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BP-2723



Precedence of awards is from left to right
- American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

Barge - Self-propelled:
  • Laid down in 1942 as US Army Corps of Engineers wooden hulled power barge PB-104 at Maritime Shipyard, Seattle, WA.
  • Launched, 1942
  • Delivered to the US Army Quartermaster Corps in 1943
  • Assigned to the US Army Transportation Corps., placed in service as BSP-2723
  • Placed in service in 1943 in Alaska
  • Placed out of service, circa 1947
  • Acquired by various owners from 1947 for service as a fish tender, named MV Chichagof
  • Final Disposition, date unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 149 t.
    Length 86'
    Beam 26'
    Draft 8'
    Speed unknown
    Range 8 kts
    Complement 9
    Armament one 50cal machine gun
    Fuel Capacity unknown
    Propulsion
    two Detroit diesel engines
    two shafts, 340shp

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    BSP-2723
    3028272302
    122k Ex US Army Self-propelled Barge BSP-2723 as the Alaska Fisheries fish tender MV Chichagof arriving at Pacific American Seafoods cannery, Aliak Bay, Kodiak Island, Alaska. in 1962 with a load of salmon.
    Rainbowshadow Journal, photo: Kodiak Maritime Museum
    Tommy Trampp
    BSP-2723
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    79k Alaska Fisheries fish tender MV Chichagof underway in Puget Sound, date unknown
    Rainbowshadow Journal article by Joel Rodgers
    Tommy Trampp

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    Rainbowshadow Journal - On the hard: Chichagof, May 20, 2020 by Joel Rodgers
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