Tractor tug Laura K Moran returned to New York Harbor Thursday evening after assisting a bulk ship off the dock at the dry wall factory upriver in Buchanan, NY, a job we more often see handled by Moran’s older harbor tugs like the 1982 vintage Doris Moran who was also on hand to assist but not photographed. Laura was running her fire monitor over her stern deck on the way down. Testing, practice, just for fun? I don’t know.

She was followed a short while later by the bulk ship she had assisted, the Thai flagged Inthira Naree heading for sea after discharging a cargo of Spanish gypsum at the plant.