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With greater focus today, let’s start where we left off yesterday . . . here, with that large red mooring ball behind tugboat Maverick.
The mooring was attached to a section of flexible dredge hose that
was getting towed. Any guesses on Maverick’s date launched? Decide that for each of these and arrange them by age, before checking the answers at the end?
Carolina Coast came in light the other day, possibly just off a sugar barge.
Meagan Ann was eastbound, maybe heading north for scrap.
Michael Miller was moving who knows what. As a reminder, have you decided the launch date on each of these as you’re going through? Answers are posted at the end here.
Miss Madeline a bit earlier was working on a dredge project.
Charles A was in from another dredge project.
Susan Rose was pushing oil.
Stephen Dann has since gone to Bridgeport.
Charles James is still the the boro as of this writing.
And that’s where we leave it today.
All photos and any errors, WVD.
Maverick 1967
Carolina Coast 1970
Meagan Ann 1975
Miss Madeline 1976
Charles A. 1979
Charles James 1985
Stephen Dann 1999
Susan Rose 2019
Anyone know the story of this lobster tug over at Pier 81 Hudson River? Its current name?
Discovery Coast was standing by a tank barge at Pier 8 Red Hook.
Next pier south, Pier 9, Evening Tide hibernates. I guess it’s not true that all parts of “time and tide wait for no one.”
Continuing in that direction to the south of Erie Basin, a Dann Ocean fleet waits: l to r, Captain Willie Landers, Sarah Dann, and Ruby M.
In the anchorage, Susan Rose awaits her next appointment with the RCM 250.
Fells Point heads to the Narrows to retrieve her bunker barge.
Bruce A. McAllister escorts bulker Thor Fortune into Claremont for a load of scrap.
And finally, Everly Mist is the newest renaming I’ve seen. Ellen S. Bouchard has also been renamed Jeffrey S, but I’ve not caught a photo yet.
All photos, WVD.
I’ve compartmentalized my photos from the Pioneer sail the other night, in part because in a short two-hour sail there was so much to see. For starters, Stephanie Dann had earlier just rushed eastward and came back with Cornucopia Destiny, a dance partner on her starboard side. I can speculate about this, but I don’t know the details.
As we headed into the Buttermilk, we met Susan Rose AND
Jordan Rose, ex- Evening Breeze and Evening Star, respectively.
This sweet downeaster passed.
I suspect Jordan came along to assist
Susan into the notch.
Meanwhile, a ways down the piers, Stasinos Jimmy and currently still Evening Tide were rafted up for the moment.
Whatever brought Jordan to the Red Hook piers, by the time we had sailed passed the gantries, she was overtaking us.
On the return, as night began to fall, we met Thomas D. Witte and
then her fleetmate Douglas J.
At this point, my photos were pixelating, but I still managed to get Eastern Dawn, heading back to the “barn” at dusk.
All photos, WVD, who has handed the keys to the tower over to the robots again for a while.
Thanks to Tony A and a new contributor, Ray M, here is more on the dispersal of the Bouchard fleet. One boat has been renamed William F. Fallon Jr. Know the boat? Know the reference? I’d say William F. Fallon Jr. is the newest name in the sixth boro.
Tony A sent the photo above and below, showing Susan Rose and Anna Rose. Do you know their previous names?
Ray M got some closer up photos of the stern of Anna Rose yesterday.
The barge used to be the 2012 B. No. 250. More on that and her 2019 sister 252 here.
And how new is the paint on that name? Well . . . isn’t that masking tape beside the letters?
Many thanks to Tony A and Ray M for use of these photos.
Here’s more on William F. Fallon Jr: the namesake was a Port Authority manager who died on 9/11. The vessel used to be J. George Betz and has been purchased by Centerline Logistics.
Susan used to be Evening Breeze and Anna used to be Jane A. Bouchard.
Unrelated: Greenpeace is in the sixth boro, protesting Russian crude deliveries here, allowed by the sanctions. Here is a Greenpeace tracker that follows some of the tankers that have departed Russian ports with petro cargo since the attack on Ukraine began.
Thanks for sending photos along. Capt. Jack Aubrey sent this along from Baltimore. He says, “The ship name and the assembled team almost looks set up. L to R: Eric, Timothy and Bridget McAllister.”
It really does. I’ll bet Pretty Team could travel all the English-speaking ports of the world and highlight all the great and pretty teams. At the moment, she’s still looking to pose with more teams in Baltimore.
Given the cold weather today, Tim Powell sent along these next photos from near Ottawa IL, midpoint on the Illinois River between Chicago and Peoria. Tim writes: “Once again I had the opportunity to serve my beloved transportation industry. On 01/05/2022 we delivered a load to the towboat MV Brian Napack. B&M Midstream is a full service family owned company. It was a chilly 10 degrees on the Illinois River in Ottawa Ill, with a 20 to 30 mph wind.”
When they receive an order, B&M Midstream goes to the nearest boat ramp, launches the boat,
comes in alongside,
transfers the supplies,
and then hauls the supply boat back onto the trailer. I guess the windows would clear once it warmed up, but the internet tells me it’s about that same temperature in that part of the Illinois River today.
And finally, Capt. Tony A caught Susan Rose –ex-Evening Breeze–the other days, and a bit later,
he caught J. George Betz in mid-paint transformation to Betz the Centerline boat. Watch for the lion to go on the stack.
Many thanks to Tony, Tim, and Jack for sharing these photos. I’ll keep my eyes open for more Pretty ships. Here‘s another one.
