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C.B. Harris


Non Self-propelled Cutterhead Pipeline Dredge:
  • Built in 1923-24 at Charles Ward Engineering Works, Charleston, W.V.
  • Launched 1924
  • Delivered in August 1924 and placed in service by the US Army Corps of Engineers, as C.B. Harris
  • Initially assigned to the US Army Corps of Engineers Cincinnati District
  • Reassigned, date unknown, to the US Army Corps of Engineers Louisville, District
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,304 t.
    Length 236'
    Beam 50'
    Draft 8'
    Complement unknown
    Discharge Pipe Diameter 24"

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    C.B. Harris
    302612703
    197k C.B. Harris under construction at Charles Ward Engineering Works, Charleston, W.V., 1 February 1924
    Photo by Charles Ward Engineering Works, Charleston, W.V. for USED Cincinnati now in the collections of the West Virginia & Regional History Center
     
    C.B. Harris
    302612704
    192k C.B. Harris after launching under construction at Charles Ward Engineering Works, Charleston, W.V., 1 March 1924, note steamer alongside.
    Photo by Charles Ward Engineering Works, Charleston, W.V. for USED Cincinnati now in the collections of the West Virginia & Regional History Center
     
    C.B. Harris
    302612702
    184k C.B. Harris engine room, 9 August 1924
    Photo by Charles Ward Engineering Works, Charleston, W.V. for USED Cincinnati now in the collections of the West Virginia & Regional History Center
     
    C.B. Harris
    302612705
    165k C.B. Harris being maneuvered by a towboat aft., 12 August 1924.
    Photo by Charles Ward Engineering Works, Charleston, W.V. for USED Cincinnati now in the collections of the West Virginia & Regional History Center
     
    C.B. Harris
    302612701
    131k C.B. Harris at work dredging a river bottom, date and location unknown.
    West Virginia & Regional History Center
     
    C.B. Harris
    302612706
    70k C.B. Harris, underway on the Mississippi River, 21 June 1938.
    US Army Corps of Engineers - USACE Digital Library
     

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