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BACAT barge
Barges designed to work with BACAT ship.
CL transport
BT <craft by context>
NT one hundred and forty ton barge
NT three hundred and seventy ton barge
BACAT ship
A ship designed to carry 10 x one hundred and forty ton barges and 3 x
three hundred and seventy ton barges. BACAT stands for Barge Aboard Catamaran
CL transport
BT <craft by context>
back band
Wide leather strap across the spine of the horse forming the main support
for the trace chains or bobbin traces.
CL tools and equipment
CL components
BT equine equipment
BT equine powered propulsion system component
back cabin
A canal narrow boat term describing the cabin at the stern of the boat in
which the crew lived.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
back end rail
A curved metal bar, carrying a sliding metal ring, fitted across the front
end of the engineroom of a canal narrow boat, often used to attach mooring
lines.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
back flap
A type of hinge which allows hinged parts to sit back to back with no gap.
Used in narrow boat cabins.
CL components
BT fastener
RT table flap
back stay
A rope or wire running from the head of a mast towards the stern of a
vessel to support the mast.
CL components
BT stay
bag hook
A single, curved metal hook with a short wooden handle, designed to fit
easily in the hand for moving bags or sacks.
UF docker's hook
UF hand hook
UF sack hook
CL tools and equipment
BT hook
NT double bag hook
bailer
Shallow water container with a short wooden handle; kept on the roof of
the stern cabin when not in use beside mop and water can. Sold as bailers for
small watercraft from chandlers and adapted for use as 'dippers' on narrow
boats. Corn scoops bought from ironmongers also adapted for this use.
CL tools and equipment
CL containers
BT boat equipment
BT boat maintenance equipment
RT dipper
bale boat
Canal flat with a wide deck designed to carry cotton on the Rochdale
Canal.
CL transport
BT Rochdale flat
bale hook
A mechanical device with two points which is used with chains for lifting
bales.
CL tools and equipment
BT hook
ballard
A type of ice breaking boat invented by Stephen Ballard in 1838 on the
Hereford and Gloucester Canal. It involved a shovel type device being used to
break the ice from below.
CL transport
BT ice breaker
USE punt
bank tub
A floating box with sliding seat and outrigger tethered to the bank and
used for technique coaching.
CL transport
BT training craft
Bantock boat
Boat with iron sides wooden bottoms but also single wooden side strake
built up from the bottoms.
CL transport
BT Birmingham day boat
barge
A craft with a boat shaped bow and with flat (transom) rounded or pointed
sterns. Almost all 14 feet wide or wider, the length can vary considerably.
UF wide boat
CL transport
BT cargo vessel
NT barges designed to work in multiple units
NT float (boat)
NT keel (boat)
NT Lancaster Canal boat
NT Leeds and Liverpool craft
NT lighter
NT luff barge
NT Mersey barge
NT Mersey flat
NT Norfolk wherry
NT North Eastern barge
NT River Severn craft
NT Scottish barge
NT Thames barge
NT western barge
RT narrow boat
NT toe rail
barge pole
Pole used for propelling or fending off a barge by pushing with the pole
against a fixed point. Could have a variety of ends. Has a thicker diameter than
a boat shaft.
CL tools and equipment
CL components
BT boat equipment
BT human powered propulsion system component
RT quant
NT rypek
USE Measham teapot
barges designed to work in multiple units
Use a more specific term.
CL transport
BT barge
NT Fen lighter
NT gang lighter
NT Stour lighter
USE Measham teapot
Barnsley keel
Variation of the Humber keel, trading to Barnsley. Size 70ft x 14ft 6
inches.
CL transport
BT Humber keel
barrel pump
A pump designed to fit into the bung hole of a barrel and pump it out.
CL tools and equipment
BT pump
Basingstoke barge
Like Wey Barges they were non-sailing Thames barges, 72ft 6in x 13ft 10in
and carrying 80 tons on the River Thames, 50 tons on the Canal, less above
Basingstoke. The last barge was built in 1935 ceasing trading in 1967. There
were two main types 'odd'ns' used for day work with no cabin and 'reso's' with a
cabin.
