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In case you’re new to this blog,”retro” means I’m looking back to my photo archives exactly 10 years to June 2011. The “38” here means this is the thirty-eighth month I’ve done this. It’s a fresh look at June 2011 photos, in some cases informed by whatever the past 10 years has wrought.
Bridge Builder 26 doing what it is named for.
F. Dawson, 1969, 66′ x 22′ and 1000 hp, in 2011 was working on a bridge project in the Harlem River. I’ve no idea where either of these boats is today.
Patapsco, 2004 and 96′ x 34′ and now known as Steven Wayne, was one of the first Vane boats into the sixth boro.
Susquehanna is a Patapsco-class tugboat, meaning mostly a clone and three years younger, and still in the Vane fleet.
Marlin (1974, 96′ x 35′, and 4200) and Penn No. 6. Marlin‘s now registered in Panama, and the No. 6 is now Vinik No. 6.
Kathleen Turecamo is now buff and green, a Stasinos boat, seen here as Meaghan Marie.
Matthew Tibbetts is still in the sixth boro and at work.
This was the only time I saw Hercules, ex-YTB-766. In June 2011, it was towed here and then loaded aboard a semi-sub for Nigeria.
Barents Sea came back to life as Atlantic Enterprise, and is currently working on a salvage/recovery down south.
All photos and memories, WVD.
There will be a mermaid parade later this summer; in 2011, it took place on the Saturday closest to the solstice, which would be today.
What follows is photos of eleven Vane Brothers tugboats. Can you identify the four that are 3000 hp; the others are all 4200 hp. The difference lies with the height of theupper wheelhouse.
You choices are Susquehanna,
Magothy and Fort McHenry,
Cape Fear,
Fells Point,
Choptank,
Fort McHenry again,
Pokomoke,
Hunting Creek,
and again . . .
Patuxent, and
Elizabeth Anne.
All photos, WVD.
The 3000s are Fort McHenry, Fort Schuyler, Fells Point, Hunting Creek. The key is the shorter upper wheelhouse stalk.
Talos. Know the reference? I didn’t but will share the response at the end of this post. It’s entirely appropriate for the very automated and largest in physical size class of container ships to call in the sixth boro, 1211′ loa. In fact, another ship of the class is recognized as being (in 2019) as the largest vessel to pass through the new Panama Canal locks. That ULCV, Triton, has been in the sixth boro several times, once just recently, and I’ve managed to miss it each time. The diminutive tug off the port quarter is Vane’s 95′ Susquehanna with a barge on the wire.
Entering the boro means passing the lighthouse on Norton’s Point, aka Seagate.
Another clue to the length of Talos comes by comparing it to the VZ Bridge tower, which rise up nearly 700′.
I’ve seen photos of Triton, and it has the same blotchy paint. Anyone know why?
She headed west on the ConHook Range with four McAllister tugs, although none of a tether.
I chose not to follow her through the KVK, so maybe Capt. Brian A. got on the tether here.
Note the size of ferry JFK alongside Talos. JFK has a loa of 277′.
Talos here heads for Port Elizabeth; over beynd her is Al Qibla, another ULCV.
All photos, WVD, who offers this link on the five Triton-class boats.
Engine here is the AN Diesel & Turbo B&W 11S90ME-C9&10.
Talos, a robot, . . . has quite the legacy, which you can learn here. He was finally defeated by the guiles of Medea. Here‘s the contemporary, non-marine Talos.
Also arriving in port before dawn this morning is the CMA CGM 15000 ULCV I’ve not yet seen, CMA CGM Panama.
Believe it or not, I’m way inland and without a camera, and a preference for novelty prompts a different almost-year-end post together. Rules I made for myself follow: go to my archives and select the first photo of something water-related each month of 2019. So if the first photo in my archives for each month is a person or an inland structure, I don’t use it; instead, I go forward in that month to the first boat or water photo.
For January, it was Susquehanna in a very familiar IMTT on the Bayonne side of the KVK. She’s currently westbound along the Keys.
February was La Perla, an oyster barge on Peconic Bay.
March was Nathan G on the very southern tip of Manhattan, across from the Colgate clock. She’s currently working in the sixth boro.
Jonathan C was assisting a box ship out in the wee hours near the start of April. Right now, she’s in the sixth boro, doing or waiting to do a similar escort.
May began with a NYC oyster boat headed north through the Narrows.
Early June it was Tavropos, in the Stapleton anchorage. The crude oil tanker is currently off the Tabasco coast of Mexico. The tanker appeared here previously as Moonlight Venture.
July began with Fishing Creek headed out of the Narrows. She’s currently near Philly.
In August it was Grande Mariner approaching lock E14. She’s docked in Narragansett Bay.
