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USED Dredge Iota

Self Propelled Side-wheel Pipe Line Dredge:
  • Built in 1900-01 as the Dredge Iota for the US Army Corps of Engineers at Rippley Hardware Company, Grafton, IL.
  • Launched in 1901
  • Delivered and commissioned USED Dredge Iota in 1901
  • Assigned to the Mississippi River Commission Dredging projects
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 871 t.
    Length 192'
    Beam 144'
    Hull Depth 7'
    Draft 4'
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Pumping Engines
    two two horizontal tandem pumping engines, 800ihp
    two 32" pipelines
    Propulsion
    steam
    two side-wheels
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    Iota
    302615802    		 59k USED Dredge Iota on the builders ways at Rippley Hardware Company, Grafton, IL.
    University of Wisconsin-Madison Digital Library    		 John Spivey
    Iota
    302615803    		 93k USED Dredge Iota on the builders ways at Rippley Hardware Company, Grafton, IL.
    Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library    		 John Spivey
    Iota
    302615801    		 115k US Army Corps of Engineers Dredge USED Iota moored, date and location unknown.
    Photo from University of Wisconsin digital library    		 John Spivey
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