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USED Chester Harding

Seagoing Hopper Dredge:

Built in 1938-39, at Pusey & Jones Shipbuilding Co., Wilmington, DE.

Launched, in 1939

Delivered 1939 and placed in commission by the US Army Corps of Engineers, as USED Chester Harding

Decommissioned, date unknown

Final Disposition, scrapped in 1987

Specifications:

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
30264308	111k	*Namesake* Chester Harding (December 31, 1866 - November 11, 1936) Governor of the Panama Canal Zone from 1917 to 1921. Graduate of University of Alabama in 1884. Graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1889. Commissioned in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Appointed Division Engineer of Gatun Locks Division in 1907, and as the Panama Canal maintenance engineer in 1915. (Wikipedia)	Tommy Trampp
30264309	85k	USED Chester Harding docked at Wilmington, Delaware, 15 July 1939 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia District, Steve Rochette	John Spivey
30264310	102k	USED Chester Harding at anchor, date and location unknown. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia District, Steve Rochette	John Spivey
30264302	52k	USED Chester Harding moored pierside in 1943, location unknown. US Army Corps of Engineers photo	Dredgepoint.org
30264301	285k	USED Chester Harding underway, date and location unknown US Army Corps of Engineers photo	Tommy Trampp
30264303	78k	USACE Chester Harding doing a side discharge while dredging a channel, date and location unknown. US Army Corps of Engineers photo	Dredgepoint.org
30264306	86k	USACE Chester Harding underway, circa 1976, location unknown. US Army Corps of Engineers photo	US Army Corps of Engineers USACE Digital Library
30264307	59k		US Army Corps of Engineers USACE Digital Library
30262505	140k	Immediately following the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hopper dredges USACE Biddle (left), USACE Chester Harding (center) and USACE Pacific (right), and a Port of Portland pipeline dredge worked to restore the shipping channel in the Columbia River. Ships were stranded in the port or were aground after mud flows from Mount St. Helens roared down the Cowlitz River and filled the Columbia channel overnight, decreasing it from its previous 40-foot depth to a mere 14 feet. For nine miles up and downriver, nothing moved but mud and water. US Army Corps of Engineers Portland District photo	Tommy Trampp

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