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It’s a horn. You could call it a ship’s whistle or audible signaling device. It’s clearly not a bell, but that would work also. From three years ago, here’s another one of these devices.
From this photo below, you have no sense of size, though, do you?
Nor do you get that from here, unless . . . .
you identify the structure “behind” the horn as a ladder, scaled to a member of a crew. Now imagine this horn atop the roof of your pickup truck.
Below and to the left . . . you make out the name?
Still see the horn up there? Can you imagine being on that ladder when the horn sounds? Can you imagine a seagull that has perched there just before a signal? Click here if you want to hear it, but first, turn the volume waaaaay up to 11.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who wonders whether both horns blow the same pitch and whether it’s true that some QM equipment has been integrated into the QM2’s whistle.
Here are some sound codes.
And here are lots of Great Lakes sounds.
Did you hear about Peak Pegasus, the vessel racing to get US soybeans into China before retaliatory 25% tariffs are slapped on? More on Peak Pegasus at the end of this post.
Well, these two container ship had no need to hurry into the sixth boro, yet here’s something I’ve never seen before . . . two container ships entering the Narrows in quite close succession.
Obviously the passage accommodates all, but still . . . a new sight for me, the reason I return here again and again.
See QM2 in the distance to the right? I caught her first arrival here 11 years ago. Dawn was too late for me to catch it. That ominous sky got me thinking . . . storm clouds. Locally I was just concerned about getting spots on my lens. But then I thought about the story of Peak Pegasus, the impending trade war. I could see those as storm clouds, and shipping . . . this is a front line, like every seaport in the US.
Take the value of all the imported cargo on Maersk Buton and
add to it the value of whatever’s on OOCL Berlin . . . and every other ship entering a US port for the foreseeable future and add the product of that and .25 . . . the sum’s rising. Ditto . . . whatever is on Bomar Caen–headed for Colombia–might just be less attractive if .25 gets added to the price of those goods. Maybe Colombia is not affected.
I’m by no means an expert in much, and please educate me if I’m wrong, but these storm clouds seemed appropriate this morning.
All photos and sentiments by Will Van Dorp, who first read the name of the Maersk ship as butoh, which would have been much more interesting.
Peak Pegasus plowed at top speed to make port, but . . . she failed. More here. Here’s a story from the same vessel from a few months back.
For as multipurpose as sixth boro waterways are in summertime, my perception is that safety prevails. RORO, barge on a short wire, and canoe stay well apart.
Ditto here with spacing.
PWCs . . I’ll never be a fan.
Foreshortening masks the fact that from a vantage point like Fort Wadsworth . . . I can see over 10 miles.
The traditional ship here was launched in 1997; the tug beyond . . . in 2001.
My only question is where that classy yellow sand is going. TZ Bridge?
All photos recently by Will Van Dorp.
Click here for the index to this series. The elusive Bowsprite’s work is not elusive here.
MV Alice Austen‘s namesake was a pioneer photographer from Staten Island. The other ferry of the Austen class was named for another famous Staten Island artist here.
Rich Taylor, who has sent along other photos including this one, which I suspect MAY have been converted into a dredge scow, took this from near Yank Marine recently. It’s the future NYWaterWay’s Molly Pitcher. See more here.
Ashley Hutto took this photo recently of the grand dame taking on fuel and lube.
In Montreal, with Habitat as backdrop, it’s Cavalier Maxim doing a Montreal-from-the-water tour.
From Jan Oosterboer via Fred Trooster, here are the Stena Britannica and
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Stena Hollandica, which shuttle between Hoek van Holland and Harwich.
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Also, from our Dutch friends, here’s a photo of semisubmersible floating platform vessel Hermod, which has accommodations for 336 people. So . . .
these orange pods could be called “people removers,” essential and in need of regular drills.
Here’s a people mover–LARC XV-75– that for a time belonged to the Harbormaster of Bridgeport.
And finally for today, if a “people mover” is defined as a vessel that moves terrestrials through the water, then I guess this is a “mermaid mover,” moving less land-mobile water folk over the pavement.
Thanks to Rich, Ashley, Jan, and Fred for sending along these photos. If you send me a photo and I don’t use it right away, please be patient. Photos not otherwise attributed are by Will Van Dorp.
As I post this, Hurricane Isaac approaches New Orleans, and the work of every mariner on the river is to ride out the storm. Even if it appears that almost nothing is moving on the river, movement is there and intense. Click here (now) for live views on the street and on the river in the Crescent City. To see what Isaac looked like over in Florida from Jed’s perspective, click here.
