An item reported the launching at the shipyard Gusto
(firm A.F. Smulders), Schiedam, Netherlands a day earlier [Friday] of the steel
hull of a seagoing suction dredger Tevere with press pump and 2 screws built
for account of the Italian government. Dimensions 30 x 6 x 2,20 (depth) metres.
One 150 ihp compound engine of the naval type with surface condensation for the
sand pump and screws, a steam winch on the bow for the anchor and suction pipe
and on a aft ships a second steam winch. One boiler with a heating surface of 60 square metres
and 8 atmosphere. Suction capacity 400 cubic metres/hour from a working depth
of 7 metres
and able to press the mud away via a floating pipe with a length of 100 metres. Speed around
6 knots (1)
Note
1. Yard number 371 for
the Italian Department of Public Works.
