Snagboat

Snagboat

A snagboat is a river boat, resembling a barge with superstructure for crew accommodations, and deck-mounted cranes and hoists for removing snags and other obstructions from rivers and other shallow waterways.

For examples of snagboats see Montgomery (snagboat) and WT Preston.

During the American Civil War, when much of the naval fighting was done on rivers and their tributaries, numerous snagboats were in operation. USS Benton (1861), for example, was a commercial snagboat quickly converted by the Union Army to a river gunboat when the American Civil War broke out.

See also

* Snag
* Montgomery (snagboat)
* WT Preston
* United States Army Corps of Engineers

Reference

* [http://montgomery.sam.usace.army.mil/about.html A Brief History of Steam-Powered River Transportation in the South and of the U.S. Snagboat Montgomery]
* [http://montgomery.sam.usace.army.mil/ U.S. Snagboat Montgomery]
* [http://www.maritime.org/conf/conf-stroh.htm The Snagboat W. T. Preston]
* [http://www.zazzle.com/u_s_snagboat_general_barnard_1885_print-228077448107550502 U.S. Snagboat "General Barnard" 1885]
* [http://wheeling.weirton.lib.wv.us/history/bus/river/boats06.htm Snagboat E. A. WOODRUFF]
* [http://www.thehistoryworkshop.com/portfolio/snagboat.html U.S. Snagboat Montgomery Pickensville, Alabama]
* [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/findaid/4966.pdf Army Corps of Engineers river snagboat]


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