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Description: | 1 in 48 scale model of the hopper barge 'Medlock', built by Wood, Skinner and Company at Bill Quay, on the River Tyne in 1911. 'Medlock' was owned by the Tilbury Contracting and Dredging Company. She was used to carry the silt brought up from dredging river beds out to be dumped at sea. The design helped dumping to take place very easily because the barge's bottom opened up. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | made in the North East shipbuilding | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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