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USE ribbon plate
Lancaster Canal boat
Boats 72ft x 14ft 6 inches, carrying up to 42 tons on the Lancaster Canal.
Related to Leeds and Liverpool Canal long boats but different in design.
CL transport
BT barge
land chain
A series of sized lengths, linked together in a chain to measure out a
distance.
CL tools and equipment
BT surveying equipment
lanyard
A line passed through the holes in a deadeye to tighten up standing
rigging.
CL components
BT rigging component
RT chain plate
NT deadeye
large Northwich
This type of narrow boat is one of 38 steel motor narrow boats built by
W.J. Yarwood of Northwich in 1936/7. They were part of the Town class series of
boats built for the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company.
CL transport
BT town class boat
large Ricky
This type of narrow boat was one of 62 wooden butty boats built by Walkers
of Rickmansworth between 1936-8. They formed part of the Town Class series of
boats built for the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company.
CL transport
BT town class boat
large Woolwich
This type of narrowboat is one of either 24 steel pairs of boats of 24
steel motor narrow boats built by Harland and Wolff of Woolwich in 1936/7. They
are part of the Town Class series of boats built for the Grand Union Canal
Carrying Company.
CL transport
BT town class boat
USE horse drawn narrow boat
launch
A passenger boat with inboard motor for leisure journeys on inland
waterways;larger than a dinghy but smaller than a narrow boat; may be canopied.
CL transport
BT passenger vessel
BT recreational craft
USE tricolour lamp
USE luff
Lee barge
Open holded Thames barge with a stumpy rig built to fit the river Lee.
CL transport
BT Thames barge
NT Lee lighter
Lee lighter
Unrigged version of Lee barge,72' long by 13'x15' wide.
CL transport
BT Lee barge
BT Thames lighter
leeboard
A large board, hinged from the hull sides of a sailing vessel, used to
reduce travel to leeward when sailing.
CL components
BT rigging component
RT leeboard clam
leeboard clam
Winch for pulling leeboards up when not in use.
CL components
BT rigging component
RT leeboard
leech
The after edge (furthest from the mast) of a sail.
CL components
BT sail component
RT sprit
Leeds and Liverpool craft
Craft designed for use on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Do not use for
indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL transport
BT barge
NT Leeds and Liverpool fly boat
NT Leeds and Liverpool long boat
NT Leeds and Liverpool short boat
Leeds and Liverpool fly boat
For 'express' use along the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Size 62ft x 14ft 3
inches but with finer lines than usual craft for extra speed.
CL transport
BT fly boat
BT Leeds and Liverpool craft
Leeds and Liverpool long boat
Craft designed for use on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, size 72ft x 14ft
3 inches for use between Liverpool and Wigan where the locks are only 62ft long.
Draws on original use of the canal by River Douglas flats.
UF Liverpool sider
CL transport
BT Leeds and Liverpool craft
Leeds and Liverpool short boat
Craft designed for use on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, size 62ft x 14ft
3 inches in order to fit the locks between Wigan and Leeds. Draws on original
keel and flat influences.
CL transport
BT Leeds and Liverpool craft
leg vice
Any of the various blacksmithing vices that have one long leg which is
attached to a bench (and often supported at the foot) and a simple spring
mechanism to hold the jaws open.
CL tools and equipment
BT blacksmith's equipment
letter flag
A flag which represents a letter in flag code.
CL components
BT signal flag
letterbox ventilator
Small cast metal ventilator fixed to the cabin sides of some narrow boats.
CL components
BT ventilator
lewis
Metal devices consisting of dovetail tenons; used to hoist heavy units of
masonry.
CL tools and equipment
BT lifting equipment
life belt
A ring of buoyant material, used to help someone stay afloat in water.
CL tools and equipment
BT lifesaving and protective equipment
life jacket
A buoyant garment worn over the upper body to enable a person to stay
afloat in water.
CL tools and equipment
BT lifesaving and protective equipment
lifesaving and protective equipment
Equipment designed for lifesaving and protective purposes in an inland
waterways context. Do not use for indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL tools and equipment
BT <tools and equipment by process>
NT hedging mitts
NT life belt
NT life jacket
NT pitch hood
NT puddling boots
NT waders
lifting equipment
Equipment designed for lifting in an inland waterways context. Do not use
for indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL tools and equipment
BT handling equipment
NT boat jack
NT crane
NT hydraulic ram
NT lewis
NT winch
USE Thames lighter
lighter
Generally a boat for transferring cargo from a large boat to another craft
or the bank.
CL transport
BT barge
NT Fen lighter
NT Stour lighter
NT Thames lighter
lighting component
Objects which are components of an ionland waterways object with a
lighting function.. Do not use for indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL components
BT <component by specific context>
NT bulkhead light
NT bullseye
NT decklight
NT portlight
Lincoln keel
Variation of the Humber keel, trading to Lincoln. Size 74ft 9 inches x
15ft.
CL transport
BT Humber keel
USE lining plank
lining plank
Large wooden plank fixed inside the top edge of a wooden narrow boat to
give stiffness and longitudinal strength and support to the inboard edge of the
gunwhale.
UF lining piece
CL components
BT plank (boat component)
Liskeard and Looe Union boat
57ft x 10f (lock size) (proposed as a tub boat canal). Very little known.
CL transport
BT miscellaneous cargo craft types
USE Leeds and Liverpool long boat
Llechryd Canal boat
Size and shape unknown.
CL transport
BT miscellaneous cargo craft types
lock lifter
Fitted with an A frame for lifting and transporting lock gates.
CL transport
BT service craft
USE windlass
lodging knee
A shaped bracket of either timber or metal which both joins and reinforces
the join between component of the vessel's structure.
CL components
BT knee
long board
Fore and aft plank in the bottom of a wooden vessel.
CL components
BT below decks watercraft component
long boat (rowing)
The longest and largest of several boats carried by a sea-going ship. It
could be used, however, on tidal rivers and estuaries, propelled by ten oars,
often double-banked. This meant that two rowers shared the same thwart or bench.
CL transport
BT human powered boat
long distance passenger boat
Many canal routes had long distance passenger boats until the coming of
the railways. Boats would include a first class saloon and either one or two
other classes.
CL transport
BT canal passenger boat
longboat
The familiar name for the narrow boat on the River Severn and associated
waterways to the Midlands.
USE narrow boat
USE luby
louvre ventilator
Pressed metal ventilators.
CL components
BT ventilator
luby
A forged metal pin fitted to the top of a narrow boat top mast, fitted
with rearward pivotting pin and return spring to act as a safety device to
prevent the horse being pulled into the canal should the boat overtake the
horse.
UF loobey
CL components
BT equine powered propulsion system component
RT top mast
luff
The leading edge of a fore and aft sail. (As a verb 'to luff' is to turn
closer to the wind).
UF leading edge
CL components
BT sail component
luff barge
Squat, round-fronted or bowed barge in use during the early nineteenth
century on the Thames and the Medway.
CL transport
BT barge
USE market boat
lutchet
An open backed support for a towing mast, usually found on keels.
CL components
BT equine powered propulsion system component
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