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Below is an image I posted on February 27, 2024. Cape Kennedy had only recently arrived, the latest in a string of government vessels getting rehabbed at Bayonne Dry Dock & Repair.
Below is a photo I took yesterday. Notice the detail change?
From a different angle, this is the door removed from the graving dock and being escorted out of the way by Sarah Ann and Nathan G.
Wind sock and door crew monitoring the float away.
In the presence of a mustering of McAllister tugs, Samantha Miller begins Cape Kennedy‘s exit. The McAllister tugs (l to r) are Marjorie, Timothy, Capt Brian, and Rowan.
Positions are assumed the farther out the 5083 floats.
I’m wondering if the exit is timed so that a slight current can ease her in the direction of the KVK side of the pier.
Once alongside the pier, Timothy, Marjorie, and Capt. Brian stand by as she’s made fast. USACE Moritz, foreground, must be serving some function, not just loitering.
I’ve posted photos of this process at least once before, as seen here.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
This monthly practice of looking back a decade gives me an opportunity to dust off a specific part of the archive in tugster tower. Besides sneezing sometimes because of the dust, I also feel amazed about the amount of change, small changes maybe but significant it seems.
Evening Mist has become Everly Mist, and is in a new endeavor. Palva is now Laurentia DesGagnes operating on and out of the Saint Lawrence River where I saw her a few years back. Only Eastern Welder in the background remains.
I made a few trips out to Greenport a decade ago, and walking through a shipyard saw this vessel from Suffolk Count Department of Health and its unusual top deck exhaust. Is that still around? I’m guessing it might check water quality on shellfishing areas . . .
Bebedouro (1974) and Atlantic Conveyor (1985), now both dead and scrapped. Brendan Turecamo still works here all day every day.
Rebel (138′ x 46′) is still on the NJ side of the sixth boro, waiting for an opportunity to get back to work.
Viking (132′ x 34′) has been cut up.
Annabelle Dorothy Moran was on her delivery run, making her way to the Chesapeake/Delaware Bay area, where she still works. Those range markers are no longer in place on the Brooklyn Heights bank of the sixth boro.
John B Caddell was nearing the end of this shore leave, heading for her final one. Note Sarah Ann tending the crane barge and WTC in the distance not yet completed.
Commander, a WW1 USN vet as SP-1247, was still showing its rotondity.
Joan Turecamo, a late Matton product, was still in the boro. Now she winds her way around the curves of the Lower Mississippi.
Sarah Ann and others of the Donjon fleet kept me up most of the night in December 2012, as she stood by a barge carrying WTC antenna sections that were lifted onto Manhattan . . .
across a blocked west side highway . . . lowered onto a vehicle with dozens of axles . . .
and trucked inland
In other night photos, quite rare on this blog . . . it’s Clearwater lifted onto Black Diamond barge with Cornell standing by.
I hope you enjoyed this backward glance as much as I have. I might have to get out and do some documenting of nighttime events on the sixth boro this December.
All photos, December 2012, WVD.
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It’s been over 12 years that this boat has had this appearance; before then, it was orange.
Ten years ago, this one was green.
I must admit I’ve gotten used to seeing them both in Donjon blue, and they look great.
A year ago, this boat had not yet entered the state of New York, but when she did, I caught her here and here about to enter the NYS Canal system from the Great Lakes.
Since then, she’s been quite busy.
As have all the Donjon blue boats.
Have a look at Meagan Ann in the 2013 tugboat races here. And speaking of those races, here and here are photos/videos of Meagan Ann and other from 2009.
Has anyone heard specifics about a 2022 tugboat race in the sixth boro? Here are some photos of boats that participated in the 1952 (!!!!) race on the Hudson.
All photos, any errors, WVD.
While I’m at it, let me throw in a photo from the tugboat race in 2010.
Two separate parties sent me this article from the LA Times. With a title including the phrase “humble tugboat,” I was interested but not prepared for the fantastic photos. Thx John and George. Enjoy. Meanwhile, here are some more of my recent photos.
