. Marine Engineer . Photo by Madure, Macdcnald & Co., Glasgow. Dredger Lord Desborough - View along the ( Photo Co., Glasgow. Sand-Pump Dredger Lord Desborough on the stocks-Messrs. Ferguson Brothers, Port (ilasgow. l82 THE MARINE ENGINEER AND NAVAL ARCHITECT December i, 1907 POWERFUL SAND^PUMP DREDGER FORTHE THAMES. FROM the stocks of Messrs. Ferguson Bros.,dredger builders, Port Glasgow, there waslaunched on November qth a very powerfulsand-pump hopper dredger, the Lord Desborough, forthe Thames Conservancy Board. The launch waswitnessed by a large concourse of people, includingMr.
. Marine Engineer . Photo by Madure, Macdcnald & Co., Glasgow. Dredger Lord Desborough - View along the ( Photo Co., Glasgow. Sand-Pump Dredger Lord Desborough on the stocks-Messrs. Ferguson Brothers, Port (ilasgow. l82 THE MARINE ENGINEER AND NAVAL ARCHITECT December i, 1907 POWERFUL SAND^PUMP DREDGER FORTHE THAMES. FROM the stocks of Messrs. Ferguson Bros.,dredger builders, Port Glasgow, there waslaunched on November qth a very powerfulsand-pump hopper dredger, the Lord Desborough, forthe Thames Conservancy Board. The launch waswitnessed by a large concourse of people, includingMr. Robert Philipson, the secretary of the Board,whose wife performed the naming ceremony. Thisvessel—illustrations of which on the builders stocksand of her propelling and pumping engines in theshops we give—is the largest dredger, as regards The navigating and pipe-manceuvring bridges ofthe Lord Desborough are placed forward of the hopper,and the chart-room and steering-house on the upperand lower bridges respectively. An accommodationgangway leads from lower bridge to engine casing. Onthis gangway—clearl
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