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BSP-513

Barge - Self-propelled:
  • Built in 1942 as US Army wooden hulled self-propelled Barge BSP-513 by Maritime Shipyard, Seattle, WA.
  • Launched, 1942
  • Delivered to the US Army Quartermasters Corps, November 1942
  • Assigned to the US Army Transportation Corp.
  • Christened, commissioned and placed in service in 1942 as BSP-513
  • Retired from US Army service, date unknown
  • Sold, date unknown, renamed Lois Anderson
  • Current Disposition, unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 190 t.
    Length 86'
    Beam 26'
    Draft 9'
    Speed unknown
    Range unknown
    Complement unknown
    Fuel Capacity unknown
    Propulsion
    two diesel engines
    two shafts, 340shp
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    BSP-513
    3028051301    		 62k Lois Anderson (ex US Army BSP-513) moored pierside at Homer AK. in 1948
    University of Alaska Digital Archives, photo by Steve McCutcheon    		 John Spivey
    BSP-513
    3028051302    		 236k Lois Anderson between seasons at Fishermen’s Terminal on Salmon Bay, Lake Washington Ship Canal, Seattle, WA., 15 January 2015.
    Pugetships.Worldpress    		 Tommyh Trampp
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