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Marjorie moves her train cars.
Nathan G goes for fuel.
Crystal Cutler pushes her barge.
Paula Atwell travels light for a change.
CMT Pike does her harbor rounds.
Mister Jim here looks brighter than usual in the morning sun; in cloudy weather, that gray livery
obscures details.
Robert IV assists at the stone anchorage.
Cape Henry leaves her barge to take care of some business.
Captain Willie Landers makes a pass through the boro.
And a rare sighting, Sea Crescent transits the boro on her return from Port Hawkesbury NS to Fort Eustis VA. It’s likely that Sea Crescent originated this voyage from a port on the Saint Lawrence or even the Great Lakes.
All photos, any errors, WVD, whose 380 in this series was posted here.
All these tugboats have a common design feature. I’ll let you figure it out.
Eastern Dawn pushed a load of scrap westbound in the Kills.
James William showed off her bow as she traveled light toward the Upper Bay.
Ditto Buchanan 12, usually confined to pushing up and down the Hudson with a train of rock scows.
Robert IV does a plethora of jobs, spot work I think it would be called, from her base at Caddell’s.
Eastern Dawn returns from Newark Bay with a light scow.
And finally . . . where’s the tug pushing this deck barge with a boring machine?
It’s the shorty but mighty Jimmy!
And what they have in common is the squared off versus model bow, with knees designed for pushing.
All photos and any errors, WVD.
Dana Alexa is another seldom seen tugboat in the sixth boro of NYC;
although painted DonJon blue, she’s now a Breakwater Marine boat, I believe.
It was good to see the 1958 54′ boat with a barge of what appears to be sheet piling.
William F. Fallon Jr. has appeared here several times recently.
Robert IV has worked in the boro for over 30 years.
Linda L. Miller originally was called Frog Belly. I like that name.
And finally, you most likely by now have heard about the barge carrying scrap metals that caught fire on Delaware Bay and you may have wondered how scrap metals could burn. What follows is a series of photo I took in mid-April of a similar load.
This load was towed by Mackenzie Rose; the one that caught fire was towed by fleetmate Daisy Mae. Loads like this have been fairly common on the run from the sixth boro to the Delaware River.
Of course an investigation of the fire, which was confined to the barge, will take some time,
but scrapyard fires are fairly common. Here‘s an unrelated though germane article from the BBC.
All photos, WVD.
Photos from the sixth boro . . . although I’m a thousand miles away and in the eastern mountains… 1974 ex-Exxon Ocean State and
and slightly smaller 1975 ex-Exxon Granite State, now Marjorie B. McAllister and Brendan Turecamo.
The 1999 ex-Crosby Knight now Stephen Dann was pushing a Centerline barge.
The 2009 ex-Allison Crosby is now Mount St. Elias, is one of the Kirby boats in the boro that I perceive as a winter boat. Where was she all summer?
The 1975 Robert IV has been in the boro since 1989. Where was she for her first decade?
And finally, the 2020 Janice Ann Reinauer is the newest, largest, and most powerful tugboat in this post, here overtaking the 2010 6589-teu Maipo.
All photos, WVD.
Happy 31st, aka Halloween, World Savings Day, Day of Seven Billion, National Candy Apple Day, Annual visit a cemetery or graveyard day . . . and more. If you need suggestions for a graveyard, consider this one. And just yesterday, I learned of this one and this one. Who knew?!!? Want to revisit a tugster ghost post?
For this post, there’s a quiz. The first part is … name the oldest and newest boat here. The second part … identify the only two boats here NOT built in Louisiana. Of course, building is one thing, and designing is another.
All photos taken this October. Susan Miller,
Miriam Moran and Pegasus,
Andrea,
Gregg McAllister,
Robert IV,
Buchanan 12,
Navigator,
Robert Burton,
Shawn Miller,
Pearl Coast,
Miss Ila,
Mary Turecamo,
and the always seasonal Kimberly Turecamo.
There you have it . . . And I’ll give the answers tomorrow.
And my question is . . . who is Miss Ila‘s namesake and what do you call that shade of red?
