The Corps honors: Lewis and Clark.(history of naming vessels after expedition members)(Brief Article)

From: Soldiers Magazine | Date: November 1, 2003 | Copyright information

THE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has named several vessels to honor the members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

In 1932 the Corps' Kansas City District took delivery of Captain Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. The boats, named for the leaders of the Corps of Discovery, were virtually identical steel-hulled, oil-fueled, "dustpan" dredges, and were used to deepen and widen the channels of the Missouri River and its tributaries.

Later in the 1930s the Kansas City and Omaha Districts added vessels honoring all four of the expedition's sergeants--Charles Floyd, Patrick ...

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