Uruguay I and II

General properties

Vessel type:

BLD/HD

Flag:

UY

Owner:

Public works Montevideo

Manager:

Public works Montevideo

Built in:

1902

Shipyard:

Scheepswerf Gusto (IHC)

Yard number:

275-276

Physical properties

Length (OA):

73.45 m

Length (BP):

70 m

Width:

12.5 m

Depth:

5.2 m

speed:

7 knts

Total power:

700 kW

Bucket capacity (standard):

0.80 m³

Hopper volume:

800 m³

Dredging depth:

13 m

About this page

Status:

Historical

Timeframe:

1902

Last Updated

40 weeks 5 days ago

About this equipment

Bucket ladder dredgers also capable to work as a hopperdredger.

On 5 December departed from the shipyard of Smulders at Slikkerveer towards Montevideo the bucket dredger Uruguay I. She was build on French behalf to complete the harbour works at Montevideo and to be afterwards transferred to the Uruguayan government. She was the largest dredger at that moment build in the Netherlands with as main dimensions 73.45 x 12.5 x 5.25. Her hopper capacity was 800m³ or 1,280 tons. The 32 buckets had each a capacity of 800 litres. According to the signed contract her working capacity had to be 500m³ each hour while she could worked to a maximum depth of 13 metres. She was able through a sucking device to fill the hopper in 40 minutes while afterwards the mud was dumped in open sea. Her sister ship Uruguay II was nearly completed.

(Exerpt from the Dutch magazine 'De Ingenieur' dated 27 June 1902 reported the launching on 3 June of the hopper bucket dredger Uruguay I)