CL transport
BT Thames barge
bastard boat
Barge size but constructed in the style of narrow boats,a general term but
specifically applied to the type operated on the Bridgewater Canal, Rochdale
Canal and the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal.
CL transport
BT miscellaneous cargo craft types
USE Birmingham day boat
BCN boat number plate
Metal plate, indicating the gauging number of a craft on the BCN
(Birmingham Canal Navigations). Early examples are oval with chiselled numbers
from iron plate. Later examples in cast iron, three designs.
CL tools and equipment
BT boat plate
beam (narrow boat)
Thick wooden planks 11 inches wide by 2 inches, set across the width of
the hull of a narrow boat at gunwhale level to provide rigidity to the hull.
They have cut out slots and notches to support the stands and mast.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
RT girder chain
NT mast
NT running planks
NT stand
USE maul
bed hole
A cupboard space in a canal narrow boat cabin having a door which drops
down to a horizontal position to form the base of a bed in the cabin.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
bellows
Instruments or machines that produce a strong current of air by expansion
or contraction of an air chamber, usually used to fan a fire in a hearth.
CL tools and equipment
BT blacksmith's equipment
BT founding equipment
BT heating equipment
belly band
Narrow leather strap with buckle fastener fitting under the ribcage of the
horse, preventing the back band from lifting.
UF girth strap
CL tools and equipment
CL components
BT equine equipment
BT equine powered propulsion system component
below 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 apron (boat component)
NT belting
NT bilge plate
NT bilges
NT bosom bar
NT bottom board
NT bulkhead
NT buttstrap
NT carling
NT coffin plate
NT deadwood
NT floor
NT frame
NT futtocks
NT grounds
NT guard iron
NT gusset
NT hatches
NT hog
NT hold
NT ice plates
NT keel (boat component)
NT keel bar
NT keelson
NT knee
NT long board
NT mast step
NT oxter plate
NT pillar
NT plank (boat component)
NT pump box
NT rib
NT rudder
NT shearing
NT shell plate
NT shutts
NT skin plank
NT slide
NT stealer
NT stem bar
NT stem iron
NT stempost
NT stern cupboard
NT sternpost
NT stopwater
NT strake
NT T pump
NT thwart
NT tumblehome
belt
Flexible straps or bands generally encircling the waist or hips or passing
over the shoulder and usually having some type of fastener, such as a buckle;
worn for decoration, support, or to carry such items as weapons, tools, or
money.
CL costume
NT spiders web belt
belting
The timber guard strips attached to larger vessels at deck level to
protect from impact and abrasion.
CL components
BT below decks watercraft component
bench shears
Large shears used in sheet metal work typically having one handle bent to
go into a hole in the top of the workbench so that they rest on the surface when
in use.
CL tools and equipment
BT metalworking equipment
bending block
A large iron casting punctured with square or round holes. On it vessels'
frames are bent to shape, following the curve of the set iron, the frames are
held by dogs, and the holes allow any shape to be manipulated. The frame bending
is done by sledge or pneumatic hammers working on red-hot metal.
CL tools and equipment
BT boatbuilding equipment
RT angle furnace
bent iron
A caulking iron with a bend in it, used for reaching places that a
straight iron cannot reach.
CL tools and equipment
BT caulking iron
berthing tug
Manoeuvrable vessel used to put larger ships onto the correct berth or to
turn them in small waterways.
CL transport
BT tug
best and best punt
A single racing punt.
CL transport
BT racing punt
best boat
Developed from the earlier wager boat. Lightweight with just sufficient
room for a single occupant. Most best boats were of semicircular section,
without a proper keel but with a type of fin placed aft of the sculler. The
interior ends were lined with waterproof silk. After 1873 there was a sliding
seat and full outriggers.
CL transport
BT competitive craft
BT human powered boat
RT wager
NT whiff
bevel
A tool marking a fixed angle other than 90 degrees.
