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USED Dredge Barnard

Self-Propelled Cutterhead Pipeline Dredge:
  • Laid down, 6 October 1903 at New York Shipbuilding, Camden, N.J.
  • Launched, 12 March 1904
  • Delivered, 28 June 1904, to the Mississippi River Commission and placed in service as Barnard
  • Turned over to the US Army Corps of Engineers, date unknown
  • Assigned to US Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District
  • Commissioned USED Dredge Barnard date unknown
  • Built originally to deepen the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River
  • Participated in the salvage of USS Maine
  • Rebuilt as a seagoing hydraulic pipeline dredge
  • Placed out of service, date unknown
  • Sold in 1942 to Mexico
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,450 T.
    Length 226'
    Beam 38'
    Draft 14'
    Speed unknown
    Range unknown
    Complement unknown
    Fuel Capacity unknown
    Propulsion
    reciprocating steam engine
    one propeller shaft
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    Mississippi River Commission Dredge Barnard
    Barnard
    30268603    		 85k Mississippi River Commission Dredge Barnard helped in making many of the postflood cutoffs in the Vicksburg District.
    " Of Men and Rivers The Story of the Vicksburg District"    		 John Spivey
    USED Dredge Barnard
    Barnard
    30268601    		 127k USED Dredge Barnard dredging a channel in Tampa Bay, FL., Circa 1924-25. US Army Corps of Engineers
    Barnard
    30268602    		 66k USED Dredge Barnard dredging a channel in Tampa Bay, FL., 11 April 1924. US Army Corps of Engineers
    Barnard
    30268604    		 69k USED Dredge Barnard dredging in the cut thru Worthington Point, 5 June 1934.
    Photo from Ellicott Manufacturing Company     		John Spivey
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