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Bear (snagboat)
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Bear was a wooden-hulled, stern-wheel steamship that served as a snagboat for the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
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![]() The snagboat Bear which operated on the Sacramento River | |
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Name | Bear |
Namesake | Bear River |
Owner | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
Awarded | 1919 |
Builder | Schultz & Schultz, San Francisco, California |
Completed | 1921 |
Commissioned | 1921 |
Reclassified | Barracks ship, 1926 |
Homeport | Sacramento |
Fate | unknown |
General characteristics | |
Type | snagboat |
Tonnage | 242 GRT[1] |
Length | 157 ft 9 in (48.08 m) o/a[1] |
Beam | 35 ft 8 in (10.87 m)[1] |
Draught | 4 ft 6 in (1.37 m)[1] |
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