Gray day, gray water, gray sky, gray bridge, grayish black barge, gray upper wheelhouse . . . . I just had to saturate that patch of bluish cloud.
I’d seen Susan Rose on AIS with Normandy as escort, and I figured that meant she was pushing a barge, a loaded barge.
You can see where the old identification has been painted out. RCM must be Rose Cay Marine . . . ?
The yellow patch “under” the ladder really pops.
And she’s headed upriver.
All photos, WVD, who has a busy week ahead.
By the way, my first photos of this boat appeared here in 2019.
We’re going west to east to south to farther east in today’s post, starting with the Missouri River north of Omaha by about 50 miles at the port of Blencoe IA. From here grain and soybeans are barged all the way to the New Orleans area for transshipment to foreign markets. That’s MV Tony Lippman stemming the current after dropping off some barges with fertilizer ingredients she’s pushed all the way here, fertilizer that arrived in the US by bulk carrier from foreign producers.
MV Tony Lippman is 144′ x 35′. For more specs on this 1971 build, click here.
These two boats, at the Upper Mississippi River port of Hannibal, almost look familiar, but they are Sir Josie T and Sir Robert. For more info, click here and see a photo by Tim Powell, frequent contributor on this blog.
CMT on the stack above stands for Canton Marine Towing. Near to far here are Sir Richard and Sir Robert.
Now we’re back in the sixth boro and at the south side eastern tip of Motby. From left, it’s Teresa, barge Acadia, Jane A. Bouchard, Evelyn Cutler, and Susan Rose. Note that Teresa has a small US flag high in the rigging. Might that be a courtesy flag in the wrong location, since she’s said to be flagged Liberian? I was hoping to see her stern to confirm that.
From Tony A and on a rainy day,
it’s Steven Wayne! She first became a regular in the sixth boro as Patapsco.
Courtesy of a son of Neptune aka Neptuni filius himself, the vessel alluded to in a recent post and now here for all to see, it’s M. A. R. S. War Machine, ex-Paul T. Moran. The photo was taken somewhere in the south.
And finally, from the mighty Ij River, it’s a 1907 or 1904 built Anna Sophia. Photo by een zoon van Ij.
All photos, except of course those by Tony A and the sons above, WVD.
Rumor has it that tomorrow is an unusual day that in years past I have acknowledged. I’m staying put.
I took the photo below in late October, and
I caught this sight yesterday. Susan Rose was repainted a month ago or so, but alongside her and not showing an AIS signal,
it’s Jane A. Bouchard, and not Anna Rose as I thought she was being renamed. Well, it’s possible her name boards have not yet been redone. I’ve posted photos of Jane A. many times since this blog was launched, and you can find them here. As an aside, I love all the shades of gray in the photo below.
All photos, WVD.
For other transformations, click there or here for Blueing. Second Lives posts have some of the same focus.
I suddenly have a full hopper of photos from readers like you. Thanks. Let’s start with a photo of these two boats from Tony A taken on October 29.
Yesterday, November 3, I got this photo from Dan Horton showing how things are trending. My wager is that by now the red on Evening Star is gone and she matches Susan Rose and might be even be carrying Jordan Rose signage. At first I thought this was a gray, but here it looks like a flat off-white.
Meanwhile, in Belfast, here’s a surprise from William Mitchell.
She’s not been renamed but she joins the fleet of this boat. Know it?
It’s Fournier Tractor, previously McAllister Tractor and Mabel Colle. Fournier Tractor appeared in this blog here a few years back.
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Since we’re in Belfast, how about this rudder? Ever seen one like it, with it’s three-part design?
Here’s the vessel it’s from, Sequoia at French and Webb. Sequoia made its way up there on a deck barge two years ago, as seen here. The photo above and below come from Allan Seymour.
Liz Alma has been in the area this past month. I’ve just missed her a few times, but Tony A got this photo over in the Arthur Kill. I caught her along the North Carolina coast here a few years back.
And let’s close this out with this lowly supply boat for Alcatraz Island, an LCM-8 built by Higgins in New Orleans in 1954. George Schneider sends it along as a boat on his list of “seldom cared about vessels.” He writes that she’s “commercially documented as # 1191433, and was given an appropriate name for her service: Solitary.” I’d say some name paint is in order, although maybe supply chain woes have delayed it. A striped livery might work well too, almost a dazzle in this case to call attention to itself. George goes on about a large tour boat on this coast named Escape. He writes, “You’d think that name has an overtone of Shangri-la, but she was originally purchased for the Alcatraz tourist business until found inappropriate for that run.” I wonder if only the boat was inappropriate or the name as well.
Many thanks to Tony, Dan, William, Allan, and George for these photos.
The red upper wheelhouse is no more, although I’m not certain what new paint scheme will evolve, or when Evening Star will become Jordan Rose, as Evening Breeze became Susan Rose. Follow this transformation we will.
Ellen transformed from Navy gray to McAllister colors 20 years ago.
Atlantic Salvor has worn Donjon blue–almost the same as warehouse blue–for over 20 years.
In a different way, Marjorie B profile varies from a lower to higher wheelhouse depending on the job.
Jill Reinauer has worn Reinauer colors for over 20 years also, although she has seen some modifications of profile more recently.
Brendan is currently in dry dock, but when I took this photo, she was standing by with a large barge. I’ll post a photo of her high and dry soon.
This post began with a Bouchard tug in transition. It’s fitting to end with one that already looks quite different . . . Evening Light is now Mary Emma. currently on Narragansett Bay.
All photos, WVD.
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