Tag: tugs
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Familiar names
Vane Brothers tug Red Hook, 3,000 HP, came up the North River on Friday with a loaded 50,000 barrel barge heading for the Global Terminal in Albany. Red Hook is New York Harbor based but I rarely see her doing Hudson River work like this, though the name is difficult to look up in my…
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Foliage watch
Marine Highway’s hardworking tug Sarah D was northbound on the North River on Saturday, pushing empty hoppers past Hoboken’s Stevens Institute of Technology. Tree colors have not really turned yet in New York Harbor, despite autumn foliage being well-advanced up north. By Thursday this week, Sarah is back down south distributing stone quarried upstate, currently…
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Here to help
James D Moran, a 6,000 HP tractor tug, came up the North River Sunday afternoon for an assist job at the Manhattan Cruise Terminal, helping to sail the AIDA Diva as she headed for the Bahamas. As of Wednesday afternoon, James is back at Moran’s Staten Island base awaiting her next job.
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Rock and roll
Norfolk Tug’s George Holland was southbound on the North River on Friday morning, passing the Galaxy Towers of Guttenberg NJ. George had a cargo of crushed stone from the Clinton Point quarry loaded aboard the company’s barge Ellie heading for a materials company yard on the Arthur Kill in Perth Amboy. George has been making…
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New York makes, the navy takes
NY State Marine Highway’s Sarah D took a break from her usual stone cargos to move a special tow down the North River on Saturday. Hopper barge 78 held a 100 ton condenser manufactured in western New York State and headed for a naval manufacturing site in Rhode Island, I believe to be installed on…
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Six Pack
Marine Highway’s Sarah D brought a six pack of hopper barges loaded with stone down the North River on Thursday. According to the company’s socials, Sarah picked up about 8,700 tons of stone, the equivalent of 435 loaded semi-trucks, from the Colarusso quarry dock in Hudson, NY a day earlier to bring down to NY…
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When you gotta go
Fresh off Tuesday’s appearance in a supporting role on the NCIS New York season premiere, Henry Marine’s Henry Girls was back at work on the North River on Thursday. Her assignment was perhaps less glamorous than TV work but probably more important as she appeared to be picking up a barge that was swapping out…
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Heading back home
Thursday morning found a tug and livery I have not seen before transiting down the North River. Construction company Mohawk Northeast’s 2,400 HP tug Bridgeport was returning light from the Rondout Creek in Kingston with a bone in her teeth heading back to the company’s base in Groton, CT. Along the way, she passed the…
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Job complete
Maintenance channel dredging operations up in Haverstraw Bay appear to be wrapping up, a few weeks before the October 31 environmental conservation deadline. On Tuesday, Curtin Maritime’s Kimberly C had the derrick barge Avalon on the wire heading out to sea and on to Morehead City, North Carolina. We have seen Kimberly coming through daily…
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Pink October
Dann Marine tugs are moving cement barges on the North River this week, heading to and coming from the cement plant in Ravenna. On Monday afternoon, Sapphire Coast came through with a cement cargo heading for the materials terminal on Gowanus Bay in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The next morning, Coral Coast was northbound with a…
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New salt, old salt
Haugland Group tug Lily Anne and other Haugland tugs have been on the North River this past week ferrying what I believe is road salt lightered off a bulk ship in from Turkey anchored in the Upper Bay to the company’s small port in Tomkins Cove on Haverstraw Bay. Most of the salt we see…
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Moving on up
Haugland Group towboat Emma Rose, 20 years old and 1,700 HP, was northbound on the North River with hopper barges Tuesday, passing Riverside Park and the pre-war apartment buildings of Riverside Drive. Emma was heading for Haugland’s materials port in Tomkins Cove on Haverstraw Bay.
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Moving mud
Corrected: Correcting this post because Curtin Maritime continues to operate Kimberly C and ran the dredge operation for the Army Corps, despite being West Coast based. I had incorrect speculation on ownership in original post. Maintenance dredging continues in Haverstraw Bay and tugs continue to come down the North River with barges on the wire…
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Dredge we must
Maintenance dredging got underway last week in Haverstraw Bay and on Friday Haugland Group’s Everly Mist passed down the North River with a scow on the wire loaded with spoils heading for the dump site off Atlantic Highlands. Meanwhile, Dann Ocean’s Comet came north returning after making the same trip. According to the Army Corps…
