DREDGERS AT WORK
Keeping the silt at bay
By Stephen Morris
With the Sospan Dau currently dredging the main channel, I found some pictures of the previous dredgers that used to visit the port to reduce the mud from the harbour entrance after the bucket dredgers Testside and Foremost Prince had departed.
Westminster Dredging owned W.D. Thames at work in the river
W.D. Waterway dredging across the river. Meeching at her berth, and an Ellerman's container ship at the lay-by berth.
W.D.Severn by the old East Pier lighthouse