JR 22

Yesterday I included fotos of some government ships in the story about the Pope on the beach.  So let’s look at more of these ships, but first . . . check out the castle to the left.

The castle comes with the unromantic name Fiscal Island, which I probably should have visited.    And the government ships above?  In the foreground is one of the five Type 209 subs in the Brazilian Navy.  To the right is Ceara and off its bow is Mattoso Maia, both formerly US-flagged.

In the foto below with masts mimicking the castle turrets are two corvettes, (l to r) Julio de Noronha and Jaceguai.

Here are some others:  offshore patrol vessel Amazonas and its sister

P121, Apa . . .  with fast patrol vessel Albacora closer inshore,

another shot of Apa with fast patrol boat Dourado, 

multipurpose frigate Niteroi, 

auxiliary ship Aspirante Nascimento and sister

Guarda Marinha Brito,

oceanographic research vessel Cruzeiro do Sul,

H 40 Antares,

lights/aids to navigation vessel Amorim do Valle (between the sloop and the fracking boat),

H 20 Comandante Manhaes,

type 22 frigate Greenhalgh,

and last  . . .  salvage tug Tridente, Manaus-built.

All fotos by Will Van Dorp, who’s first full day back in NYC from Rio de Janeiro (aka JR) has not yet re-acquainted him with its sixth boro.

JR 20

With the imminent (I think) arrival in the sixth boro of a large shearleg crane for the Tappan Zee project, here’s a chance to look at one of these floating cranes.  I believe the crane known as Left Coast Lifter has a lift capacity of just under 2000 tons.   This one–Pelicano 1 (ex-Kaisei) has capacity over 2000 tons.  I’ve not found much info about Kaisei.

The largest floating crane I’ve seen prior to this is Donjon’s Chesapeake 1000, which lifted segments of WTC antenna from barge to land back a half year ago.

Here’s Pelicano 1‘s tender.

Since a floating shearleg crane doesn’t rotate on a frame, it uses thrusters like these to position a lift.

The first time I had an opportunity to look at a Thrustmaster was here.

For an image of a US battleship converted to a floating crane about a century ago, click here.

More as soon as I can.