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USED Dredge Omega


International Radio Call Sign:
Whiskey - Yankee - Charlie - Victor
 WYCV
Cutterhead Dredge:
  • Built in 1896, at Dravo Corps., Pittsburgh, PA.
  • Launched, in 1896
  • Delivered 1896 and placed in commission by the US Army Corps of Engineers, as USED Dredge Omega
  • Assigned to the US Army Corps of Engineers Memphis District
  • Rebuilt in 1935 by Memphis District Corps of Engineers
  • Machinery and boiler taken from old dredge Omega
  • Hull and main deckhouse built by McClintic-Marshall
  • Decommissioned, date unknown
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 960 long tons.(lt)
    Length 172'
    Beam 44' p½"
    Draft 8'3"
    Complement unknown
    Dredging Machinery
    one boiler
    one 900 h.p. triple expansion steam engine driving 23" suction by 18" discharge
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    Omega
    30263005    		 3k
    Namesake
    Omega - The twenty-fourth and last letter in the Greek alphabet. In the Greek numeric system it has a value of 800. The word literally means "great O" (o mega, meaning "great"), as opposed to omicron, which means "little O" (o mikron, micron meaning "little")    		 Tommy Trampp
    Omega
    30263002    		 364k USED Dredge Omega dredging, 13 October 1948, location unknown
    US Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans District Photo # 7741-1    		 Tommy Trampp
    Omega
    30263001    		 317k USED Dredge Omega underway, 23 March 1949, location unknown
    US Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans District Photo # 7975-1    		 Tommy Trampp
    Omega
    30263003    		 85k USED Towboat Choctaw astern of USED Dredge Omega preparing to get underway, date and location unknown
    US Army Corps of Engineers Digital Library, collection of CAPT. Forrest Harrison    		 USED Digital Library
    Omega
    30263004    		 152k USED Towboat Itasca (on right making smoke) among with two additional towboats pushing USED Dredge Omega while underway, date and location unknown
    University of Wisconsin-Madison LaCrosse Historic Steamboat Photograph Collection    		 John Spivey
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