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TCC DREDGER No.1

PostPosted: Tue May 22, 2012 10:28 pm
by HSA31
A suction hopper dredger built in 1951 at Renfrew by Lobnitz & Co. Ltd.

TCC DREDGER No.1.jpg

Re: TCC DREDGER No.1

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2012 12:30 am
by magoonigal
Can anyone confirm what her Machinery Layout was please?

She was powered by two Triple Expansion Engines and according to Lloyds they were Aft.

I had assumed her Dredge Pump was situated forward with its own Boiler, hence the funnel being forward......

But was the Main/Only Boiler Room situated forward and was steam supplied to the Dredge Pump then aft to her propulsion engines??? Seems a long way to run the Main Steam Main.

Should have paid more attention when she was being scrapped.... :?

Re: TCC DREDGER No.1

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2012 5:58 pm
by teesships
A retired dredger engineer with TCC/THPA confirms: the only boiler room on no. 1 dredger was forward.

Ron

Re: TCC DREDGER No.1

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2012 7:38 pm
by magoonigal
Thanks Ron, hope the Steam Main to the Engines was well lagged.....

Must have been a long job getting her warmed through from a Cold Start.

Re: TCC DREDGER No.1

PostPosted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 12:06 pm
by teesships
Photo taken by Albert Weller:
tccdredgerno1xawneg.jpg
Ron

Re: TCC DREDGER No.1

PostPosted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 9:46 am
by TEESMAN
T.C.C.DREDGER NO1 outwards 04.05.79 passing Tees Dock, and inwards from the Gare 06.07.79
T.C.C.DREDGER NO1 040579a.jpg
Photo Michael Green
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Photo Michael Green

Re: TCC DREDGER No.1

PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2014 11:32 am
by TEESMAN
T.C.C.DREDGER NO1 date and photographer unknown
T.C.C. DREDGER NO1.jpg
Photo Michael Green Collection

Re: TCC DREDGER No.1

PostPosted: Sun Nov 01, 2015 8:22 am
by taximan
magoonigal wrote:Can anyone confirm what her Machinery Layout was please?

She was powered by two Triple Expansion Engines and according to Lloyds they were Aft.

I had assumed her Dredge Pump was situated forward with its own Boiler, hence the funnel being forward......

But was the Main/Only Boiler Room situated forward and was steam supplied to the Dredge Pump then aft to her propulsion engines??? Seems a long way to run the Main Steam Main.

Should have paid more attention when she was being scrapped.... :?


The only boiler room was forrard, the pump room was located below the wheelhouse and the engines were astern of that. The crew lived up in the bows and had their own galley while the 'officeres' lived aft.

Re: TCC DREDGER No.1

PostPosted: Sun Nov 01, 2015 12:58 pm
by northeast
Thanks for this Taximan and welcome to our forum.

Re: TCC DREDGER No.1

PostPosted: Tue Apr 03, 2018 12:25 pm
by teesships
50 YEARS AGO .... YESTERDAY!

T.C.C.DREDGER No.1 (5347726), Tees Conservancy Commissioners (Tees and Hartlepools Port Authority from 1.1.67), 1206gt,
completed Lobnitz, Renfrew, 5-1951- BU Blyth 8.79 [Hughes Bolckow Ltd]

Tees Dock - 2 April 1968:
tcc-dredger-no.1-020468x1.jpg
tcc-dredger-no.1-020468x2.jpg
tcc-dredger-no.1-020468x3.jpg
tcc-dredger-no.1-020468x4.jpg
Ron