The tanker CL Virginia Wolf came up the North River Tuesday, arriving from Dominican Republic and heading for the Global Terminal in Albany. Fuel cargos from the Caribbean have not been typical lately, though perhaps the product was loaded at earlier port calls in Northern Europe. At nearly 50,000 dead-weight tons and 600 feet in length, Virginia is large by Hudson River tanker standards. As for the name, I don’t know how a tanker owned by a Chinese conglomerate winds up named for an early 20th century English author. Perhaps there is a Bloomsbury fan back at head office or maybe it is simply a random pairing of a state name with an animal. As documented on Tugster (https://tugster.wordpress.com/2016/10/08/names-25-2/), there are foreign flag ships calling on New York named for Herman Hesse and Ernest Hemingway.