The drawing is of an ordinary Dutch steam bucket dredge and not especially of the Hsin-Ho.
RvM
Friday 21 January 1910. Yesterday was successfully the steel hull of a sea going bucket dredger with suction- and press equipment launched. Main dimensions are 48 (between perpendiculars) x 11 x 3,5 meters (hold). She was fitted out with 2 main compound engines each of 320 ihp each driving a screw, one of them also the sand pump and the other one the water pump or better said the bucket chain and the transport equipment for the dredged ground. There were also 7 horizontal 2-cylinder steam winches. All needed steam was delivered by two boilers each with a heating surface of 120 square meter and a pressure of 8 atmosphere. If necessary a form the main boilers independent donkey boiler could supply steam for the winches. Theoretical yield of the dredger was 900 tons each hour. She could dredge until a depth of 8 meter and press away the ground over a distance of 350 meters at a height above the water surface of 3 meter. She was complete electric lighted, had a speed of knots and able to go to China under own steam.
Tuesday, 19 April 1910. Today left the steam dredger Ascho (?) master Wetteren the yard towards Tientsin under own steam. The newspaper Het nieuws van den dag: kleine courant called her Hsin-Ho with as dimensions 48 x 11 x 3,50 (hold) meter.
Friday, 24 June 1910. Yesterday arrived a telegraphic tiding that the dredger Hsin-Ho underway towards Tientsin arrived safely at Colombo, Ceylon.
Sunday, 14 August 1910. The Hsin-Ho arrived according to a received tiding safely at Hong Kong. The newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad evening edition dated 13 August confirmed this arrival.
Thursday, 25 August 1910. According to a yesterday received telegram arrived she safely at Tientsin.
According to http://www.dredgepoint.org/shipyards/ihc-holland-nv was the Hsin-Ho was built in 1910 for the Hai-Ho Conservancy Company. Dimensions 48,83 (between perpendiculars) x 11,2 x 3,47 (depth) and a standard bucket capacity of 0,60 cubic meter.
The newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant evening edition dated 1 October 1912 published an article dealing with her owner. According to this news item the Hsin-Ho could be used as a normal bucket dredge, as a suction dredger propelled by her screws, as an active but anchored suction dredger and as a dredger who pressed the mud through a sand pump and a 1.000 feet long press pipe line over land.
According to this news item the same yard delivered in the same year also the dredger with press pump called Yen Yun fitted out with tanks (buckets?) and with a 3.000 feet long press pipe line. In 1902 she delivered the bucket dredger Pelho.
