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1997. Taken from QE2 as it overtakes a Moran tug . . .
taken some days later as the QE2 returns, passing the Towers at dawn…
while possibly the same Moran tug meets it again.
May 1998. Bounty arrives.
May 2000. Morgan Reinauer passes lower Manhattan in the fog.
January 11, 2001. Peggy Sheridan, now Apex’s Brooklyn, passes on a cold winter day.
Places, as with people, you never know when you’ll see them the last time. Steve wrote me once that he passed the Towers on September 2, 2001 on the way to the tugboat race starting line. He looked at the Towers, but didn’t take out his camera … because he’d taken so many photos of the Towers before. I fully understand.
I can’t say I remember my breakfast that morning or getting onto my LIRR at 05:17 that morning in Seaford, as I always did, with folks I always saw then . . .
but I’d never see them again, because they worked in that building.
I know it’s the same for folks who’d come on watch a few hours earlier that morning with one set of orders, and then before 0900 were faced with this.
Hat tip to Joel Milton for this account of his day just about 20 years ago. Workboat has republished in November 2001 account. From ProfessionalMariner, here are some links.
RIP.
All photos supplied by Steve Munoz.
August 2021. Samatha Miller follows the channel just north of the Staten Island Yankees stadium. Note today’s skyline.
1970. The rest of these photos I share thanks to Steve Munoz. Note the early night skyline here shows the Towers under construction.
1970 Dalzelleagle in the Buttermilk Channel passing USCG cutters tied up alongside Governors Island. Dalzelleagle, a 1958 Jakobson product, later became McAllister Bros, which was scrapped earlier this year. In a comment in an earlier post, Tony A identifies one of the cutters as the storied USCG Dallas (WHEC-716), now BRP Ramon Alcaraz (PS-16), pride of the Philippines Navy.
1971. McAllister Bros southbound in the Upper Bay.
1971. The aircraft looks to be amphibious. Anyone help? I’d say that’s a Kennedy-class ferry, And at the foot of the Tower, note the fireboats tied up at Pier A, occupied by FDNY from 1960 until 1992.
1973. SS Olympia headed for sea. Her career spanned 1953 until 2009, when she was beached in Alang.
1973. McAllister Bros. northbound off Hoboken.
1973. Dalzellera. That makes her 58 years old at this point.
1973. Concordia Gulf bound for sea.
1985. Statue scaffolded for repairs.
1992. As seen from a ship on Newark Bay at dawn.
1992. Kerry Moran seven years before her wheelhouse and propulsion were reconfigured.
Many thanks to Steve for sharing these photos, pre-dating my time here. I moved to the area and started working in Brooklyn in 2000.
It should go without saying what the focus here is. More to come. Here‘s what I posted exactly 10 years ago, when it seems to me, we were still a united people sharing common losses and goals.
The first three come thanks to Steve Munoz . . . HMS Bounty heading up the North River in May 1998.
Taken November 2001, it’s Adventure of the Seas heading upriver with an diverse escort. Given the date, this would have been her maiden voyage into the sixth boro of NYC. John D. McKean and what appears to be another fireboat beyond her, a USCG 140′ cutter, and lots of commercial tugboats see her in. Adventure of the Seas is currently in Sint Maarten, along with at least four fleetmates.
From October 1986, David McAllister is on the starboard bow of Borenquin heading into Port Elizabeth.
From John Jedrlinic, it’s Laney Chouest in Tampa. The blue/white vessel at Laney‘s bow is the Aiviq, the AHTS built for ice. You may recall its challenges back in 2012.
and C-Tractor 8 . . . taken in October 2016.
And from last week, Craig Lewis sent along these photos of McAllister Brothers awaiting its fate in Fall River.
Since launch in 1958, how many tons of grub and coffee have crews ingested in this galley of the Brothers . . !?
And finally, last but not least, Skip Mildrum noticed some interesting cargo in Port Elizabeth recently . . .
Might they be new Kawasaki subway cars, four of an order of 535 R211 cars coming to a subway stop near you one of these days? They might not be, given his estimate of car length; R211s are only 60′ loa.
Skip’s estimate of the trailers was at least 120′. Also, the R211s are built in Nebraska . . .
Many thanks to Steve, John, Craig, and Skip for these photos.
Steve’s uncle Bob was a captain and pilot on the Dalzelleagle/McAllister Bros from 1968 to 1985. That makes for a special connection and lots of vintage photos. Enjoy these thanks to Steve. I’ll use his captions.
Dalzelleagle assisting ship in East River in September 1968.
