Tied up just downstream of the Broadway Bridge today, the reefer Naxos, of which almost nothing can be said.

Honestly, this is the most boring ship in the world. It was once involved in some kind of freight insurance claim. And that's it. Insurance.

Z-z-z-z-z...

So, I leave the ship's nonexistent history behind and broaden my search.

Veggies: ( Read more... )

Tied up at the grain elevator by the Steel Bridge this week, a bulk carrier blandly named the Steven C.

I get nowhere with the Steven C. It is so bland that it is agented in Gibraltar by the Bland Company. No, really ( Read more... )

The Lihai, a bulk carrier of Liberian registry, has been tied up at the Steel Bridge grain elevator the last couple of days. It's a big hulking ugly thing, neglected by its ship mom and ship dad. A cave troll of a ship ( Read more... )

The not-too-rusty Sea Epoch is at the Steel Bridge grain elevator today. It's a bulk freighter of Panamanian registry, built in 1998. If you want to use the Sea Epoch to transport your stuff, it'll set you back $25,000 a day ( Read more... )

Most days, I ride to work on a bus that crosses the river next to a grain elevator. The ship tied up there today was the Pistis.

Because there is a Gnostic Christian text on the Holy Spirit called the Pistis Sophia, the word pistis, which means "faith" in Greek, turns up frequently in connection with the word sophia, meaning "wisdom ( Read more... )