UF bevel gauge
CL tools and equipment
BT measuring equipment
NT boatbuilder's bevel
bevel board
Used in wooden boatbuilding. Has the angle of bevel of each frame of the
boat marked on it.
CL tools and equipment
BT boatbuilding equipment
BT measuring equipment
USE bevel
USE apron (costume)
bilge plate
Metal shell plate on a vessel which joins the sides to the bottom, often
curved.
CL components
BT below decks watercraft component
bilge pump
Pump used to remove water from the bilges of a boat. Usually consisting of
a long cylinder with a hand operated plunger.
CL tools and equipment
BT boat equipment
BT pump
RT bilges
bilges
The lowest part of the internal spaces of a vessel, usually below the hold
ceiling and cabin floor into which all leakage and rain water drains.
CL components
BT below decks watercraft component
RT bilge pump
NT sounding rod
billy boy
Similar to keels in construction but much larger. Billy boys traded all
over the North Sea and had more developed sailing rigs than both sloops and
keels. Often clinker built in construction.
CL transport
BT keel (boat)
USE ship's binnacle
Birkenhead flat
Used on the Mersey but not on the Bridgewater Canal as they were too big
to go up Runcorn locks.
CL transport
BT canal flat
Birmingham Canals tub boat
A British Waterways experimental design of 1957. Capacity up to 4 tons.
CL transport
BT tub boat
Birmingham day boat
Double ended and either open or with a simple cabin they retain the
simplicity of design of the original Worsley mine boats. Built in wood, iron or
steel or a combination they vary in size and capacity according to builder,
company or cargo specification. The maximum size of a day boat using locks was
71ft 6in x 7ft 2in and loading 40 tons on a draught of 3ft 10in.
UF BCN boat
UF joey boat
CL transport
BT narrow boat
NT Bantock boat
NT box cabin boat
NT double ender
NT Hampton boat
NT hotholer
NT round sterned day boat
NT Rowley ragger
NT station boat (Birmingham)
NT tube boat
RT open boat
NT open day boat
bit
An interchangeable tool used chiefly for boring holes, designed to be
fitted into a brace. They fit into the brace with either a short, square tapered
tang or have a flat tang for insertion into a wooden pad or the foot of a wooden
brace.
CL tools and equipment
BT drilling equipment
RT shipwright's brace
bittern
A class of sailing dinghies 11.5 feet long, designed for the Norfolk and
Suffolk Broads by Leslie Landamore.
CL transport
BT recreational craft
BT sail propelled boat
bitts
Pairs of posts on the deck of a ship for fastening mooring lines or
cables.
CL tools and equipment
BT ship's equipment
black boat
Refers to Thomas Clayton day boats not painted in the usual red, yellow
and green livery.
USE tanker boat
USE Norfolk wherry
blacksmith's equipment
Equipment used as part of a blacksmith's regular work. Do not use for
indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL tools and equipment
BT forming and shaping equipment
BT metalworking equipment
NT anvil
NT bellows
NT branding iron
NT cold chisel
NT cold set
NT flattener
NT fuller
NT hardie
NT hot chisel
NT hot set
NT leg vice
NT mandrel
NT nail header
NT portable forge
NT round punch
NT set hammer
NT square punch
NT swage
NT swage block
NT tue iron
blinkers
Leather eye shades forming part of the headgear of the horse to prevent
distraction by restricting vision to forwards only. Often decorated with brass
with company name.
UF winkers
CL tools and equipment
CL components
BT equine equipment
BT equine powered propulsion system component
blopping board
Board fitted from the coaming top to the gunwhale of keels to enable
stones to be slid over the side.
CL components
BT cargo handling system component
RT coaming
NT gunwhale
blue top
A narrow boat with blue fibreglass hold covers Originally River class
boats but some other narrow boats used the blue top hold covers and were refered
to under the overall name.
