Montgomery cleared snags and obstructions from the Coosa, Alabama, Apalachicola, Chattahoochee, Flint, Black Warrior, and Tombigbee Rivers until her retirement from the Corps of Engineers on November 8, 1982.

[2][3] Montgomery now operates as a museum ship at the Tom Bevill Lock and Dam Visitor Center in Pickensville, Alabama.

She is designed to hold machinery anywhere along the hull length, and to withstand the stresses of pulling on snags.

Rows of steel I-beams support its superstructure, including the forward-mounted boom, mounted on an A-frame.

The frame is designed to support different types of equipment, including bucket dredges as well as the snag boom.