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Enjoy these photos from hither and yon around the summery and sometimes foggy sixth boro.

Bohemia and Double Skin 59,

Denali and 

DBL 104,

Pearl Coast and Cement Transporter 1802,

Matthew Tibbetts and RTC 28 

alongside Stena Important,

 

amd finally, Pelham and Erato.  The last two here are grouped simply serendipitously.

All photos, any errors, WVD.

Unrelated but noteworthy:  Happy 150th to zip code 48222, the only floating zip code in the US, J. W. Westcott company.   Here are some pics I’ve gotten over the years.

 

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It’s almost Fleet Week, so I’ll start with this photo.  That’s MSC’s Charles L. Gilliland in the background.  In just subtle contrasting version of gray, Mackenzie Rose comes in from sea.  CMT’s livery is not quite the same as USN gray.

Without the benefit of the contrasting gray, entering the Kills here is CMT’s newest, Erin Elizabeth.  If, like me, you’ve not looked at the evolution of the Carver Companies, have a look here.  Their range of services and bases has proliferated dramatically, more than a simple rebranding of their marine division.

Does anyone know an authoritative history of all the companies and equipment that have streamed into Buchanan  Marine since 1912?  That would be satisfying to read, or write.

Diamond Coast has been frequent in the sixth boro recently.  Thanks to Birk Thomas, her history can be found here.

Fleetmate Pearl Coast crosses Mary Turecamo here in the Con Hook Range.  Correct me if I’m wrong, Pearl Coast is the Dann Marine flagship, if such a designation exists?

Elizabeth has been a Weeks tugboat since its initial launch.  Weeks Marine, more than a century old as a company, might be another candidate for a history document, unless one exists that I’m unaware of.

Laura K. Moran is one of a long line of Washburn & Doughty products currently active.

Charles Hughes is among the newest vessels operated by Vane Brothers, another venerable company that has evolved since 1898.  Charles Hughes became part of the Vane organization in 1920, schoonering.

All photos, any errors, much left incomplete, WVD.

 

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Here’s random from a foggy day recently.  Pearl Coast . . . 127′ x 40′ . . . a large 5600 hp tugboat.

Maddie K . . ..  73′ x 24′ and 2000 hp.

Miss Madeline, 69′ x 26 and 2000 hp.

Pelham, the movie tug, 80′ x 26′ and 3000 hp.

Cape Canaveral,  105′ x 36′ and 5000 hp.  Here are the stats on Torm Adventurer.

Sea Lion, 65′ x 22′ and 1400 hp.

Marjorie B McAllister is  112′ x 30′ and 4000 hp.

I can’t tell you anything about Kimberly S.

Mary Turecamo,    107′ x 32′ and 4300 hp.

Zeus, 99′ x 29′ and 2250 hp, and who would ever rename Zeus!?  No one.  Nor have Mary Turecamo, Cape Canaveral, Buchanan 12, or Sea Lion.

Buchanan 12 . . .  87′ x 30′ and 3000 hp.

All photos, any errors, WVD.

Hey . .  how about another one of Zeus?

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Discovery Coast has been around for over a decade now.  One of my first times to see her was here. 

Lightning has only recently been joined by Thunder, here.  Might tugs named for other weather phenomena like hail and fog be coming?

Helen was only renamed that earlier this year;  before that, she was  Charles Burton. 

Thomas D. Witte appeared here only once as Kendall P. Brake, and that was a decade and a half ago with Powhatan, class-establisher for Apache. 

Defender last appeared on this blog a year and a half ago here . . .  She was

formerly Davis Sea, my favorite photo of which was here, struggling with solid water upriver.

Pearl Coast is a regular at the cement dock on the KVK, here with Cement Transporter 1802,  one of a fleet of barges dedicated to exactly that. 

And while I was at this location, I caught a convergence of tugboats,  Pegasus eastbound and Stephen Reinauer westbound.   Stephen has been in the sixth boro for nearly 30 years now.

All photos, WVD.

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Happy 31st, aka Halloween, World Savings Day, Day of Seven Billion, National Candy Apple Day, Annual visit a cemetery or graveyard day . . . and more.  If you need suggestions for a graveyard, consider this one.  And just yesterday, I learned of this one and this one.  Who knew?!!?  Want to revisit a tugster ghost post?

For this post, there’s a quiz.  The first part is … name the oldest and newest boat here.  The second part … identify the only two boats here NOT built in Louisiana.  Of course, building is one thing, and designing is another.

