New Dredger For Wanganui Launched
Received Thursdav, 7 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 24. The dredger Wranganui, clesigned by Henrv Robb Limited for the Wanganui' ILarbour Board, was launched at Leith, Scotlund, by Alrs. A. N. Leslie, wifs c-f the Assistant Generai- Alanager of the Union Steam Ship Company. The vessel is speeially designed for dredging harhours and rivers. It is a single screw diesel propelled hopper grab dredger, 107-i feet long by 27 feet broad and 2 0} feet deep. Its propelling machinery 'ousists of a British polar engine.
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Chronicle (Levin), 25 November 1949, Page 5
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