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USACE Dredge Hyde

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Bottom Row - National Defense Service Medal - Vietnam Service Medal - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Seagoing Hopper Dredge:
  • Built in 1944-45, at Dravo Corp., Neville Island, PA.
  • Launched, in 1945
  • Delivered 1945 and placed in commission by the US Army Corps of Engineers, as USACE Dredge Hyde
  • Assigned to the US Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District
  • During the Vietnam War Hyde dredged rivers and harbors in South Vietnam
  • Decommissioned in 1979
  • Final Disposition, reefed of North Carolina coast in 1988
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,194 t.
    Length 216'
    Beam 40'
    Depth of Hold 15' 6"
    Draft 12' 9"
    Complement 30
    Hopper Capacity 6275 cu yds
    Dredging Depth 45'
    Dredging Pipes 2
    Propulsion
    two 1,400hp General Motors diesel engines driving two electric motors generating 1398Kw
    two propeller shafts

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    Hyde
    30262901    		 207k USACE Dredge Hyde underway, date and location unknown
    US Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District Photo # J-136A    		 Tommy Trampp
    Hyde
    30262902    		 329k USACE Dredge Hyde working Mare Island Channel, 21 August 1957.
    Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum    		 Darryl Baker
    Hyde
    30262903    		 573k
    LCT-973
    1018097306    		 99k Marines stand by a 350-gallon-per-minute fuel pump while waiting for a fuel boat to arrive on the Cua Viet River, South Vietnam. In the background is the U.S Navy harbor utility craft YFU-62 and U.S. Army hopper dredge USACE Hyde, 1 March 1967. John Spivey
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