Hsin-Ho

SEAGOING

renamed Jin Hang Jun 302

Friday 21 January 1910. Yesterday was successfully the steel hull of a sea going bucket dredger with suction- and press equipment launched. Main dimensions are 48 (between perpendiculars) x 11 x 3,5 meters (hold). She was fitted out with 2 main compound engines each of 320 ihp each driving a screw, one of them also the sand pump and the other one the water pump or better said the bucket chain and the transport equipment for the dredged ground. There were also 7 horizontal 2-cylinder steam winches. All needed steam was delivered by two boilers each with a heating surface of 120 square meter and a pressure of 8 atmosphere. If necessary a form the main boilers independent donkey boiler could supply steam for the winches. Theoretical yield of the dredger was 900 tons each hour. She could dredge until a depth of 8 meter and press away the ground over a distance of 350 meters at a height above the water surface of 3 meter. She was complete electric lighted, had a speed of knots and able to go to China under own steam.