Volume Eight - Pre-Victorian to the present day - more aspects - To dredge the River Ely - 1860's

The detail is set out in the Bill of Sale [323] :

Interestingly the construction was an iron framework cladded with a 'clencher' build hull equipped with a fairly heavy steam engine with an estimated mass of almost 90 tons. Clencher build refers to the wooden planking of the hull where all the planks overlap each other with their projecting edges facing downwards. This construction methodology was used for utility vessels such as the dredger i.e. where the vessel is not built for speed.