Marinex Gravel Ltd.

More information about Marinex Gravels: The company was owned by Associated Fisheries Ltd. The Marinex 111 was the first dredger owned by Marinex Gravel and she was the barge in Berwick harbour she had a grab at one end and the dredged material was put into a hopper where it went on to a conveyer through a grading plant and then into four bins or containers each containing different sizes of stones. The Marinex 1V was a coaster (originally a Norwegian vessel named MV JOVISTA ) which carried the dredged material from Berwick to Blyth. The Marinex 111 was moored in Berwick in the same way as a bucket dredger and did not need a tug to move her around. The Marinex V was built at Fergusons on the Clyde, she was a great ship but a disaster as a dredger owing to the fact that she had been designed to carry sludge out to sea for the GLC. the biggest problem was the unloading gear. Then there was the Marinex VI which was built in Holland and was a great dredger but an uncomfortable ship at sea, she was fitted with a new type of grading system which consisted of two towers with a cyclone type system for seperating the bulk of the sand from the gravel. When Marinex Gravels was wound up in 1976 the Marinex V was sold for scrap and the Marinex VI sold to Westminster Gravels.