CL transport
BT <craft by hold covering>
BT narrow boat
RT river class boat
USE making iron
boat equipment
Covers equipment found primarily on craft designed for use on inland
waterways. Do not use for indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL tools and equipment
BT <tools and equipment by context>
NT anchor
NT bailer
NT barge pole
NT bilge pump
NT boat hook (attachment)
NT boat lighting equipment
NT boat plate
NT boat shaft
NT bollard
NT bottle stove
NT cabin block
NT cabin mop
NT cabin stool
NT coal box
NT crochet lace
NT dipper
NT fender
NT hand bowl
NT handspike
NT oar
NT paddle
NT rally plaque
NT ribbon plate
NT ropework
NT runner
NT shackle
NT stower
NT strop
NT water barrel
NT windlass
boat hook (attachment)
A hooked metal implement which fits onto the end of a shaft to form a boat
hook (shaft).
CL tools and equipment
BT boat equipment
RT boat hook (shaft)
boat hook (shaft)
A boat shaft with a hooked end (sometimes a double hook) or a spike.
CL tools and equipment
BT boat shaft
NT handy billy
RT boat hook (attachment)
boat jack
Special jack used in boatyards to raise inland waterways craft.
CL tools and equipment
BT boatbuilding equipment
BT lifting equipment
boat lighting equipment
Lighting devices used on inland waterways craft having a vessel to contain
the source of illumination, such as grease or oil; also those that have a
separate energy source to which they are connected, such as gas or electricity.
Do not use for indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL tools and equipment
BT boat equipment
NT cabin lamp
NT engine room lamp
NT globe lamp
NT tunnel lamp
boat maintenance equipment
Equipment used in the ongoing maintenance of inland waterways craft. Do
not use for indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL tools and equipment
BT maintenance and repairing equipment
NT bailer
boat plate
An identifying plate with a name or number, used on inland waterways
craft.
UF boat registration plate
CL tools and equipment
BT boat equipment
NT BCN boat number plate
NT Glamorganshire Canal boat number plate
NT Thames boat number plate
USE boat plate
boat repair equipment
Equipment and materials used for remedial repair work on inland waterways
craft. Do not use for indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL tools and equipment
BT maintenance and repairing equipment
NT caulking equipment
NT chalico
NT pitch
NT tar
boat shaft
Shaft used on canal narrow boats for pushing off, hooking on or propelling
the vessel. Of smaller diameter than a barge pole.
CL tools and equipment
BT boat equipment
NT boat hook (shaft)
NT cabin shaft
boat weighing machine
Three such machines were built to weigh loaded boats as part of the
gauging process. They worked as inverted weighbridges.
CL tools and equipment
BT weighing equipment
USE shipwright's adze
boatbuilder's bevel
A straight stock with an adjustable blade which can be set as required for
testing and setting out workpieces to an angle. A boatbuilder's bevel usually
has a hardwood stock, approx 12 inches long and has a long and a short blade
slotted in at either end.
CL tools and equipment
BT bevel
BT boatbuilding equipment
boatbuilder's chisel
A strong all iron chisel with a parallel blade from 0.75 to 2 inches wide.
CL tools and equipment
BT boatbuilding equipment
BT shipwright's chisel
boatbuilder's cramp
A large G cramp, often sold as coachbuilder's cramps but in common usage
in boatyards.
CL tools and equipment
BT boatbuilding equipment
boatbuilding equipment
Equipment in common use when constructing inland waterways craft. Do not
use for indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL tools and equipment
BT construction equipment
NT angle furnace
NT bending block
NT bevel board
NT boat jack
NT boatbuilder's bevel
NT boatbuilder's chisel
NT boatbuilder's cramp
NT bostocks
NT carpenter's adze
NT caulking equipment
NT futtock saw
NT game block
NT gouge
NT pitch ladle
NT pitch mop
NT plate furnace
NT rove bunter
NT saw
NT scrieve board
NT shearing hammer
NT tar boiler
NT timber dog
NT tup
USE spiders web belt
boatwoman's bonnet
Elaborate bonnet adapted from design of other working women's bonnets in
mid Nineteenth Century. Made from cotton fabric with stiff brims formed by rows
of corded quilting and with the main part of the bonnet formed by alternate rows
of frilled tucks. A horse shoe shaped piece of material shaped it to the back of
the head with a 'curtain' of material covering the neck. Sometimes edged with
crochet lace and streamers of fabric. Had strings so that it could be tied under
the chin. Also worn by children (less elaborate.)
