Tag: tugs
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Keep on rocking
Norfolk Tug’s George Holland has been making regular trips up the North River with a hopper barge this summer, heading for the quarry in Clinton Point near Poughkeepsie where they collect crushed stone for delivery to distribution points around the metropolitan area and return back down the river. These pictures were taken on Sunday of…
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Keep building
Carver Companies towboat Erin Elizabeth brought hopper barges down the North River in the final days of August, traveling from Coeymans to the harbor. They passed West New York where new construction continues seemingly without end.
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As old as Stonehenge?
Coral Coast, Dann Marine’s 55-year-old 3,000 HP tug, brought a light cement transporter barge up the North River in the final week of August, heading back to the cement plant in Coeymans after discharging at the terminal in Bayonne. The cylindrical 34-story building at the top of the Bergen Hill in the background is the…
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Under new management
The tug Mary Kay came up the North River last week, passing Palisades Hospital in North Bergen, heading for Albany and arriving from Norfolk. The tug still wears Moran maroon colors but with no “M” and, according to tugboatinformation .com this 1975 vintage former Turecamo/Moran tug once known as the Mary M. Coppedge was acquired…
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Holiday weekend
The tug Henry Girls of Henry Marine Service Inc. left the Gateway cofferdam worksite Friday afternoon ahead of the holiday weekend, heading for base on Staten Island. Happy Labor Day to all!
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More weight
Norfolk Tug’s George Holland passed Weehawken with a light hopper barge on the hip last week, heading to Clinton Point to collect a stone cargo. They were approaching the point where the channel is squeezed by the Gateway Tunnel coffer dam, coordinating with the pilot of an outbound cruise ship on the other side. As…
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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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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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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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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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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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