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More salt
The bulk ship Rangaku, 650 feet long and Liberia flagged, was northbound on the North River Monday morning headed for the Port of Coeymans. Rangaku was laden and arriving from Egypt, making salt a likely cargo.
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Moving mud
Maintenance dredging continues in Haverstraw Bay and tugs continue to come down the North River with barges on the wire loaded with spoils headed for the dumping grounds off Atlantic Highlands. In addition to the Everly Mist and Comet which I shared photos of Sunday, the tugs Kimberly C and Justine McAllister have also been hauling mud through here.
I think this may be Kimberly C’s first time on the North River. The tug still carries the markings of Long Beach California-based Curtin Marine but I believe it has been brought to the East Coast by Stevens Towing of the Carolinas. As for Justine, we used to see her occasionally moving Rose Cay tank barges on the North River back in 2024, but I have not seen her more recently than that.
Meanwhile, we are also seeing more familiar Donjon dredging equipment on the North River this week, with regular seasonal dredging getting underway at the cruise terminal for the second time this year. In the final photo, there is a crowd outside the cruise terminal as the Donjon dredging team is flanked by a Moran tractor tug waiting to assist a cruise ship and a Metropolitan Marine tug waiting to help land a bunkering barge.
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Collecting metal
The bulk ship Seastar Valiant came up the North River last week bound for the Port of Coeymans. The 590-foot vessel was in ballast on the way up and reported draft increased while at the pier so she likely loaded scrap metal for export up there. By Saturday she was on her way to the Delaware River where she is currently tied up at the scrap dock in Camden, NJ, probably loading more metal. The scrap will ultimately head overseas, probably to Turkey, and may come back to us here as rebar or other metal products.
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Dredge we must
Maintenance dredging got underway last week in Haverstraw Bay and on Friday Haugland Group’s Everly Mist passed down the North River with a scow on the wire loaded with spoils heading for the dump site off Atlantic Highlands. Meanwhile, Dann Ocean’s Comet came north returning after making the same trip.
According to the Army Corps of Engineers, the dredging will remove silt and clay to restore channel depth to 32 feet at mean low water and this is the first dredging that has been done here since 2022. This is the first time I have seen Comet. I believe she has been based on the Delaware River most recently.
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Three Forty Three
FDNY Fireboat Three Forty Three was one of the leaders of the Sail4th 250 tall ship parade on Independence Day this year. The Marine 1 vessel, which returned from a period in dry dock at Brooklyn Navy Yard just in time to participate in the festivities, is named for the number of FDNY firefighters who died on 9/11, though many more than that have subsequently succumbed to related illnesses. The 343 spent September 11 morning this year on ceremonial duty off lower Manhattan. But her sister ship, Marine 9’s Firefighter II based on State Island, had an active 24 hours, responding on Thursday to an explosion and fire at the Clean Water of NY barge cleaning facility in Mariner’s Harbor.
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Another new cutter
The Coast Guard’s newest Fast Response Cutter, the Jeffrey Palazzo, arrived at North River Pier 86 (the Intrepid pier) on Wednesday ahead of a commissioning ceremony scheduled for Saturday. FRC 1163 is named for an FDNY firefighter and Coast Guard reservist who perished on September 11, one of 10 members of Staten Island-based Rescue 5 who died that day.
After commissioning, the Palazzo will head for Guam where she will be home-ported alongside the FRC Danz, named after an NYPD officer and Coast Guard reservist who lost his life on 9/11 and which we saw commissioned at Pier 86 in May. The Palazzo is available for tours Friday and Sunday 10 to 5pm and Saturday 2pm to 5pm.
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On the Thames
NOT THE NORTH RIVER: A trip through New London, CT found the Stasinos tug Meaghan Marie heading out of the harbor with a hopper barge. I believe she was going back and forth lightering salt off a bulk ship in from Egypt and anchored just offshore. I saw Meaghan working on the North River a few times back in 2023 but not since.
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Erin and Mackenzie
Carver Marine towboat Erin Elizabeth was southbound on the North River on Sunday, New York Harbor-bound with a pair of hopper barges in tow and accompanied by the tug Mackenzie Rose. Mackenzie made no wake and may not have been under power for the trip.
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Reposting: Working on the River
Not all the photos in yesterday’s post came through on the site. I am republishing in a different format. Apologies for the duplicative email.
NorthRiverBlog is mostly about machines and cargo. Of course it takes people to run these machines, but humans can be hard to capture from the vantage points I tend to shoot from, and I know that not everyone is crazy about seeing a camera pointed at them while they are trying to work. But I do capture men and woman working on the North River from time to time, and for Labor Day I’ve gone back over the past two years and selected 25 such shots, with appreciation and admiration for the work they do. Happy Labor Day!
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Working on the North River
Labor Day Special: NorthRiverBlog is mostly about machines and cargo. Of course it takes people to run these machines, but humans can be hard to capture from the vantage points I tend to shoot from, and I know that not everyone is crazy about seeing a camera pointed at them while they are trying to work. But I do capture men and woman working on the North River from time to time, and for Labor Day I’ve gone back over the past two years and selected 25 such shots, with appreciation and admiration for the work they do. Happy Labor Day!
Observations on the Hudson River as it passes through New York City. The section of the Hudson which passes through New York is historically known as the North River, called this by the Dutch to distinguish it from the Delaware River, which they knew as the South River. This stretch of the Hudson is still often referred to as the North River by local mariners today. All photos copyright Daniel Katzive unless otherwise attributed. For more frequent updates, please follow northriverblog on Facebook or Instagram.
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