Tag: USCG
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Another black hull
The morning after the Coast Guard’s Penobscot Bay passed up the North River heading for ice breaking duty upriver, another black-hulled cutter came through. The buoy tender Katherine Walker, Keeper of the Harbor, headed north, perhaps to join ice breaking operations or to restore navigational marks knocked off station by ice flows, or both (or…
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Ready to break the ice
Ice has not reached the North River in New York City yet this year, but further north on the Hudson some icebreaking operations have already begun. On Monday, Penobscot Bay, one of two 140–foot ice breakers based in Bayonne was heading upriver, still wearing her Christmas wreath below the wheelhouse and holly strung along the…
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Ready to the break the ice
It’s still a bit early in the season for serious ice, but one of the Coast Guard’s two big Bayonne-based icebreakers, the Sturgeon Bay, was heading north on the North River on Thursday. Sturgeon Bay continued upriver to Kingston where she arrived by sundown. As usual, the 37-year old vessel was putting out a lot…
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A visitor from Sandy Hook
The Sandy Hook patrol boat, US Coast Guard Cutter Bonito, was visiting the North River this week. After traveling as far as Tappan Zee Thursday, the cutter spent a very cold moonlit night at the Coast Guard mooring off Edgewater and then did some maneuvering on the river off of Weehawken Friday morning before returning…
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Just visiting
The Ruth M. Reinauer/RTC 102 ATB, a 4,000 HP tug paired with a 413-foot barge, came up the North River on Tuesday from the Upper Bay and dropped anchor off Guttenberg. While there, FDNY Marine 1’s small boat and a Coast Guard 45-foot response boat passed by heading to check something out upriver and then…
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Patrol boats on patrol
Coast Guard 87-foot cutter Bonito, the Sandy Hook patrol boat, came up the North River on Tuesday and travelled as far as the Tappan Zee before circling back and staying overnight on the Coast Guard mooring south of the GW Bridge. Bonito left the next day and headed for Manhasset Bay on Long Island Sound,…
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Local Patrol
Numerous Coast Guard and NYPD vessels were enforcing a full closure of the East River as world leaders gathered Tuesday at the UN, including local response boats, some of Bayonne’s black-hulled cutters, and the 154-foot fast response cutter William Chadwick down from Boston. Things were quieter on the North River, but the Sandy Hook patrol…
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A helping hand from security forces
Security gets tight in New York City ahead of UN Week in September. While most of the action is on the East Side and on the East River, the North River also gets its share of attention. On Friday afternoon, a pair of Coast Guard grey hulled RHIB type boats and 33-foot grey Coast Guard…
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Salute
The 9/11 memorial events were underway downtown as Coast Guard icebreaker Penobscot Bay came up the North River as far as Pier 99 with her fire monitors running, passing the Lincoln Tunnel vents and a Donjon Marine crew working on seasonal dredging at the cruise terminal. In addition to providing a visual salute, Cutter 107…
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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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Have that removed
Coast Guard Cutter Katherine Walker, the Keeper of NY Harbor, came down the North River Thursday, returning to her Bayonne base with Hudson River lighted buoys 3, 11, and 13 on deck. A Coast Guard notice says the three buoys, one of which normally marks the west side of the main channel off Riverdale and…
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The fleet is back, but no flat top
The Fleet Week parade of ships was a somewhat more subdued affair this year relative to the recent past, perhaps a reflection of a navy that has been very busy offshore. There was no flattop LHD this year, but we did get Amphibious Transport Dock USS New York and Landing Ship Dock USS Oak Hill.…
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Helicopter Crash
A helicopter has crashed on the North River this afternoon, with the aircraft falling into the water near the Jersey City shoreline by the Holland Tunnel vents. The Coast Guard confirmed that all occupants were killed, including one pilot and five passengers. The AP reports the FDNY said the call came in at 3:17 p.m.…
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Unusual tow
Stasinos tug John Joseph had an interesting tow as they visited the mouth of the North River Wednesday. They were bringing the 87-foot Coast Guard cutter Finback down to Baltimore from points north and made a loop as far up as Pier 25 after coming down the Sound, through the Gate, and around the Battery…
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Cabinet visitor
Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma, a 270-foot Newport-based medium security cutter, came in to North River Pier 88 on Wednesday morning, apparently to host an event with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. A 45-foot response boat came up from Station New York on Staten Island to provide security as the motorcade pulled up on the pier.
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Returning to the front
Coast Guard Cutter Hawser was heading back to ice breaking operations up north after some time at her Bayonne base. Both Hawser and the other 65-foot harbor tug based in Bayonne have been busy keeping the channel and terminal piers clear of ice for barges this winter, along with the larger 140-foot ice breakers. Albany…
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A visit from the Cutter Oak
Two days after our local coastal buoy tender Katherine Walker travelled north of the GWB to attend to some errant buoys, the much larger 225-foot seagoing tender Oak passed through heading upriver. Oak is based in Newport RI and is the “Maine Responder,” spending most of her time along the rocky shores of that state.…
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Keeper of the Harbor
Katherine Walker, the Keeper of New York Harbor, was heading north up the North River on Wednesday afternoon. A lot of buoys have been knocked off station by the recent ice flows and Katherine probably had her work cut out for her. For some reason she does not seem to be running AIS so it…
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Ready for winter weather
Coast Guard icebreaking tug Penobscot Bay headed up the North River Saturday, making prodigious amounts of smoke as usual. The cutter was heading upriver ahead of winter weather coming in this week and, after stopping for some time in Haverstraw Bay, was continuing north under the Newburgh Beacon Bridge by Monday morning.
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