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USED Dredge Gillespie

Non-Self Propelled Pipe Line Dredge:

Built in 1915 for the US Army Engineers by Ellicott Machine Co., Baltimore MD.

Delivered in 1915 to the US Army Corps of Engineers

Christened, commissioned and placed in service as dredge USED Gillespie

Retired from Army service in 1946

Final Disposition, fate unknown

Specifications:
Displacement 2,240 t.
Length 150'8"
Beam 37'
Draft 8'10" light, 10'4" loaded
Speed unknown

Accommodations

Officers 16

Crew 37

Complement, One Shift

Officers 4

Crew 13

Machinery

Boilers four Babcock & Wilcox Marine Water Tube, 225 psi

Pumping Engine one Kinner, Uniflow, 6 cyl, 16" x 16", IHP 2,000

Fuel Capacity 43,814 gals diesel oil

Dredging Pump

Diameter of Runner 6'6"

Suction Pump Inside Diameter 23"

Discharge Pipe Inside Diameter 20"

Width of Cut 250' maximum, 100' minimum

Cutter Engine two cyl horizontal 11" x 14", 180 hp

Spuds two 34" x70'

Ladder 67'6"

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
302616301	58k	USED Gillespie dredging at Philadelphia, PA., 20 June 1935. US Army Corps of Engineers Digital Library
302616302	61k	USED Gillespie in WWII wartime colors dredging, date and location unknown.	John Spivey
302616303	78k	USED Gillespie dredging a channel, date and location unknown. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia District, Steve Rochette	John Spivey

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