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Apologies for sitting on these photos fo so long, but today’s the day to put them up. The previous 72 can be found here.
From Mage, long-time reader and commenter . . .. the sailing vessel below is proclaimed as the “world’s oldest active sailing ship.” I’d go along with that, since I can’t name one older and although I suspect someone might quibble with some of those adjectives. Can anyone identify it based on this statement and photo? Mage posts as frequently as I do, work that you can find here.
I haven’t posted this in a half year because I couldn’t identify the tugs. Maybe someone can help with that. Once you get other pieces of info, you will know the location.
From Sean, another long-time reader and commenter . . . these workboats. From the photo and from names, can you identify the location? Previous photos by Sean here.
Click here for fuller specs on R/V Palmetto. Click here for a closer-up photo of USACE Evans.
I’ve seen Candice L as far south as North Carolina, but this photo comes from longtime reader and commenter, Tony.
Tony also sends along a photo of this vessel Irvington, which appears to be a small double-ended ferry. Anyone know where it works/has worked? Here are previous photos sent along by Tony.
And finally, here’s a subster photo from Tommy on the Clyde, the Scottish Clyde, not the upstate NY one. Anyone identify the sub? Previous photos by Tommy here. Previous submarines on this blog . . . here.
Starting from the top, the sailing vessel is the 1863 Star of India. According to Tommy, the sub may be this one.
Many thanks for these photos to Mage Bailey, Sean McQuilken, Tony A, and Tommy Bryceland.
Just the facts: Firefighter entered service in 1938 designed by Gibbs and Cox (who also designed the SS United States and the LCS) . . . to last and last and last. And she has. Firefighter is not only the oldest active-duty FDNY vessel but also
she who can deliver the highest gpm (20,000) through her pumps. One of Firefighter‘s finest moments occured in 1973 . . . after the collision of Sea Witch and Esso Brussels. just north of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge. See great text and fotos of that accident here. Salvaged portions of Sea Witch live on in Chemical Pioneer, still a regular in the sixth boro. See her (Witch Pioneer) stern in this tugster post from a year ago.
Dimensions: Built in Staten Island. 134′ x 32′ x 9′ with twin 16-cylinder 1500 hp engines. gCaptain wrote about it here. Watch a very informative 18-minute video here.
The Rolls-Royce of fireboats . . .
All fotos by Will Van Dorp in early March 2010.
If you’re still in the mood for video, you might check out this new site for cruiser USS Olympia (C-6), featuring new reels of the battleship parading up the Hudson with Dewey on board in 1899, post-Battle of Manila Bay and Spanish-American War. The second newsreel has the best video, 1899 technology. Olympia today is is ship in trouble.
Unless you already know from the clues here, you’ll have to guess: from left to right and at anchor, Vane Brothers Chesapeake, Wye River, and Tuckahoe. Slightly off center to the right is Scotia Sea. The twin raked funnels I won’t identify til later.
So yes, clearly this is another watershed. Am I cheating on boro6 by blogging about this? No way!! I don’t use the word “cheating” that way. Did Henry Hudson “cheat” on Europa by exploring new passages and connections? Did the Apollo 11 folks cheat on the Earth? By my perspective, sampling of all sorts spices our inner broth, chases off monotony, sustains life, and just follows logically from curiosity and wonder. If you call it cheating, then you might say I cheat all the time. But to do otherwise would be to cheat myself. End of rant.
Any guesses on the location?
Scotia Sea is ex-Mr Shep. Guess where Scotia Sea is located before clicking here.
Bohemia here passes . . .Campbell Field. Now that’s a clue.
All I’ll say about Jupiter now is that it was built in 1902 in this city at the yard of Neafie & Levy.
Jupiter‘s horns. I’d love to hear them.
M as in Myle . . . pronounced “my lee.”
This city also hosts the cruiser USS Olympia, and
the slightly older look-alike of the sixth boro’s very own Peking. This bark is Moshulu, which in the Seneca language means “one who fears nothing.” It was aboard this vessel that the author Eric Newby once worked.
And this is the city of brotherly (and sisterly and everybodily, one would hope) love. The two raked stacks off in the distance in first foto top the SS United States, launched the year I was born: such a young fast creature she is.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
In case you missed the hint above, TWO NEW messages have arrived from Henry Hudson, modulated by hurricane winds and arriving across 400 years almost precisely. Check them here and here. I have to confess, I feared we’d lost his signal, but . . . oh the joys of 21st PLUS 17th century technology!!
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