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This monthly practice of looking back a decade gives me an opportunity to dust off a specific part of the archive in tugster tower. Besides sneezing sometimes because of the dust, I also feel amazed about the amount of change, small changes maybe but significant it seems.
Evening Mist has become Everly Mist, and is in a new endeavor. Palva is now Laurentia DesGagnes operating on and out of the Saint Lawrence River where I saw her a few years back. Only Eastern Welder in the background remains.
I made a few trips out to Greenport a decade ago, and walking through a shipyard saw this vessel from Suffolk Count Department of Health and its unusual top deck exhaust. Is that still around? I’m guessing it might check water quality on shellfishing areas . . .
Bebedouro (1974) and Atlantic Conveyor (1985), now both dead and scrapped. Brendan Turecamo still works here all day every day.
Rebel (138′ x 46′) is still on the NJ side of the sixth boro, waiting for an opportunity to get back to work.
Viking (132′ x 34′) has been cut up.
Annabelle Dorothy Moran was on her delivery run, making her way to the Chesapeake/Delaware Bay area, where she still works. Those range markers are no longer in place on the Brooklyn Heights bank of the sixth boro.
John B Caddell was nearing the end of this shore leave, heading for her final one. Note Sarah Ann tending the crane barge and WTC in the distance not yet completed.
Commander, a WW1 USN vet as SP-1247, was still showing its rotondity.
Joan Turecamo, a late Matton product, was still in the boro. Now she winds her way around the curves of the Lower Mississippi.
Sarah Ann and others of the Donjon fleet kept me up most of the night in December 2012, as she stood by a barge carrying WTC antenna sections that were lifted onto Manhattan . . .
across a blocked west side highway . . . lowered onto a vehicle with dozens of axles . . .
and trucked inland
In other night photos, quite rare on this blog . . . it’s Clearwater lifted onto Black Diamond barge with Cornell standing by.
I hope you enjoyed this backward glance as much as I have. I might have to get out and do some documenting of nighttime events on the sixth boro this December.
All photos, December 2012, WVD.
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The Hudson treats the traveler with magical sights like these. The castle atop the lush riverbank is still there, but that tug–Viking–is no more. I’m not sure the disposition of DBL 134.
One morning soon after sunrise that summer 2017 I followed Delaware a ways up the Hudson before overtaking her.
Ernest Campbell had started working in the sixth boro by 2018, but its livery has changed since then.
On the last day of June, I took a ride on the Rondout and saw (l to r) Johannsen Girls, Fells Point, and Severn. Severn now works in the Pacific Northwest although still for Vane.
Tarpon was working in the boro, but since that time has been sold to interests on the West Coast, although I’m not sure she’s made it there.
In June 2019, I caught Stephen Reinauer heading out the Narrows to rejoin its barge;
North of the border, SLS aka Sheri Lynn S was tied up at a Picton ON dock.
June 2020 one morning, I spotted Kirby Moran meeting ONE Minato, and
Janet D returning to her Elizabethport base.
In June 2021, it’s Charles D passing Adventurer while standing by for an incoming ship.
And finally, Sarah D was eastbound here in the Kills.
All photos, WVD, who may have made some errors here with dates, having had his brain baked in the Louisiana heat.
I’m on the road again, so today I’ll share some recent photos on the boro. Of course, winter is still fishing time in the harbor, as Viking is doing here.
Others are feeding in the boro, like
this guy below . . . closeup of the photo above.
I’m always looking for intriguing things, like this ladder that appears to extend over board from the Miller crewboat. I couldn’t get a closer shot.
Details always attract me, like these color-coded connection on a tanker, or just
colorful deck machinery maybe for its own sake.
Conversely, this 2008 barge needs some rustbusting and fresh paint.
Now and then a boat I’ve not previously seen in the boro shows up . . . like the 125′ fishing party boat out of Brielle NJ.
How about a tanker with a local name . . .
or a busy lineup scene?
Of course, the down side of observing is sometimes discovering that you are yourself being observed, folks wondering who would be sitting in the 20-degree weather on a dock of the bay wasting time . . . . Thx for checking up on me, folks.
All photos, WVD, who comes here to relax. And speaking of, my travel schedule the next few days may preclude posting.
Wow! It’s time to flip the calendar to March 2022 already; that means flashing back to March 2012. A photo of Bow Chain on the KVK seems a good place to start, for reasons apparent at the end of this post.
Since these “retro” posts highlight what’s no more to be seen, this is a good one, Brendan, a 6140 hp tug that now is Cindy Rose.
Sea-land Racer dominates the foreground, but look at the unmistakable Viking farther back.
Yes, I mean this Eklof-KSea-Kirby 4300 hp Viking, dismantled a few years ago already.
This 3900 hp Brendan still works daily in the boro.
Also passing the Sea-land Racer is this 1900 hp Pegasus, when she looked as she had coming from the shipyard without an upper wheelhouse. Pegasus is still a busy machine in the port.
