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USED Dredge Navesink

Seagoing Hopper Dredge:
  • Built in 1908, at Maryland Steel, Sparrow Point, MD.
  • Launched, in 1908
  • Delivered 1908 christened and placed in commission by the US Army Corps of Engineers, as USED Dredge Navesink
  • Assigned to the US Army Corp of Engineers New York District
  • Sunk by collision, 7 May 1928, with freighter SS Swinburne in the Narrows off Clifton, Staten Island, N.Y. with the loss of 18 crewmembers
  • Raised, 27 September 1928
  • Repairs and construction completed 1 March 1929
  • Placed out of US Army service, date unknown
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 3,911 t.
    Length 290'
    Beam 48'
    Draft 28'
    Complement unknown
    Hopper Capacity unknown
    Dredging Depth unknown
    Dredging Pipes unknown
    Propulsion
    two reciprocating steam engines, 1,485hp
    two propeller shafts
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    Navesink
    30267901    		 59k USED Dredge Navesink dredging in 1938, location unknown.
    US Army Corp of Engineers Digitial Library    		 John Spivey
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