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USAT Seward

Screw Steamer / Transport:
  • Laid down, 16 February 1900, at Moran Bros. Co. Shipyard, Seattle, WA. as the wooden hulled steamer Geo. W. Dickinson for the Pacific Clipper Line
  • Launched, 16 April 1900
  • Purchased before completion from Mr. E.E. Caine by the War Department, renamed USAT Seward
  • Fitted out for service as a dispatch boat for Alaska, serve, 1900-1901
  • Seward spent the rest of her career in Philippines/Far East service
  • Retired and deleted from Army service in 1914
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,275 t.(lt)
    Length 194.9'
    Beam 39.4'
    Draft unknown
    Speed unknown
    Complement
    Officers unknown
    Enlisted unknown
    Cargo Capacity unknown
    Largest Boom Capacity unknown
    Armament unknown
    Fuel Capacity unknown
    Propulsion
    one engine
    single propeller
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    Seward
    301308403    		 137k
    Namesake

    William Henry Seward (May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States Senator. A determined opponent of the spread of slavery in the years leading up to the American Civil War, he was a prominent figure in the Republican Party in its formative years, and was praised for his work on behalf of the Union as Secretary of State during the Civil War. (Wikipedia)
    Portrait by artist Henry Inman (1801-1846) William Henry Seward in 1844.    		 Tommy Trampp
    Seward
    301308401    		 143k Geo. W. Dickinson on the builder's ways, 28 March 1900, 40 days after the keel was laid.
    Photo from Wikipedia Commons    		 David Wright
    Seward
    301308406    		 87k Geo. W. Dickinson launching, 16 April 1900. Photo indicates the ship name was W. H. Seward. She may have been renamed prior to launching. Available records refer to her as Seward, not W.H. Seward
    Photo from from www.picryl.com by www.wikimedia.org    		 John Spivey
    Seward
    301308402    		 40k USAT Seward moored in the Philippines, circa 1909 David Wright
    Seward
    301308404    		 72k USAT Seward moored pierside, date and location unknown.
    Flicker - IMLS Digital Collections & Content    		 John Spivey
    Seward
    301308405    		 74k USAT Seward underway, date and location unknown.
    Photo from www.flickr.com - Paul Eric Darvin    		 John Spivey
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