Port of Havana 2

Let me pick up here, a closer up of the mystery tug Alnair from yesterday’s post.  I have no further info, but one reader–Thanks, L–wrote to suggest that Alnair looks like a YTB.  I’d thought so, too, but in Cuba?

So consider this one, not my photo, but if you click on the photo and do a search for YTB, you’ll find that until May 2006, this “Cuban” tug was known as Apalachicola YTB 767.  So could Alnair be Chesaning YTB 769, for example?

Al Mendares looks to be a small tanker named for the river that flows through Havana.

 

And here from the seawall  . . . MSC Opera, which as of this writing is across the Yucatan Strait in Mexico.

The red vessel is Vega, a trailing suction hopper dredger.

And finally, this ungainly vessel is a ferry.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

For more on YTBs, click here.

 

Port of Havana 1

Click on the photo below to learn more about it, taken in late January 118 years ago.

Here’s that same location last week.  Sorry about holding the camera crooked;  if I straighten it out now, the 1845 lighthouse disappears.

The guys sitting on the seawall to the extreme left are tour bus drivers.  Did you notice the two tour buses on the central ridge line in the photo above?

A little farther into the port I saw Sea Wolf A, 72′ x 23′ built by Damex in Santiago in 1996, and in spite of this info, not laid up. You can find more info here by using the “find” feature.

Alnair . . . I have no information on her. Anyone help?

And a pilotboat . . . is a pilotboat, not to disparage pilots and their skills in any way whatsoever.

Can you guess the white ship whose hull dwarfs the pilot?

 

Find the answer here.

All photos by Will Van Dorp, who was on a journalistic mission.

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