CL costume
bobbin
Spherical or barrel shaped roller threaded onto a ring used to assist the
travel of booms or gaffs up and down masts.
CL components
BT mast and spar component
RT boom
NT gaff
NT mast
bobbins
Spherical or barrel shaped hard wood rollers, threaded onto traces to
prevent rubbing on the horse's flanks and to prevent damage to the harness from
bridges.
UF rollers
UF spoles
CL tools and equipment
CL components
BT equine equipment
BT equine powered propulsion system component
body drag
Three hooks joined together on a bar used to drag bodies out of the canal.
CL tools and equipment
BT holding and gripping equipment
bollard
A short post on a deck or on a waterside (usually metal), used for
securing ropes.
CL tools and equipment
BT boat equipment
BT docking equipment
BT ship's equipment
NT bollard cleat
NT ship's bollard
bollard cleat
A T shaped bollard which removes the need to use a knot.
CL tools and equipment
BT bollard
BT docking equipment
bolt
Small metal rods used as fastener, having a head and often helical
threading and being usually secured by a nut or riveting.
CL components
BT fastener
NT deck bolt
NT eye bolt
bolt rope
Rope which is sewn all around the edge of a sail.
CL components
BT sail component
boning rod
A T shaped stake used when sighting levels and falls in excavations.
CL tools and equipment
BT surveying equipment
boom
Long spar of wood or metal, usually circular in cross section, to which
the lower edge of the sail is fastened.
CL components
BT mast and spar component
RT bobbin
NT spar
boomie
Vessels related to Thames barges but with booms, a rig designed for larger
sea passages. Nearly all were large barges based on East coast ports schooners
with the bottoms cut off.
CL transport
BT Thames barge
bosom bar
Steel bar, often angle, used to both join and reinforce the joint -
usually in the chine and gunwhale angles on narrow boats.
CL components
BT below decks watercraft component
bostocks
Used to support a narrow boat on a slipway. Approximately 9 feet long,
placed across the bottoms at the fore end and stern. Have a rounded foot resting
on a block.
CL tools and equipment
BT boatbuilding equipment
USE rigging screw
bottle stove
Bottle-shaped cast iron stove widely used for heating in stern cabins of
narrow boats; were eventually replaced by a patent heating and cooking range
with side ovens.
CL tools and equipment
BT boat equipment
BT heating equipment
bottom board
Wooden board used as the bottom of a narrow boat, usually laid across the
width of the boat ('athwartships').
CL components
BT below decks watercraft component
NT cross board
RT tup
bottom fuller
A shaping tool, triangular in shape but with a blunt edge for reducing the
thickness of the metal when struck. A bottom fuller would be inserted into an
anvil for use in conjunction with a top fuller.
CL tools and equipment
BT fuller
bottom swage
A swage fitted into the anvil to shape metal from below.
CL tools and equipment
BT swage
bow fender
Intricately made rope stem fender used on West Country boats or an
intricately made rope stem fender for Yorkshire keels.
UF brighouse fender
CL tools and equipment
BT fender
bow hauled boat
A boat that is bow hauled is pulled by a person.
CL transport
BT <craft by propulsion>
BT human powered boat
box boat
Box Boats are open, single ended craft 68ft x7ft carrying coal in boxes.
Some were built with small day cabins. Variations included a shortened 60ft
length for the Manchester Bolton and Bury Canal. Some boats ran without boxes to
carry other cargoes.All but one were unpowered.
UF starver
CL transport
BT narrow boat
box cabin boat
A day boat with a cabin.
CL transport
BT Birmingham day boat
BT <craft by accommodation>
box mast
Complete assembly including a towing mast and mast box.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
BT equine powered propulsion system component
RT mast pin
NT top mast
boxed trow
Like an open moulded trow but with bulkheads and the sides of the cargo
space raised to the height of the fore and aft bulwarks and the cargo space part
covered with raised side decks, leaving a central hatch that was covered by
boards and sheets.
