An item reported that on Saturday the seagoing bucket dredger Aldovisi built for foreign account left the shipyard Gusto 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)
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1. Yard number 402, built for Talcahuano Enterprises by Gusto (firm A.F. Smulders), Schiedam, Netherlands.
