Just recently I met one of the engineers on that boat, a person with epic stories about the sixth boro.Ī warm day in February, I caught JRT Moran assisting QM2 into her Red Hook berth. One windy day last January I caught a Pilot No 1–the old New York–doing drills under the VZ Bridge. The actual calendars are still available if you’ve not ordered one find the order info here. A photo-driven blog makes that simultaneously easy and hard easy because there’s a photographic record and not easy because there’s such an extensive photographic record to sift though.Ī word about this set of photos: these are some “seconds” that did not make the final cut for my 2023 tugster calendar. I’m back and just in time for the last day of the year, which –as explained in previous years- in my Dutch tradition is a reflection day, a time to if not assess then at least recall some of the sights of the past 12 months. If you’ve got time and inclination and an interest in the comments of a decade ago, click in the links below for that journey back in time to 6 b 5 d aka sixth boro fifth dimension posts. Here in this fog, they look every bit to be a fading past.Īll photos, thanks to Seth Tane. Kehoe tugs have appeared here on this blog a few years ago. What a different skyline!! The Esso tanker’s been scrapped two decades already. Will this former tanker, former crane ship be fodder for underwater archeologists of the 22nd century? Might these two tugs be what’s more commonly known to me as Christine M. I now believe that lightship is the former LV-84.īut there are details here too, like these. maybe 1985 or 1986? It seems she’s still active. The images have value in a macro sense, not the small details but rather the extent of change in the past almost 50 years. On this date in May 2013, I was near Portland OR scanning slides, images Seth Tane had taken decades earlier.
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