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Actually I could call this random ULCVs 16, since I haven’t done one of these in over a year. However, I prefer to call this “random ships” because what I called by that title a generation back in 2007 and 2008 all looked very different. And, for containerized cargo, ULCVs are not as unique as they were a few years back. Here are a few from the past few months, starting in February with a welcoming name YM Warmth, built in 2015.
Ever Fine was built in 2021. Here’s an image of her under construction. She’s the Ever F- class, of which Ever Forward became well-known for a while, actually 35 days of infamy, not 15 minutes of fame.
Wan Hai A10 is a product of 2023. Check her out soon after launch here, high out of the water.
ONE Stork dates from 2018. Here’s more of the bird class.
Thalassa Axia dates from 2014. Sister ship Thalassa Pistis appeared here a few years ago. Here’s the class.
Ain Snan Express, curiously named for an Iraqi minority that view John the Baptist as the final prophet, has been in service since 2012.
All the above ULCVs I saw before March 26, 2024, the date Dali took the Key Bridge down, A few days ago, Cezanne–a ULCV virtually identical to Dali–came into port, and it gave me pause. I remember clearly checking the time on my phone that night and seeing the unbelievable headline about Dali and that bridge, especially since a few days earlier Dali had been in the sixth boro.
I think of ships a little different these days. They are remarkable machines, and they are instruments that make our lifestyles possible, but they are immense and bulls in china closets. Maybe I need a better simile, porcupines in a balloon shop or some such.
Not all container ships in the boro are ULCVs. Savannah Express clearly is a ULCV, but MSC Samirah III, which dates from 2009 and has its own cranes, is a feeder vessel, running between smaller ports and larger ones like NYC/NJ. Her capacity is just over 2500 teu.
CMA CGM Zephyr is among the newer ULCVs shown here. As large as Zephyr–and others of her class like Osiris, Apollon, Adonis, are at 15k+ teu, six times greater than MSC Samirah III, but much larger ones carrying almost 10k more teu sail the seas.
As of a few months back, the largest capacity ULCVs were over 24k!!
All this brings me to Norwegian Getaway. If you subscribe to the Attlantic, check out this hilarious Gary Shteyngart article about his week on Icon of the Seas. His first sentence contains the following words: vertigo, nausea, distress. A very different review of a very different cruise–on a Jones Act small ship plying US waters– can be read here.
All photos, any errors, WVD, who’s off the grid a few days and the blog is in the charge of the wordpress robots deep in the tugster bilge these days, unless they descended deeper in the tugster Trieste-replica bathyscaphe named Tristesse. We’ve gone not high-tech but deep-tech.
Somewhere in the past few days I’ve read about plans to further deepen the boro’s shipping channels. Here’s lots of info at the USACE site.
Some names might be terrifying, like “This is Conqueror, approaching the Narrows.” By the way, this vessel was here some years back as Energy Conqueror. It seems sights and ambitions have broadened.
Equally chilling though oxymoronic might be this one: “Big Bang has anchored.”
A lot of vessels are named for birds, like ONE Stork and
Endelo Swan. With a name like Swan, I’d expect a white hull.
Grand Eagle is hardly aquiline; the bow might be more aquiline if they’d have consulted the folks at Ulstein.
Then there’s the occurrence of serial multiple names. Can you make out the raised letter name that’s been painted over here?
Above is on the stern and below is high on the starboard bow.
Previously it was NYK Aphrodite. Well . . . there once were temples to Greek goddess Aphrodite east of the Dardanelles, although I’m sure that has not an iota to do with the choice of new name.
Many thanks to eastriver for Big Bang. All other photos and any lame jokes . . . WVD.
Quick . .. name the ship name the ONE vessel . . .
The first three photos were taken Sunday by Bjoern of the New York Media Boat.
And if you know the tugs in the sixth boro you have a 75% chance of naming all tugs here too . . . three of the four 6000 hp tugs by Moran. I’m not first in pointing out how small the tugs look relative to the 1200′ ONE Stork. I hope you guessed that right. The tugs are JRT, James D, Jonathan, and then Margaret farther back.
While we’re on names . . . Glenn Raymo caught this photo upriver.
Dodo . . . First ONE Stork and then Dodo.
Over by Shooters Island the other day, I caught Amstel Stork, coming from Port Newark and headed upriver herself.
Jonathan and Miriam assist her around Bergen Point, but here’s my point: two vessels named “stork” in the harbor the same week!!? What going on? And with Dutch as my first language, I read this as Ooievaar van Amsted . . . that big bird name being ooievaar in Dutch.
