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Manhatten

US Engineer Office Galveston, TX. piocture by John Spivey

General properties

Vessel type: 
TSHD
Flag: 
US
Built in: 
1904
Shipyard: 
Maryland Steel
Yard number: 
43

Physical properties

Length (BP): 
87.78 m
Width: 
14.45 m
Depth: 
7.62 m
Draft (loaded): 
6.1 m
speed: 
8.5 knts
Speed (loaded): 
6.5 knts
Hopper volume: 
1935 m³
Dredging depth: 
13.75 m
Suction pipe diameter: 
0.51 m
Number of dredging pipes: 
2

About this page

Status: 
Historical
Timeframe: 
1904 - 1974
Review: 
Scrapped

Last Updated

1 year 5 weeks ago

About this equipment

  • Delivered 1904 and placed in commission by the US Army Corps of Engineers, as USED Dredge Manhattan
  • Decommissioned circa 1951
  • Sold in 1951, renamed Sandon II
  • Sold in 1961, renamed Yau Wing No. 4
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in 1974
  • Displacement: Loaded: 5720 tn - light: 2790 tn
  • Propulsion Engines
    two Maryland Steel Co. Vertical inverted compound steam engines 22'x44x20, I.H.P per engine 900, R.P.M 95
    Pumping Engines
  • two Maryland Steel Co. Vertical inverted compound steam engines 16'x32x18, I.H.P per engine 350, R.P.M 167 average,

Source: www.navsource.org

Images

USED Dredge Manhattan moored pierside, date and location unknownDredge Manhattan moored pierside at Galveston, 27 February 1937

Technical files and datasheets

No files available