Dalzelleagle heading down Buttermilk Channel-from pier 12 Brooklyn in September 1970. The tug is interesting, but so are the details in the background.
Cook Ralph Andreason waves from the stern on Dalzelleagle departing 69th St pier Brooklyn in September 1970.
McAllister Bros in North River off Hoboken pier on August 24, 1973.
The is the same time and place, roughly. The Twin Towers had opened earlier that year.
Tug McAllister Bros leading Atlantic Champagne thru Newark Bay Draw on July 5, 1976. This picture brings to mind a story that my Uncle Bob Munoz told me. Bob was a captain and pilot on the Dalzelleagle/McAllister Bros from 1968 to 1985. One time he was piloting a ship in Newark Bay toward the Newark Bay Draw Bridge and a woman passenger came over to him on the bridge of the ship and asked him if the ship was going through that little opening in the bridge. Bob said that they were. She then asked how he did that. So he looked at her and said, “When we get real close I just close my eyes.” Atlantic Champagne, an ACL vessel, was launched in 1969 with a teu capacity of a dazzling 882 teu.
McAllister Bros in Newark Bay from a ship on June 26, 1987. That CRRNJ bridge was used starting in 1926; I saw some remaining piers about a decade ago, but it is entirely gone now. Given the raising of the Bayonne Bridge, keep in mind that vertical clearance here was 136′. Maybe someone can tell me the width of the channel.
McAllister Bros galley on January 11, 2001,
and her engine room on the same date.
And finally, McAllister Brothers here along with Christine M. McAllister on November 6, 2006.
It’s hard to say good bye. Many thanks to Steve for use of these photos.
And thanks to Birk Thomas for posting this on FB today, Dalzell Towing.
Steve Munoz took the first three photos in October 1986 from Borenquin. The tug identified as Kathryne E. McAllister appears to be the one from 1975, now known as Brendan Turecamo. Borenquin lived many lives between launching in Vancouver WA in 1945 and scrapping in Beihei CH (near the northeastern border of Vietnam) in 1989. That’s indeed the Bayonne Bridge.
Here the vessels are in Newark Bay heading for Port Elizabeth. The sun rises over Bayonne.
Yesterday, April 8, 2021 I caught the next set. Eastern Dawn (Toula) was indeed heading east at dawn, pushing a barge with a crane over to Gowanus.
A few minutes later, Marjorie B. McAllister followed Eastern Dawn, now visible rounding the bend toward Gowanus. I believe the tugboat beyond her is Christian Reinauer.
Thanks to Steve for sharing his archives. The last three photos and any errors . . . mine, WVD.
This is a very mixed bag: differing locations, times, and type of ships. Installment 1 was from a very different time, two years and a few weeks ago.
The first three photos come thanks to Steve Munoz.
1990. Somewhere on the Hudson . . . I can’t quite place it. Penhors, launched 1986, is no more. It last carried the name Anahuac.
1991. The Red Hook container port. Beate Oldendorff was launched in 1989 and scrapped in 2017. In her lifetime she carried a slew of names: Han Li, Thor Nectar, Beate Oldendorff, Tasman Mariner, Beate Oldendorff, TA Discoverer, after having started out as Beate Oldendorff. To make searching difficult, at least three vessels have carried this name, somewhat common in companies that name vessels for family members.
1997. In the port of Baltimore, Dubrovnik Express, a 1987 build. She’s still afloat and in Egypt as MSC Giovanna.
2019. Here’s a favorite of mine at the dock in Quebec City. Arctic is currently between the Azores and Gibraltar on her final voyage . . . to the scrappers in Aliağa.
The bow testifies to her special habitat: the Canadian Arctic, since 1978. Her CAC4 rating means that she could move through 4′ of ice at 3 kts., ie, without an icebreaker escort.
Arctic is an OBO (oil, bulk, ore) vessel, not so common these days. Since 1998, she made 136 voyages into the Arctic and back, mostly for ore. Her replacement, Arvik 1, has been launched in Japan and is anticipated in Quebec City. Designed for the same work, she looks similar to Arctic.
2009. Eastbound in the KVK, President Polk, launched in 1988, was scrapped in 2013, along with three other C-10s.
2014. Docked at Tata Steel, just west of Amsterdam. it’s Percival, launched 2010. At 956′ and with a capacity of 177,065 dwt, she’s a VLBC, very large bulk carrier. Currently called Springbank, she’s headed for Indonesia from Nantong.
2021. Hyundai Ulsan, or is it Rickmers Savannah, was launched in 2011. She was recently anchored in Gravesend Bay.
The first three photos, Steve Munoz; the others, WVD. Ships, like trucks, only earn when they move, and although things of beauty, are mostly utilitarian.
