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January is named for Janus, the one who looked forward and backward . . . transitions, this Roman. The connection is this . . . one day i post photos from 2022 and the next or two I post photos from the 1950s, supplied by Albert Gayer.
Charles James, framed here by the big green Tokyo Triumph and an Apex barge, pushes a bow wave in front of her.
Here’s the 13, 600 teu Tampa Triumph class ULCV that followed Charles James. You also notice Maersk Vilnius following the ULCV.
I know that names are just for convenient, but I wonder why this class of five Costamare ships carry the names Tampa, Tokyo, Toledo, Taipei, and Texas Triumph. Surely there are larger cities starting with T. In fact, Tampa and Toledo don’t even make the top 50 by population. And if Texas, then why not Tennessee? Taipei is fine because it’s home to Evergreen, the operator.
She’s deep, although I’ve seen deeper.
From the time she starting moving from her berth to the time she departs through the Narrows takes avbout an hour.
The fact that all those containers can leave safely makes an hour a short time.
She meets Oleander coming in for her usual Thursday appointment, and this meeting shows relative scale of these two cargo ships.
I mentioned Maersk Vilnius earlier in this post; I don’t recall ever seeing one container ship overtake another as they race out toward the Narrows.
All photos, WVD.
Oleander has been a regular in the sixth boro since 1990. It’s so regular that I’d not take photos of it, much of the time; it’s as regular as Staten Island ferries departing on the top and bottom of the hour, as regular as crocuses in spring or NYC Marathons in early November.
Technically, it’s Oleander III, and I’ve been unable to find images of the first two boats by that name, ones that shuttled between Bermuda (BCL expands to Bermuda Container Lines) and Elizabeth NJ.
I took the photo above and the one below on December 16, 2017, feeling sorry for the crewman on that cold day checking and securing the load straps on that trailer. The photo also shows the limitations of the Oleander III.
On January 02, 2018, I took this photo because of the saltwater ice on the hull.
Yesterday Oleander came through the KVK, and I almost didn’t take photos . . . because it was a Thursday and there would be nothing out of the ordinary about Oleander coming through the KVK.
Except I thought she looked different. I wondered if my general indifference to something that regular had led me to forget what this the actual vessel looked like. When I got home, though, I thought I’d look up my earlier photos of the BCL vessel.
Then I realized it was clearly NOT the regular. It’s Oleander IV, technically, and yesterday MAY have been her inaugural visit to the sixth boro. With a check in the accuracy department of tugster tower, I learned the new vessel only first arrived in Hamilton, Bermuda on March 19, 2019, from Yangzijiang Shipyard in Jingjiang up the Yangtze River from Shanghai, China. Click on the image below to see the differences in profile as the “old” and “new” pass in Hamilton. The most significant visible change is an increase in size and “garage space” so that the exposure of cargo as seen in photo #2 above is no longer needed.
For a tugster shot of Oleander in 2009, click here. For more news from Bermuda on Oleander, click here.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who learned a lesson about looking but not seeing yesterday.
Some of you likely know where this tug– Normandy–worked before it arrived in the sixth boro. I did not. Nor did I know other unusual features of the boat . . . which some of you also know.
She’s attractive, smartly painted, and compact: 79′ x 27.’
But I didn’t know until now that she was triple screw, nor that before coming to NYC, she’d operated for Vale Coal Ltd. of Barranquilla.
Other tugs in Colombia can be seen here, here, and here.
All photos by will Van Dorp.
Suppose we go back to “random tugs 2,” which was 10 years and two and a half months ago. What might be the same? Answer follows. These photos I took last week. Alex and Capt. Brian were not around when I did the #2 post.
Craig Eric Reinauer was, but the barge RTC 103 likely was not.
In 2007, Diane B had a different name and was a Kirby machine. Now she’s a creek-specialist and pushing John Blanche.
Here’s the best photo I got of Millville and 1964, the newest unit most likely to pass through the harbor.
Emerald Coast heads westbound.
Oleander passes Normandy. Anyone know why Bermuda Islander (I got no photo.) was in town last week?
And Evening Tide is eastbound in the KVK. So just by chance, if you look at Random Tugs 2, Evening Tide is there as well.
And since we started with a team of escort boats, have a look at these: (l to r) JRT, Miriam, James D, and Kirby Moran.
All photos taken last week by Will Van Dorp.
Oleander has to be the most regular ship coming into the sixth boro. Put it this way: if it’s Thursday, Oleander will arrive from Bermuda, the B in BCL.
Ever Diamond seems basically to shuttle between eastern Asia and eastern US.
Some day I should see how many of the 10 Ever Dainty-class of Evergreen Marine container ships I have photos of in the sixth boro.
IMHO, vessels like Anthem of the Seas are most interesting under some unusual light, like dawn here last week.
I lamented the fact there were no dancers in the glass ball.