Recently, vessels with the following names have visited the sixth boro: NYK Blue Jay Southern Owl Stena Penguin … See what I mean about a trend that has emerged? A few years back I saw the Eagle fleet, eg in yesterday’s post, and separate from that . . . Asphalt Eagle. A few years back I saw a Peacock.
Here are some I suppose I’ll never see: Subsea Seven has some bird vessels, esp in diving support.
Millennium Falcon…. oh wait, that might not have launched yet . . . Magic Victoria was here recently, although my photo was too blurry to use here. Surfer Rosa . . . that name of the many I’ve posted here will stick with me. As of this morning, Surfer Rosa is westbound in the Med just outside Algerian waters.
Many thanks to Bjoern and Glenn for use of their photos.
I’ve mentioned before about my people the Dutch celebrating “old years day” on December 31. As the child of immigrants, I’m blessed by this one of many ways they see the world differently, a perspective I’m happy to share. So here is a retrospective of the year, the result of a process of scanning through photos in the blog library, not overthinking it.
January. Gunhilde Maersk with James, Kirby, and JRT plus Miriam Moran. the year of the 1200-footers aka ULCVs becoming commonplace in the sixth boro.
February. Ocean Henry Bain serves as a safety boat during the ice canoe race I documented in my Carnavalons posts.
March. Cerro Grande here escorted a Caribbean-bound LNG ship, one of all the Panama Tugs posts
April. When I saw this section of drained canal bed between O-6 to O-7 in Oswego, I thought the work’d never get done before the season began, but I was wrong. Of all my 2018 NYS Canals posts, this and this posted with the greatest urgency.
May. Reliable pushed seaward by Lucy H. As of today, Reliable lies under the sea gathering fishes and entertaining Davy Jones near Shinnecock.
June. Jay Bee V headed out on a high-profile mission. Has she returned to the sixth boro yet?
July. I missed Rosemary‘s christening because that’s what happens when you don’t look at your calendar. First come first serve for a few tugster lighthouse calendars. Send me an email with your mailing address. As I said, I ran a few extra when I made up my Christmas gifts.
August. Kimberly Selvick with AEP barges was one of the treats I saw in Calumet. This day south of Chicago planted a seed of curiosity about the Lake Michigan/Mississippi River link I hope to be able to explore in 2019. Many thanks to Christine Douglas.
September. J. W. Cooper delivers a pilot in Port Colborne at the Lake Erie end of the Welland Canal. Because I hadn’t a satisfying enough fix from the canal earlier, I returned there in October.
October. One Stork, a pink ULCV, came into town. It wasn’t her first visit/delivery, but it was the first that I caught. She’s currently in the sixth boro.
November. Morton S. Bouchard IV rounds Shooters Island light, Bouchard celebrated a big anniversary this year.
December. Ruth M. Reinauer heads west into the Kills in December, the start of heating oil season.
And that’s it for the year, time for me to securely lock up Tugster Tower and prepare myself to meet 2019. The older I get, the more profound is my awareness that although I make many plans for a new year, I might not see the end of it. It’s just how it is. Every day is a blessing. Last year had my own personal ultima thule; I pray that 2019 brings its new ones.
Thanks to everyone who read, commented, and assisted me in 2018. Happy and constructive new year day by day to you all.
I take a lot of photos. A few are extraordinary, IMHO. The photo below ranks among that select set.
Above and below, it’s Jonathan C Moran. Sharon Sea heads for sea above.
Atlantic Salvor takes yet another scow filled with dredge spoils out to the dumping grounds.
Atlantic Dawn heads out.
Emily Ann tows Chesapeake 1000 down toward Norfolk.
St Andrews moves a petro barge.
Frances has a headline to a barge in the anchorage.
Two Vane boats wait in Gowanus Bay.
And James D. has a line onto ONE Stork.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Today I caught the stork, one stork.
I had work to do, but I just couldn’t let this big cherry blossom magenta vessel pass unrecorded, especially not on a sunny late October day. Besides, I could work twice as hard the next few days . . ..
Wait . . . I thought it was one STORK!??
Yup . . . one stork from Tokyo.
No way! It’s one tug named James D. Moran.
This minimal superstructure probably contributes to fuel economy.
She’s a product of Japan Marine United Corporation in Kure shipyard, Hiroshima.
And for some really cool alongside on the dock photos, here are a few from Sean McQuilken in Charleston.
It’s more than 100 feet up to the bridge wing!
Thanks to Sean for use of these photos; all others by Will Van Dorp.
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