Due to silting of the river mouth, the port can only take shallow draft vessels.
It had done so so effectively that only very fast, shallow draft vessels stood much chance of slipping through.
The shallow draft vessel arrived at Indianola and unloaded the camels on May 14, 1856.
As a new generation of deeper draft vessels is introduced, we will lose business.
Deeper draft vessels must be moored at the end of long piers necessary to reach deeper water.
The Type C1-M ship was a separate design, for a significantly smaller and shallower draft vessel.
Curlew was a light draft vessel, capable of sailing up shallow streams.
The Mississippi River Gulf Outlet was closed to deep draft vessels.
Lytton was designed to be a shallow draft vessel to allow her to negotiate rapids and other areas of low water.
She carried 12 of these shallow draft vessels.