2012 was the year I decided to see the Panama Canal before the new sections opened. In the middle ground here between the Miraflores locks and the ridge, you can see the mounds of dirt on the middle distant ground. Those mounds represent dirt displaced digging the new channels.
In the farther lane, Pacific-bound it’s Nord Snow Queen and nearer . . . Atlantic Polaris. And again in the photo below, see the dirt removed to create the new channel. As of this writing, Atlantic is at the dock in Houston and Nord between the ancient, now-Russian port of Novorossiysk and wherever she will be able to enter port.
See more dirt on the nearer ridge? And the traffic, like Chiquita Schweiz and now called Schweiz Reefer, it continues night and day
Tugboats–see many of them here–have a greater role in the new Panama Canal channels, replacing the locomotives evident in some of the photos above and below, but they were already plentiful pre-expansion. Here Veraguas 1 heads Pacificward…
assisting Bow Summer in accompaniment with
locomotives aka mules, once supplied by GE but now sourced elsewhere. Ever Dynamic, like the Odfjell parcel tankers whose names begin with “bow” [no doubt named for the renowned bowsprite],
are as likely to be seen in any major port as in the sixth boro. Ever Dynamic had been in the sixth boro just a month earlier than here, making me almost feel like it was welcoming me to Panama, which I found a very hospitable place. Bow Summer as of this writing waits outside a South African port. Ever Dynamic was dismantled in Alang almost exactly two years ago.
All photos, WVD, in March 2010.
Sea-land Racer and Viking have both been dismantled in the past five years, Racer in Alang and Viking in Texas.
Grey Shark assisted out of the Kills by Catherine C. Miller. Catherine is still working, but Grey Shark has not moved from its berth in Las Caleras DR in almost three and a half years, so it’s safe to assume she won’t be calling in NYC’s sixth boro any more. By the way, July 2011 had some HAZY summer days.
The former Kristin Poling (1934 as Poughkeepsie Socony) had a few months to work, here alongside the almost new Crystal Cutler.
The mighty Viking was still working. See the Celebrity ship in the haze.
along with even more powerful fleetmate Irish Sea, still intact and tied up at Vinik Marine.
Glen Cove was still working; she was sold south.
Then the gallivanting started, here with a stop under the Route 213 bridge alongside the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal to watch the almost-new Mako go by.
Down to Key West and USCGC Mohawk WPG-78, now a fish condo. She was reefed almost exactly a year later.
Florida is unusual in that few Kirby tugboats, to my knowledge, work as assist boat. She’s currently operated as a Seabulk tug.
C-Tractor 5 and its fleetmate
the slightly more powerful lucky 13 set the bar for unusual design and color scheme.
All photos, WVD, who’s making arrangements for more gallivanting soon, although it looks to be in the interior on the continent rather than along the edges.
If you’ve not seen a ULCV, CMA CGM A. Lincoln is coming in this afternoon/evening.
Location 1? Do you know this tug?
Location 2. Tug Rachel is with this
unusual looking cargo ship, Lihue.
Viking pushes southbound past Castle Rock and
Comet northbound along the Hudson River.
Near the west end of the East River, it’s C. Angelo and
near the east end, it’s Navigator with GT Bulkmaster heading west and Ellen McAllister, east.
Working near the TZ Bridge some years back, it’s Tappan Zee II.
And finally, on the northern end of Lake Huron, it’s Avenger IV
heading for the Soo.
To answer the first question, that’s Coney Island with the Goethals Bridge and Linden refinery in the background, making this the Elizabeth River in Elizabethport NJ.
And the second question, it’s Seattle. Photo thanks to Kyle Stubbs. Lihue, ex-President Hoover III, ex-Thomas E. Cuffe, 1971, may be at the end of Rachel‘s towline along the coast of Oregon, heading for the Panama Canal and then . . . Texas for scrap. She’s probably the last of LASH (C8-S-81e) vessels built, along with President Tyler IV and President Grant V, scrapped more than 10 years ago. She’s been a survivor.
Click on the photo below to learn more about a 1970 container ship still moving boxes, up to 482 teu at a time. Explorador!
All other photos, WVD, at points in various places since 2017.
Like lots of things, the Great North River Tugboat Race is, as ws said in a comment yesterday, “alas . . . cancelled this year.” So here’s some consolation, ws. . . If you need a dose of racing, you can click here and get all the way back to tugster post 2006, or for a sampling from 2006 until 2011, follow along. In 2006, I followed from W. O. Decker and had this view. I’ll let you try to identify these; if the group-source gets stuck, I’ll help out.
In 2007 . . . of these, only Lucy Reinauer is still around here.
HMS Liberty is still around.
In 2008 . . . throttling up releases some smoke . . .
In 2009, two of these are still running around the sixth boro staying busy. The third was involved in a scandalous grouding and has been scrapped.
Meagan Ann has unique safety headgear, inspired by an ancient design.
In 2010 . . . this was a motley armada, ranging from Atlantic Salvor to The Bronx.
Catherine C. Miller and Mary H were hurrying to the starting line here.
That year saw lots of pushing match-ups.
Vulcan III could be matched up with Viking later.
