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Saturday, 28 February 2015

Dredger (La Plata?) launched at Schiedam, Netherlands according to the Dutch newspaper Nieuwe Schiedamsche Courant dated Monday 27 January 1908

An item reported the launching at the shipyard Gusto (firm A.F. Smulders), Schiedam, Netherlands on last Saturday of a seagoing bucket dredger built for foreign account. Fitted out with two screws, 2 compound steam engines with totally 520 ihp horsepower and 2 boilers with a total heating surface of 240 square metres and 8 atmosphere pressure and the necessary steam winches. Electrically lightened. Was to use her own engines to go her destination.(1)

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1. Yard number 338 La Plata built for Ackermans&v. Haaren?