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USED Omega

International Radio Call Sign:
Whiskey - Yankee - Charlie - Victor
WYCV

Cutterhead Dredge:

Built in 1896, at Dravo Corps., Pittsburgh, PA.

Launched, in 1896

Delivered 1896 and placed in commission by the US Army Corps of Engineers, as USED Omega

Assigned to the US Army Corps of Engineers Memphis District

Rebuilt in 1935 by Memphis District Corps of Engineers

Machinery and boiler taken from old dredge Omega

Hull and main deckhouse built by McClintic-Marshall

Decommissioned, date unknown

Final Disposition, fate unknown

Specifications:
Displacement 960 long tons.(lt)
Length 172'
Beam 44' p½"

Draft 8'3"

Complement unknown

Dredging Machinery

one boiler

one 900 h.p. triple expansion steam engine driving 23" suction by 18" discharge

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
30263005	3k	*Namesake* Omega - The twenty-fourth and last letter in the Greek alphabet. In the Greek numeric system it has a value of 800. The word literally means "great O" (o mega, meaning "great"), as opposed to omicron, which means "little O" (o mikron, micron meaning "little")	Tommy Trampp
30263007	172k	USED Omega cutterhead and ladder. *Omega* was converted from the decommissioned dustpan dredge Beta, constructed in 1896. US Army Corps of Engineers Digital Librar	John Spivey
30263008	154k	USED Omega with crew on deck, date and location unknown. US Army Corps of Engineers Digital Librar	John Spivey
30263006	57k	USED Omega at the White River, Blackwater Levee, 1938. US Army Corps of Engineers photo	John Spivey
30263002	364k	USED Omega dredging, 13 October 1948, location unknown US Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans District Photo # 7741-1	Tommy Trampp
30263001	317k	USED Omega underway, 23 March 1949, location unknown US Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans District Photo # 7975-1	Tommy Trampp
30263003	85k	USED Towboat Choctaw astern of USED Omega preparing to get underway, date and location unknown US Army Corps of Engineers Digital Library, collection of CAPT. Forrest Harrison	USED Digital Library
30263004	152k	USED Towboat Itasca (on right making smoke) among with two additional towboats pushing USED Omega while underway, date and location unknown University of Wisconsin-Madison LaCrosse Historic Steamboat Photograph Collection	John Spivey

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