MV Loujiane Loujaine is part of GBX, serving, I gather, as both bulk storage of cementitious material and movie set.
Has anyone ever seen photos of Loujaine, ex-Abu-Loujaine, ex-Bahma . . . arriving in the sixth boro? She must have arrived here at some point in the 1990s, by the photo comments here.
Over in Walkabout Bay in the spot where Alice often discharges, Pagona was working the other day.
Rounding out the post, it’s the vessel everyone in NYC should be familiar with, especially her being in proximity to the bridge she nearly brought down. Recognize her?
It’s Chemical Pioneer. During the decade I’ve been watching she’s been a hardworking vessel, but
here’s the NTSB report. Click here for one of her ITB fleet mates, now scrapped.
All photos, WVD.
Left to right at the Narrows ahead of this front are Maersk Detroit, SSV Corwith Cramer, Oleander, and CMA CGM Utrillo.
SSV Corwith Cramer is a brigantine.
Also, racing in ahead of the storm was this unidentified sloop,
Hindu,
and Joan Turecamo with Nomadic Hjellestad.
And look at that rain.
All fotos this morning by Will Van Dorp.
Gabby L. Miller is only three years old.
Built right here in the sixth boro,
she just might grow into . . . something larger than her 25′ loa x 13 and 660 hp.
Notice the crew quarters under the house? Gabby first appeared on this blog last Labor Day.
Below, Mark Miller, a utility boat I’ve never seen closer than this, has dimensions of 65′ x 18 with 185 hp.
Sorensen is Miller’s largest crewboat: 110′ x 25 with 2040 hp.
It’s Miller’s Launch time.
Fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Happy . . . . first sunny Sunday in April. With balmy weather and a full spectrum of light conditions this first weekend of April, just call it the weekend right before summer although it may snow yet this spring . . . Whatzit below? I’ll do a post on Gabby soon; for now that’s all I’ll say.
Adriatic Sea–the most powerful sounding vessel in the boro–and Lincoln Sea, off in the distance lower left both recall for me summers past.
Oleander heads off to Bermuda while Baltic Sea enters the east end of KVK.
Kuroshio Express flushes water through its dolly partons while arriving for its boro-6 appointment, escorted by
Brendan Turecamo.
Patapsco prepares for an assist.
Ellen McAllister escorts in Zim Virginia.
As I watched from pier 66, Melvin E. Lemmerhirt passes between me and the setting sun, which
also burnished the dull gray surfaces of Intrepid.
All fotos taken on good Friday afternoon by Will Van Dorp.
ok . . . so the word is roll? Lubbers might say lean? I already did pitch. Taurus swings to port; coffee builds on the starboard side of the cup.
Ditto Meredith.
Oleander swings to starboard; soup swirls to port.
Amy C McAllister throws herself into docking.
as does Miriam Moran .
Coast Guard RIBs lean into their turns , as opposed to
most other vessels. Here’s Amy C again.
For some tilting in the vicinity of windmills, check this video from Rotterdam.
Still fotos by Will Van Dorp.
An adjective I’ve not heard of late and would like to resurrect is “many-splendored.” That word captures my sense of the KVK, aka Kill van Kull. If you live anywhere near the sixth boro, you can get up close by coming to the maritime fest at the Atlantic Salt yard. I’ve not found much info about them, but this is a space where salt is stockpiled for safe driving on icy roads, not savory eating in spite of your doctor’s wishes. One post I wrote about this place is here. Anyone share a link for more Atlantic Salt? For example, I know salt comes from multiple places; anyone help with provenance info? On the building poster, the red-white-blue mound behind the orange ferry is a tarp-covered salt pile.
I caught this prep work happening at Atlantic Salt yesterday. The Weeks barge carries the universe of waterpod.
Atlantic Salt lies near the east end of KVK; Norwegian Sea here enters the west end. That’s Shooter’s Island behind Norwegian, and behind that, reaching even higher than the upper wheelhouse, those are the gantries at Howland Hook.
In almost the same location, sometimes referred to as Bergen Point, Oleander shows how a container ship lists in a turn; I imagine “slaloming” past a marker at the inside of a channel turn.
John B. Caddell is a regular on the KVK, as
are assist tugs Ellen McAllister and
Gramma Lee T. Moran.
All fotos taken this week by Will Van Dorp. This September is a many-splendored month; two big, nearly-climactic, halfmoonthly installments –we hope the channeling efforts work–coming up for HenrysObsession, the creative non-fiction and art project by Bowsprite and Tugster.
Some announcements:
This Sunday into Monday . . . Flinterduin will enter the sixth boro. I reiterate the foto contest of this many-masted motor vessel entering the harbor delivering the many-splendored sailing barges.
September 6: the 17th annual running of the sixth boro’s tugboat race.
September 12thish: Waterford Tug Roundup. Note that voting for “people’s choice” tug is long underway. Anyone can vote ONCE. I already did.
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