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USED San Joaquin


Non Self-Propelled Cutterhead Pipeline Dredge:
  • Built in Baltimore, MD., and assembled at Pittsburg, CA in 1913.
  • Launched in 1913
  • Delivered in 1913 and placed in service as USED San Joaquin
  • Assigned to US Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District
  • Placed out of service, date unknown
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 850 t.
    Length 190'
    Beam 40'
    Draft 12'
    Complement unknown

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    Sacramento
    302611002
    622k US Army Corp of Engineers Dredges USED Sacramento and USED San Joaquin were under repair at Mare Island Navy Yard in August 1925.
    Navy Yard removing the damaged cutterhead boom from Sacramento. San Joaquin is outboard of Sacramento. Her cutterhead was previously removed.
    Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum Photo F-6-1, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum
    Darryl Baker
    Sacramento
    302611003
    718k The removal of the cutterhead booms for USED Sacramento and USED San Joaquin
    One of the booms is on the ground while YD-33 is lowering the second cutterhead boom to the ground at Mare Island Navy Yard, circa August 1925. USED Tender Pit is moored alongside the dock were the work on the cutterheads is being performed.
    Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum Photo F-6-3, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum
    Sacramento
    302611004
    575k The removal of the cutterhead booms for USED Sacramento and USED San Joaquin
    YD-33 lowering Sacramento's cutterhead boom to the ground at Mare Island Navy Yard, circa August 1925. San Joaquin is in the background.
    Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum Photo F-6-4, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum
    Darryl Baker
    San Joaquin
    302611202
    360k USED San Joaquin minus her cutterhead boom in drydock at Mare Island Navy Yard. USED Dredge Sacramento is to the right ofSan Joaquin
    Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum Photo F-6-8, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the Vellejo Naval & Historical Museum
    Darryl Baker
    San Joaquin
    302611203
    362k The USED Dredge San Joaquin's cutterhead boom being lowered into a Mare Island drydock to be reinstalled with the help of YD-33 and dry dock crane D-1. Note “San Joaquin” painted on cutterhead.
    Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum Photo F-6-6, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the Vellejo Naval & Historical Museum
    Darryl Baker
    San Joaquin
    302611201
    59k USED San Joaquin moored with cutter head out of the water, date and location unknown. San Joaquin worked on the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers to control flooding
    US Army Corps of Engineers - USACE Digital Library
     
    San Joaquin
    302611204
    87k USED San Joaquin dredging Yerba Buena Shoals in San Francisco Bay, 9 July 1936.
    U.S National Archives and Records Administration Identifer 296376 A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
    John Spivey

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