One morning the port was attacked, the wharves were wrecked, a schooner and a dredger were sunk and 120 yards of warehouses were destroyed.
It consists of a bucket dredger, two barges and a tug.
It has been able to carve out a niche market in dredgers.
The port authority told me tonight that it will have to buy a new dredger; the old one is nearly kaput.
The new-style tractor dredgers—the equipment referred to in clause 2—can collect an average of 1.5 tonnes of cockles per hour.
Only 63% of shrimp vessel capacity is taken, and 0% of dredger capacity.
You can use dredgers which can walk a mile a day and dredge as they go.
Indeed, were that the case, no dredger would count as a vessel, whereas in fact every dredger counts as a vessel.