In 2011, THIS could be called the heat . . . actually, it was a misting from one of the fire boats.
Pushing around happened all over the field for spectators on deck and photographers up high.
As always, getting a line on a bollard . . . just another event in the sixth boro games.
USMMA’s Growler is closing on the bollard as a crewman demonstrates a rodeo-influenced style.
More to come . . . all photos, WVD. And if the last four photos above suggest a muddy Hudson, remember that 2011 had just seen Hurricane Irene flood the valley creeks feeding into the Hudson.
In July 2010, the 1968 Black Hawk was one of two sister tugs operated by Sound Freight Lines. Since then, the sister Seminole has been sold foreign, and Black Hawk has been sold to Sause Brothers Ocean Towing. Sause refurbished her and for an account of Black Hawk towing a barge from San Francisco to Vancouver, click here. Details on Black Hawk are 112′ x 34′ and 3700 hp.
Chief, 1999, is/was one of Crowley’s Harbor class tugs. She’s 97′ x 36′ and 4800 hp.
James T. Quigg is no doubt now wearing Centerline Logistics colors. She dates from 1971 and measures in at 98′ x 30′ and 3000 hp. Since launch, she’s worked the US East Coast, once called Fournier Boys, and Hawaii, as well as the West Coast.
Alaska Titan came off the ways in 2008. She’s one of a half dozen “titans” operated by Western Towboat.
Currently following the waterway through the islands of the Alaska panhandle, she measures in at 112′ x 35′ and 5000 hp.
Westrac, 1987, is another Western Towboat vessel, measuring in at 63′ x 28′ and 2500 hp.
This Triton, launched 1965, now goes by Wycliffe. She’s 115′ x 31′ and 2500 hp. She’s currently in Ensenada MX.
Dixie, 1951, has a history in towing log rafts on the Columbia River hundreds of miles above Portland OR. She’s 46′ x 15′ and 575 hp.
Pacific Star, launched 2008, now goes by Signet Courageous. She’s 92′ x 40′ and 6610 hp. She’s currently in the Gulf of Mexico off Corpus Christi.
On Lake Washington, Lady Washington and Hawaiian Chieftain were out sailing. The two vessels are now outside the Puget Sound in Gray’s Harbor, and Hawaiian Chieftain, as I understand it, has been “laid up.” The two replica vessels have a waterline length of 72’and 62′, respectively.
Island Packer puzzles me a bit. It seems not be cost effective to operate the 1943 converted landing craft between here and the Aleutians, where Chernofsky is located. I suppose it was in Seattle that day for service. I don’t know.
Katie Ann, launched in Baltimore in 1969, almost 300′ loa and powered by 8000 hp, is one of six processing/packing/freezing vessels operated by American Seafoods. She operates with a crew of 75. As of this writing, according to AIS, she’s in exactly the same location I photographed her in July 2010, but only because she’s between seasons.
Viking has the lines of a converted oiler, like these. She could be the 120′ crabber/trawler built for crabbing/fishing by Marco in 1975.
All photos, WVD, in July 2010.
Just for ships and figgles . . . have a glance at 155 and at 55 in this series. While we’re reconnoitering the past, here’s 5.
And here’s springtime 2019. Might this be the last view I get of tug Viking? Scuttlebutt’s bumped into me saying so. Her first (I believe) appearance on this blog was over 11 years ago here. She had some near twins, but none evolved quite as she did.
FB has this group I really enjoy called Freighters in the Night; I could submit this one. Jonathan C escorts an MSC box ship out.
Liz Vinik is a former fleet mate of Viking; I caught her yesterday entering the kills with a Cashman barge carrying barges. Click here for some photos of previous iterations of this boat.
A dark, slow-to-wake morning like yesterday provides lots of points of light. Here Joyce D. heads out, likely for her railroad work.
Enjoy these contrasts, Linda L. Miller and Hayward, two specialized boats.
Let’s end with a transient, sporadically seen in the sixth boro, a formerly Pacific Ocean Crowley tug . . . Morgan, out of New Bedford.
All photos e-watermarked with invisible metadata as taken by Will Van Dorp in the past month.
I sometimes refer to a golden hour, but recently I heard someone talk about the “blue” hour, when the sun is still or already below the horizon. The light is dramatic in both, or through that whole continuum, as seen here.
Fort McHenry heads east . . .
as does Amy Moran, who technically is moving later than the blue to gold but still enjoys the subdued light.
RTC 80 is pushed westbound by
Dace Reinauer.
Treasure Coast waits with its barge amidst the industrial landscape of IMTT.
Viking (sometimes pronounced “vikin“) moves toward the AK with DBL 134.
Buchanan 12 heads for the fuel dock.
Ruth M. Reinauer takes her barge to the AK as well.
Evelyn Cutler moves her barge to the west, and
fleet mate Kimberly Poling crosses the strait to tie up at Caddells.
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Sheesh . . . someone forgot to sweep all the leftover letters from the garage floor after work.
All photos and lack of sweeping by Will Van Dorp.
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