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Houma, Long Island Jakobson-built for Texaco, lasted from 1970 until 2017.
This Frederick E. Bouchard (1975) is now Mary Emma, currently working in the Gulf of Mexico.
This Shannon McAllister, currently in Narragansett Bay, came off the ways in 1991 as Alice Winslow.
James Turecamo was launched in the Hudson River in Cohoes in 1969, not far from where she still works. Stolt Aquamarine, launched 1986, was scrapped at Alang in 2016.
Escort came out of the Jakobson yard in 1983; the past few years she’s been Northstar Innovator, which I’ve never seen.
Hunt Girls is another 1983 model; after a long time on the hard in Tottenville, she recently came out as Henry Girls, which I’ve yet to see as well.
As a supporter of “long shot” cases, I long thought the 1887 NY Central #13 would make its way back into the water. Unfortunately she was scrapped in 2017.
And finally, from a decade ago, the still Alice Oldendorff came into town laden with Nova Scotia rock, assisted by Robert E. McAllister, ex-YTB-803, as USCG 25659 cruises past. Alice is now Algoma Verity, a veritable hard-working aggregate hauler now sailing near the Bahamas.
All photos from November 2013, any errors, WVD.
Back to the sherbet skies of dawn in the sixth boro dimension . . .
Stena Penguin has to be the best-painted crude oil tanker I’ve seen. Shannon McAllister shows up in the boro now and then also. Ditto, Alex McAllister used to be a constant here, now she’s away in Philly.
Stena Penguin has been here before, although it appears her livery has changed.
For the particulars on Penguin, click here. For an interview with the chief engineer, click here.
They were on their way to Linden, and now she’s on her way to Aruba.
All photos, WVD.
A new tug in town . . . Osprey? Built in 1961, she’s a sibling of Kodi. Photo thanks to Tony A.
B & B . . . it’s Brendan Turecamo in the distance and Bruce A McAllister. It turns out they are not clones: Brendan is a year newer, and Bruce A. is few feet longer and packs a few more horses.
Curis Reinauer is the third tug to carry that name. This Curtis dates from 2013. The previous one was sold to Nigeria, and the one before that has been reefed.
Emily Ann dates from 1964; she appeared on this blog just a few weeks ago but out of the water then.
Mister Jim, 1982, has been in the sixth boro for about eight years.
Doris Moran, also 1982, is a powerhouse.
Navigator, 1981, is the only boat currently operated by Balico Marine Services.
Gulf Coast, 1982, got her upper wheelhouse up at Feeney‘s on the Rondout.
Patrice, 1999, has so far spent half its life working on the Great Lakes.
Shannon McAllister is a rare one in the sixth boro, but she passes through here once in a while. like this week. She dates from 1991.
Thx to Tony for that first photo; all others, WVD.
. . . sometimes aka Kate’s Light. And I did a Katherine Walker post here without including the light in that post. So here’s my attempt at amends. All Robbins Reef today . . .
The tug Robbins Reef is an ex-army tug, sibling of 8th Sea, built in 1953 in Fells Point at American Electric Welding. Can anyone add info on the former American Electric Welding shipyard? National also appears to be a sibling, but I am starting to digress.
Back to the light by that name . . . in the distance.
See you at the Noble Maritime auction tonight, I hope.
Thank a vet today; in fact, given the number of vets in the country, thank more than one! And thank Raymond Weeks for shepherding Armistice Day into Veterans Day.
The huge vessel–escorted by Maurania III, a RIB, and Ellen McAllister— below may still be in town, but I haven’t seen it and probably won’t this time. I took this foto 26 months ago; notice the brownish tint on the water created by upriver silt post-Irene. Here’s the rest of the post featuring shots from this same set.
Ellen yesterday attendend
Zim Big River–now already Savannah bound–along with the help of Shannon McAllister.
And overseeing it all . . .
Robbins Reef. Here’s the form used to nominate it to the Register of Historic Places as well as some quick facts.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp, who wonders whether anyone out there’s prepared to lead the way with a Robbins Reef verse a la Burma Shave.
Tangentially related: Healing Waters . . . in today’s NYTimes. Here’s more.
Here was 3, about a year ago.
These fotos were all taken yesterday afternoon and evening. Shannon McAllister . . . a new one for me, an ex-Winslow boat, although here’s a sister Winslow boat that appeared here more than five years ago. Yes, the Colgate clock is in the process of being reconstructed.
It’s yacht Manhattan, heading for the Statue under a glorious crepuscular sky.
While waiting for the appearance of the holy grail, I chanced to looked at all the lights in the Manhattan sky, including this one which I
documented arriving and positioning a little less than a year ago.
And here, transporting Bakken crude down and out the Hudson, it’s
Afrodite, which recently appeared here. While on the subject of names, my sister recently passed King Coffee, and a tanker currently in the sixth boro goes by Chance. Might there be a vessel out there somewhere named Random? Here’s the closest I could find.
And here–with many thanks to Dock Shuter–who credits the links to Patrick Landewe, keeper of the Saugerties Light, something rare special also pictured here the other day, Cheyenne pushing a BLUE 737 upriver to Albany a few days ago!!! Here and here are parts of the story. Many thanks to Dock and Patrick. Here are some previous Dock fotos.
Since Shannon McAllister is new to me, let me end this post with her passing Shelby between lower Manhattan and Jersey City late yesterday afternoon. Here’s Shelby with a unique cargo a year and a half ago.
Unless otherwise attributed, all fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Unrelated: In fall 1997, the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree traveled down river from Stony Point on a truck ON A BARGE. Does anyone know where/how I can find any photos of this event, this trip? Here’s the kids’ book version.
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