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.
Arthur Tickle Engineering Works (ATEW) is now gone, but other marine service businesses (MSBs) remain. I’ve long thought to do a series of posts about the MSBs like Caddells, GMD, Bayonne Drydock, Hughes Marine . . . and many others.
A while back, Steve Munoz sent these along, and it’s taken me a bit to figure out how to place these photos, but that’s it . . . MSBs, a series I’d love to do, and I can start it here. Steve’s father worked at ATEW for many years and until it closed in 1987.
I’ll use Steve’s captions with my annotations in [ ]. Below … “is a picture of the ATEW, established in 1904. Photo shows the delivery wagon and probably Arthur Tickle himself at the front door. He died in 1945.” [I wonder what the letters on the side of the horse wagon says, some precursor to FedEx?]
“This is the ATEW building housing the machine shop probably in the 1920s.” [Is that a Ford?]
“Ship’s rudder being repaired in one of the shops.”
“This poster was published in the Maritime Activity Reports on November 15, 1945 showing the number and types of ships converted, repaired and altered, including some specific names, during the war. All of these repairs were completed along the Brooklyn waterfront. One of the conversions was the former MV Carnarvon Castle, a Union-Castle Line ocean liner before the war, requisitioned by the Royal Navy for conversion to an armed merchant cruiser and then converted to a troopship by ATEW in 1944.”
[I looked up USAHS Aleda E. Lutz, USS Pontiac, USAT Colombie, USAT Kota Inten, USAT Cape Canso, MV Marechal Joffre, USADS Blemheim, and USADS Lock Knot. Some of those links have photos.]
“The steel yawl named Steel Sylph was built by the various shops at ATEW for Arthur Tickle, Jr. in the 1940-50s. I assume that it was launched in Brooklyn as the bow of a ship can be seen in the picture at the launching, but does not appear to be at Pier 4 as the BQE is not seen in the background.” [Steel Sylph is listed as placing in the Newport to Annapolis race in 1947.]
[This is a very formal looking photo of an unidentified gent. That would be a fun one to colorize.]
Steel Sylph was designed by Philip Rhodes.
“During WWII, ATEW leased a number of piers from the New York Dock (NYD) Company in Brooklyn south of the Brooklyn Bridge to repair military and commercial ships supporting the war. After the war, the ship repair business slowed down, but ATEW continued to repair ships into the 1960s at pier 4 such as the SS Comet Victory seen in this photo. Pier 4 was demolished sometime after the year 2000.” [I presume this photo was taken from the promenade. It might be fun to go there today and reframe/redo the shot of the skyline from 120 Wall to just south of the Staten Island ferry terminal. Can anyone identify the tall rectangular building directly behind 120 Wall and obscuring most of 70 Pine? In the foreground, that space is now Brooklyn Bridge Park, as seen from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade.]
“A bronze propeller was cleaned and repaired in the foundry shop and
returned to the SS American Aquarius, probably as a spare.” [On the frame of the flatbed I read W. J. Casey, a trucking firm that still exists, although they’ve moved from Brooklyn Bergen Street to New Jersey. Here‘s their site, which has some antique trucks from their past fleet. ]
“The SS Cape Catoche in the Hudson River on a hawser behind the tug Dalzelloch and the tug Fred B Dalzell alongside. The ship was going to/from the Jones Point reserve fleet in the 1950s. In the 1960s many ships were taken from the reserve fleet to Brooklyn where ATEW had the contract to prepare the ships for the Vietnam sealift. For one ship the capstans and winches were opened in the machine shop for USCG inspection and because the components were in such bad shape the whole ship failed inspection and was subsequently sold for scrap. This occurred with a number of the ships. ” [Looking at the dates here, there may have been more than one SS Cape Catouche, although I’m not certain. Clearly, this move was made in winter.]
“ATEW repaired the ship’s turbine and reinstalled it in the engine room on the SS Pomona Victory. My guess is that the ship was docked at Pier 4 Brooklyn as ATEW leased this pier for years from the NYDock Company. Note at least one Liberty ship docked in Manhattan across the East River having gun tubs and the ship having the turbine installed had a gun tub and life rafts indicating that this picture was taken during WW II or very shortly after since I do not see any guns.” [This view of the Manhattan side south of the Brooklyn Bridge shows a very different place than is located there today. Someone more familiar with that stretch of riverfront might enjoy identifying which buildings are still there; I recognize the Woolworth Building directly below the suspended turbine, and 120 Wall and 70 Pine buildings to the left. That opposite shore would be the area of South Street Seaport today; I’d love to find a photo of that same area from the Manhattan side, maybe looking down Fulton Street.]
