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Off New London USCGC Coho and a 45′ response boat take part in training off Race Rock Light and then later off

Little Gull Island Light, with the 87′ towing the 45′ boats.

A regular in the sixth boro is USCGC Beluga.

The 29′ patrol boats monitor lots of activities in the harbor;  here they board a small fishing boat.

Of the many USCG aids-to-navigation (AToN) boats, this is 49′ BUSL.

Small USACE survey boats seem constantly at work in the harbor.

NYC DEP has a monitoring boat, Sandpiper.  Another one of their boats is called Osprey.

Another DEP vessel, this one is called Oyster Catcher.

NYPD has its own navy;  here is one of their bigger boats, the 55′ Det. Luis Lopez.

Here’s another NYPD patrol boat, drawled dwarfed by a ULCV bow wave.  [I like that new word “drawled,” sort of like swamped but not quite maybe.]

One of the four carriers (yes, they carry, and for which the demand never stops) of the DEP fleet is Rockaway.

Any guesses on this speedy black vessel?

It’s a marine unit of the same folks you might be talking to if you’re speedy on roads inland.

All photos, recently, WVD.

 

 

 

Paul Bunyan

Long before Marvel comics and their several versions of rebirth, a crop of folk heroes existed, with stories that originated in the oral tradition, at least so it seems to me.  And was the Paul Bunyan legend based on Saginaw Joe Fournier?

No matter.  Here’s the first workboat I can recall aptly named for one.  The paint may be scuffed,

the name boards in need of rehab, but

she looks ready to break out of the ice and lift some gates.  By Great Lakes standards, she’s not even that old, it seems, launched in Muskegon in 1944.  Has she been repowered?  She’s a barge, so the power would be only for the derrick machinery.

With the Soo Locks closed now and drained, it’s possible she’s hard at work lifting gates as needed.  Click here for another another and photos about the January 2019 closure of the locks.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

Thanks to Barrel 10

Quick post here . . . since barrel has sent me way up into catfish territory with this boat, Tom Stallings.  Although the photo says it was built in 1919 in Charleston WV, the Charles Ward Shipyard records here do not list the boat. The 1929 records of the Chief of Engineers say that Tom Stallings replaced an earlier snag boat called Quapaw, a photo of which I located here.   Although the Tenn-Tom exhibit is off my near-future itineraries for now, there’s a stern-wheeler snag boat saved and open to tours still out there, here. Has anyone been there?

Here’s another oldie that seems to have disintegrated into history, pipeline dredge Gillespie.

 

 

Many thanks to barrel for sending along these yellowed records.

I am in fact in catfish territory for a week, attending to family business.

Thanks to Barrel 6

Click here for previous photos that come here by way of barrel.  The September 1944 tug Wilmington

is now Kathy Lynn.

Dredge Hoffman was built in 1942 and

retired in 1983 . . . I guess that means scrapped.

Clatsop was launched in 1908, then called

Sandpilot, and was scrapped in 1950, before I was born.

Delano Deland was 1919 built, but was transferred to

the USAT and I’ve found no further trace.  Anyone have any ideas?

Many thanks to barrel, who’s sent me more photos like this, and I’ll get around to posting them.

 

USACE Tenders

I’m putting these photos up although I know little about these boats, starting with Pennsgrove.  Her lines would make a great cruiser.

 

A similar vessel in the sixth boro is Hudson.  Again, all I’ve learned is that she was built in 1963 and

loa is 50.’

This last photo I took on January 14, 2016.   She too would make a good cruiser, I think.

Thanks to Barrel for the first two photos;  the others are by Will Van Dorp, who is still out off most grids.

Thanks to the robots for posting.

More Cutterheads

Here’s GLDD’s cutter suction dredge Florida as seen from above the cutter head and

photo taken October 2010 in the KVK

from alongside.  I took the first three photos in this post.

photo taken October 2010

Here’s Weeks cutter suction dredge C. R. McCaskill,  with Sea Wolf serving as a tender.

photo taken near Rockaway Inlet September 2013

USACE E. A. Woodruff was built in 1873 and worked the Ohio. Technically, I think Woodruff was a snag boat.

USACE Florida was the most technologically advanced dredge built when it was launched in 1904.  Unfortunately, she sank with loss of life 14 years later and is currently a dive site.

USACE Barnard was built in 1904 as well in Camden and sold to Mexico in 1942.

Here’s another view of Barnard with

a tender alongside.  It looks a lot like the buoy boats on the Erie Canal.

Dredge Welatka was built in 1925.

Dredge Congaree was built in 1914 in Charleston SC.

Here’s USACE Potter originally built in 1932 and still in use.

For many more vintage USACE photos, click here.

Many thanks to Barrel for this trip through USACE technological history.

Thanks to Barrel 2

Alpha is the caption on the photo, but there’s no 1928 boat by that name on this list.  Might it also have been called Captain Eric Bergland?

