Really Random Tugs 21

Let’s start with LT-5 at the H. Lee White Maritime Museum.

Here’s The Chancellor at the NYS Canals dry dock as it was being flooded.   Here’s a recent tugster post focused on this vessel.

Now the marketing name for this “tug” is a “barge pusher.” 

Here’s a closer up of the engine unit and hydraulic-driven thruster, operating near Rotterdam Junction.

From Maraki in St. Eustatius . . .  it’s Triumph.   notice the submerged tug off to her port side.

Here . . . tending the piledriver in Amsterdam is Sarah L_Anne . . .  I can’t quite make out the name.

Also from Maraki, it’s Statia Reliant off the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean.

Back to the waters just east of Lock 11, it’s Wm. Donnelly tending a scow.

Thsnks to Ashley Hutto, this photo of Buccaneer, taken Tampa.

And to end where we started . . .  it’s Oswego’s LT-5, accented by crepuscular rays.

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Commercial Tugs in NYS Canals

So let’s start with June 2014 at the north end of the Oswego Canal . . . that’s Kathy Lynn way in the distance to the left.

Port of Oswego also sees its share of international tugs . . . Wilf Seymour (ex-M. Moran) here with the multifunctional barge Alouette Spirit is Canadian.

That diagonally mounted grate on the bow of the barge is a ramp to allow RORO use.

Wm. Donnelly is . . .

a D. A. Collins tug, and  . . .

also working on the Amsterdam dam (!) is an Arundel Marine tug called Sarah Leanne.

Collamore . . . I can find nothing about.

Here northbound on the Hudson while I was behind a dirty window . . . that may be HR Bass (scroll through) passing Peebles Island.

And for the last photo today, enjoy another of Margot, here housedown as she leaves Lock 19 eastbound.

All photos by Will Van Dorp, who’s thrilled to be back where his upstate roots are.