Scheepswerf en Machinefabriek Werf Gusto v/h A.F. Smulders

In 1927

Product range

150 ton floating derrick crane under construction

Werf Gusto owes its world-wide reputation particularly to the construction of its specialties, the most important of which are: bucket-dredgers; suction dredgers; excavators; floating cranes of great lifting capacities; coaling (bunkering) vessels and coal elevators.

Dredgers

Dredgers of all kinds and sizes have been (and still are being) succesfully constructed, amongst which we particularly mention self-propelling and stationary bucket and suction dredgers with or without cutter arrangement; trailing suction dredgers up to the largest capacity; tin dredgers etc. etc. Werf Gusto's dredging plants have been supplied to many Governments and to numerous private Companies all over the world.

Heavy cranes

Another success, which inaugurated a new era in modern harbour equipment, was attained by the construction of electrically driven derricking and revolving floating cranes. The great lifting power of these cranes (150 tons, 250 tons, etc.) combined with absolute safety, accuracy, and simplicity of manipulation secured for this type of crane a world reputation, and orders for similar cranes have been received from the largest and most important ports, among others being: Liverpool, Manchester, Hull, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Antwerp, Le Havre, Spezzia, Stavanger, Petrograd, Rio de Janeiro, etc.

Coaling equipment

A revolution in the manner of bunkering large ocean-going steamers was brought about by Werf Gusto's automatic coal transporters. By bunkering vessels at a rate of over 200 tons per hour, these have dispensed with the old-fashioned methods by hand labour, and have proved the solution of economical and clean bunkering, while in no way interfering with the discharging or loading of the cargo.

Other

Limited space only allows us to shortly refer to the further manufactures of Werf Gusto, namely: steam hoppers, hopper barges, automatic tilting barges, floating pipelines up to the largest diameters, as used in connection with suction dredgers, and also vessels of a more general nature, such as passenger and cargo steamers, tank steamers, floating docks, etc. etc.

At the present time [1927] Werf Gusto has under construction: floating cranes for South America, Morocco, Spain and the Canary Islands; a hopper suction dredger with a minimum capacity of 6000 M³ per hour; and a cutter suction dredger for South America; floating pipelines for South America; automatic tilting barges for Morocco, Spain and Curaçao; a coaling installation for the Government mines (Staatsmijnen).