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USACE Gerig

Seagoing Hopper Dredge:
  • Built in 1946-47, at Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, MS.
  • Launched, in 1947
  • Delivered 1947 and placed in commission by the US Army Corps of Engineers, as USACE Gerig
  • Named in honor of William Lee Gerig, a civil engineer who worked on railroads and dams in both the United States and abroad, including his service as chief engineer for the construction of the Panama Canal. By the end of his career, he had consulted on every dam built in the United States from 1923 to 1938.
  • Assigned to US Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans District
  • Decommissioned, date unknown
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in 1991
    Specifications:
    Displacement 4,730 long tons(lt)
    Length 350'0"
    Beam 60'0"
    Draft 30'0"
    Hopper Capacity 3060 cu yds
    Complement 78
    Propulsion
    two boilers
    two turbo-electric drive steam engines
    two propeller shafts
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    Gerig
    30263701    		 308k USACE Gerig working in Savannah Harbor, 24 August 1956
    US Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District photo # SAS-166-B    		 Tommy Trampp
    Gerig
    30263702    		 92k USACE Gerig dredging at Naval Station Mayport, FL. in 1991.
    US Army Corps of Engineers photo    		 Dredgepoint.org
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