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I have represented these “retro” posts as a slice of the sixth boro exactly a decade ago, but it more like . . . what in the boro caught my attention. So welcome back to December 2009, as seen from today, December 2019, taking advantage of 20/20 hindsight. And, to digress, I’ll bet the term 20/20 [2020?] hindsight will seen a bit strange in the next thirteen months.
Over at South Street Seaport, a group of vessels then is no longer there: Marion M, Peking, and Helen McAllister. Of those, Peking, though not the oldest, has the longest and most convoluted saga.
Sea Raven is no more, but with those high pipes, she always caught my attention.
Cable Queen seemed to have a future back a decade ago, but naught seems to have come of it, since last time I looked, she was still docked in Port Richmond. For context to this photo of the 1952 vessel, click here.
NY Central No. 13, scrapped in 2017 . . . also seemed to have a future back in 2009, although the owner was not in a rush to complete the job.
In 2009, the sixth boro was in the midst of a several-billion-dollar dredge project, as folks were talking about these ULCVs that would be arriving after the opening of the new Panama Canal locks. GLDD’s dredge New York was part of that effort.
I don’t know if Volunteer is still intact, but I’ve not seen her in years. Here she lighters Prisco Ekatarina while Mark Miller stands by. As of this writing, Prisco Ekatarina is in the Gulf of Finland.
Does anyone know if Horizon Challenger, built 1968 in Chester PA, still floats?
Patriot Service currently works as Genesis Patriot.
I believe Escort is laid up.
And let’s close with these two. Below it’s the now modest looking Ever Divine and Tasman Sea, and assembling photos for this post, for the first time I see the Taz’ devil sign on the stern of Tasman Sea . . . Maybe I’d seen it before and just forgotten. Ever Divine is currently crossing the Indian Ocean.
There it is . . .
All photos taken in December 2009 by Will Van Dorp.
This feature of the blog serves to look back at this month exactly a decade ago, i.e., photos from my archives from exactly 120 months back.
John B. Caddell was still kept compliant, spruced up, and –I assume–profitable.
Nathan E. Stewart commemorated a tragic incident but it worked on the East Coast to redeem itself. That certainly did not pan out.
K-Sea must have been at its peak back then: in this one shot are Greenland Sea, Baltic Sea, and Houma.
Hornbeck Offshore worked out of a footprint now occupied by Vane. Their boats like Patriot Service and
Spartan Service and others had a distinctive appearance.
Janice Ann Reinauer seemed much beloved, possibly because of the lush bow pudding missing in the photo below.
Of the boats so far in this post, Freddie K II is the only one that still works in the sixth boro these days. Of the others, only Patriot Service and Greenland Sea still operate in the US, and at least three of the others here have been scrapped.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who wishes you a happy and safe August 2019.
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I did this once before here. This time I was deleting near duplicates to limit the size of my photo library to accommodate the many photos I brought back from the gallivants, and my mind quickly formed today’s post. Enjoy all these from August through October 2009 and marvel at how much the harbor changes. As I went through the archives, this is where I stopped, given the recent developments in Bella Bella BC.
For background on this tug, check here.
Notice also the Bayonne approach to the bridge.
IMO 8983117 was still orange back then.
King Philip, Thomas Dann, and Patriot Service . . .
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Odin . . . now has a fixed profile.
And these two clean looking machines — Coral Queen and
John B. Caddell — were still with us.
This is a digression to March 2010, but since I’m in a temporally warped thought, let me add this photo of the long-gone Kristin Poling.
Back to 2009, Rosemary looked sweet here in fall scenes.
John Reinauer . . . I wonder what that tug looks like today over in Nigeria.
And Newtown Creek, now the deep Lady Luck of the Depths, sure looked good back then.
And while I’m at it, I’ve finally solved a puzzle that’s bugged me for a few years. Remember this post from three and a half years ago about a group of aging Dutch sailors who wanted to hold a reunion on their vessel but couldn’t find the boat, a former Royal Dutch Navy tug named Wamandai A870? Well, here’s the boat today! Well, maybe . . .
Another boat you can dive on is United Caribbean aka Golden Venture.
Photos and tangents by Will Van Dorp.
Here’s an index for the previous in the series.
I got this photo in July 2003 in Oswego, the 1943 Bushey tug WYTM-71 Apalachee. I haven’t seen it since, although it was at one time in Cleveland. Anyone know if it’s still there?
Here’s another Great Lakes tug, for now. This photo of James A. Hannah was taken by Jan van der Doe in Hamilton harbor in late May 2015. I posted it here then in this larger context. And here in February 2012, thanks to Isaac Pennock. Now I knew that James (LT-820, launched July 1945) was a sister to Bloxom (LT-653) and that the Hannah fleet had been sold off in 2009 in a US Marshal’s sale, but I hadn’t known until yesterday that the CEO of the Hannah fleet–Donald C. Hannah–was Daryl C. Hannah’s father!! That Daryl Hannah! But it gets even better, there once was a towboat named Daryl C. Hannah! Anyone know what became of it? Last I could find, it was on the bank of the Calumet River used as an office. Updates?
As you can tell, this photo was taken in the East River. It was July 2009 that Marjorie B. McAllister escorts Atlantic Superior as it heads for sea. Any ideas where Atlantic Superior is today? Actually, I know this one . . . after a long and eventful life, she powered herself over to China this year to be scrapped.
I haven’t seen Bismarck Sea here in quite a while, but last I knew, she was operating in the Pacific Northwest.
King Philip . . . went to Ecuador around 2012; Patriot Service is still working in the Gulf of Mexico, I believe.
And to round out this glance back, here’s a list of WW2 vessels still operating at the time of its compilation. Many thanks to aka Fairlane for putting it together.
