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Zee Bart periodically sends me photos from the North Sea and adjoining ports. A few months back he sent these, and I’ve filed them until now. These photos illustrate what can be done with old work boats.
Here’s what Zee Bart writes: “The old tug here is Grada, a 1927 tug with a Stork engine. Dutch pilots are using Grada to train not only for propulsion but also as supplement to the vessel’s movement/thrust capacity. Tender 1 is a 1954-build stand-by safety vessel. I took these photos in Amsterdam in the Westhaven, opposite of the Suezhaven.”
Here’s more info on Grada. If you don’t read Dutch, paste the text into a translation site and get the particulars there. Here’s more info on Tender 1.
Many thanks to Zee Bart for these photos and explanation. I hope you find it as interesting as I do to see how things are done elsewhere. He has a blog called uglyships.com I’ve mentioned before . . . a wholly subjective, unscientific look at some unusual vessels.
Repurposing vessels is certainly not unique to this example. For previous tugster posts about second lives, click here.
Eight years ago, I had the opportunity to go to the steam festival on the waterways in Dordrecht NL. Here, here, and here are posts that came from that. That festival has just completed again, and thanks to Jan van der Doe, here are photos of some fine restored circa century-old Dutch steam tugs.
Hercules, for example, is 105 years young and new-build shiny.
By the way, the tower in the photo below is newer than Hercules. Info can be found here.
Adelaar dates from 1925, and looks brand new. The name means “eagle” in Dutch.
Kapitein Anna, a paddle steamer, entered service in 1911.
Scheelenkuhlen is German-built from 1927.
Furie is over a century old and looks pristine. Farther out, that’s Dockyard IX, 1942, and Maarten, 1926.
Hugo is from 1929.
Elbe, 1959, spent some time in the US as the mother ship Maryland for Chesapeake Bay pilots as well as Greenpeace vessel Greenpeace.
All photos sent thanks to Jan van der Doe and taken by Leo Schuitemaker.
Click here to see previous sets sent along by Jed. This set I’m arranging by year of build. 1972. A little info more, she’s 98′ x 30.’
photo date 5 SEPT 2012
1977. She’s a bit larger, 115′ x 33.’
photo date 11 SEPT 2012
1978. Husky has been renamed Maro, and she’s massive, 197′ x 50′ and moved by 12,000 hp.
photo date 11 SEPT 2012
1998. 115′ x 36′ Here was a post I did about an incident of near capsize with FairPlay 21. FairPlay 22 did capsize with loss of life.
photo date 11 SEPT 2012
2001 and identical dimensions to FairPlay 23.
photo date 11 SEPT 2012
2009, and 92′ x 35.’
photo date 8 SEPT 2012
2009 and 105′ x 43.’
photo date 11 SEPT 2012
2010 and 95′ x 39.’
photo date 11 SEPT 2012
2011 and 105′ x 39.’
photo date 8 SEPT 2012
Many thanks to Jed, aka John Jedrlinic, for these photos, and for being patient while they collected in my inbox. Here are some of the many Dutch tugs appearing here previously.
Here are more photos from Aleksandr, taken on a canal between Middelburg and Vlissingen. Ruurtje tows while
F-50 takes the stern as they move
the aluminum superstructure of a future Damen-built patrol craft on barge Risico 11.
Click here for another view of the tow. Click here for a view of the Damen yard there.
This is continued from yesterday.
Containers move this way.
And although this photo was taken on the Maas, registry is several countries away.
Like double trailers on US Interstates, you see the same with short sea motor-barges.
And here’s some Maas reefer transport, this
one with an unexpected name. Part of the explanation might be furnished by this post from a few years ago.
I hope this look at some other rivers stimulates some thought.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
This looks like LNG.
Motorized barges have telescoping houses and transport personal land transport.
School ships might look like this.
Bulk carriers look like this, at
these dimensions,
and carry products like this.
And somehow the economies make it work.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
PBB means “place beyond belief.” I knew immediately what this was, although I’d never expected to see one afloat and amove! Know it?
The translation here is literally “grain sucker.” Click here (scroll to pic 5) to see a WW2 era floating grain elevator operating in the sixth boro.
Here’s power lifter Matador 2 towed by 1964 Pieter L.
Here is one of the most amazing things I saw, a floating vacation boat for the sick and handicapped!! Click here for more pics.
Al-Bahar, a brand new self-propelled cutter suction dredger manufactured in the same locality as
this 250+ year-old technology.
Eurogas and
a short-sea container ship, one of myriad.
Vessel Terra transporting Mercedes vans.
Ark vessel name is Reinwater, but I’ve no explanation for the model sturgeon on the bow.
The Dutch word for bicycle is “fiets” . . which makes this Babette’s fiets, kinda sorta like this movie.
A floating refueling station with a great name.
An oil spill clean up vessel outbound under the Erasmus Bridge.
Kapitein Kok or Kapitein Anna . .. another amazing restoration.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who is far from his heart on the the sixth boro, although he’s loving it.
I certainly saw great assist tugs like Triton, here steering a bulk carrier into the locks at Ijmuiden. Click here for more Iskes tugs.
Louise van der Wees is less new.
Devotion is an Urk-based vessel working a mini-heavy lift unit.
But it was the sheer number of restored-to-operational-condition vintage tugs that impressed me, like the 1946 SS. Gebr. Bever. If that link is in Dutch, you can switch languages at the bottom.
Ditto Roek, 1930.
Spes . . . 1946
Wouw
Citius
Wisent and many more.
Here’s another shot of Elbe (former Maryland Pilots vessel) being passed by Hercules 1915 . . . and we end this installment with
a 1977 Hercules.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Personal note: Today I begin an extended gallivant in northern and western New York, the state. I have many more Dutch photos, but my ability to post may be limited.
Just some more photos and mostly from Amsterdam.
Photos 2, 3, 4, and 5 here were taken from Hoek van Holland; the others are from Amsterdam. It’s been rainy and gray. Enjoy.
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