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This is flamboyance personified . . . well, at least shipified.
This 6724 teu vessel began life in 2010 at Mol Magnificence, with a much less flashy color.
This 8468 teu vessel, taking on fuel in Gravesend Bay carries an unlikely name,
America, registered in Limassol. Previous names include CSCL America and MSC Baltic.
This 10000 teu box ship was previously called Hanjin China.
I’d not want to be in the small boat right ahead of the ship as James D, Jonathan, Brendan, and Margaret assist the ship in.
Gravesend Bay being used as a location for bunkering suggests to me that more bunkering is going on in the sixth boro than previously. Bigger fuel capacity and more vessels mean bunkering in new places. Here Philadelphia stands by Double Skin 57 bunkering Albert Maersk.
MSC Texas is a 8204 teu vessel with lots of previous names: E. R. Texas, MSC Bengal, CMA CGM Faust, Faust.. and launched in 2006.
Zim Yokohama dates from 2007 and carries up to 4250 teu.
It appears that some rust busting might be in order.
One of my favorite times to catch some traffic is dawn. Here Ava M waits for Maersk Algol to approach.
I love the lighted area as the 9000 teu vessel comes in.
And finally, Margaret Moran escorts the 8000 teu Ever Lively into port.
Ever Lively is one of over a dozen Evergreen L-class vessels serving the sixth boro and region. There should be 30 globally, and I’ve missed a few.
They come, they go . . . and they never stay very long. All photos, WVD, who has time to do not much more than sample.
I’m fortunate to live within easy distance of all this activity: Nathan G, Treasure Coast, B. Franklin Reinauer, an ULCV, Doris Moran, and who knows how much is obscured behind these . . . And then there’s the crane atop the building to the left and the gull lower right.
Or here . . . Margaret Moran and a tanker off her stern.
Or here, HMS Justice and Mary H . . . .
Philadelphia outbound with her barge and Ava M. McAllister inbound with an ULCV.
Mister Jim crosses in front of the slower moving Captain D with a Covanta barge. Note the cranes at Caddells, with the diagonal lines off the left from Left Coast Lifter.
Jonathan C Moran, Doris Moran, and Kimberly Turecamo . . . follow a ULCV and
and here head east for the next job.
Tugboats cross.
All photos, WVD.
The first boat I saw in the morning fog was buff and green . . . Meaghan Marie, moving what appeared to be a Cashman spud barge.
Meeting her was Vane’s Philadelphia. I’m curious . . . do any readers have a photo of a Vane unit operating on thew Great Lakes or arriving there via the Saint Lawrence?
I could hear Shannon Dann‘s EMDs throbbing as she moved Weeks 105.
Pathfinder moved light trash containers to a marine transfer station.
A light Treasure Coast headed from Duraport to the Upper Bay.
Seeley pushed sand scow Weeks 250 eastbound.
As the sun started to burn through the morning clouds, Janet D made her way to a job.
Pegasus returned from a job, out ahead of two Moran assist tugs.
St. Andrews got underway from the Centerline dock.
Brendan headed off to an assist.
And just as I needed to leave, Franklin showed up to assist Gracie out of her dock.
All photos, WVD.
Angelina Autumn . . . that’s not a common sixth boro boat . . .
so of course I needed to go check her out as she entered the Narrows yesterday with a deck barge headed for Coeymans NY.
Arriving with Angelina Autumn was Shannon Dann,
towing a huge Weeks crane. I did not get an ID on the crane. Neptune was in the procession also, but it was miles back and I had other places I needed to be.
Genesis Eagle had GM 11103 alongside a tanker.
Josephine came in from sea with
RTC 83.
Lois Ann L. Moran departed the Narrows
bound for Philly with the barge Philadelphia.
Anacostia headed out as well with
with Double Skin 510A.
I should know but am just guessing . . . Nicole Leigh Reinauer alongside Energy Centaur over by the Sandy Hook Pilots’ station.
All photos, WVD.
Alongside Pilot No. 1 New York, the current one, it’s the newest-in-name vessel in the sixth boro . . .
Meaghan Marie, ex–Kathleen Turecamo, has become part of the same green & buff fleet as Joseph John.
Here’s a photo I took of her in port of Albany, September 2013.
A different use of green . . . Vane’s Philadelphia, a 4200 hp tug launched in 2017.
A slightly darker buff, it’s Matthew Tibbetts. What I didn’t realize until I looked it up just now, Tibbetts was launched as Dann Ocean’s first boat to carry the name Ocean Tower. More on that later.
It’s always a good day when I catch two Reinauer tugboats together, Haggerty Girls (4000 hp) and Ruth M. Reinauer (4720 hp), with a deeply loaded RTC
Alex puts its 4300 hp to bear on Viktor Bakaev.
I mentioned Ocean Tower earlier . . . here’s the current tugboat by that name. It’s about a decade newer, one-third more horsepower, and 15′ longer, and 5′ broader than the earlier boat, now Tibbetts.
Kristin Poling began life as Chesapeake, an early version of Patapsco but longer, broader,and with a full 5000 hp.
And to conclude, examples of the classes of the two largest tractor tugs in the sixth boro . . . Capt. Brian A. and
JRT, each approaching their next job.
All photos very recently, WVD, who has more tugboat race photos from previous years . . .
I’m always on the lookout for “first-timers” in the harbor, but I’m equally thrilled to see the “seldom-seen.” I realize that some people might see these boats everyday. The “seldom-seen” relates to me.
