Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
New Bucket Dredge For Queensland
Brisbane, August 16. – A record of 30,000 tons of mud and silt a day will be cleared soon, in a drive to hold and increase port depths throughout Queensland.
A Harbours and Marine Department spokesman said at the week-end that, in an emergency, the State’s reinforced dredge fleet could work two shifts and double this output.
Dredges were now lifting about 15,000 tons of mud and silt a day from Brisbane, Gladstone, Townsville and Port Douglas. Soon this output would be increased by about 9000 tons a day when the dredges Remora and Morwong, now being overhauled, were returned to service.
A new bucket dredge, the Groper, would leave Scotland this week for Brisbane. It would handle about 6000 tons a day.
Description source:
Townsville Daily Bulletin, 17 August 1954
View the original image at the Queensland State Archives:
Digital Image ID 12437