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Cascadas

Post by shipstamps » Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:07 am


In 1976 the Canal Zone Post Office issued a 13c. stamp which depicted the dredger Cascadas at work in the Panama Canal with, in the distance, an unidentified passenger liner. The stamp is copied from a painting by a local artist, Mr. Aiwyn Sprague, according to the Canal Zone Philatelic Agency.
The Cascadas is a 15 cub. yd. dipper dredger, built at New York by the Bucyrus Company. She joined the dredging fleet of the Panama Canal on October 31 1915. Her most memorable feat occurred on February 18, 1916, when she excavated and loaded into dump scows a total of 23,305 cub. yd. of rock and earth, an achievement believed to be a world record for a day's work by any kind of excavating machine in hard material. The Cascadas plays an important part in the Panama Canal Company's dredging programme for maintaining required canal depths. SG249

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Re: Cascadas

Post by aukepalmhof » Mon Jul 22, 2019 2:03 am

Dim. 44.84 x 18.59m.
Crew 13.
1976 Standby dredger.
1993 Out of service and laid up at Gamboa.
1997 Still there, with plans to restore her, but not any money available for restoration work.

After 1997 noting more I could find on the dredger.

Sources: Internet.
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cascades first day of issue.jpg

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