Former Belgian cutter dredger Namur sold the Soviet Union according to the Dutch newspaper Nieuwsblad van het Noorden dated 26 February 1937

An item reported that the barge-unloading and cutter dredger Namur which was built in 1931 at the Dutch shipyard Gusto at Schiedam was sold via mediation of the maritime office W.H. Mellema at Amsterdam towards the Soviet Union. The dredger was property of the firm Ackermans en van Haaren at Antwerp, in origin a Dutch firm located at The Hague and which firm had just Dutch built vessels. The dredger was to be sued in the Northern Ice Sea. The newspaper Schiedamsche Courant dated 25 February confirmed this sale adding that her dimensions were 63 x 13 x 4,20 (hold) metres and that she was fitted out with two sand pumps an one water pump with totally around 3.000 hp.(1)

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1 The newspaper Schiedamsche Courant dated 28 April 1931 reported the launching a day earlier of a large stationary cutter dredger built for Belgian account. Her dimensions were 63 x 12 x 4,20 (hold). She was fitted out with two large dredger pimps of the Holland type which were easily to disassemble for maintenance. Each pump was drive by a triple expansion engine and could work separate or in range. Also able to unload the mud in barges. The suction pipe was fitted out with a cutter head for heavy soil driven by a independent triple expansion engine which engine also drove the water pump when she was used as a barge-unloading suction dredger.