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USED Atlantic

Seagoing Hopper Dredge:
  • Built in 1904, at Maryland Steel, Sparrows Point, MD.
  • Launched, 20 August 1904
  • Delivered, 29 October 1904, and placed in commission by the US Army Corps of Engineers, as USED Atlantic
  • Retired from US Army service, date unknown
  • Sold, date unknown, renamed Megas
  • Rebuilt at Jacksonville, FL. as a tugboat in 1919
  • Sold in 1924 to Cherbourg Rescue Society, renamed Landemer, reflagged France, rebuilt as a ferry for disembarking United States Line ships
  • Seized by British at Southampton, 17 July 1940
  • Final Disposition, scrapped June 1968 at Toulon, France
    Specifications:
    Displacement 2,790 t. light 5720 t. loaded
    Length 288'
    Beam 47'
    Draft
    Light forward 10'8" aft 13'
    Loaded forward 18'7' aft 20'2"
    Material, steel hull, wooden superstructure
    Speed, light 10 mph, loaded 7.5 mph
    Complement Officers 12, Crew 54
    Hopper Capacity 2530 cu. yds.
    Dredging Depth Maximum 45' Minimum 20'
    Drags two New York type
    Machinery
    Propulsion Engines
    four oil fired Coatesville Boiler Works Scotch marine boilers
    two Maryland Steel Co. Vertical inverted compound steam engines 22'x44x20, I.H.P per engine 900, R.P.M 95
    two propeller shafts
    Pumping Engines
    two Maryland Steel Co. Vertical inverted compound steam engines 16'x32x18, I.H.P per engine 350, R.P.M 167 average,
    Two Dredging Pumps
    Inside Diameter of Suction Pipe 20"
    Inside Diameter of Discharge Pipe 20"
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    Atlantic
    30266801    		 70k USED Dredge Atlantic underway, date and location unknown.
    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia District, Steve Rochette    		 John Spivey
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