Justine has been back in the sixth boro awhile now after quite some time away.
She’s a 1982 product of Jakobson, one of the last half dozen built there. From this angle she reminds me of Siberian Sea, now Mike Azzolino. She works with 4000 hp.
Recent days have seen a convergence of the Cape-class,
Cape Lookout,
Cape Henry,
and Cape Canaveral, here pushing DBL 101.
They are attractive 5000 hp boats.
Also pushing an oil barge, Patriot, in fact, was Robert IV.
Usually that barge has Mary H as power.
Nicole Leigh finished fueling, brought down the red flag, and spun around to rejoin her barge.
Her Caterpillars deliver a total of 7200 hp to her wheels.
And closing, it’s the 6770 hp Capt. Brian A. escorting Zim Tarragona out to sea.
All photos, WVD.
Here’s a photo from a friend who works for a naval architecture firm. Guess the function of the completed vessel below.
Here’s a rendering.
To the gentleman from New Zealand from the William C. Daldy Preservation Society who recently inquired about functioning steam tugboats in the US, I can’t think of any. Can any reader here? Here and here can get you info on steamer Daldy. And all that smoke was photoshopped in, I was told.
Christiaan Brunings was built in 1900 as an icebreaker home-ported in Dordrecht NL, in the Rhine delta. She survived two world wars that happened all around her. I took this photo in Dordrecht in 2014. For more photos of smoky Dutch steam tugs, click here.
If coal was the fuel of the past, then wind will make up a share of an increasingly harnessed renewable sources of energy. Susie S was at the the Damen Den Helder yard back in 2014, same trip.
Even more variety is here, the reason I put this post in the “line locker” group . . . tugs on the highway . . .
and the boat ramp, and
sometimes nearly getting away . . . once they enthusiastically take to water. Well that tug, formerly know as Atlantic Hunter has changed hands and is now Little Giant. Neptune himself was consulted about the deal and he approved. Keep your eyes peeled.
And further rounding out this post . . . On July 14, 2017, Peking was floated out of Caddells by the tagteam of Dorothy J and Robert IV to
be slipped onto the back of Combi-Dock III for transit over the Atlantic. See the full story here. Today, September 7, 2020, it arrives fully restored at its new museum in the port of Hamburg.
After more than three years of work, Peking will be arriving here today. The FB site is shown there. If you don’t do FB, I have permission to copy some pics and paste them in a future blog post. To the Hafenmuseum, where I wanted to be today . . . Herzlichen Glückwunsch zur schönen Restaurierung!
Back to those first two images, that is a state-of-the-art Russian factory trawler called Captain Sokolov, one of six identical vessels being built at the St. Petersburg Northern Shipyard. Here’s more on the design of these vessels with a capsule hull. Dimensions are 268′ x 51′ with a cold storage capacity of 1200 metric tons. Here’s more on Norebo. The design is by Knarr Maritime Consortium of Iceland.
The first two images thanks to Aleks, number 3 is from seapixonline, and the others, WVD. Many thanks to Rembert for reminding me that today is the day Peking in Hamburg goes public.
Finally . . . it’s Labor Day, which I learned is a good day to work. But if you want to stream some good music on a Labor Day theme, try this from Bread and Roses, where I used to go when I lived in the Merrimack Valley of MA.
Happy 4th of July. Here’s some sixth boro, some heartland, and some Pacific Northwest. Here‘s the series.
But let’s start with Robert IV, a workhorse who last appeared in this blog here.
Hundreds of Cheyenne photos have appeared on this blog, showing her in a range of colors and trims; this photo was taken last week in Manitowoc by a Great Lakes mariner, who, by the way, at one time worked in the sixth boro.
Ellen McAllister has worked in the sixth boro longer than I’ve been taking photos here; as a result, hundreds of photos of her can be found here.
For a red-white-blue tug today, what could be better than a Nicholas Vinik photo.
An outa-towner has come through the sixth boro twice this week with an unusual bargeload; bad decision-making means this is the best photo I got. Sorry, Elizabeth Anne. Did anyone get a better photo? Any idea what the “marshmallow” load on that barge is?
