GUP 2

For photos of all the previous generations of sludge carriers–aka carriers of Gross Universal Product–click here for the first in this series.  Rockaway makes the second of NYCDEP’s latest vessels I’ve seen.  Look her over well.

She’s only slightly less loaded than  . . .

Hunt’s Point, which I saw about a half hour later.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

Tale of Two Bows

North River entered service in 1974.

Hunts Point entered the sixth boro sludge trade in February 2014.  My my my . . . how the design has evolved!

Photos by Will Van Dorp.

Here and here are previous sludge tanker posts.  Here are pics from five years ago when sludge tanker Red Hook began service.