USED Chinook

USED Chinook in 1931
History
United Kingdom
Name	Mohawk (1892–1898)
Operator	Atlantic Transport Line
Builder	Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Launched	25 February 1892
Homeport	London, England
Identification	Official number 99066
Fate	Sold for $660,000
United States
Name	Mohawk (1898–1899) Grant (1899–1902)
Operator	Army Transport Service
Homeport	San Francisco, California
Fate	Transferred to Corps of Engineers
United States
Name	Chinook (1903–1946)
Operator	Army Corps of Engineers
Identification	Call sign: WYBH
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics as built in 1892
Tonnage	5,658 GRT 3,646 NRT
Displacement	7,519 tons
Length	445.5 ft (135.8 m)
Beam	49 ft 3 in (15.01 m)
Draft	24 ft (7.3 m)
Depth of hold	30 ft (9.1 m)
Decks	5
Installed power	1,200 hp (890 kW)
Propulsion	2 × triple-expansion steam engines
Speed	13.5 knots (25.0 km/h; 15.5 mph)

The steamship Mohawk was steel-hulled freighter built for the Atlantic Transport Line in 1892. She carried live cattle and frozen beef from the United States to England until the advent of the Spanish–American War. In 1898 she was purchased by the United States Army for use as an ocean-going troopship. During the Spanish–American War she carried troops and supplies between the U.S. mainland, Cuba, and Puerto Rico.

After the war, she was renamed USAT Grant and refit for service as a troopship in the Pacific. She carried troops and supplies to the Philippines and China to support the Army in the Philippine Insurrection and the Boxer Rebellion. Costly boiler repairs and the need to reduce the size of the Army Transport Service's Pacific fleet led to the ship's retirement as a troopship in 1902.

Grant was transferred to the United States Army Corps of Engineers and converted into a suction dredge in 1903. At that time she was the largest such dredge in the world and remained so until 1938.^[1] Grant was renamed USED Chinook. She was responsible for widening and deepening shipping channels on the Columbia, Delaware, and Mississippi rivers, Hampton Roads, Tampa Bay, New York Harbor, and other major ports and waterways. She was decommissioned in 1946 and subsequently scrapped.