Two of the tugs assisting in a Cosco Shipping ULCV, Brendan Turecamo and JRT Moran, seem small but bring adequate power to the task.
Another view of Cheyenne shows her location on the Manitowoc River, adjacent to Erich.
Thanks to Kyle Stubbs for sending along this photo of a raft of Boyer tugs. L to r, it’s Sea, Billie H, Gretchen H, and Kirsten H. You might have recognized Sea as the former Java Sea, a regular operating out of the sixth boro. Despite what’s on the bow, she’s now called Kinani H. In the back row, that looks like Sonja H.
How about another red-white-blue boat for today? This is from over 11 years ago. It’s the 1951 Dorothy Elizabeth, ex-Gotham, Christine Gellatly, Mobil 11, Socony 11.
To close out the set, Iron Salvor, a Vanuatu-flagged tug, is back in town. Anyone know her story . . . who she works for?
Many thanks to Great Lakes mariner, Kyle, and Tony A for some of these photos; photos not otherwise attributed by WVD.
Now that I’m at installment 291 of this series, I’m rethinking the adjective random. Check out these meanings old and new here. But “random” it is until I come up with a better word. I’d rejected the descriptor “miscellaneous” when I first started. How about one from this list: some, select, chance, serendipitous, entropic, stochastic . . ..
Enjoy this novel juxtaposition, Coney Island Light and Denise A., with her barge. Denise A. is from 2014, a 4000hp tug with dimensions of 112′ x 35′ x 17′.
Marjorie B McAllister waits in the offing. You might not guess that she’s worked since 1974 with her 4000hp and 112′ x 30′ hull.
Franklin Reinauer pirouettes her 81′ x 28′ hull right in front of me, the 1984 tug propelled by 2600 hp.
Capt. Brian A heads out for yet another job.
Meanwhile, Linda Lee Bouchard and two of her sisters, Ellen and Evening Star, bide their time at old Home Port. Linda Lee is from 2006, her 125′ x 38′ hull powered by 6140hp. The sisters are 1982 104′ x 35′ and 3900hp and 2012 112′ x 35′ and 4000hp, respectively.
B. Franklin has been hard at work since 2012, measuring in at 112′ x 33′ and powered by 4000hp.
Robert IV came off the ways in 1975, and sometimes her 56′ x 22′ and 1050hp is just right.
More shots of Linda Lee
and Capt. Brian A.
and Evening Star.
And to conclude, hat tip to Stephen Reinauer, from 1970 and 101′ x 31′ and 3000 hp.
All photos, WVD, who thanks all who watched the Erie Canal presentation yesterday. Here‘s more Erie Canal on Saturday.
See the exciting announcement at the end of this post.
Sunday I got word thanks to Shipshooter–Jonathan Atkin–that the pilot boat-to-be would be moving from Caddell’s back to the Sandy Hook Pilots (SHP) base on Monday morning right around sunrise. Pilot boat-to-be? There’s still much work to do before she enters service. And at 0626, I saw the shift begin, as Dorothy J pulled her away from the floating drydock that has been her home the past few months. I visited her here back in December 2019 after she’d appeared at the SHP base about a year ago. The current SHP No. 1 New York is at sea at the sea buoy end of the Ambrose Channel.
Once clear of the dry docks, the several-mile tow got underway.
Dorothy J kept the bow pointed while Robert IV had the stern.
Just east of the salt pile, the tow was reconfigured so that Robert IV got the Pilot No. 1 on the nose.
Robert IV continued the push toward the Narrows, after Dorothy J had gone ahead.
Just off the pilot station, Dorothy J came back alongside . . .
and Pilot No. 1 slides in opposite side of the dock from Pilot No. 2 New Jersey.
All photos, WVD, who will update the continuing transformation as available.
Here‘s a NY Media Boat report on a day at sea on the current Pilot Boat No. 1.
The big announcement, click on the image below. A week from today you can join me for a different type of virtual canal tour.
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