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USED Snagboat Mandan

Stern-wheel Snagboat:

Built in 1891 as a snag scow (without machinery) by the Missouri River Commission at Yankton, S.D. for the US Army Corps of Engineers

Launched, June 1891

Delivered to the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1891, Commissioned USED Snagboat Mandan

Rebuilt as a snagboat in 1893 at Yankton, South Dakota

Machinery installed by Charles Wonders, Sioux City, Iowa, consisted of an unusual design – compounds with the high pressure engine inside the l.p. cylinder, and each had three piston rods

Mandan worked on the Missouri River until 1899 when she was reassigned to the the upper Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers

Mandan was based at Sioux Ice Harbor, South Dakota

Final Disposition, dismantled in 1932 by USE at the Gasconade, Missouri boatyard; hull towed to Bluffton Island Chute and sunk

Specifications:
Displacement unknown
Length 138'
Beam 24'
Draft 4'7"
Speed unknown

Complement unknown

Propulsion

compound steam engines

stern-wheel

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
303201005	18k	*Namesake* Mandan are a Native American tribe of the Great Plains who have lived for centuries primarily in what is now North Dakota. They are enrolled in the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation. Photo - Public Domain, Painting of a Mandan village by George Catlin, c. 1832	Tommy Trampp
303201006	123k	USED Snagboat Mandan Pilot House. Underway, date and location unknown Online Steamboat Collection, Dave Tomson Collection	Tommy Trampp
303201004	50k	USED Snagbaot Mandan underway on the Missouri River in 1907 Mandan Historical Society	John Spivey
303201001	141k	USED Snagboat Mandan seen from a bluff overlooking the Missouri River in July 1912 US National Archives Identifier # 285910	Tommy Trampp
303201002	31k	USED Snagboat Mandan underway, date and location unknown University of Missouri St. Louis Digital Library, Herman T. Pott Waterways Library	John Spivey
303201003	142k	USED Snagboat Mandan tied up to the river bank on the Missouri River at Wolf Point Montana, circa 1918	John Spivey

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