Meeting the Fleet 2022 A

Scouts?  Patrol?  Search pattern?  First and foremost, it’s to honor our war dead, and there are too many of those, even the walking wounded and dead….

Thanks to New York Media Boat, I caught the fleet from a different angle, all while respecting the safety zones.

Note the unmistakeable red of a McAllister tugboat on the starboard bow, along

with a handful more McAllisters and the other fleet vessels following.

The USACE and USCG always take part . . .

USS Bataan (LHD-5) was the lead ship, and

it docked in the Hudson River Passenger Terminal.

More WVD fleet week 2022 photos tomorrow.  Lots more photos of the LHD can be seen here.  A guide to Fleet Week activities can be found here.

Previous tugster fleet week posts can be seen here.

 

Meeting the Fleet 2016

This collage of orange and blue indicates that something unusual approaches . . .

0846 hr . . .

0904

 

 

Atlantic Salvor might have been headed out on a long range mission, but

at this point, I realized this mission would begin in the Lower Bay of the sixth boro along with

lots of other vessels, although

 

something new this year was the escort of four commercial tugs:  Sassafras, Miriam Moran, 

Atlantic Salvor, and Normandy.   1150.    I was happy to find someone to talk to.

It’s fleet week NYC.  Welcome all.

It’s USS DDG 96,

HMCS D 282,

WMEC 911,

HMCS MM 700,

HMCS MM 708,

LHD 5,

DDG 99,

and LSD 43.

At 1216, Eric McAllister joins the welcome party . . .

 

 

WLM 552.

An E-2 flew by too.

 

The message on the port wheel well ((?) amused me.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

Here was last year’s arrival.