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Aberdeenshire Canal boat
Specific design for Aberdeenshire Canal, maximium size 57ft x 9ft. Little known.

CL transport
BT miscellaneous cargo craft types

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above decks watercraft component
Not to be used for indexing. Use a more specific term. The top edge of the highest deck on the vessel is the division between above and below decks.

CL components
BT <watercraft component by context>
NT back cabin
NT back end rail
NT beam (narrow boat)
NT bed hole
NT box mast
NT bulkhead
NT buttstrap
NT cabin frame
NT cabin slide
NT cants
NT chock (boat component)
NT coaming
NT cratch
NT cratch board (horizontal)
NT deck beam (narrow boat)
NT deck board
NT deck cloth
NT deck lid
NT deck plate
NT deckspace
NT dolly
NT engine 'ole
NT engine 'ole slide
NT false cratch
NT float (component)
NT fore cabin
NT gimbal
NT girder chain
NT girder strings
NT gunwhale
NT hawse eye
NT hawse plate
NT hawse timber
NT headledge
NT knee strings
NT margin plank
NT mast
NT modesty flap
NT plank (boat component)
NT ram's head
NT rigging
NT rudder stock
NT sidecloth strings
NT sidecloths
NT soap hole
NT spar
NT stanchion
NT stand
NT stay
NT stem bar
NT stem iron
NT stempost
NT sternpost
NT swan's neck
NT T stud
NT table cupboard
NT table flap
NT tiller
NT tiller bar
NT tippet
NT toe rail
NT top cloth
NT top cloth strings
NT top timber
NT tumblehome
NT tunnel hook
NT uprights
NT ventilator

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Adelphi Canal boat
1.5 ton boat, shape and size unknown, used on Adelphi Canal in Calow, Derbyshire in conjunction with the Adelphi Works.

CL transport
BT miscellaneous cargo craft types

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admiral class boat
Six pairs of boats built by Isaac Pimblott and Sons Ltd of Northwich and W.J. Yarwood of Northwich between 1957-60 for British Waterways North Western Division Southern Carrying Fleet. They were all named after former Admirals of the fleet.

CL transport
BT <narrow boat by type>

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adze
A tool with a long wooden handle and curved blade at right angles to the handle, used for chopping and shaping wood.

CL tools and equipment
BT forming equipment
BT woodworking equipment
NT carpenter's adze
NT shipwright's adze

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aft cockpit cruiser
Motor cruiser steered from the stern; type is popular with fishermen.

CL transport
BT motor cruiser

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Aire and Calder compartment boat
They were developed for the Aire and Calder Navigation by P.H. Bartholomew and in use from 1865 until 1987. They are rectangular boxes 21ft x 15ft x 8ft drawing 6ft 6in with 35 tons, loading up to 40 tons. They were initially pushed in groups of 6 by a tug with a dummy bow. During the Twentieth Century most trains were towed with 19 boats (up to 30) linked. They were lifted out of the water to unload.

UF pan
UF Tom Pudding
CL transport
BT <craft by context>
RT jebus

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aluminium boat
A boat whose main construction material is aluminium.

CL transport
BT <craft by material>

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Ampton boat

USE Hampton boat

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anchor
Devices dropped to the bottom of a body of water or to land and designed to bury themselves there in order to restrict the movement of watercraft or other floating objects.

UF ship's anchor
CL tools and equipment
BT boat equipment
NT grapnel anchor
NT kedge anchor
NT mushroom anchor
NT rond anchor
NT stockless anchor

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anchor lamp
Cylindrical hanging lamp fastened with side rings for running up the mast or hung from the fore stay or a similar wire. Robustly constructed in brass tin or galvanised iron. Lens glass is fully circular either globe type or dioptric pattern. Wire glass protectors usually run from oil reservoir to upper body of lamp.

CL tools and equipment
BT ship's lamp
RT fore stay
NT not under command lamp

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anchor windlass
Hand or mechanical winch used to raise or lower the anchor of a vessel.

CL tools and equipment
CL components
BT cargo handling system component
BT ship's windlass

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angle furnace
A special furnace used to heat frames for iron or steel boats before they are shaped on a bending block.

CL tools and equipment
BT boatbuilding equipment
RT bending block

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anser pin
Metal bolt fitted through the hull side of a narrow boat to carry the tunnel hooks.

CL components
BT pin
RT tunnel hook

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anvil
Heavy, usually steel or iron blocks on which metal is shaped by hand hammering or forging.

CL tools and equipment
BT blacksmith's equipment

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apron (boat component)
The inner timber of the stempost.

CL components
BT below decks watercraft component
RT deadwood
NT keel (boat component)
NT keelson
NT stempost
NT sternpost

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apron (costume)
Aprons worn by late Nineteenth Century/early Twentieth Century boatwomen with a long front and no bib, some buttoned at the back and/or secured with a belt at the waist.

UF bib
UF pinafore
UF pinner
CL costume

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Arbury Canal boat
Size and shape unknown.

UF Newdigate Canal boat
CL transport
BT miscellaneous cargo craft types

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Arisaig Canal boat
Locals recall a boat used on this artificial waterway connecting Loch Nan Eala with Arisaig Bay. Details not yet known.

CL transport
BT miscellaneous cargo craft types

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Arun barge
Small Thames barges capable of using the Wey and Arun Canal and River Wey to the Thames. Size varied depending on where they traded. The boats were 12ft beam and 40ft to 70ft long and carried around 20 tons. The decks were clear of objects because of low bridge heights on the Wey and Arun Canal. Larger Arun Barges used the River below Arundel.

CL transport
BT Thames barge
RT Thames sailing barge

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auger
Hand tools with a long steel staff up to 2 inches diameter, used with a wood cross handle sometimes loose, used for boring holes in wood. Covers various patent patterns.

CL tools and equipment
BT drilling equipment
RT platelayer's brace

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Aylsham Navigation wherry
A small Norfolk wherry, built to the size of the Aylsham Navigation. 12 ft 6 ins x 3 ft 6 ins max.

CL transport
BT Norfolk wherry

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