An item reported
that on Saturday the seagoing bucket dredger Aldovisi built for foreign account
left the shipyard Gusto (firm A.F. Smulders), Schiedam, Netherlands bound for
Talcahuano, Chile using her own engines. Dimensions 41 x 7,50 x 3,30 (hold)
metres. Fitted out with 2x250 ihp main engines and 2 boilers each with a
heating surface pf 90
square metres and 8 atmosphere pressure. Complete
electrically lightened, Able to work on a depth of 14 metres below the
waterline with a capacity of around 350 cub metres/hour using 600 litres buckets. The
mud could be unloaded in barges or pressed away using the san d pump.(1)
Note
1. Yard number 402, built for Talcahuano
Enterprises.