Many thanks to Steve Munoz for his comments and use of his photos.
Essential workers spend the holidays at the job site. They always have.
Here‘s a list of types of essential workers, note that this crewman needs to catch up on sleep.
I’ll let you read the faces and body language, but I’d say they’re catching up on news since they have a signal on their devices.
Seafarers might be thrilled to see non-crew when they come into a port.
See the workers on the bunker barge?
Well, they saw me and then wanted their photo taken. I suspect they may be Fugro Explorer crew.
These are local workers high over the East River. Their platform or their task?
They appear to be at the level of Civic Fame, the lady inspired by Audrey Munson atop the NYC Municipal Building. NYC artists made Audrey Munson famous, but her life did not end well.
All photos and sentiments, WVD, who thanks you for reading this, especially today, the 14th anniversary of this blog, which began here over 4700 posts ago. Since then, you all have made over 13, 400 comments. Comments are always welcome. Thank you.
And since it is Thanksgiving, here’s a Thanksgiving story from Thanksgiving Day 1952 and a photo with at least three people on the boro from 21 years later of the boat that almost burned, Dalzellera.
“During 1952 and 1953, the Dalzell Towing Co. was completing the diesel conversion of their “new” Dalzellera, which was formerly the Central RR of NJ (CRRNJ) tug Bethlehem, a steam tug built around 1915. It was Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 1952, and there weren’t many people at the Dalzell yard just west of the Bayonne Bridge on the Kills as my uncle, Bob Munoz, pulled into the yard on a tug, possibly the Dalzellaird. He pulled alongside the Dalzellera and tied up the boat. As he crossed over to the Dalzellera to go ashore he noticed that there appeared to be extreme heat coming from the galley at the after end of the house. The boat was all locked up for the long holiday weekend, but with some help Bob found some tools and broke the padlock off the hatch door. Upon entering the extremely hot galley, he realized that the galley stove was inadvertently left on and set for maximum heat. He immediately shut it down and ventilated the galley. It appeared that the stove was being used to keep the workers warm that were finishing up the tug and preparing her for service, but forgot to turn off the stove before leaving for the long holiday weekend.
However, when the yard staff returned back to work on Monday morning, he caught hell for breaking the lock on the hatch; that is until he told his story about preventing their “new” boat from catching fire before she even docked her first ship.
Shortly after this incident, Bob worked on this boat as mate and captain for about 12 years.
Photo by Steve Munoz, who sent along the story.
Call this “thanks to Steve Munoz 20: the 9th Annual North River Tugboat Race September 2, 2001.” As Steve writes, “The tug race on 9/2/2001 was nine days before 9/11/2001. I was on board the tug Janet M McAllister for the race. My son was on board a Seabulk oil tanker docked in Bayonne and he could see the Twin Towers from his cabin porthole. As the tug headed up the Upper Bay I was going to take a picture of the Twin Towers and decided not to since I had so many already. Little did I, or anyone else, know that they would not exist nine days later. I wish I had taken a picture.
[Participating] include tugs McAllister Bros, Janet M McAllister, Empire State, J George Betz, Mary L McAllister, Irish Sea, Dory Barker, Powhatan, Dace Reinauer, Beaufort Sea, Resolute, Growler, Z-TWO, Janice Ann Reinauer, Katherine, Amy C McAllister, James Turecamo, Kathleen Turecamo, Emil P Johannsen; also, includes fireboats John D McKean, John J Harvey.
I’ll not identify all the boats here. As you know, some of these boats, like Dace Reinauer, look quite different now. Also, many boats here, like Janet D. McAllister and Powhatan, are no longer in the sixth boro,
Z-Two is now Erin McAllister, and in Providence RI.
Emil P. Johannsen is laid up, I believe,
in Verplanck NY.
Beaufort Sea has been scrapped.
There were tugboats to port and
tugboats PLUS a fireboat to starboard. Two things here: I love the water thrusters deployed from Z-Two. And Powhatan is now a commissioned Turkish naval vessel known as TCG Inebolu; as such it was involved a month ago in the tow of a Bangladeshi corvette, BNS Bijoy, which had been damaged in the explosion in Beirut harbor.
Again, many thanks to Steve Munoz for taking us back to September 2, 2001 with these photos.
A different series of tugboat races happened decades earlier, as attested here. An indicator of how different the world then was is the fact that back then, a rowing contest was included, and crews of ships in port took part. Those days of break-bulk cargo had ships in port for much longer periods of time, and “port” included places along the Hudson.
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