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USED Snagboat Montgomery

Snagboat:
  • Built in 1925 for the US Army Corps of Engineers at Charleston Dry Dock and Machine Co., Charleston, S.C.
  • Launched in 1925
  • Delivered in 1925, to the US Army Corps of Engineers
  • Assigned to the US Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District
  • Commission in 1925 as USED Snagboat Montgomery
  • Montgomery cleared snags and obstructions from the Coosa, Alabama, Apalachicola, Chattahoochee, Flint, Black Warrior, and Tombigbee Rivers
  • Retired, 8 November 1982 from the Corps of Engineers
  • Restored in 1984 and again in 2004
  • Declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989.
  • Current Disposition, Montgomery now operates as a museum ship at the Tom Bevill Lock and Dam Visitor Center in Pickensville, AL.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 490 t.
    Length 178'
    Beam 34'
    Draft 6'
    Speed unknown
    Complement
    crew 24, officers 6
    Propulsion
    two 210 psi scotch boilers
    two non-condensing joy valve steam engines
    Sternwheel, 18 ft.
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    Montgomery
    303200801    		 48k USED Snagboat Montgomery snagging on Apalachicola River, FL., date unknown.
    US Army Corps of Engineers photo by Adrien Lamarre, Photographer. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers    		 Tommy Trampp
    Montgomery
    303200807    		 87k USED Snagboat Montgomery underway, date and location unknown.
    University of Wisconsin-Madison LaCrosse Steamboat Collection    		 John Spivey
    Montgomery
    303200805    		 96k USED Snagboat Montgomery pulling snags in the Apalachicola River, September 1959
    US Army Corps of Engineers photo    		  
    Montgomery
    303200806    		 106k
    Montgomery
    303200804    		 295k USED Snagboat Montgomery moored, date and location unknown.
    Steamboats.com - Press release photo from the Mobile Press Register dated 3 April, 1961    		 Tommy Trampp
    Montgomery
    303200802    		 754k USED Snagboat Montgomery snagging at Pickensville, AL., circa 1980.
    US Army Corps of Engineers photo    		  
    Montgomery
    303200803    		 250k
    USED Snagboat Montgomery
    History
    Additional Web Sites of Interest
    U.S. Snagboat Montgomery - Pickensville, Alabama
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