An unknown steam tug said to be at Rossville, Staten Island
Source: Tugs and work boats of the world
Anybody have any info?
Maybe this is the same tug a few years later:
Kind of looks like Theodore Tugboat from the Canadian children’s television series. I wondered where he ended up after the show ended. Sad…very sad.
Canada’s iconic boat, Theodore Tugboat, has moved from Halifax to Ontario:
More old ferries now operating in the Caribbean:
Admiral Bay 1:
Seen here on a green fjord in Norway (caused by snow and ice melting) under her original name Skagastøl:
Admiral Bay 2:
Seen here as “Haram”:
Admiral Bay 3:
Seen here as Førdefjord:
This is a ship that has changed owners 10 times (name 9 times):
https://www.sjohistorie.no/no/skip/840783
Seen here as the original MV Coaster Conny (1978):
PS> She will be arriving here in Ålesund on Tuesday: AGOT, Refrigerated Cargo Ship - Details and current position - IMO 7700594 - VesselFinder
Speaks well of Norwegian shipbuilding, that all these vessels are still impeccably doing their job in various climatic and maintenance environments.
Then, there were these “stationary target ships”, that was in one case torpedoed, and at least one other was rammed and sank by a freighter. Even washed up on the beach during a hurricane, dragging a 5500 pound anchor.
Car and passenger ferry M/S Valldal, blt. 1943 as YMS.167:
7.4.1975: Missing 44 nm NE Fraserburgh, on voyage from Beryl oilfield-Dundee.
Crew of 7 and 11 Oilfield workers lossed:
No lightship was torpedoed. The LV-71 “Diamond Shoals” was sunk by gunfire from a U-boat in 1918.
Thanks for the update. I knew it was a sub and when I think sub I think torpedo. But from reading WW 1 history I remember at times the sub would allow the ships crew and or passengers a chance to abandon ship before shelling the ship.
Once upon a time there were ships like this:
PS> She was a regular on the Great Lakes:
Video
SS John W. Brown, launched September 7th, 1942.
One of only two remaining, operational Liberty Ships (out of 2710 built).
Designed and intended for a single one-way trip; this one made 13 wartime round trips, was involved in the D-Day invasion and Operation Dragoon, was a vocational maritime high school for the state of New York until 1986. She is still fully operational, maintains a USCG COI, and acts as a museum ship, training ship for a number of organizations, and is a USCG authorized training school (Fireman/Watertender training program).
Video taken a week and a half ago during her return trip from the shipyard. Picture taken from the bridge wing of an inbound ship, NOT a drone. She turns 82 in a few days.
I was unaware of this amazing logistics feat (from the Wikipedia link):
Graf von Goetzen was built in 1913 in Germany. […] After preliminary assembly Goetzen was taken apart and shipped in 5000 boxes loaded on three cargo vessels to Dar es Salaam in German East Africa (modern day Burundi, Rwanda and Tanganyika (the mainland part of present Tanzania)). From there the trains of the Mittellandbahn [Central Line] carried the boxes to Kigoma. She was rebuilt there in 1914 and launched on 5 February 1915.
Followed by this type:
