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hesitate to say that a wooden vessel as proposed would be unsuitable even for partial use with sludge or wet sewage as the arrangements of a wooden vessel are very much less effective for such a purpose than those that are possible
in a Steel vessel.
8.
The Manchester
The Glasgow Corporation have the "Dalmuir" built of steal. The Liverpool Corporation have two vessels called the "Alpha" and "Beta" built of Iron. Corporation have one vessel called the "Joseph Thompson built of stebl. The London County Council have six vessels
the Belvidere" the "Binnie", the "Barrow", the Barking,
the "Bazalgette", the "Burns", built of steel.
Most of
these vessels are Twin screw hoppers, are subdivided into small compartments and the latest of them have large circular shaped valves in the bottom for liquid sewage instead of large doors which are only necessary in the
The vessels case of quantities of dry scavenging refuse.
have electric light
are fitted for working night and day, and are capable of going to sea in heavy weather.
and
9. The system at Liverpool with the "Alpha" "Beta" is the reception of the refuse in large buckets from canal barges which are emptied into the hopper vessel
They sometimes make six which takes the sewage to sea.
There is a crew of eleven all told.
trips a week.
The
23 to vessels are capable of steaming fully 10 knots so
They take leave dock on one tide and return on the next. seven hours to steam to and from the depositing ground
The following and each carry a deadweight of 350 tons.
is a sketch showing the method of working the hopper doors:
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