Click here for previous photos that come here by way of barrel. The September 1944 tug Wilmington
is now Kathy Lynn.
Dredge Hoffman was built in 1942 and
retired in 1983 . . . I guess that means scrapped.
Clatsop was launched in 1908, then called
Sandpilot, and was scrapped in 1950, before I was born.
Delano Deland was 1919 built, but was transferred to
the USAT and I’ve found no further trace. Anyone have any ideas?
Many thanks to barrel, who’s sent me more photos like this, and I’ll get around to posting them.
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April 24, 2016 at 12:14 pm
ws
The Original Paper Records are Priceless!
April 25, 2016 at 12:18 pm
William Lafferty
It is the Deland, not Delano, and was stationed during its career at New York. It was built at New Orleans in 1919 for the United States Shipping Board and transferred to the Corps the following year. McAllister purchased the vessel in 1955 and renamed it Donal G. McAllister the following year. In 1967-68 it was converted to a fishing vessel at Panama City, Florida, by Future Fisheries, inc., and renamed Pursuit, and is still in documentation, owned by Bayou Holdings LLC, Panama City.
The Hoffman spent its post-war career on the Great Lakes operating out of Cleveland. Laid up with its sister Hains there in 1982, they were towed to Quebec City in 1986 by the GLTCo tugs Ohio and Superior; from there, USS Grasp T-ARS-51 towed them to Norfolk, where the two were used as target ships by the navy and sunk.
The Clatsop was sold to J. R. Sensibar of Chicago in 1947 and used on the east coast as the dredge Sandpilot by his Construction Aggregates Corporation, one of four similar large seagoing dredges CAC purchased from the Corps between 1947 and 1950. It was dismantled in 1955 at, I believe, Baltimore.
April 25, 2016 at 3:35 pm
tugster
William– Thx for the correction and the info.