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USED Dredge Minquas


Seagoing Hopper Dredge:
  • Built in 1915, at Spedden Shipbuilding, Baltimore, MD.
  • Launched, in 1915
  • Delivered 1915 and placed in commission by the US Army Corps of Engineers, as USED Dredge Minquas
  • Decommissioned, date unknown
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 900 t.
    Length 194'
    Beam 30'
    Draft 12'
    Complement unknown
    Hopper Capacity unknown
    Dredging Depth unknown
    Dredging Pipes unknown
    Propulsion
    two reciprocating steam engines, 1,440hp
    two propeller shafts

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    Minquas
    30267303
    107k USED Dredge Minquas moored pierside, 7 July 1937, location unknown
    US Army Corps of Engineers Philiadelphia District
    John Spivey
    Minquas
    30267301
    78k USED Dredge Minquas drydocked, 8 August 1939, location unknown Dredgepoint.org
    Minquas
    30267302
    73k USED Dredge Minquas underway, date and location unknown Dredgepoint.org

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