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Dutch on the North River
HNLMS Den Helder, the Dutch navy’s brand new replenishment ship, arrived in NYC Friday and stayed through the weekend tied up at the south side of North River Pier 88. Den Helder was commissioned in October and is designed to sustain a task force of six vessels at sea with fuel, water, aviation fuel, ammunition…
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Thanksgiving throwback
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Thanksgiving 2022 saw Centerline tug Adeline Marie with the barge Marc N among the units anchored in the North River. This year, Adeline was tied up along the Arthur Kill for the holiday having just returned from a long trip to deliver a cargo in Savannah. This year, which I am not…
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Just visiting
The Ruth M. Reinauer/RTC 102 ATB, a 4,000 HP tug paired with a 413-foot barge, came up the North River on Tuesday from the Upper Bay and dropped anchor off Guttenberg. While there, FDNY Marine 1’s small boat and a Coast Guard 45-foot response boat passed by heading to check something out upriver and then…
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Paper route
The small 322-foot Dutch-flagged cargo ship Lady Hester came up the North River on Monday, bound for the Port of Albany and making a brisk 11 knots with the flood current. She was arriving from Sweden and likely carrying wood pulp for paper mills up north. We used to see only Royal Wagenborg ships on…
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Import cement, export scrap
SSI Marvelous, a 580-foot bulk ship, was heading for sea after discharging her cargo of cement from Turkey at the import terminal in Cementon, NY. We see Marvelous and her fleet mate SSI Magnificent regularly on this route. On this trip she had called on Providence to partially unload before first coming up the Hudson.…
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At the dam
New York State Marine Highway tug Nathan G, 1977 vintage and 1,200 HP, was working at the Gateway Tunnel cofferdam site off Pier 66 on Thursday. Visible in the background are tank truck trailers on a barge holding cement that will be mixed with river water and mud to reinforce the river bottom at this…
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In from the cold
The Canadian navy offshore patrol ship William Hall arrived on the North River Friday morning from her home base of Halifax, heading for the south side of Pier 88. Hall was met off Hoboken by Ellen McAllister who assisted with docking and may have transferred a pilot. The Hall is one of six vessels in…
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Mobility
An Air Force C5 from the Air Mobility Command in Dover Delaware flew up the North River on Thursday morning at a little more than 2,000 feet above the water. The photo doesn’t really capture how huge the plane looks at low altitude but it is nearly 3 times the size of the C130s we…
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Old with mods
The Stephen Reinauer tug paired with the 347’ RTC 80 tank barge spent some time anchored on the North River over the weekend. The 2900 HP tug was built back in 1970 but was substantially updated by Reinauer about 20 years ago to convert her to an ATB tug. The raised pilot house is new,…
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A different kind of duck
A pair of American black ducks were enjoying the waters of the North River off the West 60s on Friday. I saw a pair around here last winter as well, mixing in with our usual mallards and Canada geese. The male is the one with the yellow beak. These birds apparently breed in the warmer…
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Holding it all together
Cement barges are moving on the North River this week. Tuesday morning saw Dann Marine’s Sapphire Coast with light Transporter 1801 heading back to the Amrize plant near Ravenna, NY to load more cargo after discharging at terminals in New England and also calling at the materials pier in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park. The evening before,…
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Next customer
Angele N, a 625-foot bulk ship, was light and heading for sea as she passed Weehawken Friday afternoon after discharging her cargo of Spanish gypsum at the wallboard plant in Buchanan, NY. As usual, Angele was preceded by a pair of Moran tugs heading back to the harbor after assisting the bulker leaving the pier…
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No more port fees
Fure Viten, a small 18,000 deadweight ton Swedish flag tanker, arrived on the North River Wednesday morning bound for the Buckeye terminal in Albany. The tanker is LNG powered, with tanks evident on the deck, and also able to run on liquified biogas. Fure Viten was constructed in 2021 in a shipyard in China and…
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A well-trained militia…
A 39-foot landing craft type boat belonging to New York State Naval Militia’s Emergency Boat Service came up the North River Wednesday morning on a trip up from Glenwood Landing Marina on Hempstead Bay on the North Shore of Long Island, looped around and returned to the marina where I think it is based. The…
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