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The Cape Charles

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Prior to becoming a dredge the steamer, Cape Charles, was claimed to be the finest appointed transfer boat (ferry) ever built according to W.B.Reaney, superintending engineer.  (Ref: June 1885 JOURNAL of Railroad Appliances & Railway Price Currant)

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  “Undeterred, Jones decided that if the United States government would not dredge the channel, he would do it himself.  He bought the burned-out iron hull of the steamer Cape Charles and ordered pumping machinery installed on board to convert it into a dredge.”   Gulfport, Beginnings and Growth, Henry W. Black

The SS Bullis Co. successfully dredged a 6-mile channel between Ship Island and Gulfport.  When dredging of the harbor was completed in 1902, the Port of Gulfport became a working Seaport.  By 1907 Gulfport had become the Gulf Coast’s leading exporter of yellow pine lumber.


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