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USED Snagboat W.T. Preston

Snagboat:
  • Built in 1929 for the US Army Corps of Engineers at Hall Bros. Marine Railway & Shipbuilding Co., Winslow. WA.
  • Launched in 1929
  • Delivered in 1929, to the US Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District
  • Placed in commission in 1929 as USED Snagboat W.T. Preston
  • W.T. Preston operated from Olympia to Blaine, including the Skagit, Stillaguamish, and Snohomish rivers to remove obstructions and facilitate river based commerce
  • W.T. Preston's wooden hull was replaced with a steel hull in her 1939 refit
  • Retired in 1981
  • Current Disposition, W.T. Preston now operates as a history museum, and is owned and operated by the City of Anacortes' City Museum.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 490 t.
    Length 163'
    Beam 34'
    Draft 3'8"
    Speed 9 kts.
    Complement unknown
    Propulsion
    two 180psi fire tube boilers
    two 150 hp (110 kW) reciprocating steam engines
    Sternwheel
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    W.T. Preston
    303200704    		 73k Diagram of the anatomy of USED Snagboat W.T. Preston.
    Anacortes City Museum    		 Tommy Trampp
    W.T. Preston
    303200707    		 106k USED Snagboat W.T. Preston at Lake Union Dry Dock and Machine Works. New deckhouses are being built on the new steel hull, 30 September 1939.
    U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Seattle, RG77    		 John Spivey
    W.T. Preston
    303200705    		 255k USED Snagboat W.T. Preston underway near Union Dry Dock & Machine Works, 18 January 1940.
    US National Archives Identifier # 298847    		 Tommy Trampp
    W.T. Preston
    303200706    		 204k USED Snagboat W.T. Preston underway on Lake Washington east of Seattle, circa 1970.
    Dave Thomson Collection at Steamboats.com    		 Tommy Trampp
    W.T. Preston
    303200708    		 78k USED Snagboat W.T. Preston underway date and location unknown.
    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Digital Library    		  
    W.T. Preston
    303200709    		 73k USED Snagboat W.T. Preston underway near Seattle, WA., date unknown.
    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Digital Library    		  
    W.T. Preston
    303200702    		 103k USED Snagboat W.T. Preston Museum permanently dry berthed on the waterfront near Cap Sante, in Anacortes, Washington, date unknown. Tommy Trampp
    W.T. Preston
    303200701    		 79k USACE Snagboat W.T. Preston Museum permanently dry berthed on the waterfront near Cap Sante, in Anacortes, Washington, date unknown.
    Courtesy Dieselduck.net    		 Tommy Trampp
    W.T. Preston
    303200703    		 73k
    USED Snagboat W.T. Preston History
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