In the sixth boro, a race is a few days away, but vessels like Susan Miller--pushing the barge with the “rolled on and about to be rolled off” trailer–are at work.
Ditto an unidentified DonJon tug, Pati E. Moran, inbound CMM CMA CGM Eiffel, and schooner Pride of Baltimore II go about their business.
Having “rolled-off” said trailer truck, Susan distances herself from Mary Whalen (just the bow at the starboard stern of the cruise ship) and Queen Mary 2.
Viking moves a barge through the KVK,
as does Arabian Sea and
Weeks’ Elizabeth,
Dorothy J,
St. Andrews,
Gramma Lee T Moran, and
the list could go on. Here, Doris Moran and Dace Reinauer . . . that’s tug work too. This last foto below comes compliments of Marian & William Hyman. Thanks.
All other fotos taken by will Van Dorp, who will be at the race Sunday. Thanks for reading.
In my personal life, the beginning of a calendar year seems the best time for maintenance, new starts, re-evaluations. Today I cleared out and organized a tool closet, tossing out with gusto and energy what I hadn’t been able to . . . in “cleaning” attempts for the past few years.
As I looked through fotos some of you have sent, I “read” maintenance in them, too. Like this foto of Ambrose from John Watson. I’m wondering how many years it’s been since LV-87 had her previous
haircut and a shave.
Lou Rosenberg sent this foto; even QM2 needs touch-ups. Here are some fotos I took of QM2 arriving in the sixth boro for the first time in April 2004.
Finally, Captain Thalassic sent some fotos from up on the Erie Canal, Lock 28A, where Erie Canal boats Emita II (1953) and Colonial Belle dry out their hulls over the winter, as does
. . . is that Seneca, and blindfolded and trussed in back of the dry dock? Does Seneca need help? Here’s another shot of Seneca by Jason LaDue.
Two more shots by John Watson, although these have no connection with maintenance . . . except my own. Catherine Turecamo here escorts bulk carrier being escorted Steel Anna.
Now there’s a name!! I imagine introducing myself . . . “Hi, I’m ‘steel will.’ If I needed some life maintenance , that would be an energetic start.
Thanks all for sending these fotos along.
home of the two Marys. The farther Mary comes and goes, but the nearer one–Mary A. Whalen, hub of the Basin–will
serve as locus for (literally) tons of visiting historical vessels (See Atlantic Basin 1) this summer as well as intangible amounts
of fun. See the full calendar of music, movies, lectures, and visiting vessels on the calendar here. Or just come by to hang . . . during TankerTime. When I tried to interview Mary A. Whalen about the summer, her only response was the smile created by red-white-blue bunting hanging between the portholes on the house.
As to the other Mary, the distant one with a tiara suggested by her name, she’s itinerant. She left yesterday (7/19) and will return
in early August . . . if the schedule is to be believed.
Hail! Marys of the Atlantic Basin. See bowsprite’s adorable rendering here.
This coming Saturday–July 24–is City of Water Day in NYC. Some of the events at Atlantic Basin include a marine security display with a VACIS container scanner, a sniffer dog from US Customs and Border Protection, Urban Divers mobile marine museum, a container mover from American Stevedoring, tours of visiting steam lighthouse tender Lilac, live music, food from local Brooklyn vendors including Kevin’s Restaurant and Kustard King. And more!
See more City of Water Day info here.
Middle three fotos by Will Van Dorp; all other fotos and mosaic here by Carolina Salguero.
Unrelated: Earlier today I asked the following question: Can anyone help identify this large floating object on the Hudson here? Foto was taken by the Mighty Quinn five days after the Willis Avenue Bridge floated by, and a few weeks after the house barge sauntered through. And the answer . . . just in from Richard Canty, captain of Glen Cove: The object in question is a set of “cooling towers for the new power plant being built in Astoria at Steinway Street. They were built at P&M Marine’s dock in Coeymans, NY. That dock may be remembered by some as the old Brickyard. The towers are giant sails. Very exciting driving in a wind….. any wind.”
Thanks, Richard.
And this will be my last post for July. Lake Opeongo has called. It seems some mysteries there need my immediate attention–or I need theirs . . . stuff like deciphering the code of crickets, the flickering of fireflies, the meandering of muskellunge, the wiles of wintergreen, the secrets of snipe, the contours of congress (lower case), the rituals of relating, the protocol of pursuit, the finesse of friendship (oh.. this could be endless) . . . . Ah, the glories of gallivanting.
Til August . . . cheers from tugster.
Oops! Here’s some merry music from Tina Turner, Jimi Hendrix, and Tom Petty.
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