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USACE Goethals

Seagoing Hopper Dredge:
  • Built in 1937-38, at Bethlehem Steel, Quincy, MA.
  • Launched, in 1938
  • Delivered 1938 and placed in commission by the US Army Corps of Engineers, as USACE Goethals
  • Decommissioned, date unknown
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in 2002
    Specifications:
    Displacement 9,000 t.
    Length 460'
    Beam 69'
    Draft 36'
    Complement unknown
    Hopper Capacity 6,278 cu yds
    Dredging Depth 49'
    Dredging Pipes 2
    Propulsion
    four Elliot diesel engines driving two electric motors generating 3357Kw
    two propeller shafts
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    Goethals
    30266601    		 57k Bow view of USACE Goethals alongside the Sump Rehandler New Orleans showing discharge pipe from Gothals lowered in position for transfer of material to New Orleans, date and location unknown.
    US Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia District photo by Barrel    		 Tommy Trampp
    Goethals
    30266602    		 74k USACE Goethals underway in Cape Cod Sound outbound to sea do dump spoil, date unknown.
    US Army Corps of Engineers photo    		 Dredgepoint.org
    Goethals
    30266602    		 53k USACE Goethals conducting dredging operations on th Hudson River at New York City, date unknown
    US Army Corps of Engineers photo    		 Dredgepoint.org
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