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USACE Crane Barge Choctawhatchee

Non-self propeller Crane Barge:
  • Laid down in 2003 at Bender Ship Building, Mobile, AL.
  • Launched in 2003
  • Delivered to the US Army Quartermaster Corps in March 2004
  • Allocated to the US Army Corps of Engineers, christened, commissioned and placed in service in March 2004 as USACE Crane Barge Choctawhatchee
  • Assigned to the US Army Corp of Engineers Tuscaloosa Project Management Office
  • Choctawhatchee's mission is to perform snagging operations, debris and rock removal, and channel maintenance for the Black Warrior/Tombigbee (BWT) and Alabama River Systems from the mouth of the Mobile River to Birmingham and Montgomery, AL. It also sets and removes stoplogs and provides general support for lock repairs.
  • Current Disposition, Active
    Specifications:
    Displacement 800 t.
    Length 165'
    Beam 50'
    Draft 4'-6'
    Fuel Capacity 9,900 gal
    Potable Water Capacity 6,000 gal
    Sewage Holding 2,000 gal
    Main Deck Arrangement Locker Room, Laundry, Showers and Heads
    Machinery and Special Features
    Generators two Caterpiller, 170Kw, 480V, 3Phase
    Spud HPU four Rexroth/Bosch Group Electo-Hydraulic
    Spud Winches four Hagglunds
    Capstan four Schoelhorn-Albrecht, Model SA-1014 10 hp
    Crane Seatrax, Houston, TX.
    Crane Boom 120'
    Crane Capacity 60 Short Tones @ 55; Radius
    Duty Cycle Rip Rap, Grapple Snagging, Bucket Dredge, Clamshell Dredging and Pile Driving
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    Choctawhatchee
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    Namesake
    Choctawhatchee - A 141-mile-long river in the southern United States, flowing through southeast Alabama and the Panhandle of Florida before emptying into Choctawhatchee Bay in Okaloosa and Walton counties. The river, the bay and their adjacent watersheds collectively drain 5,350 square miles (Wikipedia)
    Photo - Choctawhatchee River from the SR 2 bridge, looking north near Pittman, Holmes County, Florida - CC BY-SA 3.0, Ebyabe via Wikimedia Commons
    Map - Choctawhatchee River watershed - No machine-readable author provided. Kmusser assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 2.5, Kmusser via Wikimedia Commons     		Tommy Trampp
    Choctawhatchee
    3028001801    		 65k USACE Crane Barge Choctawhatchee, date and location unknown US Army Corp of Engineers Philadelphia District and
    Marine Design Center
    Choctawhatchee
    3028001802    		 156k USACE Crane Barge Choctawhatchee assisting in lock repairs, date and location unknown
    US Army Corp of Engineers US Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District    		 Tommy Trampp
    Choctawhatchee
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    Choctawhatchee
    3028001804    		 90k USACE Crane Barge Choctawhatchee moored, date and location unknown
    US Army Corp of Engineers US Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District    		 Tommy Trampp
    Choctawhatchee
    3028001805    		 60k USACE Crane Barge Choctawhatchee with a US Army Corps of Engineers towboat, date and location unknown
    US Army Corp of Engineers US Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District    		 Tommy Trampp
    Choctawhatchee
    3028001807    		 61k USACE Crane Barge Choctawhatchee with a US Army Corps of Engineers towboat, date and location unknown
    US Army Corp of Engineers US Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District    		 John Spivey
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