James D. Moran assisting on a towline above and Robert Weeks leaving the fuel dock below,
Andrea walled off from her barge above and Sarah Ann light below,
Gregg McAllister returning to base and Pegasus heading to work,
A light William Brewster and an equally light Daisy Mae,
Mackenzie Rose and Philadelphia, and
to close out this installment . . . Kimberly Turecamo assisting a ULCV.
All photos, WVD, who never associated the adjective “humble” with tugboats or their operators, and that’s not a bad thing.
If you’re new to this blog (or even if you are not), I’m always looking for photos from other people and places, especially, tugboats seen in South America, Asia, Oceania, and Australia.
Yesterday’s post ended with Timothy L.
Sarah Ann, and
Treasure Coast at different amounts obscured by the fog.
Treasure Coast spun around before my location to set Cement Transporter 7700
into the Lafarge North America Bayonne
dock with assist by Pegasus. I wondered about the vintage of Cement Transporter 7700; she was launched from Todd Shipyard in Houston in December 1981 as Ideal II, then Midnight 1, and now its current moniker. Todd Shipyard has a distinctly Manhattan origin in the form of DeLameter Iron Works.
Meanwhile, from the western end of the KVK came
a Manzanillo-bound Lars Maersk assisted by James D. Moran.
At that same moment, Pegasus, after having completed the Treasure Coast assist, heads west of the Bayonne Bridge.
From that same fog bank west of the Bayonne Bridge emerge Daisy Mae pushing a light scow and
Cape Henry, returning to its barge at the west end of IMTT.
All photos, WVD, who is happy days will soon be getting longer.
Apologies in advance for possible whiplash, but let’s return to the sixth boro. I write blog posts one day at a time; only rarely do I schedule posts in advance, so more photos of the December road trip aka F2 remain and will be posted later in the month. When I post them, you’ll understand why I delayed.
Given how bright today is, let’s peer back at yesterday’s sixth boro fog. Marie J.
assisted Stolt Focus from a berth to an anchorage in the Upper Bay, as
Berto L. Miller traveled westbound in the Kills. The word focus here seems important.
One thing I love about fog in photos is its selecting foreground details only, narrowing the field of view, if I’m understanding the terms correctly.
Going wider angle here, all that pops out of the textured gray water and the uniformly gray sky are the boats, channel marker, a bank, and some disused pilings.
The blue tug, Sarah Ann, is the central focus here, with no distracting details in the background. Treasure Coast is there with the cement transporter, but that, I think, enhances the focus on Sarah Ann. I don’t think about all this while taking photos; I just go for what looks good to me.
All photos yesterday, WVD.
I will return to road photos and even street photos in Louisiana later this month, and pick up the New Jersey road photos after that.
I hope you’re enjoying the morning light as much as I am. The first four shots here were all from roughly the same location. I took this one of Seeley first with the sun mostly behind me, and
then the next three with the sun on my right side.
The lower 40s temperatures make sea smoke on the warmer water.
Then I headed down to Conference House in Tottenville in time to catch
Atlantic Salvor connect with a dredge spoils scow to take to the HARS for dumping.
That’s Great Beds Light, named for the oysters that once thrived there.
While waiting for something that never appeared or happened–I seem to do that a lot, said I to my “wise person”–I had an unexpected treat. I told my wise person that too, that a plus of waiting for nought is that often what you really need but didn’t know you needed often comes by. But I digress.
This is the first appearance of 1977 West Coast Kodiak on this blog; there’s also a 1981 Alabama-built tug by that name. This Kodiak was built in Long Beach CA.
Heading out to assist Atlantic Salvor with that scow, she passed in front of this surprising terrain over along the south shore of Raritan Bay.
All photos, WVD, who needs a wise person now and then.
“Random Tugs 001” I posted in October 2007, 14 years ago. The motivation for such a post then, as now, comes from the observation that what passes you by, either on the water, the roadway, or even the sidewalk or hallway, is often just random. It’s foolish to look for meaning or significance where there is none. So here’s installment 339.
