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Winter solstice is one date I pay attention to, and yesterday demanded an undivided portion of it. I was out on the sixth and primordial boro at sunrise, although when it rose, a gauzy film of stratus filtered the light. I tinkered with the image a bit to enhance the cosmic eeriness.
Along the Brooklyn shore a classic barque and one of the latest of a classic line awaited.
Notice two tugboats and a lighthouse below? One tug is shifting a fuel barge, and the other is shifting refuse boxes.
Start of winter or start of summer, the sixth boro is always a busy place. Notice the fishing boat in this image, along with all the rest?
For some reason, these E-2C aircraft flew the North River up and then down and out over the Lower Bay.
Dutch Girl, a winter regular along with Eastern Welder, was hard at work.
Ava M. crossed the Bay from one job to the next. Things are always happening on the water.
And all that’s glorious, but less than a quarter mile from the North River, not all seems to be happening well, and that needs to be acknowledged.
All photos, WVD.
Ambrose Channel late morning yesterday
saw the arrival of this vessel, 321′ x 41′ and with that pennant flying from the masthead at 157′.
Launched in 1914 in Bremerhaven, and having changed national registry many times,
Statsraad Lehmkuhl is on its One Ocean Expedition, having left Norway in August.
New York is one of 36 stops it will make on a 55,000 nm circumnavigation worldwide. Hop aboard via their FB page here.
By noon yesterday
she had anchored, basking in sunshine
just off the Statue.
All photos, WVD, with conveyance thanks to New York Media Boat.
The three-masted barque visited the sixth boro back in 1964, and maybe since then as well.
More photos and inside information can be found here.
More info about its multiple changes in ownership since 1914, here.
For other posts about visiting tall ships, click here.
In continuing reportage from Steve Munoz: “On Sunday, July 12th, 1964, my family sailed out of Paerdegat Basin in Jamaica Bay on the Evelyn Mae (below)
and arrived at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, still under construction and not to be opened until late November [1964].
Throughout that afternoon we drifted and steadily rolled in a southeast wind as sailing ships from around the world came up Ambrose Channel.”
Below, behold an anchored Statsraad Lehmkuhl, currently [shifting to 2019] at a dock in Fredrikstad, Norway.
Gorch Fock II was nearby.
Anyone have ideas on what that small boat off GF’s starboard bow might be?
Esmeralda . . . is as of July 2019 sailing off New Zealand. I love the crew hanging off the vessel, including the bowsprit, sprucing up her appearance before the parade.
Black Pearl passes Gorch Fock II. I’m told Black Pearl is currently in the Great Lakes, but I’ve never seen or heard of her there.
Juan Sebastian de Elcano . . . is a Spanish training ship launched in 1927 and whose namesake assumed leadership of Magellan’s journey from the Moluccas back to Spain. She appeared on this blog here in 2012.
“Libertad fired their saluting cannons off Ft Hamilton.” Libertad has a special relationship with Wavertree, the South Street Seaport Museum ship.
“A return salute was provided by the USS Willis (DE-1027) at anchor in Gravesend Bay.
My father positioned himself with his Kodak camera, with slide film in it, against the lifeboat and mentally calculated the timing of the saluting cannon of the Argentine full rigged sailing ship Libertad and caught the flash of the cannon seen in the picture in this article. We didn’t see all of the ships enter the harbor that day, but they arrived under full sail, saluted the USS Willis and settled in at their assigned anchorage position in Gravesend Bay. There weren’t many other boats or harbor craft around that day, but in those days we were able to get up close and circle the ships after anchoring and watch the cadets secure the ship from sea.”
USCG Eagle was there, as was
SS Rotterdam entering NY harbor before parade. SS Rotterdam is currently docked near the Hotel New York in . .. Rotterdam.
Note the cranes atop to western tower of the VZ Bridge; it wouldn’t open for a few more months.
Would that helicopter be an HH-62A?
“Darkness was approaching and we set course back to Paerdegat Basin.” This is reprinted from NY TUGS magazine, vol2, no2 in 2009.
Many thanks, Steve. More to come.
By the way, one upcoming post features Evelyn Mae. Until then, are there any guesses on her date and place of build?
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