Tag: tugs
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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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Substitute
Norfolk Tug’s George Holland was bringing empty Buchanan Marine stone hoppers up the North River and passing Weehawken’s Port Imperial on Sunday morning. We more often see Buchanan’s own Buchanan12 on this route, but that tug was further north bringing a barge to a shipyard in Kingston on Sunday, as captured by Glenn Raymo’s feed.…
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Pushing paper
Don Jon tug Paul Andrew was taking the recycling out on Thursday, maneuvering a DSNY waste paper scow into the channel at North River Pier 99 amid still-heavy winds. Waste paper collected in Manhattan is brought from here to a paper mill on the Arthur Kill shore of Staten Island where it is made into…
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Bronx bound
Sound Marine of Nyack’s 680 HP tug Matthew G brought a hopper barge loaded with aggregate down from the quarry dock in Hudson NY. They were heading for Hunts Point in the Bronx and the location of the new Con Agg terminal being built at that site, making this one of the first or perhaps…
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Back to Yonkers
The Dann Marine tug East Coast headed up the North River running light, heading back to the Yonkers sugar refinery to rejoin a barge left there as the tug visited Bayonne, probably to refuel. The Yonkers plant is scheduled to close by the end of this year but seems to still be receiving regular deliveries…
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Stopping back in
Dann Marine’s Calusa Coast is anchored on the North River off Edgewater with covered hopper barge DMT 9000 this week. She is usually based in Baltimore I believe, and may have ducked in on the way back from a run to Boston, similar to the last time we saw her anchored on the river in…
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Variety pack
The Carver Companies towboat Erin Elizabeth seemed to have a little bit of everything as she arrived on the North River heading for the harbor on Sunday morning, with scrap, stone, sand, and a spud barge all visible in addition to whatever was in the high-sided hopper barge. Erin was passing the historic Alpine radio…
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Two hundred years of canal
The Seneca Chief, a replica of the first barge to travel on the Erie Canal from Buffalo to New York Harbor 200 years ago, arrived on the North River at the end here symbolic journey Saturday commerorating the canal’s bicentennial anniversary. She was in tow with the CL Churchill, a 33-foot 1964 vintage tugboat owned…
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