Thanks to Jan van der Doe for the Hannah photo; all others by Will Van Dorp.
By the way, it was rewatching The Pope of Greenwich Village that got me to wonder about Daryl Hannah.
As I drank coffee this morning and read Kennebeckcaptain’s article on ATBs, sunrise colors warmed the color of the drab brick building across the way; stoking the color did nothing for the 18-degree temperatures. Time for a walk, I thought, wondering what I’d see. Bright color, fresh
paint? New steel and welds? After all the pleasure I’d had watching the final days of construction as documented by the fine folks at Narrangansett Bay Shipping, my first glimpse happened here of Laurie Ann Reinauer! As Don S calls it, it’s facet tug!
And she was not alone among ATBs: tailing her was Patriot Service,
a very different-looking tug than –say–Meagan Ann. By the way, see Meagan Ann in “push contest” video here v. Nathan E. Stewart. (starts at 40 seconds in).
And then Huron Service. That’s Irving Oil’s Great Eastern with yellow stack in background.
Laurie Ann made a U-turn somewhere off St, George and headed back west, allowing
a twice over and
a third and
–I was practically leering by now.
But it seemed like a parade, so I felt excused. That’s Houma approaching on the left and a noisy Captain D with the parade to Laurie Ann‘s port.
All fotos taken this morning by Will Van Dorp. Blizzard (yeah, right) here tomorrow.
Not an ITB in sight. On site here.
And for a little perspective, Kennebeck (and gCaptain)’s post on Sea Reliance and its barge deals with a tug of more than twice Laurie Ann‘s bhp of 4000, and a barge with 155,000 barrel capacity v. Laurie Ann‘s barge (which I haven’t seen yet) of 80,000.
Someone I care about expressed delight in seeing Hornbeck boats. “They’re pretty, beautiful white and orange,” I recall a statement. Well, I have news for you: they’re Candies. What? are Candies? Well, many of them are ex-Candies, at least. That’s Otto Candies, LLC, Marine Transportation and Towing.
Like Patriot Service, ex-Sean Candies. From a distance, I imagined the black stack-fronts as darkened windows. Guess the total horsepower.
114′ loa and launched in 1996.
Spartan Service . . new to boro6 this summer? Formerly Domar Captain.
Redundant radars? Spartan is 101′ loa and launched in 1978.
Huron Service, ex-Eric Candies. Left to right in background: Zachery Reinauer and Baltic Sea. I first wrote about Huron here over a year ago.
Left to right here in Gowanus Bay: Huron Service 98′ loa and from 1981, Sea Service 104′ and 1975, and Atlantic Service 100′ and also 1975. Bridge in the background is the BQE.
Here’s Sea Service over at the Palisades anchorage . . . or is it called Yonkers anchorage.
Erie Service, ex-Brett Candies 98′ and 1981.
And here’s Michigan Service, ex-Kevin Candies 980 and 1981; along with Erie. Now given these names, you know there has to be a Superior Service. I’ve just never seen it. Maybe it operates elsewhere. Here’s the Hornbeck site.
When I saw the colors here, I thought it was a Candies boat operating as a Candies boat in boro6. Wrong. It’s Sandmaster of Amboy Aggregates. Oh, it’s ex-Ben Candies, 107′ and 1983.
Answer to Patriot Service hp: 6140.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp. Again, click on a foto to enlarge it . . . at least, it does so on my machine.
OK, so I couldn’t get close enough fast enough, but the gray vessel evaporating into the fog at the Narrows is none other than Bob Hope aka T-AKR-300 delivered to the US Navy just over a decade ago by Avondale Industries. I never knew this until just now, but the vessel’s namesake was born in the UK and entered the US through the Narrows and Ellis Island!
Just past Ellis Island, bulker Georgia S hauls in Canadian gypsum to be transformed into wallboard aka sheetrock, putting her in the same trade as A. V. Kastner. What is it about gypsum bulker that causes them to have the peculiar stern design?
What I intially thought was a dollar sign (or possibly “zero dollars”) is actually the monogram of the modern bulk carrier designer, Ole Skaarup.
Last week, Singapore Star anchored just north of the Narrows not far from
where Patriot Service lightered off Norient Solar, a handysize vessel from Norient Product Pool.
Meanwhile, if you see something and I don’t, don’t say something; just snap a foto, send it my way, and I’d be happy to credit you with coin of the realm . . . fame and fortune in the blogshed.
Unrelated: Many thanks to Justin who sent along this link to the entire 36-minute Irving Johnson video of “Peking Round the Horn” here.
Thank God for the rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips and many kudos to the crews of many US Navy vessels for doing it.
All fotos here by Will Van Dorp.
Disclosure: I’ve never claimed to be in the tug industry although I’ve often considered trading in my profession to start a new life as a deckhand and go up the chain. Too bad life is so short or I’d do it. There is a precedent: in 1986, I resigned from a college teaching position to learn to drive semi, and I ended up a few weeks later hired to teach student drivers the intricacies of double clutching and backing. Anyhow, I’m dredging up this ancient history to make a point: namely, tugs excite me. They have power and style. Politicians and CEOs, who are reputed to have a power and style, do not excite me in the same way. Check out Hornbeck‘s incomparable Patriot Service below, one of my favorite recent fotos.
Or in their fleet check out Gulf Service …
or Stapleton Service escorting Calusa Coast . . .
or Sea Service.
Style and power! Nowhere could those qualities better be witnessed. To you all in the industry, my hat’s off. That’s why I fotograf and blog. Had I been born on Staten Island rather than farm country, I might be at the helm. Other fleets soon.
Photos, Will Van Dorp.
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