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Graveyard 2
Thank you all for reading and commenting. Let me pass along some of what I’ve learned. Also, check out frogma’s latest. Below, from Jeff S: ”The passenger vessel with the lifeboat on deck is the...
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Salish Sea 5: The Canal Mostly
July is officially “gallivant month” this year, but as an update on yesterday’s “Bridge” post . . . the tow got somewhere out of foto range before daybreak; when I got up to check progress on AIS at 5...
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Graveyard 4
A few months back, I did a “Graveyard” series, in which the ferry New Bedford was mentioned. It’s the vessel with the tilted steam stack on the left. Some might see an eyesore. I see this looking...
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189 Ghost Ships
In Random Tugs 60 I mentioned a wish to locate fotos of the ghost fleet that once occupied the freight train shore of the curve in the Hudson between Stony Point and Jones Point. Many thanks to Joseph...
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Turning 70
On this blog, you’ve seen spinning the king and turning Tabuk, get ready for turning 70, which never looked so good. That 70 is CVN-70 aka USS Carl Vinson, recently departing San Diego for points west....
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GP
If the repurposed green-painted police launch in the sixth boro can be called Big G, I guess this is gargantuan G, although judging by the weldprints in the portside bow, it has a history; for two...
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Whatzit? 8
Any guesses? Something new at Coney Island? Here’s a slightly different angle. Different vessel but this foto’s dedicated to Paul Strubeck, who may just decide he needs to go shopping, eh, Paul? Those...
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Ghost Puzzles 3
Any ideas? Note the pulley and cable fitted into the metal knees supporting columns, once vertical but now leaning to almost “two o’clock.” Here’s a decaying and woebegone version of what Lehigh...
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Random Tugs 92
Note: If you’re new to this blog and wondering what resources provide “pedigree” of these vessels, a fantastic reference work in progress is tugboatinformation.com Start out by clicking the...
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Other Watersheds 9
Foto below was taken on July 3, 2012. Charles D. McAllister . . . featured here dozens of times, was assisting British Harmony (see name on lifeboat) out of IMTT Bayonne . . . for sea. Where?...
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Government Boats 40
. .. make that boats and ships. Thanks to Allen Baker for sending along this set of T-AKR 294 Antares moving out of GMD back in January 2010. Yup, some drafts get caught in an eddy and they spin...
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