Genesis Glory, 1979, 3900 and 120′ x 34′
Janet D, 2015, 1320, and 67′ x 26′
Sarah D, 1975, 2000, and 90′ x 29′
HMS Justice, 2013, 2000, and 75′ x 30′
Sarah Ann, 2003, 2700, and 78′ x 26′
Charles D. McAllister, 1967, 1800, and 94′ x 29′
Durham . . . I’ve seen her a long time, I believe she’s operated by Ken’s Marine, but I don’t know anything more.
Kodi with Hayward back by the bridge. Kodi dates back to 1974, under 500, and 43′ x 15′, I think.
L. M. Caddell works near the floating dry docks. The upper wheelhouses at the Reinauer yard in the background, I’d guess Dace, Stephen, and JoAnne III. I’m sure I’ll be corrected. I don’t believe the shorter “upper house” to the right is installed on a tugboat. Now I’m really sure I’ll be corrected. As for simple specs on the Caddell yard tug . . . sorry.
Coho, 2008, 4000, and 111′ x 36′
All photos, WVD, and happy “fly the official flag day.“
Solo and over along the Connecticut shore last week, it’s Joker, with her distinctive lines and livery.
The other dawn, Ava M. was returning from a job. It was sunny and clear, but with all the rain of the previous day, lots of moisture remained in the air.
Taken an hour or so later, Eastern Dawn passes those same hoses and that ship, Chem Neon.
The top photo here was of a single vessel; the next two had two each. Beyond Christian Reinauer are two tugs and a ship to the left, and one tug to the right.
Normandy is front and center, but I count two tugs, a tanker, and a tank barge in the background.
Ditto here: the seldom-seen (by me) Christine M. McAllister with lots of activity in the background.
See what all is happening here: in the foreground l to r, Kirby Moran, Treasure Coast, Miriam Moran, Sarah Ann, and Marjorie B. McAllister. In addition, there are two tankers and a cement barge.
All photos, WVD.
And since I’ve not seen Christine M underway in quite a while, enjoy another shot below. I count at least four vessels beyond her.
Here were the first two installments of this series. And what prompts this post is the news yesterday about a $200 million structure in the assembly stages just four years ago. Click on the image below to see the post I did just four years ago.
It will be scrapped as announced yesterday here. The physical disassembled parts will be sold as will portions of it non-fungible tokens (NFTs), whatever they are; I can’t quite understand them even after reading this. Doesn’t that sound like eating your cake and still having it?
You can’t save everything . . . as the next two photos from Tony A show . . . relative to the 1907 Pegasus. For comparison, check out Paul Strubeck’s thorough cataloging of the many lives of Pegasus through the many years.
Here’s the engine that powered Pegasus for many years, originally from Landing Ship Tank, LST 121 , which itself lived only three years before being scrapped and the engine transplanted into Pegasus.
The next two photos come thanks to Steve Munoz. The 1945 USS Sanctuary (AH-17) looked shabby here in Baltimore harbor in 1997; it last until 2011, when it was scrapped in Brownsville, TX, then ESCO and now SteelCoast.
Another photo from Steve shows SS Stonewall Jackson, a Waterman LASH vessel in the Upper Bay; note the Staten Island ferries off the stern. Scroll through and see Jackson on the beach in Alang in 2002. Tug Rachel will arrive in Brownsville with Lihue, a very smiliar LASH vessel within a week; she’s currently approashing the strait between Mexico and western Cuba.
Here’s a photo I took of the beautiful NS Savannah; a recent MARAD public comment period on what should be done with her ended less than a month ago; I’m not sure when the results will be publicly commented on.
Sometimes preserved vessels change hands, as is the case with the 1936 Eagle, another photo from Steve Munoz taken in 1992.
More on this tomorrow. Many thanks to Tony and Steve for use of these photos.
Ship preservation is tough and costly. Turning an almost-new metal structure into NFTs . . . just mind boggling.
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