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USAF Col. Basil O. Lenoir
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 USAT Col. Basil O. Lenoir (1944 - unknown)

Self-propelled Wooden-hulled Miscellaneous Auxiliary Service Craft:
  • Laid down in 1944 at Seattle Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Corp., Seattle, WA. for the US Army Signal Corps as BSP-2099 a wooden-hulled self-propelled barge cable layer
  • launched, in 1944
  • Commissioned USAT Col. Basil O. Lenoir in August 1944
  • Assigned to maintain Cables of Alaskan Communication System
  • Taken over by the US Air Force, date unknown
  • Sold to RCA in 1973
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 602 t.
    Length 154'
    Beam 36'
    Draft 6'
    Speed 10 kts.
    Complement
    Officers, unknown
    Enlisted, twelve
    Civilian, unknown
    Cruise Radius unknown
    Fuel Capacities unknown
    Propulsion
    three Fairbanks-Morse 6-cylinder 630hp Diesel engines
    three shafts
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    Col. Basil O. Lenoir 33k USAF Col. Basil O. Lenoir under way, date and location unknown History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications
    Col. Basil O. Lenoir
    30040602    		 63k USAF Col. Basil O. Lenoir laying cable ashore in Seymour Canal, Alaska, providing phone service to a village, date unknown.
    Photo from History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications    		 Tommy Trampp
    Col. Basil O. Lenoir
    30040603    		 36k USAF Col. Basil O. Lenoir in the Wrangell Narrows outside of Petersburg, Alaska after laying the first telephone cable into Wrangell, date unknown.
    Photo from History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications    		 Tommy Trampp
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