MOPS 2021 Photo Contest Submissions

Thank you for participating in the MOPS 2021 Photo Contest! We thoroughly enjoyed seeing all of your photos and we hope you’ll keep capturing amazing and unique moments at sea to share in our 2022 MOPS Photo Contest.

From all of us at MOPS, smooth sailing in 2021!

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McAllister tugs backing a ultra large container ship out of Port Elizabeth Channel headed for sea.

Sunset over Lower 12 Mile Anchorage, Mississippi River and New Orleans.

The Tug Christie with the Derrick Barge Beaver.

Navy ship passing our barge “Columbia Newark” of 10,750 tons of limestone in Puget Sound.

M/V Timgad upbound Lake Huron on a calm summer evening.

The mighty Daniel K. Inouye departing Honolulu.

Taken by Tug Captain Colby Costeira, one of our Boston employees taken in the Boston Harbor.

Statue of Liberty through Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges...westbound east river...Tuglife.

Ammonia ATB and cruise ships GNO bridges New Orleans.

ATB outbound Arthur Kill.

Dive ship at anchor.

Dive ship Bolivar Roads Anchorage.

Inbound tanker and tugs Kill Van Kull.

Ships at anchor Bolivar Roads fog.

Tug Lucia sunrise Gulf of Mexico.

Janet Mc Allister underway making way.

The East River at Night.

Tug Justice and a Swell at the East End.

ITB Defiance/Ashtabula loading at LS&I ore dock, Marquette, MI.

The ITB Defiance/Ashtabula downbound on the Detroit River on a calm November morning.

Final Journey - A group of push tugs leaving Houston

Containership and tow inbound Houston Ship Channel.

Tugboats in Houston tied up waiting Hurricane Laura.

Containership docking in Houston, Texas.

Grain ships waiting their turn in Commencement Bay, Washington.

Wedell Foss heading to the next job in Tacoma, Washington.

Following a car ship sailing south from Port Newark channel in Newark Bay headed for sea.

Capt Greg Turner piloting in the tanker Bro Alma into the Port of Palm Beach while Captain Matthew Rigby heads out in the pilot boat for the Tropic Jewel.

Captain Greg Turner, Senior Palm Beach Harbor Pilot navigating the molasses tanker “Bro Alma” inbound to the Port of Palm Beach at sunrise last month.

Grand Celebration on her final voyage outbound from the Port of Palm Beach before being laid-up for the pandemic.

Inbound asphalt ATB.

Morning arrival to Western Scotland.

Ships crane to start cargo operations in Scotland.

Cape May-Lewes ferry New Jersey approaching Cape May.

Inbound on the Tropic Night with the Pilot Captain Rigby, chief mate and captain in the wheelhouse.

NY Harbor empty due to Covid from the Circle Line Queens.

The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great gray Bridge with a K-Sea tug and barge.

Pilot boat tug on the approach.

Tugboat Emily Ann in the North River tugboat race.

Weeks tug and Barge with the Space Shuttle Enterprise.

Norwegian Escape Leaving NYC in the fog.

Deckhand tosses a sternline onto a bollard from our tug in Philadelphia.

ATB Curtis Reinauer alongside a pier at Detyen's Shipyard in North Charleston, SC.

Tug Coral Coast, southbound, passing the US Army service academy at West Point.

ATB Curtis Reinauer while northbound in the Upper Bay of New York Harbor.

ATB Curtis Reinauer pushing the barge RTC-81 while southbound off Frying Pan Shoal, off North Carolina.

Reflections of the Martin Luther King Bridge in the Maumee River.

Austin Reinauer and passenger ship in fog NY Harbor.

Bayonne, NJ sunset.

Christian Reinauer passing Hudson Light, Hudson River.

Great Beds Light, Raritan Bay.

Heat and power.

Liberty through mast.

Nicole and RTC 135 Passing through Chelsea St. Bridge, Boston.

Nicole Leigh Reinauer with RTC 135 East Bound in C and D Canal.

RTC 108 Moving in Drydock at Senesco Shipyard, Kingston R.I.

RTC 108 passing Robins Reef Light, NY Harbor.

Boston Lighthouse in the sunrise.

Cape Henry with fire boat display in NY Harbor.

Hudson Lighthouse in the mist, Hudson River.

Hudson Lighthouse in the morning mist.

Nicole Leigh Reinauer with RTC 135 east bound in East River.

Nicole Leigh Reinauer and RTC 135 on anchor waiting orders.

Tug Captain D. passing Lady Liberty.

Tanker Iver Bright downbound Detroit River during sun rise to the east.

Tug Lincoln Sea and assist tug at Linden, NJ.

"Ship on Fire" - Hoegh ship on fire at Blount Island Terminal. Team Mc Allister on seen assisting. She burnt for 9 days.

"Moving barges on the St. Johns" - Tug Captain Marvin Lane Jr towing alongside.

Pilot Boat J.W. COOPER rests alongside the U.S. Flag tug NEW YORK for a pilot change at Port Colborne, Ontario on October 25, 2020.

"Sunset El Faro Memorial" - Janet Mc Allister waiting for an inbound ship assist. Picture taken from El Faro Park on the fifth anniversary of the loss at sea.