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Big sky and small ship? Actually it’s among the largest ships currently serving NYC, at 1063′ loa, or almost 2.81 times loa of Peking and 3.3 times the beam.
Actually, Hyundai Jupiter is the first of HMM’s “Earth-series” that I’ve gotten any sort of photo of. My recent attempt of Hyundai Pluto was lost in the snowstorm a few weeks back. As of this writing, Pluto is off western US, Mars is off western Mexico, Saturn … off western Korea, Neptune … traversing Tsugaru Straits, and Hyundai Earth … between Madagascar and Cape of Good Hope.
She’s among the biggest in the port, 1062′ x 155.’
Other ships calling recently include Bow Jubail, here assisted by
Turecamo Girls. By the way, did you even notice the assist tugs on Hyundai Jupiter above?
Shrike loaded scrap,
APL Yangshan and Hamburg Sud Monte Rosa transfer boxes, and
Polaris waits at anchor.
To return here to the tugs visible on the Hyundai ship, they were Robert E. and Erin.
Invisible but assisting on the starboard side was Ellen. And as of this writing Hyundai Jupiter has tied up in Norfolk, doing a steady almost-20 its much of the way.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
This was the same morning as the photos in yesterday’s post.
Amy C McAllister was assisting Polaris out to sea, and passing Wavertree‘s wrought iron hull. Click here for a record on articles about this unique survivor.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
And since it’s Earth Day, here’s a post from five years ago called Earth on Water Day, especially appropriate since the vessel in the photos above is named for a star in the night sky.
I first thought to call this PBB 5, following on 1, 2, 3, and 4 from last year, taken from a harbor area in “north” Amsterdam called “place beyond belief.”. But sometimes straightforward is clearest.
Check out Half Moon, gone over the Ocean and now leading a parade . . . hanging with the likes of Grace Kelly.
Gotta sing. Remember the armada that traveled up the north River six years ago? They traveled with their own song leader, Reinier Sijpkens, who got them going at night.
Big in the middle ground, it’s Kruzenshtern.
And in this batch of photos sent along by Fred Trooster and taken by Fons Tuijl, I can see converted trawler Pedro Doncker, Polish training vessel Dar Mlodziezy,
retired Dutch research vessel Castor,
pilot boat Polaris,
the nearest one here frigate Shtandart,
Indian training ship Tarangini,
Colombian training ship ARC Gloria–who wow’ed in the sixth boro here a few years ago,
Portuguese training vessel Sagres–recently in Greenport NY– and repurposed minesweeper Naaldwijk PW-809.
Of course . . . so much more, but I wasn’t there yesterday.
Again, many thanks to Fred and Fons for these photos.
For more shots, see gCaptain here.
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