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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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Meanwhile, at the dam
Stasinos Marine tug Toula C, was back on the North River this week working at the Gateway Tunnel cofferdam off Pier 66. Toula C was first seen on the North River delivering a barge at the 69th Street Transfer bridge restoration project a few weeks ago and then a week later working on the Pier…
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Survey says!
The Army Corps of Engineers survey vessel Dobrin was on the North River quite a bit in late July. As the screen shot from MarineTraffic shows, they were doing survey work north of the GW Bridge. Dobrin was also spotted retrieving a hazard from the North River off Hudson Yards during that period.
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Moving cement
A lot of cement was moving down the North River last week from the Amrize plant (formerly Lafarge) in the Town of Coeymans near Ravenna, some of it heading for out-of-town terminals. Dann Marine tug Sapphire Coast made two runs at least and we saw Pearl Coast as well. As of Monday morning, Sapphire appears…
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Welcome back
The Greek-flagged cable laying vessel Ariadne is back on the North River for the first time in a while, after I believe spending most of this year working in the North Sea or Baltic. She is returning for the final construction stages of the Champlain Hudson Power Express, a cable which will bring much-needed hydro-generated…
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Back for more?
Thomas Dann came up the North River Friday afternoon, returning from Rhode Island with the wide deck barge CBC Savannah. Thomas was heading for Albany, perhaps to load the barge with more wind turbine parts similar to what this pair brought down river earlier this week.
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Pier Pressure
Stasinos tug Toula C, last seen two weeks ago delivering a barge to the 69th Street Transfer Bridge restoration project, was back on the North River Thursday, maneuvering barges with Patricia Jean at Pier 94. Workers were putting the final touches on the facade of the rebuilt pier which was once part of the ship…
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Heading for harbor
Miriam Moran passed Pier A and Wagner Park and exited the North River Wednesday evening after assisting the Bermuda-bound cruise ship Insignia leaving the dock at Pier 90 at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal. Pier A, built on masonry footings rather than wood pilings, dates back to the 1880s and is the oldest remaining pier on…
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Working Westchester
Waterfronts in Westchester were working Wednesday. A pair of Moran tugs returned to the harbor in the morning after assisting a bulk ship loaded with Spanish gypsum docking at the wallboard plant in Buchanan, NY. In the first photo, Topaz Coast is also visible with a dry bulk barge, holding position off Edgewater and waiting…
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Off station
Sandy Hook Pilots station boat number 2, the New Jersey, made an unusual trip up the North River and continued up as far as Haverstraw Bay on Monday. In summer months, this boat is usually stationed offshore around Ambrose Light as a base for pilots joining arriving ships and leaving departing ships. There is no…
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