatin called this the Delaware & Chesapeake Canal and estimated it as 22 miles long with 18 locks. The current Chesapeake & Delaware is 14 miles long and all water is at sea level, i.e., no locks. Here’s the history.
Defender (I think) steams inbound for Pennsauken with Cape Cod tailing a Crowley barge. Depending on which barge this was, capacity is 400–500 teus.
Gulf Venture/Carrier anchors off Salem . . .
And then morning brings a jagged island up out from the deeps and we
line up some towers . . . while Le Grand Bleu waits in Gravesend Bay.
Note the unusual wake and splash pattern on Jonathan C.‘s stern?
And an unfamiliar Kirby vessel– Mount St. Elias–moves DBL 77 upriver.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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