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:
I have mentioned the Orient Explorer (ex Sognefjord ex HMS Kilham ex PCE 833) in several posts on the forum, like here: Back to the stone age? - #4 by ombugge
After several galant attempts to save her she is now at a shipbreaking yard in Malaysia, Here a picture from 01.Sept. 2024:
Today a post from Mathias Eriksson who more or less grew up onboard her as the “Orion II” during the time his father owned her and operated her as a cruise boat in Finland and out of Cyprus (1987-97):
What is known, so far:
Hallstein Ese
Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing designed and built the ship in Chicago in 1943. David Sandved designed the rebuilding of the ship at Haugesund Mek. Verksted in 1949/50.
Anybody has any info for Mathias about her US building yard, or time as HMS Kilham?
“MY «Stella Polaris» was a motor yacht built for the Bergen Steamship Company (BDS). The ship was build number 400 at the Swedish shipyard Götaverken in Gothenburg. She was launched on 11 September 1926 and handed over in February 1927. The ship was 127 meters long (including bowsprit) and had room for 200 passengers.
MY “Stella Polaris” sailed on cruises around the world and became not only the company’s most famous ship, but also one of the most famous cruise ships in the world. During World War II, she was requisitioned by the German occupying forces and used as a lodging ship for German soldiers. In 1951, the ship was sold to the Swedish shipping company Clipper Line, but continued in cruise traffic until 1969 when she was sold to Japan and anchored as a restaurant and hotel ship. In August 2006, the ship sank off Japan under tow to China.” Source: Wikipedia.
Source: Redirecting...
https://skipshistorie.net/Bergen/BRG508BergenskeDS/Tekster/BRG50819270100000%20STELLA%20POLARIS.htm
A real veteran ship:
The Fram is preserved at the Fram Museum in Oslo, where can still be visited:
At the same place is also the Gjøa that was used by Roald Amundsen for the first successful North West Passage transit in 1903-06.
She is now also preserved in a climate controlled enclosure:
Well worth a visit if you find yourself in Oslo with some time on your hand.
PS> There is also an American connection:
