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USACE Crane Barge (Gate Lifter) Grasse River

Crane Barge:
  • Built in 1958 as the steel self-propelled Crane Barge Grasse River at AmShip Buffalo, N.Y.
  • Launched in 1958
  • Delivered to the US Army Quartermaster Corps in May 1959
  • Assigned to the US Army Corp of Engineers St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp.
  • Commissioned and placed in service, 25 May 1959
  • Decommissioned, date unknown
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 754 gross
    Length 150'
    Beam 65'
    Draft 12'
    Propulsion Diesel
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    Grasse River
    3028005301    		 87k USACE Grasse River, probably completion photo at AmShip Buffalo, N.Y, May 1959.
    USACE Philadelphia courtesy of Stephen Rochette    		 John Spivey
    Grasse River
    3028005302    		 122k USACE Grasse River after semi-submerged after the lifting structure appears to have collapsed, date and location unknown.
    USACE Philadelphia courtesy of Stephen Rochette    		 John Spivey
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