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USED Dredge A. Mackenzie


Seagoing Hopper Dredge:
  • Laid down, 9 March 1923 at Sun Shipbuilding Chester, PA.
  • Launched, 24 November 1923
  • Delivered and placed in service as USED Dredge A. Mackenzie, 28 March 1924
  • Final Disposition, sunk, 24 April 1974, in the Houston – Galveston Ship Channel by collision with Norwegian tanker Bow Elm
    Specifications:
    Displacement 3,015 T., 1,716 DWT
    Length 268'0"
    Beam 46'0"
    Draft 23'0"
    Dredge Pump one 26" 900hp
    Hopper Volume 1250 m³
    Speed unknown
    Range unknown
    Complement
    Fuel Capacity unknown
    Propulsion
    two Diesel-electric engines, 2400shp
    twin propellers

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    A. Mackenzie.
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    30k
    Namesake
    Alexander Mackenzie (May 25, 1844 – February 23, 1921) an American engineer. Graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1864. Commissioned in the United States Army Corps of Engineers, he served with the Union Army in Arkansas in 1864-65. Mackenzie spent six years commanding a company of engineer troops at Willets Point, New York, that experimented in the use of torpedoes (a.k.a. mines) in coastal defense. In 1879 he began a 16-year stint as Rock Island District Engineer. He built 100 miles of wing dams on the upper Mississippi River and produced a 40-foot channel between St. Paul and the mouth of the Missouri River. Called to Washington in 1895, he became Assistant to the Chief of Engineers in charge of all matters relating to river and harbor improvements. He was a member of the general staff Corps and War College Board when appointed Chief of Engineers on January 23, 1904. In that capacity Mackenzie reported on the federal statutes relating to water power for the Inland Waterways Commission. Mackenzie retired May 25, 1908, as a major general, he was recalled to active duty in 1917 at age 73 as Northwest Division Engineer serving again in Rock Island, Illinois. General Mackenzie died of a stroke on February 23, 1921 in Washington, D.C. (Wikipedia)
    Portrait of Gen. Alexander Mackenzie
    Digital ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b34320 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b34320
    Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-87880 (b&w film copy neg.)
    Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
    Tommy Trampp
    A. Mackenzie.
    30260101
    291k USED Dredge A. Mackenzie going south under the Oakland San Francisco Bay Bridge, 14 November 1949. A. Mackenzie was returning to San Francisco Bay after spending two months dredging the bar which lies seven miles outside the Golden Gate.
    Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum. "Vallejo Times-Herald", 14 November 1949
    Darryl Baker
    A. Mackenzie.
    30260102
    73k Dredge A. Mackenzie dredging a channel, circa 1952, location unknown. US Army Corps of Engineers
    A. Mackenzie.
    30260104
    308k USED Dredge A. Mackenzie in the floating drydock at Levingston Ship, Orange, TX., date unknown.
    University of North Texas Heritage House Museum collection. Used for educational and non-commercial purpose.
    John Chiquoine
    A. Mackenzie.
    30260105
    247k

    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    Naval Sea Systems Command "A Mackenzie Salvops - Ship's History 1.1.2"
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