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More weight
Norfolk Tug’s George Holland passed Weehawken with a light hopper barge on the hip last week, heading to Clinton Point to collect a stone cargo. They were approaching the point where the channel is squeezed by the Gateway Tunnel coffer dam, coordinating with the pilot of an outbound cruise ship on the other side. As…
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Champlain Hudson Power Express arrives at the North River
The cable-laying vessel Ariadne arrived off Spuyten Duyvil at the top end of the North River this week to work on some of the final sections of the Champlain Hudson Power Express. The cable, which will bring hydro-generated electricity from Canada to New York City beginning next year, makes a turn at this point, entering…
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Beating the storm
Baltic Mantis, a 655-foot Marshall Islands-flagged bulk ship, came down the North River and headed for sea and her next port of call in Texas on Thursday afternoon after departing the Port of Coeymans. Her last foreign port prior to Coeymans was in Egypt, and she may have brought road salt with her or loaded…
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Army excursion
The US Army logistics vessel CW3 Harold C. Clinger passed Spuyten Duyvil heading south Friday afternoon. The 273-foot long RoRo had come up the North River from Norfolk earlier in the day, traveling up the Hudson to Bear Mountain Bridge before turning around and heading back to sea and Virginia. Clinger is based near Norfolk…
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Leaving so soon?
After a quick turn at the Buckeye Terminal in Albany, MH Future was back on the North River Thursday evening, passing the Spuyten Duyvil rail bridge and heading for sea less than sixty hours after she passed in the other direction Tuesday morning. She was heading for Halifax and looked to be drawing a bit…
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Cement from three places
SSI Magnificent, a 580-foot Marshall Islands-flagged bulk ship, came up the North River Wednesday carrying a cargo of cement from Turkey and heading for Catskill, NY after first partially discharging at terminals in Providence and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Cement, the dry primary ingredient in concrete which is typically mixed closer to where it will…
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Tuesday Tanker
MH Future, a small 20,000 deadweight ton Marshall Islands-flagged tanker, came up the North River early Tuesday heading for the Buckeye Terminal in Albany. Future was arriving from a terminal on the St. Lawrence between Montreal and Quebec City and had been at a terminal near Gibraltar prior to that. She may be bringing a…
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Business trip
Donjon Marine’s low-slung J. Arnold Witte came up the North River on a hazy Wednesday morning last week, passing Edgewater and signaling an AIS destination of Erie, PA. This is not a common destination for commercial vessels heading up the Hudson, but J. Arnold was built at Donjon’s affiliated shipyard there in 2021 and travelled…
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Summer travel
Coast Guard small harbor tug Bollard, a 65-foot ice breaking cutter based in New Haven, was docked at Coast Guard Station Montauk over the weekend. Bollard is similar to, though a few years younger than, Bayonne-based cutters Line and Hawser and Saugerties-based Wire, all three of which we see on the North River periodically, but…
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Picking up
Miss Ila, a 1962-vintage 2,400 HP tug belonging to Sterling Equipment Company of Quincy, Mass and Staten Island and not seen before by me, came up the North River on July 30 with a deck barge. Photos of her return voyage taken the next day by Hudson River photographer Glenn Raymo suggest she picked up…
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Another pilot visit
Sandy Hook pilot boat Yankee came up the North River on the final day of July. The boat normally delivers and retrieves pilots beyond the Narrows from ships arriving and departing the harbor and doesn’t come up the river but on this day Yankee was heading for the North River Shipyard in Nyack where she…
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Fireboat salute
The North River fireboat, Marine One’s Three Forty Three, headed for the lower end of the Upper Bay last week for a hose salute, perhaps for an arriving ship coming through the Narrows. Three Forty Three and her sister ship Staten Island-based Firefighter II are among the largest and most advanced fireboats in the world.…
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