Dredge Col. D.D. Gaillard

[JohnH]

Here is a link to the interesting story and pictures about the Gaillard being pulled off Barkers Island on August 1, 2003.

http://www.boatnerd.com/news/archive/8-03.htm

Scroll down to 08/29, Workboat Report

Roan Salvage of Sturgeon Bay, WI is presently using the Gaillard as one of it's barges to do dredging work in the Duluth-Superior harbor. Roan is leasing the Gaillard from Fraser Shipyards of Superior, WI, the present owner.

[Duluth Guest]

The barge shown in the photos linked previously is the Gaillard. They are working on a wetlands reclamation project in St. Louis Bay.

Here is a photo of her at work:

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/conten ... at-emerges

[Mr Link]

Depending on which version of Google Maps you have, it may show up here instead:

https://goo.gl/maps/i7MBANGqe372

[Mr Link]

MilwBob, Are you sure it was scrapped or could it have just been reduced to a deck barge?

The reason I ask is that a similar shaped barge shows up in fairly recent photos.

I think this May 9, 2012 photo is the dredge right after the superstructure, boilers and machinery were removed.

http://greatlakes.erdc.dren.mil/image/SD-0486/

Google Earth says this photo was taken April 14, 2015 and it shows a similar shaped barge being used as a crane barge at the Hallett Dock.

https://goo.gl/maps/Wa8A1d9aMjK2

[MilwBob]

Scrapped several years ago.

[William Lafferty]

It was dismantled at Barker's island by Billington Contracting, Inc., in 2002-2003. According to Franz von Reidl, Billington retained the hull as a barge. From Boatnerd and Franz: http://www.boatnerd.com/news/newpicture ... 03-FVR.jpg

[tugboathunter]

In an unusual operation, it was dredged out of Barker's Island and converted to a flat deck spud barge (its superstructure was dismantled). I assume it's in the Duluth harbor somewhere but not sure where.

[Guest]

I believe that this dredge was turned into a museum vessel at Superior, Wisconsin alongside the whaleback Meteor on Barker's Island. I was in that area last year and I did not see it. I was just passing through and didn't have time to stop, so I was wondering if its still there?