Report content as inappropriate
Original Text (Annotation: SPW019537 / 308793)
'
This bucket dredger has me puzzled – i.e. her name.
At first I thought she might have been the SLANEY because I noted in the Glasgow Herald of Aug 12, 1935:
“…the dredger Slaney, belonging to Ayrshire Dockyard Company, Irvine, went ashore, through a steering gear mishap”
I also noted in the press of 1896: “…new dredger Slaney, which has recently been puchased by the Wexford Harbour Commissioners. This vessel is of the following dimensions :-Length, 120 feet…”
The evidence against the SLANEY is that the Herald article also says she was: “on her way into Irvine Bay to discharge her dredgings…” This means the SLANEY was likely to have been a hopper dredger. On the contrary the image shows a dredger with chutes port & starboard for discharging material into other vessels, such as barges or hoppers.
I now think she might be the dredger IRVINE, based on the attached cutting for the ‘Clyde’ website. The length looks about right and her build date and scrapped date also fit the date of the image.
'