This is true of Pelham. The 1960 built is on her sixth name, if I count right. She started out as Esso Pelham. You’ll have to scroll, but here are a number of times I’ve posted photos of her, in and out of the water.
Evelyn Cutler, a 1973 build, is a frequenter on this site. When I first saw her, she was a Great Lakes Dock and Dredge boat called Melvin E. Lemmerhirt.
In the few months that this boat has been know as Mackenzie Rose, she appears to stay quite busy. That’s a good thing.
Rae also fits into the rarely seen list, although maybe she was laid up and is now busy again. Meeting her here is Normandy. Rae and Normandy were built in 1952 and 2007, respectively.
Philadelphia and
Jacksonville are both recent 4200 hp Vane boats. Jacksonville, 2018, is one year newer than Philadelphia.
I first saw the 1981 Genesis Victory as Huron Service. Periodically, some of the Genesis boats do make their way into Lake Huron and beyond.
As i said earlier, Mackenzie Rose is quite busy. Does anyone know her namesake? I don’t.
Frederick E. Bouchard is the second boat to carry that name. She was built in 2016 and operates with 6140 hp, but
these days she looks quite light and her exposed waterline somewhat rusty.
Barney Turecamo, the fourth (?) boat to carry that name, brings 5100 hp to the job. When she was built in 1995, she had a different upper wheelhouse.
All photos, WVD, and taken in the past month.
Quick . . . name those units?
Type Vane Brothers into the search window, presuming you know these are Vane Brothers boats, and you’d get all the previous instances of this title, going back to 2009.
Now you can see the names . . . Potomac above and Fort McHenry below.
Philadelphia is legible here, as is
Kings Point.
On a related note, I’ve been doing some blog maintenance; I finally added tags to the first three and a half years of this blog. Tags? You can find them in the “fine print” just below the title. When I started the blog back in November 2006, I had enough to do just remembering the process of getting images and text on the page. So until April 2010, I just skipped tags. Their addition matters because now–if you want–you can efficiently trace all instances of a certain vessel appearing here. For example, the first time I saw any Vane Brothers boat in the sixth boro was at the 2007 tugboat race; it was Patapsco. If you want to locate all the photos I’ve posted–and now tagged–type Patapsco into the search window, find it in the tags, click that tag, and voila . . . you can go all the way back to the first one.
The system is not fool proof because Patapsco, the word, might refer to the river and watershed also. It refers to any other vessel by that name as well. For example, if you type in Pegasus, you get both the 1907 tug and the 2006 boat. However, with tags undated, you get more of the older images than previously. Similarly, Philadelphia may refer to the boat above or the city; type that in the search window, and you’d get both.
And if I neglected to tag something in posts more recent than April 2010, it’ll be harder to find. If I made a mistake, you’d be given my mistaken info . . . GIGO. Those caveats given, searching is now a bit easier than it was.
All photos, WVD.
Back in the sixth boro . . . it’s a head-on shot of Thomas J. Brown, with multiple icons of the harbor behind her.
Mister T pushes some loaded barges out east beneath the 59th Street Bridge in the photo below,
and tows twice as many empties westbound in the next photo.
Mary Turecamo shifts deck cargo barge New York from Red Hook over toward the other container ports of NYC/NJ, keeping a good number of trucks off the roads and bridges.
Meredith C. Reinauer moves RTC 150 out in the direction of the Sound.
Philadelphia pushes fuel barge Double Skin 503 into the Kills, over to where Ellen McAllister assists Genesis Liberty out of her IMTT berth.
Then Genesis Liberty moves GM 11105 around and outbound.
Robert Burton, usually pushing compacted garbage barges, the other day was doing
rock scow duty.
And rounding out this post, Ava M. McAllister, still in her first half year of working in the sixth boro, heads out to escort in a vessel just in from sea.
All photos recently by Will Van Dorp.
With momentum gaining for more offshore wind farms, a raft of seldom-seen type vessels make port calls in the sixth boro. This photo from Tony Acabono is an excellent example: Geosea is not new, but she’s surely exotic.
Another from Tony, Berto L. Miller is new in town, joining two other Miller OSVs sometimes here, Rana and Josephine K.
And yet another set from Tony . . . recognize this vessel?
Look at the design on the stack . .. .
It’s the return of Bear, as I first knew her, although she’s also been Catherine M. Brown and Elizabeth Anna.
And finally . . . here’s a photo of a vessel--Lois Ann L. Moran and barge Philadelphia–as seen from the “vessel,” the whatever-it-is in Hudson Yards. Those are LIRR trains in the foreground. Thanks to my sister for this photo.
Thanks to Tony and my sister for these photos. No photos here by Will Van Dorp, who is again off across the border.
i.e., CB. I’m writing this on the 8th . . . my first encounter with serious wifi. After today, I might not have wifi again for a spell. Last year I posted about this trip under the title GWA. Two years ago it was Go West.
Let me post some highlights from August 1 and 2, and Chelsea Piers to the Rondout. Note the fireboat 343 below,
Left Coast Lifter at Spuyten Duyvil,
USAVs Chickahominy and Missionary Ridge across from West Point,
Helen Laraway pushing a handful of barges southbound toward the Highlands,
Our vessel down the hill from
Newburgh’s historic district,
Penobscot Bay heading down river,
Philadelphia upbound,
Hudson leaving the Rondout for the Hudson,
and Johannsen Girls doing the same.
All photos by Will Van Dorp on August 1 and 2.
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