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By numbers of boats, Vane Brothers has the largest fleet operating in the sixth boro, or maybe it just seems that way because the boats appear uniform, but there are subtle differences in size, power, vintage, and some of you know what else. It helps to think of this fleet as several classes, not all of which are shown in this post. The classes here are Elizabeth Anne, since 2015; Patapsco, since 2004; and Sassafras, since 2008; here I’ll abbreviate these classes as EA, PTS, and SAS.
Elizabeth Anne is now part of the Vane NW fleet working on the Salish Sea aka Puget Sound. Both Patapsco and Sassafras, now Steven Wayne and George Holland, respectively, have been sold out of the Vane fleet.
Nanticoke was launched in 2004, 4200 hp, and 95′ x 43.’ These are common to all/most PTS class. Assisting here is Fort McHenry, 2016, 3000 hp, and 90′ x 32,’ standard for SAS class.
Philadelphia dates from 2017, 4200 hp, 95′ x 34,’ standard for the EA class.
Wye River is a 2008 PTS-class boat, 4200 and 96′ x 34.’ I’m not sure of that 96′ loa number.
Choptank is a 2006 PTS boat.
Elk River is a 2009 SAS boat.
New York is a 2017 EA boat. I took this photo in the Black Rock Canal, in Buffalo. This is the only non-sixth boro image in this post.
Cape Fear is 2018 SAS boat. Fort McHenry in the distance has been mentioned above.
Charleston is 2018 EA.
Pocomoke is a 2008 PTS.
Fells Point is a 2014 SAS boat.
Kings Point is SAS, 2014. Jacksonville is a 2018 EA boat.
And to close for now, Fort Schuyler is a 2015 SAS boat.
All photos, any errors, WVD. Transiting the sixth boro now and then and some stick around, Vane Brothers has at least three other classes of boats in their fleet.
A previous all-Vane post can be found here.
I’ve mentioned before that I’m always looking for novelty. Here’s one, new to me at least,
the 4400 hp Chincoteague with Double Skin 802. I’d love to get closer-up pics one of these days.
Nicole Leigh Reinauer, a 7200 hp beauty twenty years almost senior, passes Chincoteague on her way to
rejoin her barge, RTC 135.
Meanwhile Miriam Moran follows in a ship as one of the assists.
Moments earlier, the 1979 3000 hp Miriam had accompanied 1982 4610 hp Doris Moran to meet the ship.
The 2021 4000 hp Jordan Rose, ex-Evening Star and now in Rose Cay colors, is high and dry alongside Sorenson (?) Miller on the hard at Bayonne Drydock.
The 2008 4200 hp Pocomoke passes the KV buoy, which made soothing noises as it rose and settled in the chop.
The 1999 4500 hp Patrice heads out to meet a ship.
And finally, 1999 3600 hp Stephen Dann looked particularly good as she headed out to her next job.
All photos, this week, WVD.
Swarming is one thing, but
in a congested waterway,
riding wakes
to feel the surges
. . . well I gotta wonder ….
All photos, WVD.
In the drizzle, BBC Alabama awaits cargo in Port of Albany.
Pocomoke transfers cargo,
Brooklyn heads south,
Hudson Valley sentinels keep vigil no matter
how much rain falls,
Doris hangs with Adelaide,
as does Coral Coast with Cement Transporter 5300,
Strider rests from striding,
Union Dede docks at a port that 10 years ago was sleepy,
HR Pike (?) rests on rolling spuds,
Saugerties Light houses B&B guests,
not far from Clermont, home of the father-in-law of the father of steam boating on the Hudson and then the Mississippi,
Comet pushes Eva Leigh Cutler to the north,
Spooky‘s colors look subdued in the fall colors, and
two shipyard relatives meet.
Will Van Dorp took all these photos in a 12-hour period.
But first, from less than two months ago . . . this photo taken by O. Nonimus Bosch shows Fells Point, Sassafras, and Pocomoke temporarily immobilized. Here and here are parts of the story.
Recently in t-shirt weather in the sixth boro . . . it’s a classic, Thomas J. Brown.
Ellen S. Bouchard,
Resolute with a Bouchard barge,
and Evening Star, also with a Bouchard barge.
Elizabeth McAllister light,
Robert E. McAllister,
Ross Sea,
Eric McAllister,
and finally Ellen McAllister shifting
Cielo di Roma . . .
Thomas J. Brown . . . enjoy another look at this classic.
All photos by Will Van Dorp. And in the post above, subtracting the three tugs in the O. Nonimus Bosch photo, you have over 25,000 horsepower, of which 1000 of those ponies are generated by Thomas J.
When over 5000 horses get pulling, generating 68 tons of bollard pull, smoke happens. That … and the tanker starts to move. And Gramma Lee T Moran (May 24, 2002) feels satisfied.
Marjorie B McAllister (1974) escorts Stena Concert into her venue . . . er . . . berth through
a congested KVK. Foreground here . . . East Coast ( 1982) approaching and Pocomoke (2008) distancing.
June K (2003) hauls out the crumpled and rusted scrap metal for new life,
John P. Brown Thomas Brown (1962) , East Coast, and Brandywine (2006) all facing west in Bayonne,
Baltic Sea (1973) (Was she originally painted blue as S/R Albany?) heads east,
and a fairly new Laurie Ann Reinauer (2009) comes in from sea.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Unrelated . . . I’m literally knocked out by the entries to the Patty Nolan bikini contest. Just kidding. Maybe the figurefigure will be dubbed ” P Lady Godiva Nolan” this year?
(Note: See Bonnie’s iceboat video here. Woohoo!).
New subject: I went out looking the fotos the day before the snow storm, and here’s what I got in response to a request from my cousin. It sounded like she asked for fotos of decks in the city . . . with storied locations as back story . . . many stories, plenty decks. Caveat: She mumbles a bit, my cousin. Well . . . cuz . . .
… for tugboat decks, here’s Morgan light. And in the background, a spread of city from Goldman Sachs (Jersey City) on the left to World Trade on the right, with the Empire State Building and the tip of Chrysler in between.
About-to-pirouette product tanker decks, here’s Affinity.
More light tugboat decks, try on Socrates.
You want throaty power? Consider the decks of Adriatic Sea and DBL76.
For some variety, you might check for a fit with ice-class tanker decks, the festive color and musical name that is Stena Concert . . . and just in time for Valentine’s Day. Yes? Well, more decks then.
For doubleskin barge and tug decks, I give you Pocomoke. I can tell you’re not satisfied yet, cara. More to come.
Newish tugboat decks with a feline flair . . . here’s the ex-Jaguar now Kimberly Poling.
All fotos taken on February 9 ( less than 24 hours before onset of the so-called snowcopalypse) by Will Van Dorp. More decks and then even more, but for now, it’s lpm. I’m all tuckered out.
To be continued . . .
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