CL transport
BT trow
BT <trow by hull type>
brail
Rope which gathers up a sail to furl it.
CL components
BT rigging component
RT brail winch
brail winch
Hand or mechanically driven drum to gather up the brail rope.
CL components
BT rigging component
RT brail
branding iron
Applied hot (heated in a fire) to a wooden object to burn an impression.
CL tools and equipment
BT blacksmith's equipment
BT marking equipment
branding stamp
Applied with a hammer to wooden or metal objects, has sharp points to make
an impression.
CL tools and equipment
BT marking equipment
breaker
Wooden water barrel for fresh drinking water mounted horizontally in a
stand. Kept on deck. Fitted with draw off cock or with large plug at top to
allow water to be removed with ladle.
CL tools and equipment
BT ship's equipment
RT water barrel
USE tunnel hook
breeching strings
A term used by Oxford Canal boaters.
USE knee strings
bricklayer's flat
An unpowered low sided boat usually with a cabin for tools used for canal
maintenance.
CL transport
BT work flat
Bridgewater flat
Adaptation of the Mersey flat made for the owners and operators of the
Bridgewater Canal, not a boat that a family would have lived aboard.
UF Duker flat
CL transport
BT canal flat
USE Parrett barge
bridle
System of head and face straps, forming attachment for the reins and bit.
Incorportaes the blinkers.
UF head gear
CL tools and equipment
CL components
BT equine equipment
BT equine powered propulsion system component
USE bow fender
USE Bristol barge
Bristol barge
A wooden sailing vessel, related to a trow, with a single mast,
particularly used in the stone trade of the Avon Gorge.
UF Bristol Avon trow
UF stone barge
CL transport
BT River Severn craft
broad boat
Alternative term used for Yorkshire keels to distinguish them from narrow
boats.
USE Yorkshire keel
USE Weaver packet
USE watercan
bucket dredger
A dredger with a continuous chain of scoops working in a central well.
CL transport
BT dredger
Bude Canal tub boat
Tub boats 20ft x 5ft 6in x 2ft 9in carrying 4 or 5 tons. The majority were
rectangular but a pointed bow was provided to lead each train which were steered
by handspike from the second vessel. Bude Canal tub boats were provided with
wheels to move them over the canal's inclines.
CL transport
BT tub boat
bulkhead
A vertical partition separating compartments on a vessel.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
BT below decks watercraft component
RT bulkhead light
bulkhead light
A lamp or lighting device fastened to a bulkhead, usually on a vessel.
CL components
BT lighting component
RT bulkhead
bullseye
A hemispherical glass lens often fitted to the roof of a narrow boat.
CL components
BT lighting component
RT decklight
bunker lamp
Specialised oil lamp for illumination inside coal bunkers, boilers and
between double hulls. Tinsmith made cone shaped oil reservoir with round wick
burner in spout. Hanger hook of wire for suspension from pipes etc.
CL tools and equipment
BT ship's lamp
Burnturk tub boat
Tubs carrying from 2 to 10 tons, bow hauled from the bank.
CL transport
BT tub boat
Burton Boat Company Canal boat
The 1795 Staffordshire Register of Boats records boats specific to this
waterway which linked the River Trent and the Trent and Mersey Canal.
CL transport
BT miscellaneous cargo craft types
button
Leather or plastic sheath to prevent it slipping through the crutches;
adjustable on modern oars.
CL components
BT human powered propulsion system component
buttstrap
A metal plate which both joins and reinforces the join between a number of
shell plates on a metal vessel. Usually of riveted construction.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
BT below decks watercraft component
butty boat
An unpowered or 'dumb' narrow boat pulled by a motor narrow boat.
CL transport
BT narrow boat
BT unpowered boat
butty tiller
The curved wooden lever fitted to the rudder of an unpowered narrow boat
to provide steering leverage.
CL components
BT tiller
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