Скачать или смотреть The Mud Boat: Ireland’s Last Working Steam Dredger

The SS Portlairge, known as the Mud Boat, was built in Dublin in 1907 and worked for over 75 years dredging Waterford Harbour and the River Suir.

This coal-fired steam hopper dredger kept the channel navigable for growing commercial ships until 1987, when she was beached at Bannow Bay, County Wexford, where she remains today.

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Image by Arthur Henri Poole (c. 1923).
National Library of Ireland, Poole Photographic Studio Collection, Ref: POOLEWP 3137.
Public Domain.

Photo: The Quays, Waterford, County Waterford, Ireland — Library of Congress (Public Domain).

Image: From east, Waterford, County Waterford, Ireland — Library of Congress (Public Domain).