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Dredge

Dredging machine, Suez Canal, Egypt

5 October 2020 by Monissa


Canal: Drague en travail
(Canel: Dredge at work)
c.1910
Publisher: The Cairo Postcard Trust

Categories Canals, Canals & locks, Dredge, Egypt Leave a comment

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