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First the specifics . . . 70 Henry Street Brooklyn Heights Cinema tonight at 7 for reception with showing starting at 8. After the show, stop by at Park Plaza Bar about .1 mile nearby.
So it’s appropriate to lead these NYC Municipal Archives photos off with tugboat Brooklyn.
Next in an icy North River (?) . . . . . . Richmond.
Launches Bronx and
Queens.
Passenger steamer Little Silver, which ran between the Battery and Long Branch, NJ in the first decade of the 20th century.
And finally . . . John Scully, a very classy Dialogue (Use the “find” feature to search) built built tug
And the connection . . . here’s what boats of this vintage look like today in “disintegration experiments” in waters everywhere. I took these in August 2011 while Gary and I filmed Graves of Arthur Kill.
Some boats of this time, of course, still operate like Pegasus (1907) and Urger (1901)
while others try to stave off time so that they might once again like New York Central No. 13 (1887).
It’s Margot, last included on this blog here. Guess the location?
And a former fleet mate of Frances, it’s Catherine Turecamo . .. with Gage Paul Thornton way in the background.
Here’s a closer-up of Gage Paul with Robbins Light in the background.
New York Central No. 13 . . . changing at a glacial pace and probably regressing, not progressing. My last photo of this boat might be here.
Here’s Robert leaving the sixth boro this morning with a tow that
includes dredge McCaskill, which I previously featured here high and dry and here from the inside.
East Coast meets west coast this morning alongside Corossol.
The newer Dean headed eastbound on the KVK and
and finally . . another configuration of Marjorie B. McAllister.
All photos taken this week by Will Van Dorp.
Oh . . . Margot‘s location in the first photo is Tottenville NY, with Outerbridge Crossing in the background.
Okay . . . now for something new. Recall the question I tossed out with the “Relief Crew 9” about suggestions for a puzzler-post name? Well, Jed came right up with Tugster Teaser, and I like the ring of that name. The problem though is that this puzzle relates to a ship, not a tug. Hence, the title above.
The question: identify the date the foto above was taken. The bright shiny clue is the passenger vessel bound for sea in the middle of the foto, the one with the three stacks. This was her FINAL departure from New York. With that clue, you super researchers might even figure out the three tugs starboard of the three-stacker.
While your brain goes into involuntary analysis mode, enjoy some random fotos all taken in the past week. Sea Service (ex-Sea Star) 1975 eastbound headed for KVK. Sea Star is so less utilitarian-a-name than what it currently responds to.
I put up a slightly later foto from this scene two days ago: Christine McAllister and Kimberly Turecamo.
Kimberly Poling (ex-Jaguar) 1994 understated beauty on an October afternoon, splendor nevertheless.
Ooops! the best ones always get away! When I pressed the button, the shutter (shooter?) lagged like never before. You should have seen what was right there! @#@!
New York Central No. 13 with two piercings (and related implants) looks impatient about getting splashed; I can hear that hull wondering how maneuvres will feel with two thrusters.
Final shot: Penobscot Bay (WTGB 107) aligns with Robbins Light, Our Lady of Bedloe’s Island, and some point over on the west shore of Manhattan. I hope to have an exciting gallivant story from a certain 140′ ice breaking tug very soon. Not WTGB 107.
All fotos except the puzzler ( or ship-trip-teaser) by Will Van Dorp. Captain Allen Baker . . . thanks much for the puzzler. Answer soon.
Finally and related, Steve Turi sent along a link to dramatic ocean liner postcards. Besides drama, they radiate romance and mystery, especially the ones with handwriting on the back . . . a range of emotions recorded in ink now public and immortalized. Anyone game for some Griffin and Sabine? Last spring, Steve sent along fotos of toys he’d carved from driftwood.
Also related: today I enjoyed the “Edge of New York” at the Museum of the City of New York, thanks to a reminder from Old Salt Rick here. Looking large there, I also found a model of Norman Belgeddes’ 1932!! design for an ocean liner. See it here. Wow!! And now that I think on this a bit, doesn’t it look vaguely like Bowsprite’s avatarship?
Deltoid pumpkin seed? Got a better guess? Answer at end.
Portside of the flank of a smiling shark? Notice the heaving line en route just above the horizon. Might there be someone dockside drawing lines . . . when they thought she said “catching” lines? Language barriers exist sometime.
Android in stirrups and slings for a posterior examination? Notice the prep-work done by the man with powerwasher, starboard. By the way, a focus on posteriors soon.
Bird dance done sans feathers?
Inspiration for a new muppets character with massive black beard, protruding ears, and pointy crown?
Then might this be a draft of an alternate for Miss Piggy . . . Missie Hip Potami . . . known by trademark overwrought green eye shadow?
An over-worked and sobbing scullery maid from a district of Hamburg?
Classic nose ridge and bulging eyes with exaggerated eyelashes . . . or (see the comment by Les) rectangular eye, a whistling mouth, and “dolly partons.” Ya know . . . I never saw it that way . . . til now. Tassels . .. pasties?
And the first foto was New York Central No. 13, the 1887 riveted iron tugboat that recently got pierced, and pierced again.
The others: an unidentified New York Waterways ferry, fishing vessel Amber Waves, chemical tanker Anemos I, pure car truck carrier Don Juan, and product tanker St. Pauli, and chemical tanker Chemical Pioneer.
Amber Waves . . . built 1977 in Texas? Anemos I . . . built in 2007 and chartered by Morgan Stanley? PCTC Don Juan . . . built in 1995 with capacity of 5900 cars . . . how many Smarts would that be? St Pauli . . . built in 2003 and flagged in Singapore, and Chemical Pioneer . . . built 1968, flagged in the USA, and steam turbine!
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Inspiration for this post comes from a delightful book (given me by a very dear friend . . . you know who you are, merci) called Face to Face by brothers Francois and Jean Robert, who say, “yesterday we saw a padlock gazing at us with whimsical intensity. It occurred to us that seeing is selection, a process of framing. When it comes to photography you might call it mental cropping. (My note: both can also be said about reporting.) As we begin consciously selecting and framing and cropping, the world became a delightfully communicative universe of human and animal faces–eyes, noses, and mouths–that tell a never-ending stream of silent stories. These adventures in vision are only the tip of the iceberg, the first step in exploring the potential of projected realities. Now choose your mood, take a look around you, wherever you are, and watch for faces that will haunt and hearten you.” Remember as a kid, lying back on the grass and find cloud faces?
A friend convinced her class recently that they could fly. She moved them. Hot air can do this. Remember Fulton? Opportunities will abound this year.
The picture above shows a steamer in Waterford last September. Sorry. I didn’t catch the name, but I did catch that it was burning hardwood.
Combusted bunker fuel or diesel or coal is much less aromatic than maple, oak, or walnut. Then do we want to use all that hardwood to make hot air? How about dried driftwood?
Land craft that moved–didn’t fly–with hot air can be found here. Check out the Eclipse.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Some get cut up, and only a few get saved. I don’t know what tug this is, but steady restoration progress is being made.
Belly plates were missing a year ago.
Those that don’t survive to float in restored beauty have at least been preserved in very interesting photos here (see Rossville) and here, if you fancy nudity.
What regal ship this once was and which exotic ports she entered will never be known.
Photos by frogma and Will Van Dorp.
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