page_title: WD Mersey
hierarchical_section_title: WD Mersey
caption_attribution_description: Clyde river view project
context_page_description: The TSHD WD Mersey is a British trailing suction hopper dredger, owned and operated by Boskalis Westminster Ltd and built in Italy. The ship maintained ports around the British Isles, including Liverpool, the Manchester Ship Canal, Harwich, Heysham and the Firth of Clyde
  In 2017 she was sold and renamed UMD Hercules.
context_section_description: The TSHD WD Mersey is a British trailing suction hopper dredger, owned and operated by Boskalis Westminster Ltd (known as Westminster Dredging Company until 2014) and built in Italy. The ship maintained ports around the British Isles, including Liverpool, the Manchester Ship Canal, Harwich, Heysham and the Firth of Clyde
  In 2017 she was sold and renamed UMD Hercules.
caption: WD Mersey in the Firth of Clyde in 2013
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