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mv SIR JOSEPH BAZALGETTE
built by James Lamont & Company Greenock,
Yard No 399 Engines by Crossley Bros Manchester
Last Name: MARYAM (2000)
Port of Registry: London
Propulsion: 2 oil2SA each 6cy machy aft
Launched: Thursday, 20/06/1963
Built: 1963
Ship Type: Sludge Carrier
Tonnage: 2258 grt
Length: 293 feet 8
Breadth: 46 feet 8
Draught: 18 feet
Owner History:
Thames Water Authority
Rocky Shipping & Trading Panama (2000)
Status: Active -
Remarks: This vessel coomemorates Joseph Bazalgette, the creator of the London Sewerage system, which rid the capital of the scourge of cholera. Although initially ridiculed by the press Bazalgette's fortitude won the day. Bazalgette's sewer tunnels were connected to the Crossness Pumping Station which was fitted with four massive pumping engines supplied by James Watt & Company, the firm founded by the great Greenock~born engineer
see
http://www.crossness.org.uk/sites/20030922PJK/engines.htm
After his success with the sewerage system he went on to shape much of the healthy developments of London including the Thames Embankment (which raised the speed of the river), wider boulevards, the city's parks and the bridges Putney, Battersea and Hammersmith. A century after his triumphs, this vessel was named after Bazalgette on her launch at Port Glasgow.
Previous update by Stuart Cameron, Colin Campbell, Paul Strathdee and Bruce Biddulph
Last updated: by Stuart Cameron from the original records by Stuart Cameron
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