TCC DREDGER No.1

TCC DREDGER No.1

Postby HSA31 » Tue May 22, 2012 10:28 pm

A suction hopper dredger built in 1951 at Renfrew by Lobnitz & Co. Ltd.

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Re: TCC DREDGER No.1

Postby magoonigal » Wed May 23, 2012 12:30 am

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.... :?
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Re: TCC DREDGER No.1

Postby teesships » Wed May 23, 2012 5:58 pm

A retired dredger engineer with TCC/THPA confirms: the only boiler room on no. 1 dredger was forward.

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Re: TCC DREDGER No.1

Postby magoonigal » Wed May 23, 2012 7:38 pm

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.
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Re: TCC DREDGER No.1

Postby teesships » Thu Jul 19, 2012 12:06 pm

Photo taken by Albert Weller:
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Re: TCC DREDGER No.1

Postby TEESMAN » Sat Sep 01, 2012 9:46 am

T.C.C.DREDGER NO1 outwards 04.05.79 passing Tees Dock, and inwards from the Gare 06.07.79
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Re: TCC DREDGER No.1

Postby TEESMAN » Wed Mar 26, 2014 11:32 am

T.C.C.DREDGER NO1 date and photographer unknown
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Re: TCC DREDGER No.1

Postby taximan » Sun Nov 01, 2015 8:22 am

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.
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Re: TCC DREDGER No.1

Postby northeast » Sun Nov 01, 2015 12:58 pm

Thanks for this Taximan and welcome to our forum.
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Re: TCC DREDGER No.1

Postby teesships » Tue Apr 03, 2018 12:25 pm

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:
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