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Chipping and red-lead required. Working tug boat, Richardson Bay, Sausalito Harbor, Marin County, Northern California, USA
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The Jimmy Smith and the Invader, Two large tug boats beached to be cutup for scrap metal in Port Mellon, British Columbia.
The tug CFV Glendyne meets up with the New Zealand Navy warship HMNZS TeMana prior to escorting her into Esquimalt Harbour.
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Note. Everyone with the surname 'Wilson' is automatically called 'Tug' at sea. I'm not sure what the original Wilson did this to deserve this, but it is widespread in the British service. I expect it applies in the wider English-speaking world. Smile.
In meinen Augen die echten Helden und Könner in allen Häfen dieser Welt !
In my eyes, the real heroes and experts in all ports of the world!
This Tug boat is a real work hoarse and, it is quite literally life blood to the area. We see it bringing barges from the "mainland", loaded with goods for the grocery stores, and hardware stores, just to name a few of the multitude of reasons. We see it taking barges away filled with aggregate sand from the area and off to California, replenishing that disappearing coast. Or, log booms to wood mills that will later become building material for housing projects or perhaps furniture.
Stationary for a moment, a long exposure smooths out the already calm ocean water. Color touches the horizon over the mountains on Vancouver Island and the moon makes an early appearance.
10:30 a.m. -- Seaspan Raider tugboat with Survivor barge in tow, seems ready to unload logs into the bay (thank you Paul for explaining how this works), Ladysmith, B.C.
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One of several Tugs taking part in the Flotilla of Ships Sailing from Hull to the Humber Bridge and Back ..This event was to Commemorate The Queens Platinum Jubilee Celebrations .
These boats ply the Chao Phraya River, usually (as in this case) pulling an enormous flotilla of barges carrying agricultural produce or construction materials mostly. Judging from this one the crews largely live on board
Anyone that knows me, knows my huge passion and love for boats, ships and tugs.
The Ku'ulakai is by far my most favorite tug.
This beautiful old girl is being lovingly refit and moored in the historic, fishing village of Steveston.
Located in Richmond, BC
Canada
KU'ULAKAI Tugboat c. 1944
(Ku'ulakai meaning: Hawaiian Fishing God)
Her history: as per online sources: (Unverified)
Built:1944
Length: 111.9
Gross Tonnage: 301
Used as a Tugboat all along the West Coast of BC
Ku'ulakai is said to be the only intact Mikki tug in Canadian waters.
Builder: Northeast Shipbuilding, Quincy Massachusetts, USA
According to onlines sources, this tug was built as a wooden Mikki US Army Tug - LT465, and used by the U.S. navy during the Second World War to tow damaged ships from the Pacific back for repair.
Online information also reports that later on in life, she was used by drug runners in the South Pacific and that in 1988 was seized by the Canadian Coast Guard for smuggling drugs out of China.
She was originally named: Lloyd B. Gore, decommissioned & sold 1946.
Please note* All information has been taken from online sources and has not been verified to be accurate.
I 💖 Steveston
Definitely one of British Columbia's best kept secrets.
Series: Steveston by Romance
Thank-you so much for all your views, comments and faves
So very much appreciated !!
~Christie (happiest) by the River
Powerhouse tugboat stirring up the Burrard Inlet
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
Thanks for visiting
~Christie~
A trip over to Nottingham to see family today and, at around £15 return, I let the train take the strain.
Having debunked in the city-centre for the meet up, my return journey was timed for the 2.16pm to Crewe - ample time I thought to bag a shot of the Kingsbury - Humber Refinery tankers due to arrive for a crew change around 1.45pm.
However, a progress check on FreightLocate revealed it was running 21 minutes late at Stenson Junction and, knowing it had the congested Trent Junction to negotiate, I figured it might run even later. A quick decision therefore saw me board an earlier train to my old home station of Beeston which would give me an additional 12 minutes of leeway.
The above is the result, given a slightly artistic tweak to try emphasise the rawness of the day. It's been a while since I visited and I didn't expect to see a healthy (and photogenic) growth of vegetation on the awning!
