Two weekends ago, as I was walking between Piers 5 and 6 in
Brooklyn Bridge Park, I saw the refrigerated container ship
Duncan Island, of the
Ecuadorian Line, departing from the nearby
Red Hook container port (despite earlier predictions, it has survived). According to
Shiptracking, a most helpful tool for ship buffs, she was bound for Antwerp.
Yesterday morning I looked out my kitchen window and saw an old friend heading into the Governors Island Channel toward the East River and her customary dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. I quickly changed from PJs to exercise clothes and ran out to the
Brooklyn Heights Promenade where I got this photo of
Alice Oldendorff, accompanied by a McAllister tug.
Alice is a particular favorite of Will Van Dorp, publisher of
Tugster: a Waterblog, where he once
posted another photo I took of
Alice heading up the East River. For some reason
Shiptracking gives no information about where she came from; I can only surmise that she's bringing her usual cargo of crushed stone from Canada, likely loaded at Halifax.
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