I want to get some views of the dredgers getting rid of the dirt.
It was one of the dredgers from the waterfront, really a submarine scoop shovel, that they used to keep the pools and the inner channel from sanding up.
The dredger and the three shielded derricks hadn't gotten into action yet.
The dredger went lurching forward, and everything moved off after it.
The port is very spacious and commodious, and dredgers have worked assiduously for several years past to deepen the entrance to it.
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One morning the port was attacked, the wharves were wrecked, a schooner and adredgerwere sunk and 120 yards of warehouses were destroyed.
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It consists of a bucketdredger, two barges and a tug.
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It has been able to carve out a niche market in dredgers.
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The port authority told me tonight that it will have to buy a newdredger; the old one is nearly kaput.
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The new-style tractor dredgers—the equipment referred to in clause 2—can collect an average of 1.5 tonnes of cockles per hour.
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Only 63% of shrimp vessel capacity is taken, and 0% ofdredgercapacity.
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You can use dredgers which can walk a mile a day and dredge as they go.
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Indeed, were that the case, nodredgerwould count as a vessel, whereas in fact everydredgercounts as a vessel.
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The dredgers are adapted to special conditions only.
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Does it include any permanentdredgeror other expensive material which could not easily be re-purchased?
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Applications for the services of the dredgers are under consideration.
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Is thisdredgerto be handed over to one harbour and to work there for a month or two while all the others wait?
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Item 8 concerns four dredgers, and the first are to be delivered 24 months after the placing of the order.
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You can get there at any stage of the tide without anydredger.
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Mollusc dredgers, which may cause long term environmental damage, should surely be outlawed under the precautionary principle.
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