These three little tugboats recently helped a BIG Navy ship with it's steering. The Navy ship seemed to be under it's own power but must have lost it's steering. There was black smoke coming out of the stack.
Hope you enjoy the pictures!
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Sometimes its the channel and the tides.. All big ships use tugs in NY harbor.
ReplyDeletethe hudson is wide but it is becoming, with time, a silted up tidal estuary.. the channels are narrow, and tugs, working every day, know them better than sea captains.
I don't know about other harbors, but its not uncommon for tugs to be incharge, in the harbor, (even when its a navy vessel!)
Hi OfTroy, and thanks for your comment...That's really interesting about the Hudson silting up, and the Port of New York. I will have to look at the shape of New York Harbor.
ReplyDeleteSan Diego has a long somewhat narrow but very deep channel that has a wide easterly turning right past the end of the Coronado Airbase.
We have a long and deep channel cut for craft here, and few of them need tugs out in this part of the channel so that made this unusual.
When we first got there at the point, the ship was sideways in the channel which is really unusual. As it came around (still a long ways away) we then saw that the two tugs ( a third one steamed out to help) were trying to bring the bow around.
I thought you'd like to see our bay, so here's an interactive map. Where we usually see ships steam by is at Shelter Island, just across from the Naval Airbase. Up on this end, a tug usually means some sort of trouble.
http://www.expedia.com/pub/agent.dll/qscr=dspv/htid=5328/crti=1/hotel-location-map
Now I'm going to go look at your bay. I love your comment, too! Something to learn more about. :o)
There's no shame in asking for help, sometimes. Or even just for directions!
ReplyDeleteBut you know those guys, Pogonip!
ReplyDeletelol
ahhhh, I jumped just to see a ship! It's been almost two years since being there. (SD) pictures come out so clear there! glad I read your comment...that was a little unusual for a Navy ship to have four tugs and then what you saw...
ReplyDeleteAh yes, we love to watch the ships come in ,too, PJ, and sometimes the families are lined up on the walkway waving away for all they're worth.
ReplyDeleteThey get to see their guys - or gals - coming down the channel, and then they can travel all the way to the yards to meet them and hug and all that stuff. Did you ever do that? I seems so fun and romantic.
The tugs had a fun day, pushing around the navy. hehe