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ice breaker
A craft designed to break a channel through ice.
UF iceboat
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CL transport![]()
BT channel clearance craft![]()
BT service craft![]()
NT ballard![]()
NT side rocker![]()
NT top rocker![]()
ice clearer
A craft designed to clear a channel of broken ice.
CL transport
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BT channel clearance craft![]()
BT service craft![]()
ice plates
Thin sheets of iron tacked onto a canal narrow boat at the fore end and
along the loaded and empty water lines for protection against ice.
CL components
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BT below decks watercraft component![]()
ice tongs
Large tongs used for removing broken ice from the canal.
CL tools and equipment
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BT holding and gripping equipment![]()
BT waterway maintenance equipment![]()
injection dredger
A dredger breaking up materials by water or air pumped into them and
usually allowing a current to move them away.
inside flat
Sailing flats built for use on rivers. They ranged from 50 to 75 feet in
length and had a capacity from 80 to 150 tons.
CL transport
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BT Mersey sailing flat![]()
NT jigger flat![]()
inspection boat
A craft specifically designed to carry canal staff or committees on an
inspection of the waterway.
CL transport
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BT service craft![]()
NT committee boat![]()
NT engineers inspection boat![]()
iron boat
A boat whose main construction material is iron.
CL transport
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BT <craft by material>![]()
NT iron spout![]()
NT iron trow![]()
iron spout
Transom sterned non tidal keel made of iron and used on the Aire and
Calder Navigation.
CL transport
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BT iron boat![]()
BT Yorkshire keel![]()
iron trow
Built for Danks from iron, otherwise trow shaped boats.
CL transport
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BT iron boat![]()
BT trow![]()
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