World's biggest dredge

✍ Scribed by R.H.O.

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1937
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 51 KB
• Volume: 224
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(37)90572-6

✦ Synopsis

World's Biggest Vol. 119, No. 12.) The War Department's new hopper dredge, the Goethals, which was launched recently is the world's largest. Its overall length is 476 feet, loaded draft 25 feet and it has a hopper capacity of 5000 cubic yards. The dredge will work to a maximum cutting depth of 50 feet. Four boilers operating at 425 lb. pressure supply steam to turbo-electric generators. Two electric propelling motors are rated at 2250 hp., and two 32 in. dredging pumps are each driven by a I3OO hp. motor. The dredge is of the two compartment type, so that when fully loaded and with two compartments flooded the vessel will still float.

R. H. O.