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USACE Comber

Seagoing Hopper Dredge:
  • Built in 1947, at Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, MS.
  • Launched, in 1947
  • Delivered 1947 and placed in commission by the US Army Corps of Engineers, as USACE Comber
  • Decommissioned and retired in 1983
  • Final Disposition, scrapped, date unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 4,730 long tons(lt)
    Length 351'
    Beam unknown
    Draft unknown
    Hopper Capacity 3060 cu yds
    Complement 78
    Propulsion
    two boilers
    two turbo-electric drive steam engines
    two propeller shafts
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    Comber
    30264101    		 287k USACE Comber underway, date and location unknown
    US Army Corps of Engineers photo    		 Tommy Trampp
    Comber
    30264102    		 81k USACE Comber conducting a dredging operation, date and location unknown
    US Army Corps of Engineers photo    		 Dredgepoint.org
    Comber
    30264103    		 35k USACE Comber conducting a dredging operation, date and location unknown
    US Army Corps of Engineers photo    		 Dredgepoint.org
    Comber
    30264104    		 304k Cutaway model of USACE Comber at Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, PA.
    US Army Corps of Engineers photo #050613-A-EO314-900    		 US Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia District & Marine Design Center
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