Poling Brothers No. 16 | tugster: a waterblog

On this date in May 2013, I was near Portland OR scanning slides, images Seth Tane had taken decades earlier.

The images have value in a macro sense, not the small details but rather the extent of change in the past almost 50 years.

Tomorrow (2023) the fleet comes in. But what year did LCC-20 come in . . . maybe 1985 or 1986? It seems she’s still active. I now believe that lightship is the former LV-84.

But there are details here too, like these. Might these two tugs be what’s more commonly known to me as Christine M. McAllister and H. J. Reinauer? And look at the crowds!!

Is this the former lightship St. Clair?

Will this former tanker, former crane ship be fodder for underwater archeologists of the 22nd century?

I’d love to see this tugboat today.

What a different skyline!! The Esso tanker’s been scrapped two decades already.

Kehoe tugs have appeared here on this blog a few years ago. Here in this fog, they look every bit to be a fading past.

All photos, thanks to Seth Tane. Any errors, WVD.

If you’ve got time and inclination and an interest in the comments of a decade ago, click in the links below for that journey back in time to 6 b 5 d aka sixth boro fifth dimension posts . . . .