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USED Dredge Chinook
ex
 USQMD Transport Grant (1898 - 1902)

Transport / Seagoing Suction Hopper Dredge:
  • Built in 1892, as the passenger-cargo steamer Mohawk by Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast, Northern Ireland
  • Launched, 25 February 1892
  • Completed, 5 July 1892
  • Chartered upon completion by the African Steamship Co., Elder, Dempster & Co., London
  • Purchased by the U.S. Army in 1898
  • Commisisoned USQMD Transport Grant in 1898
    USQMD Grant transported:
    8th Ohio, Company from Santiago, Cuba to Montauk Point, Long Island, New York.
    11th U.S. Infantry Co. C from Port Tampa to Puerto Rico
    1st North Dakota Volunteer Infantry from Philippines to San Francisco, California (July 30 to August 29, 1899)
  • Decommissioned, date unknown
  • Acquired by the U.S. Army Engineers in 1902
  • Converted to a seagoing hopper dredge
  • Placed in commisison in 1902 as USED Dredge Chinook
  • Decommissioned, date unknown
  • Final Disposition, broken up in 1946
    Specifications:
    Displacement 3,4636 lt.t., 5,658 fl t.
    Length 455'
    Beam 49'2"
    Draft 30'
    Complement unknown
    Hopper Capacity unknown
    Dredging Depth unknown
    Dredging Pipes unknown
    Propulsion
    two Harland & Wolff T3cyl. reciprocating steam engines, (22.5, 36.5,60X42in.) 600nhp
    two propeller shafts
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    USQMD Transport Grant
    Grant
    30266708    		 49k USQMD Transport Grant drydocked, New York, 3 February 1899. Photographed by Geo. P. Hall and Son
    US Library of Congress - Flickr National Museum of the Navy     		John Spivey
    Grant
    30266709    		 172k USQMD Transport Grant departing New York, saluting Grant’s Tomb before departure with troops for Manila.
    		John Spivey
    USED Chinook
    Chinook
    30266707    		 38k USED Dredge Chinook, Astoria, OR. 11 October 1912.
    Woodfield Photo     		John Spivey
    Chinook
    30266701    		 219k USED Chinook dredging Rock Shoal Channel of the James River near Newport News, 9 September 1931. USACE Digital Library
    Chinook
    30266702    		 79k
    Chinook
    30266703    		 83k USED Chinook at anchor off Lambert's Point, Norfolk, VA., 14 April 1931 USACE Digital Library
    Chinook
    30266704    		 60k
    Chinook
    30266705    		 111k Stern view of USED Chinook drydocked at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA., 24 March 1932 USACE Digital Library
    Chinook
    30266706    		 53k USED Chinook near New York City, date unknown. USACE Digital Library
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