In September, actually on September 1, it was Kaye E. Barker southbound across Lake St. Clair with the landmark Renaissance Center ahead. She’s currently upbound on Lake Huron, possibly getting another load of ore for the season.
October began with me meeting Mrs. Chips bound for the Narrows and point south and ultimately Florida, where she currently is.
November it was Denak Voyager taking on scrap. That’s the Newark Bay Bridge beyond the ship, and Rebecca Ann lost to the left margin. Rebecca Ann is currently in the sixth boro, and Denak Voyager has exited the Straits of Gibraltar, heading back to the sixth boro.
And finally, December, it’s a mystery boat for now and an unidentified location. Guess if you like . . . I hope to get back to this photo in 2020.
Maybe tomorrow . . . last day of the year . . . I’ll do the last photo of each month following the same rules.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
Here are the previous posts in this series, and I’m finding that in the four years since the last installment, things have changed . . . and not. Most of these boats haven’t appeared in the previous four. The livery and logo remain the same, but there are some new boats. Can you figure out how two of the following photos differ from then others?
Chesapeake, launched 2006
Once while listening on VHF, I thought there was a new boat in town called “honey creek.”
Hunting Creek, 2011
Quantico Creek, 2010
Wicomico, 2005
Red Hook, 2013
Tangier Island, 2014
Fells Point, 2014
Susquehanna, 2006 with Savannah.
Christian . . . 1981
So, obviously, Christian, being a crew boat, differs from all the others. Another difference, though, is that Chesapeake and Susquehanna were not photographed in the sixth boro. Identifying one location might be easier than the other. Guesses?
By the way, I know I’ve seen Kings Point, but I seem not to have a photo.
Answer soon.
More photos here from the 4th largest seaport in the US. The top photo above–if you didn’t recognize it at first–shows John Parrish, whom I saw in the sixth boro back in May of this year. Type Random Tugs 128 into the search window to see it.
I hope to be back in NYC by December 28. Happy all the holidays until then.
So what happens in the rest of the sixth boro during Fleet Week? Works goes on. Ellen goes past the Statue to the next job, possibly to move USCGC Eagle out.
As is McKinley Sea, with its Kirby livery.
Terrapin Island continues its 24/7 sand moving.
Tankers transfer fluids and container vessels come and go.
Susquehanna follows Quantico Creek to the east.
Holiday jetskiers race off bow waves, abandoning prudence and caution.
Gulf Service awaits an appointment at the tanks.
Ice-bowed Ice Hawk, newly painted and
maybe newly-named, awaits its call.
And (in town for OpSail, Bay City, Michigan registered Appledore V, enjoys the late Monday sun and breeze.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Unrelated from Lake Michigan: 1907 SS Keewatin moves.
According to the family history here, they started with schooners and currently, besides oil, they push water and do more. Monday I caught Susquehanna standing by along the KVK as container vessel Zim Shenzhen hurried for its assignation in Port Elizabeth.
The following four pics come from Jim Demske, who’s worked for Vane for over twenty years as Captain and is now Port Captain in charge of “New Tug Construction.” Elk River entered service mid-summer 2009, just a little over six months after Sassafras did.
Seabart sends along a link to the 23 August issue of Tugs Towing & Offshore Newsletter with a short piece about the Charles Burton launch: see page 4/12 of this link. Charles Burton is sibling to Elk River and Sassafras.
Compare wheelhouse of a Sassafras class with
that of Vane Brothers largest class–Brandywine. Click on boatnerd’s site here for pics of Brandywine’s first splash in early 2006 at Marinette Marine in cold Wisconsin. These folks also built the Molinari class Staten Island ferries.
More Brandywine and its mate Double Skin 141 here, loa 480′ and capacity of 145,000 barrels, also built in Wisconsin.
Jeff Anzevino took the next two fotos, Potomac of the Patapsco class, operating in the icy
Hudson north of Poughkeepsie.
Like the lead foto, I took this one. In this case, Patapsco thrusts forward and divides Hudson water in the Great North River race in 2007. Beyond Patapsco are Lucy Reinauer and Nathan E. Stewart. The two cruise ships mostly visible are Norwegian Spirit and Norwegian Dawn.
Again, special thanks to Jim and Jeff for use of these pictures.
Vane Brothers Pocomoke pushes petroleum past Red Hook cranes,
Sister Susquehanna sleeps beside its DoubleSkin 52 with an unidentified Bouchard unit in the background,
McAllister Responder rushes the #2 buoy,
Robert IV rumbles past the cliffs of lower Manhattan’s cliffs haze-shrouded as if July had already arrived,
Pocomoke pokes on to the northeast with its DoubleSkin 53?,
Hubert Bays hauls an unidentified scow past MOT as it exits KVK, and
… and you wanted a stern view of Susquehanna, right?
All fotos taken on a steamy Tuesday morning in April by Will Van Dorp.
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