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USE open day boat
day boat (leisure)
A craft fitted primarily for day cruising, privately owned or hired with a
day cabin but often not fitted with bunks or showers. Crewed by hirer or private
owner.
CL transport
BT recreational craft
deadeye
A disc of wood bound with metal and pierced with 3 holes. Used in pairs
for tightening standing rigging.
CL components
BT rigging component
RT chain plate
NT lanyard
deadwood
Timber in the bow or stern to reinforce the join between stem/sternpost
and keel.
CL components
BT below decks watercraft component
RT apron (boat component)
NT keel (boat component)
NT keelson
NT stempost
NT sternpost
USE carling
deck beam (narrow boat)
A beam of metal or wood across the width of the boat which forms the front
gunwhale of the hold and carries the deck board.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
RT deck board
NT deck cloth
deck board
The triangular shaped board fitted at the front of the hold of a canal
narrow boat to support the running planks and cratch and to prevent water
entering the hold. It has 2 metal 'tongues' to locate into the brackets on the
deck beam.
UF cratch board (triangular)
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
RT cratch
NT cratch board (horizontal)
NT deck beam (narrow boat)
NT false cratch
NT running planks
deck bolt
Cheese headed bolt used to secure wooden planking to metal decking.
CL components
BT bolt
deck bucket
Bucket designed for use in tasks on a ship's deck.
CL tools and equipment
BT ship's bucket
deck cloth
Shaped tarpaulin cover for the deck board to waterproof the front end of
the hold, trapped under a batten on the deck beam.
UF cratch cloth
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
RT deck beam (narrow boat)
USE reaming iron
USE headledge
deck lid
A hinged wooden or metal lid to cover the opening in the foredeck of a
canal narrow boat.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
deck plank
One of the planks making up the deck of a vessel.
CL components
BT plank (boat component)
deck plate
Plate forming part of the deck of a metal vessel.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
decklight
Glass block set into a deck to allow light to pass into below deck spaces.
CL components
BT lighting component
RT bullseye
deckspace
A large space in the bow of a canal narrow boat beneath the foredeck and
accessed by the deck lid.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
derrick
Type of crane with suspended swinging jib.
CL tools and equipment
BT cargo handling equipment
derrick pole
A heavy pole, usually circular in cross section, with pulley blocks to
assist in cargo handling.
UF ship's derrick
CL tools and equipment
CL components
BT cargo handling equipment
BT cargo handling system component
diesel powered boat
A boat whose motive power source is a diesel engine.
CL transport
BT <craft by motive power>
NT motor narrow boat
dipper
Bought from ironmongers - catalogue description refers to a corn scoop.
Introduced as an alternative to handbowl in 1960s as a painted souvenir.
Previously unpainted ones were used as bailers.
CL tools and equipment
CL containers
BT boat equipment
RT bailer
USE diver's airline
diver's airline
Reinforced flexible rubber tube, coupled together in sections for supply
of (breathing) air from diver's airpump or compressor to the diver underwater.
UF diver's airhose
CL tools and equipment
BT diving equipment
diver's airpump
Device designed to supply fresh air to a diver whilst at work underwater.
Traditionally it consisted of a hand cranked pump box fitted with piston pumps,
non return valves and supply gauge.
UF diver's pump box
CL tools and equipment
BT diving equipment
diver's belt weight
Small block weight which slips into a pocket on or attaches to the belt
worn by the diver to provide additional weighting necessary to keep the diver
underwater.
CL tools and equipment
BT diving equipment
diver's breast weight
Heavy lead or gunmetal shaped weight, roped to the corselet. Forms part of
the weighting necessary to keep the diver underwater.
CL tools and equipment
BT diving equipment
diver's knife
Heavy duty knife for underwater emergency use and for clearing tangled
rope work.
CL tools and equipment
BT diving equipment
USE diver's airpump
diver's telephone
Communciation system from shore or work boat to diver, comprises telephone
unit cabling and microphone/telephone unit inside the diving helmet.
CL tools and equipment
BT communications equipment
BT diving equipment
diving boots
Specialised heavy boots, forming part of the weighting necessary to keep
the diver underwater. Often cast brass or gunmetal with leather straps.
CL tools and equipment
BT diving equipment
diving compressor
Powered air supply for diving use providing steady, oil free breathing air
at low pressure to fill the diving dress.
CL tools and equipment
BT diving equipment
diving corselet
Lower part of the metal portion of the diving dress to which the helmet
screws.
