Bucket Dredger No.9 in Miniature | Maritime Innovation in Miniature Series 2

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This is a model of Bucket Dredger No.9, built in Paisley on the Clyde in 1923 and operated on the river Tyne. Dredgers have a history that goes back to Ancient Egypt, but this is an example of the pinnacle of steam dredger design.
Dredgers like this have played a key role in world history. They have improved the safety of coastal navigation and made deep water ports and shipbuilding facilities of unprecedented depth and scale. Without them the astonishing growth in ship size after the industrial revolution would have been impossible. In doing their job, however, they have wreaked unprecedented and irreversible damage on the marine environment, in some places changing our maritime world forever.
It is designed with a wide and flat-bottomed hull for stability. To maintain her position the dredger is equipped with numerous moorings, secured at various points around the vessel.
Ship model courtesy of the ‪@TWMuseums‬
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