Tag: tugs
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On the Marine Highway
New York State Marine Highway Transportation’s 1978 vintage, 2,000 HP tug Maddie K came down the North River Thursday with several loaded stone hoppers. Maddie was heading for the Bay Ridge Flats, and later travelled up the East River and on to the materials dock just over the Bronx line in Mount Vernon on the…
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Rhode Island bound
Watching Thomas Dann pass down the North River early Saturday bound for Providence I had no idea how much that city and its residents would be on my mind a few hours later. Thomas has been making regular runs for the past few months with the barge CBC Savannah, ferrying parts for an offshore wind…
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Cement Coaster Part 2
Sapphire Coast was northbound on the North River on Tuesday afternoon, heading for Ravenna with a light cement barge. While Dann Marine’s Coral Coast and Treasure Coast have been delivering cement from the Ravenna plant to terminals around New York Harbor this week, as seen in yesterday’s photo of Coral, the more powerful Sapphire with…
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Cement coaster
Coral Coast came up the North River ahead of the weekend with a light cement transporter barge in tow, heading back up to the Amrize cement plant near Ravenna, NY for more of the product after making deliveries at terminals in Bayonne and Queens. A couple of Dann Marine tugs move cement barges regularly down…
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Heading for home
Sound Marine’s 680 HP tug Matthew G came up the North River with a pair of stone hoppers, heading for the Sound Marine base in Nyack this past Sunday. Matthew was coming back from Rhode Island but stopped at Con Agg’s new aggregate facility in Hunts Point on the East River where she may have…
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Back in service
The Jordan Rose/RCM 250 ATB was northbound on the North River with a New York Harbor cargo early Thursday. This is the first time I have seen the unit since a dispute between the owners and management companies knocked the Rose Cay fleet out of action this summer, though Jordan has made at least one…
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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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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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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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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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