Two New Cranes for SCPA

March 2, 2018March 2, 2018Elizabeth Hills

Two new Neo-Panamax ship-to-shore cranes for the South Carolina Ports Authority were delivered March 1 on the heavy lift vessel ZhenHua. Pilot 14 and two apprentice pilots moved the vessel from Columbus Street Terminal, under the Ravenel bridge, and on to Wando Welch Terminal. Assisted by Moran Towing.

All photos © Elizabeth Hills

: View from the Pilot office

: Zhen Hua approaching bridge

: After clearing the bridge

: Moran Tug ‘Elizabeth Turecamo’

: Pilot 14 and two apprentice pilots

: diesembarking the Zhen Hua

Cosco Development arrival – May 13, 2017

May 17, 2017June 15, 2017Elizabeth Hills

On May 13, the largest container ship to visit the East Coast stopped at Wando Welch terminal after previous stops in Norfolk, VA and Savannah, GA. The 13,092 twenty-foot equivalent (TEU) COSCO Development was piloted in by our R. Weil on the 13th and out by J. Lockwood on the 14th. The SC Ports Authority was expected to move approximately 3,300 containers on and off the Development, setting a new record for crane moves handled by the Port. Click through the gallery below (photos by Elizabeth Hills) and visit photographer David Ray’s gallery here.

Read more about the arrival of the Development in Charleston here.

: The Development Approaching Charleston

: View from Pilot Boat Fort Ripley

: Moran Towing docking pilot embarking vessel

: Docking Pilot Climbing the Jacob’s Ladder

: Development inbound

: Charleston Pilots Executive Director John Cameron, and pilots C. Walters and J. Dukes

: Jacob’s ladder

: View from the Fort Ripley

: Moran Towing approaching the Development

: Moran Towing

: Moran Towing

: clearing the Cooper River Bridge

: View of Development from Fort Ripley

A Pilot’s View

April 13, 2017June 15, 2017Elizabeth Hills

A Pilot's view

photo by JDukes

Photo History of Charleston Pilots

June 18, 2014John Cameron

: Cotton waiting to be loaded at Adgers Wharf, Late 1800’s.

: A view from High Battery of the extensive visiting sailing vessels, late 1800’s.

: Pilot schooner working the bar, 1920.

: Artistic rendering of pilot schooner HENRY P. WILLIAMS

: Pilots awaiting incoming vessels at the Charleston Pilot Office in 1915.

: Captain J. Jervey Lockwood aboard the original CHARLESTON PILOT, 1960

: Association President F. Sherrill Poulnot (left) aboard the original CHARLESTON PILOT in June of 1960.

: Nuclear ballistic submarine being piloted into Charleston, 1964.

: Wheelhouse of the original CHARLESTON PILOT, 1960’s.

: View of the pilot boat fleet at Adger’s Wharf, 1970.

: Aerial view of Charleston peninsula, with harbor pilot dock seen in bottom left. 1970’s.

: Charleston pilot boat SIS II, the first aluminum shuttle boat. Built in 1972 in Louisiana.

: Inbound tanker coming into Charleston Harbor, 1972.

: CHARLESTON PILOT II outbound with the Sullivan’s Island light in the background. 1979.

: An LNG sphere, manufactured at General Dynamics up the Cooper River, passes under the Grace bridges en route to Connecticut in 1980.

: Looking south at a banana ship at anchor from the old pilot dock at Adger’s Wharf.

: A pilot’s view from container ship as headed into the old Grace Memorial Bridge over the Cooper River.

: A view of the original CHARLESTON PILOT II, steel hulled boat, in 1980.

: Christening of the 55-foot pilot boat CAROLINA by pilot E. Randall Swan, Jr. and Petesy Hollings, wife of Senator Fritz Hollings. 1980.

: Charleston pilot boarding a break-bulk ship.

: Russian Spy Ship offshore of Charleston, which was always present when a nuclear submarine moved. 1981.

: The Pilot’s office in 1985, on the same footprint on Adger’s Wharf as today’s facility.

: A view of the Morris Island Lighthouse from the jetties.

: 1985 Merit Cigarette print advertisement shot on a Charleston pilot boat, with apprentice pilot Patrick Kennedy as deckhand.

: Two Charleston Pilots aboard container ship model at shiphandling school in South Hampton, England, 1990.

: Modern aluminum hulled SIS IV, built by Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilders in Massachusetts.

Fog Bank

September 25, 2013October 31, 2013acbrack

Caption: A Mediterranean Shipping Company vessel emerges from a fog bank offshore of Sullivan’s Island.