All photos taken this October.  Susan Miller,

Miriam Moran and Pegasus,

Andrea,

Gregg McAllister,

Robert IV,

Buchanan 12,

Navigator,

Robert Burton,

Shawn Miller,

Pearl Coast,

Miss Ila,

Mary Turecamo,

and the always seasonal Kimberly Turecamo.

There you have it . . . And I’ll give the answers tomorrow.

And my question is . . .  who is Miss Ila‘s namesake and what do you call that shade of red?

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Day in day out . . . and night in night out, port work goes on.  Here James D finishes up escorting a gargantuan “flower” ship out.

Sea Eagle stands by with her barge while Dace refuels.

Pearl Coast heads for Caddells,

where Kings Point is getting some work done.

Discovery Coast leaves the Gowanus Bay berth.

Atlantic Coast lighters a salt ship while Lucy waits in the anchorage.

Lyman moves Sea Shuttle southbound while some Bouchard units heads for the KVK.

And completing this installment, it’s Kirby, all finished with another assist.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

 

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J. George Betz and Morton Bouchard Jr. raft up on the floating dock.

Helen Laraway pushes toward the east.

JRT passes Weddell Sea on the way home after completion of another job.

Daisy Mae moves a deeply loaded scow westbound.  I’m not certain but believe the product is road salt.

Discovery Coast heads over toward the Kills.

A light Elk River makes for the next job.

Emily Ann tows  astern passing the collection of boxes in the Global Terminal.

And Majorie B. passes Pacific Sky while she steams back to the McAllister yard.

And one more, Ellen S, Pearl Coast, and Evening Light .  .  round out this installment.

All photos by Will Van Dorp, whose sense of this decade’s end is growing more palpable, offers this photo of Michigan Service and a whole lotta dredgin’ from the last two weeks of 2009.

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BW2M, being “backwards to Montreal” and here, it’s aggregate land.  Once it was about coal and brick coming down river and into the systems…. long before my time…. but today it’s earth products moving both ways.

You can’t have the supertall buildings of 57th etc. or the new streets and bridges without rock.

Frances stands by as the crushed Catskill is conveyed in.

 

Two loaded Witte barges wait for a prime mover

 

with what appears to be slightly different cargoes.

Meanwhile, Mister Jim pushes a barge load of sand upriver for projects there.

I’m not sure the function of this equipment.

Doesn’t this look like southern New Jersey sand?

Cement moves out and

down bound, while

salt comes upriver to nearly salt country from the ocean.

Later, Frances arrives in the sixth boro with barges from two different locations for materials for projects in the dryland boros

All photos by Will Van Dorp, who hopes he got all of that right.

 

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For folks who’ve been watching sixth boro traffic much longer than I have, Lyman must conjure up a sense of ressursction that I don’t have whenever I see the profile.  Then called Crusader, she was tripped by her barge and sank just over 30 years ago.  I’ve almost always seen her with

barge Sea Shuttle, towing sections of subs. For a spectacular view of this tow in the East River seven years ago click here.

Rockefeller University’s River Campus makes an unusual backdrop here for Foxy 3.   See the support structure for the campus being lifted from the River here.

Treasure Coast . . .  offhand, do you know the build date?

Carolina Coast,

with sugar barge Jonathan, which you’ve seen some years ago here as Falcon.

Pearl Coast with a cement barge off the Narrows remaking the tow to enter the Upper Bay.

In the rain, it’s Genesis Victory and Scott Turecamo, and their respective barges.

Franklin Reinauer heads out with RTC 28, and heading in it’s

Kimberly Poling with Noelle Cutler.

And let’s stop here with JRT assisting Cosco Faith.

All photos recently by Will Van Dorp, who’s been inland for a week now and sees Shelia Bordelon on AIS at the Stapleton pier this morning.   Anyone get photos?

 

 

 

Dann Marine Day

I didn’t plan it, but this past week, I’ve seen a lot of Dann Marine boats, so that’s why this post.

Running against a NW wind, Pearl Coast handles some spray quite handily as she tows Cement Transporter 1801. She’s a big boat:  127′ x 40′ with 5600 hp.  Click here for previous appearances of her on this blog.

Into that same wind, here’s Ivory Coast heading light along the Delaware shore.  Click here for previous posts with Ivory Coast.

 

I believe this is my first time to add East Coast to this blog, although she’s been in the Dann Marine fleet for several decades.

Welcome then.  She’s on the Sugar Express run between Florida and Yonkers. See previous Sugar Express posts here.

And another Dann Marine boat I suspect I’ve not seen before . . . Sun Coast,

inbound at the Narrows.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.