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USED Talcott

Non Self-Propelled Dredge:
  • Built in 1929 at Washington, D.C.
  • Launched 1929
  • Placed in service by the US Army Corps of Engineers as USED Talcott
  • Assigned to the US Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 575 t.
    Length 173'
    Beam 32'
    Draft 8'
    Complement unknown
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    Talcott
    30265901    		 43k USED Talcott dredging the James River, 13 October 1931.
    US Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters    		 John Spivey
    Talcott
    30265902    		 57k USED Talcott dredging the James River, date unknown
    US Army Corps of Engineers photo    		 John Spivey
    Talcott
    30265904    		 89k USED Talcott tided up pierside, probably US Engineers Norfolk Depot, 2 June 1938.
    Photo from USACE Digital Libray -US Army Corps of Engineers Office Washington,D.C.    		 John Spivey
    Talcott
    30265903    		 32k USED Talcott on the Potomac River in May 1939. Talcott moving dredged material from the Potomac River bottom though pipes to the fill area behind a dike built by the Corps. 500 of the Washington National Airport's 729 acres were landfill for which the Corps Engineers moved twenty million yards of material.
    Office of History, US Army Corps of Engineers    		 John Spivey
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