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Portlairge

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General properties

Vessel type: 
GHD
Built in: 
1907
Yard number: 
57

Physical properties

Length (OA): 
42.76 m
Width: 
8.87 m
Depth: 
3.51 m
Engine specs: 
Muir & Houston Ltd - C2cyl (16 & 33 x 22ins)
speed: 
9 knts
Bucket capacity (standard): 
1.08 m³
Hopper volume: 
255 m³
Dredging depth: 
12.19 m

About this page

Status: 
Historical
Timeframe: 
1907
Review: 
Scrapped

Last Updated

19 weeks 1 day ago

About this equipment

Built for the Waterford Harbour Commissioners. 401 grt / 165 nrt /62nhp  ON.: 102006 

Portlairge worked on the River Suir from September 1907 until late 1982, has since then sat abandoned on slobland near Saltmills, County Wexford for over 35 years.  She was deleted from Lloyd's Register in 1958 as hulked. Efforts to preserve the dredger, being the last working steam dredger in Ireland failed, so she is was still lying abandoned and derelict in Bannow Bay near Saltmills, County Wexford in 2017.

 

Sources: : https://waterford-news.ie and https://shippingandshipbuilding.uk

Images

Book cover Andrew Doherty’s Waterford Harbour Tides and Tales portlarge_abandoned_at_wrexham

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