You are currently browsing the tag archive for the ‘Wilmington Tugs’ tag.
Thanks to Pat Folan of Pelican Passage . . . a new Cutler boat? See another foto at the end of the post.
Also thanks to Pat, a new Vane Brothers boat . . . Quantico Creek. See fotos of the launch of the 3000 hp tug here.
A fairly new Wilmington Towing vessel, Capt Harry, brother of Sonie.
Odin, seen here many times before
Marion C. Bouchard, 1979 built.
Bohemia, a 4200 hp Vane boat.
And thanks to east river, the tiniest ATB power unit towing barge Massachusetts . . .
Clearly not a tug, but I wonder if anyone can identify this self-described Black Pearl . . . .
Finally, as promised, another view of the first vessel: Crystal Cutler, a 1600ish hp newbuild rcently arrived in the sixth boro. Welcome!
For more of Pat’s great fotos, click here. All others by Will Van Dorp.
See you at the MWA 2010 Waterfront Conference on Tuesday. For details, click the icon on left side of page.
Uh … transplant to the Delaware?
Wilmington Tug’s Sonie passes junk-rigged Summer Wind as
she pushes light in the direction of the Ben Franklin Bridge. In the foreground left is the faux sternwheel of Philadelphia Belle.
Gulf Service heads in the same direction from over near the big guns of battleship New Jersey.
That transplant … It launched from Philadephia in 1902 to work out of New York, which it did until 1939. See the fourth profile below.
Petrel is an Allied staple on the Delaware.
Jupiter (ex-Socony #14) currently is operated and maintained by a volunteer group called Philadelphia Ship Preservation Guild. The tip of boom and yellow-green-white vessel belong to Gazela, the Guild’s other vessel, previously written about here and here (See fotos 7, 8 and 9). 
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
Part 1 of this series looked like this. Now more.
Madeline, 2008
Duty, 2006
Lindsey, 1989
Brandywine, 2006
More Lindsey
More Duty.
More Madeline.
More Brandywine, and Amberjack and Bold.
Of course Brandywine ranges far and wide, and these days, maybe so does Inland Sea heading south here from the Ben Franklin Bridge.
All fotos last week by Will Van Dorp.
Over on the port side of the upbound Jag Leela, name that tug. Answer follows at the end of the post. Doubleclick enlarges.
Jack Holland (ex-Phyllis and Papoose, 1984). I think.
Left to right: Purple Hays (Bludworth-built, 1966) and Timothy McAllister (ex-Osprey and Barbara McAllister, 1966)
stern of Grape Ape (1951), Big Daddy (1954 RTC-built), High Roller (1969 Jakobson-built) , and (again) Purple Hays.
Madeline (Gladding-Hearn, 2008), one of the Wilmington Tug vessels.
Lucky D (1970).
Neill McAllister (ex-Puerto Nuevo, 1964) over on the Gloucester City, NJ, side with the Walt Whitman Bridge behind.
Teresa McAllister (1961) and floating office.
B M Thomas (1926).
Bart J Turecamo (1968).
Helen D. Coppedge (?) There’s a Coppedge in Portsmouth, NH, also. What is the Coppedge history? Here’s an older but interesting Portsmouth article.
Texan (scroll thru) matched with specialty barge Ponciana, here out of the notch.
Grace Moran (left of foto and Jakobson, 1967) and Valentine Moran (the mystery tug of the first foto in this post and ex-Coastal Jacksonville, 1977) spin Jag Leela.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp. Special thanks to Jeff Schurr and John Curdy.
Here’s a ponderable: which companies, very common to this part of the Delaware River, have been omitted? Answer tomorrow.
tugster: a waterblog 
Recent Comments