Convoy is one of the four sisters delivered by Leathem Smith in Wisconsin in the spring of 1941. I love the coil on the hawser rack.   I posted photos of wo of the four sisters side by side in this post a few months back . .  scroll.

You can read here a story of Evanick, christened in 2006 by the widow of its namesake.  Here’s the Professional Mariner story of her, comparing the Texas-built Evanick‘s power (3000 hp) as twice that of Raymond C. Peck, the vessel she replaced. Peck became Martha T and , unfortunately, made casualty news here in March 2013.

Bluestone Drifter is not much unlike the self-propelled scows (SPS’s) used extensively on the Erie Canal.  This “crane boat,” as the USACE calls it, comes from Utica IN in 2001, making it much newer than the SPS’s on the Canal.

Grand Tower, also Indiana-built, was commissioned in 2001.

Prairie du Rocher is a 2002 product of the same shipyard as Grand Tower and Bluestone Drifter.

Ditto Sanderford, 2005.  I’m starting to want to make a trip along the Ohio visiting shipyards  . . . soon.

Iroquois, delivered in 2005 from a Louisiana shipyard, operates from the Nashville USACE yard.

Barrel calls this Racine, but I can find no info about a newish USACE tug called Racine.  Anyone help?

J. C. Thomas is a 2000 product of Jeffboat, also along the Indiana bank of the Ohio.  Click here for another product of Jeffboat, Cape Henlopen, some folks’ favorite people mover. Is it true that Jeffboat is considered the largest inland ship builder in the US?

I don’t know the date of this photo of Derrick Boat #7 and tug Pilot, but the style of the derrick is quite similar to what is used in the Erie Canal.

And finally for today, there’s an unidentified USACE tug pushing dredge William L. Goetz.  Anyone have an ID or an idea?

Many thanks to Barrel for these photos.  More of them to come . . .

For an article on what is claimed to be the largest diesel towboat operating on the Mississippi–I’m always skeptical about superlatives–click here.  That article actually describes what could be called MV Mississippi V.  The largest one I’ve ever seen is MV Mississippi IV, now pulled up on a bank in Vicksburg, MS, a museum.  Enjoy these photos I took there three years and four days ago.

 

 

 

1941 Pilot Redux

Earlier this “classic boat” month I posted contemporary photos of Millie B, ex-Pilot, USACE.

The first two photos below and the last one come thanks to “Barrel.”  I can’t accurately characterize what each is;  I’ll leave that to you.

 

The middle two photos below come compliments of William Lafferty, frequent commenter, here, who writes, “[This photo] shows it at work, escorting McAllister tugs moving the sections of a floating drydock on the C & D Canal in April 1966.  One can barely see her Smith sister, Convoy, aside the drydock on the left in the foreground.”  Anyone care to speculate whether the nearer McAllister tug is none other than John E. McAllister, now known as Pegasus?  Also, where were these dry docks headed?

And, “[This] one shows it at Fort Mifflin in January 1996 while, obviously, still with the Corps.”

Here Pilot awaits off the port side of Goethals, built in Quincy MA, and used from 1939 until 1982 and scrapped in 2002. The category here–sump rehandler–sent me on a chase for answers that ended here.  New Orleans–the sump rehandler–was also built as a dredge in Quincy in 1912 before conversion and use until deactivation in 1963 and eventual scrapping.

Finally, last photo is from Barrel, and shows Pilot Palmyra showing a crane barge through the C & D Canal.

Thanks to Barrel and William Lafferty for these photos.

Interested in self-unloading vessels as seen here on tugster?  Read Dr. Lafferty’s book.

Which leads me to a a digression at the end of this post:  Day Peckinpaugh once had an self-unloading system.  Does anyone know the design?  Are there photos of it intalled anywhere?  The photo below I took in the belly of D-P back in September 2009.

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Government Boats 32

In the Lower Bay, NYS Environmental Conservation police confer with NYPD.

Motor Lifeboat 47264 . . . was delivered from this Louisiana shipyard in late July 2000, and

looks brand new.

This Buffalo district survey vessel is barely half year old, and named for

a surveyor with a long career of service all over the watery parts of the globe.

This 45′ response boat medium was delivered to Oswego this year.

Sylvan Beach air boat.

Tappan Zee V . . . I know no more about this vessel–a retired US boat ??–than I did last time I had a photo of her.

Here Oswego Marine One trains in the Oswego River.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

 

Whole Lotta Dredgin’ 9

Here’s a followup on the Rockaway sand pumping, and there’s gold in those sands, over $36 million worth.   Notice the dredging/pumping vessel upper right.

This was the fountain this morning.

Once the slurry exits the mouth, water flows back into the ocean and sand is pushed up the beach.

This repurposed container is project headquarters.

The top foto comes thanks to Barbara Barnard;  all others by Will Van Dorp.