CL tools and equipment
BT diving equipment
RT diving helmet
diving dress
The complete outfit worn by a diver for working underwater to provide air
and protection.
CL tools and equipment
BT diving equipment
diving equipment
Equipment in common use when diving in inland waterways. Do not use for
indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL tools and equipment
BT <tools and equipment by process>
NT diver's airline
NT diver's airpump
NT diver's belt weight
NT diver's breast weight
NT diver's knife
NT diver's telephone
NT diving boots
NT diving compressor
NT diving corselet
NT diving dress
NT diving helmet
NT diving suit
diving helmet
Spherical metal vessel with screw in glass face windows and air linen
connections. Locks onto the diving corselet which is bolted to the diving suit.
CL tools and equipment
BT diving equipment
RT diving corselet
diving suit
Rubber and canvas part of the diving dress which encloses the diver and
provides an air pocket in which to work. Made in one piece,the diver enters
through the neck aperture.
CL tools and equipment
BT diving equipment
diving support craft
Any craft specifically equipped to pump air or provide assistance to
divers.
CL transport
BT service craft
USE bag hook
docking equipment
Equipment designed for use in docking activities. Do not use for indexing.
Use a more specific term.
CL tools and equipment
BT <tools and equipment by process>
NT bollard
NT bollard cleat
NT roller fairlead
NT ship's fairlead
dodger
A short half-rigged fixed-seat boat used for pleasure boating at Eton.
CL transport
BT human powered boat
BT recreational craft
dolly
Mushroom shaped bollard found on the back of canal motor narrow boats.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
door coaming
A raised wall below a door opening to keep water out.
CL components
BT coaming
dory
Flat-bottomed inrigger rowing boat, American, but a common term.
CL transport
BT human powered boat
BT recreational craft
double bag hook
A double metal hook attached to a short wooden handle. Designed to fit
easily in the hand for moving bags or sacks.
CL tools and equipment
BT bag hook
double bladed paddle
Blade at each end of the paddle.
CL tools and equipment
CL components
BT paddle
double crease iron
A caulking iron with a double groove ('crease') edge, used for compressing
the oakum down below the surface of the seam.
CL tools and equipment
BT making iron
double ender
Open boat with a fixing for the 'elum' at either end.
CL transport
BT Birmingham day boat
double scull
Racing shell for two scullers without cox. Scullers use two oars each.
UF x2
CL transport
BT competitive craft
BT human powered boat
dragon boat
Chinese canoe for up to 22 paddlers, coxswain and drummer.
CL transport
BT human powered boat
BT recreational craft
dredger
A craft designed to remove unwanted natural materials from the channel of
a waterway.
CL transport
BT channel clearance craft
NT bucket dredger
NT grab dredger
NT injection dredger
NT scraper dredger
NT spoon dredger
NT suction dredger
dredging bucket
Bucket used as part of a dredging apparatus.
CL tools and equipment
BT dredging equipment
dredging equipment
Equipment designed for use in dredging. Do not use for indexing. Use a
more specific term.
CL tools and equipment
BT maintenance and repairing equipment
NT dredging bucket
NT dredging spoon
NT mud scoop
dredging spoon
Metal or wooden spoon in a T-shaped handle suspended from a crane on a
spoon dredging barge. The spoon is pushed into silt on the canal bottom and
lifted by the crane dredging the canal.
CL tools and equipment
BT dredging equipment
RT dydle
drench horn
Hollowed out cow horn used for administering patent medication to horses
to cure illness.
CL tools and equipment
BT equine maintenance equipment
Driffield keel
Variation of the Humber Keel, trading to Driffield. Size 61ft x 14ft 6
inches.
CL transport
BT Humber keel
drilling equipment
Equipment used for drilling in an inland waterways context. Do not use for
indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL tools and equipment
BT forming and shaping equipment
NT auger
NT bit
NT platelayer's brace
NT rock drill
driving whip
A whip used to drive the horse on, similar to but shorter than a smacking
whip.
CL tools and equipment
BT equine driving equipment
dual steering cruiser
Larger motor cruiser which may be steered using a wheel and tiller from
saloon or from a raised sun deck, according to the weather.
CL transport
BT motor cruiser
Dudley Canal tunnel boat
A short and very narrow boat was used in the limestone quarry tunnels.
CL transport
BT miscellaneous cargo craft types
USE Bridgewater flat
dydle
A long pole with a net on the end and a metal cutting edge, used for
lifting soft mud on the Norfolk Broads.
CL tools and equipment
BT waterway maintenance equipment
RT dredging spoon
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