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If I have these dates right, Pieter Boele was built in 1893! Clearly this hull was built for towing, that bow not built for pushing.
Of course, the same would be true of the 1913 Jan de Sterke.
Dockyard IX dates from 1915. I know the small tug is called Furie, considered a push boat. I can’t make out the name of the third and fourth steam tugs in this photo, beyond the small pusher.
Noordzee is a 1922 tug.
Roek dates from 1930, built in Vlaardingen, my father’s hometown. He would have been three when it was launched.
Volharding 1 dates from the same year.
Dockyard V, as seen here, was built in 1942, although the sparse design suggests it’s older than that.
As with part A, all photos in part B here were sent thanks to Jan van der Doe and taken by Leo Schuitemaker. Scroll through here for some fabulous photos of the event. Maybe I’ll go back there again in 2024.
Posting by tugster tower robots at the behest of WVD, who wonders why the Dutch are able to field such a rich field of restored and fully functioning steam tugboats.
I borrow this title from an event I’d love to see more photos of, an art trip marking National Maritime Day in May 1987 and reported on here and here. What better way to leap into the future with blasts from the past, borrowing again.
My purpose in this post is to inform about a unique celebratory event at the Pratt campus in Brooklyn that will not be repeated after this week, Wednesday December 31 late into January 1 wee . . . Here are the directions: “There will be two gates open, one on the corner of Dekalb and Hall Street; the other is the main vehicle gate on Grand and Willoughby Aves. Grand Ave does probably not show on maps because there are super blocks on each side of Willoughby. Once on the campus head for the smokestack or follow the noise to the calliope. Closest subway stop is Washington\Clinton on the G train. Get out at the Washington end of the station. One block along Lafayette , turn left around the church. One block down Hall Street you will see Pratt Institute.”
Here and here are previous posts I’ve done on the whistles Conrad Milster has at Pratt.
Here are some of my photos of steam whistles, my tribute to steam . . .
aboard Belle of Louisville,
at the Pageant of Steam,
and all the rest at the Stoom fest near Rotterdam this past May. Like the 1930 steam tug Roek.
Or the 1933 British Navy torpedo recovery vessel Elfin.
Yes, that’s a child playing on the torpedo.
Or the 1893 Pieter Boele . . . a steam tug with a bowsprit.
Or the 1915 Hercules.
Dress warm and come bathe in the sound and steam hooked up by Conrad Milster at Pratt. I’ll see you there.
All Most photos by Will Van Dorp. The photo above is by the inimitable bowsprite, who captured steam and cold water rituals here 4 years ago.
I certainly saw great assist tugs like Triton, here steering a bulk carrier into the locks at Ijmuiden. Click here for more Iskes tugs.
Louise van der Wees is less new.
Devotion is an Urk-based vessel working a mini-heavy lift unit.
But it was the sheer number of restored-to-operational-condition vintage tugs that impressed me, like the 1946 SS. Gebr. Bever. If that link is in Dutch, you can switch languages at the bottom.
Ditto Roek, 1930.
Spes . . . 1946
Wouw
Citius
Wisent and many more.
Here’s another shot of Elbe (former Maryland Pilots vessel) being passed by Hercules 1915 . . . and we end this installment with
a 1977 Hercules.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Personal note: Today I begin an extended gallivant in northern and western New York, the state. I have many more Dutch photos, but my ability to post may be limited.
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