As it happened, the extra time I gained from the move wasn't needed - the train arrived in Nottingham just 10 minutes down on schedule! For the record then, DB Tug 60062 passes Beeston with the 11.04am Kingsbury - Humber Oil refinery discharged tankers (6E54).
Also for the record, the industrial buildings at left occupy what used to be the Plessey Telecomnmunications site - a sizeable manufacturing complex producing telephone exchanges. As digital technology developed the complex eventually closed and the site was all but flattened in recent years, to be replaced, at least partially, by new companies and buildings - including the one in the frame. At one time my desk would have been located on the ground floor roughly in the middle of the building. That was in the mid-1970s - which seems a long time ago now.
1.45pm, 1st March 2022
These two bolts only have one nut between them, thus causing this tussle and fight! They are desperately trying to gain ownership it! A rubber washer is acting as referee in the tug.
How much the rail-freight scene has changed this last 12 months with coal now all but disappeared, and a number of photogenic DB Schenker Tug diagrams transferred to Freightliner and their inevitable Shed traction.
One such working is the 11.10 Pendleton - Tunstead (6H43), seen here in the capable hands of DB Schenker's Tug 60017 as it approaches Guide Bridge.
Plenty has changed at Guide Bridge in the 35 years since the much loved 1500v DC Woodhead electrics were the prime traction here, in part due to the busy stabling / sign-on point which was just out of shot behind me. Visible signs of the 1500v heritage remain however, including the original OHLE gantries which now support the 25kv AC wires used by the Manchester - Glossop - Hadfield commuter trains.
An out-take from a visit last year.
5th October 2015
A close up of the steam tug that you can see in yesterday's picture. This is what Wikipedia has to say about her:
Lyttelton, built in 1907 as Canterbury is a historic steam tug in Lyttelton, New Zealand. She was ordered by the Lyttelton Harbour Board in 1906 as a replacement for the earlier iron paddle tug Lyttelton, built in 1878.
Built by the Ferguson Brothers firm in Port Glasgow, Scotland, she was able to reach a maximum speed of 12.414 knots (22.991 km/h; 14.286 mph) during her sea trials. She left Port Glasgow on 2 July 1907 with a crew of 15 for a 69-day voyage through the Suez Canal to reach New Zealand, arriving on 10 September. After a brief period of painting and preparation for service, on 18 September she was handed over to the harbour board, serving not just as the harbor's tug but also as its pilot boat and as a fireboat. She was berthed at No.2 wharf, where she has been based most of her life. In August 1911, with the soon to be arrival of the suction dredge Canterbury, the Lyttelton Harbour Board approved for the change of the vessel's name to her current Lyttelton, with the change being formalized in October 1911.
In 1913, she drew crowds bringing in the battlecruiser HMS New Zealand into harbour; and in 1920 assisting the battlecruiser HMS Renown, carrying Edward, Prince of Wales, into the harbour.
In 1939, the tug was relegated to secondary roles following the arrival of the larger tug Lyttelton II. On 29 December 1940 the ferry Rangatira ran aground at in dense fog. Shortly after her grounding, Lyttelton and the Union Company cargo vessel Waimarino, neither of which had radar, located Rangatira aground in Pigeon Bay. After Waimarino unloaded the 750 passengers of Rangatira, Lyttelton along with the assistance of another Union Company vessel, Karitane, helped the ferry float free at high tide.
Following the beginning of World War II, in 1942 the tug was requisitioned for service by the Royal New Zealand Navy, being armed with Bren guns and depth charges, and given the prefix HMNZS Lyttelton of a commissioned warship. By 1944, she returned to port service as Lyttelton.
In 1971, following the introduction of the new tug Canterbury, it was decided to retire Lyttelton. Following this, she was leased for the sum of $2 a year to the "Tug Lyttelton Preservation Society", being preserved as a museum ship. In 1989 the tug was gifted to the society by the Lyttelton Harbour Board. She is still in operation, being maintained and operated by the society.
Lyttelton is one of three operating steam-powered ships in New Zealand, alongside the tug William C Daldy in Auckland and TSS Earnslaw on Lake Wakatipu.