Seizer (snagboat)
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Seizer was a wooden-hulled, stern-wheel steamship that served as the first snagboat for the United States Army Corps of Engineers on the Sacramento River.
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Name | Seizer |
Owner | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
Launched | 1881, Stockton, California |
Completed | 1881 |
Reclassified | Barracks ship, 1921 |
Fate | unknown |
General characteristics | |
Type | snagboat |
Tonnage | 240 GRT[1] |
Length | 157 ft 7 in (48.03 m) o/a[1] |
Beam | 35 ft 0 in (10.67 m)[1] |
Draught | 4 ft 8 in (1.42 m)[1] |
Propulsion | steam |
Speed | 6-7 knots |
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