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In the continuing project of posting a sampling of the variety of vessels calling in the sixth boro, here’s a variation on the RORO profile. Click here to see the many previous RORO posts. Several minutes before I took this photo, I saw it and couldn’t quite understand what I was seeing.
It’s about the location of the bridge, much farther toward the stern than typical. It might be a more comfortable ride, but view forward is decreased, I imagine. Maybe this is the immediate future of the design.
I wish I’d gotten a bow-on shot. She is not large–460′ loa, but she’s on the run Grey Shark used to do, at least this voyage.
Here she is juxtaposed with Meredith
It is a new profile, built in Japan in 2010.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who has a nagging sense of seeing this RORO recently but unable to find any previous photos. Maybe it was one of those few times I was near the water but sans camera. It happens.
I don’t know who to attribute this photo to, but it is said to show a laker crossing Lake Superior with a deckled of automobiles, mid-1930s. I wonder when automobiles were last transported on the Great Lakes in this fashion . . . Anyone?
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