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nail
A slender and usually pointed and headed fastener, designed for impact
driven insertion.
CL components
BT fastener
NT countersunk head nail
NT shearing nail
NT spike
NT trenail
nail header
Tools used to hold nail rods while making nail heads in wrought nail
making.
CL tools and equipment
BT blacksmith's equipment
narrow boat
Craft designed for use on narrow canals. Boat shaped and carrying between
14 and 40 tons. The principal dimensions are 70ft x 7ft wide though over length
and narrow and broad versions exist.
UF longboat
UF monkey boat
UF narrowboat
CL transport
BT cargo vessel
NT Birmingham day boat
NT blue top
NT box boat
NT butty boat
NT Chesterfield Canal boat
NT horse drawn narrow boat
NT motor narrow boat
NT <narrow boat by type>
NT Runcorn six planker
NT steam narrow boat
NT tanker boat
NT Welsh narrow boat
NT wharf boat
RT barge
NT Severner
NT Worsley mine boat
CL transport
BT narrow boat
NT admiral class boat
NT josher
NT river class boat
NT royalty class boat
NT star class boat
NT station boat (British Waterways)
NT town class boat
USE cabin stool
USE narrow boat
navigating equipment
Equipment used for navigating 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 sextant
NT ship's binnacle
NT ship's compass
navigation lamp
General term for the lamps used to identify the direction a ship is
facing.
CL tools and equipment
BT ship's lamp
NT masthead lamp
NT not under command lamp
NT port lamp
NT starboard lamp
NT stern lamp
navvy's yoke
Wooden yoke used in canal construction work.
CL tools and equipment
BT carrying equipment
Neath Canal boat
60ft x 8ft 10in loading to 24 tons on a draught of 2ft 9in. Mostly open
and capable of hanging the rudder at either end.
CL transport
BT Welsh narrow boat
USE horse collar
neddy
A short towing mast found on keels.
CL components
BT equine powered propulsion system component
Nent Force mine boat
Boats used to carry lead ore out of the Nent Force level mines in
Cumberland.
CL transport
BT mine boat
Newbury barge
Craft 109 feet long, with a 17 foot beam and a 3 foot 6 inch draught when
loaded with 110 tons. Based on the Kennet Navigation in Newbury. They were flat
bottomed with a rounded head.
CL transport
BT western barge
USE Arbury Canal boat
Norfolk dinghy
A class of 14 feet dinghy; 86 were built for Norfolk and Suffolk Broads
racing; clinker built; gunter rig.
CL transport
BT competitive craft
BT sail propelled boat
Norfolk keel
Preceded the Norfolk wherry and was the common cargo carrier on the
Broads. Square rigged, transom sterned and clinker built craft. Around 54ft x
14ft, carrying 30 tons but also came in a variety of sizes. Succeeded by the
wherry after 1800 which could be sailed with fewer crew.
UF keel wherry
CL transport
BT Norfolk wherry
Norfolk punt
Restricted class of racing boats concentrated on Barton Broad.
CL transport
BT competitive craft
BT sail propelled boat
Norfolk wherry
Double ended vessels with the mast stepped well forward carrying around 25
tons on a 4ft draught. Painted black with a single gaff sail. Mostly clinker
built.'Wherry' means boat and it acquired its local meaning in Norfolk and
Suffolk.
UF wherry
CL transport
BT barge
NT Aylsham Navigation wherry
NT Norfolk keel
NT North Walsham and Dilham Canal wherry
NT reedlighter
NT River Ant wherry
NT River Bure wherry
NT River Waveney wherry
NT steam wherry
NT Thames wherry
RT quant
NT wherry wheelbarrow
North Eastern barge
A range of steel and iron barges motor and dumb which gradually developed
away from the keel shape to form a hull type of their own.
CL transport
BT barge
NT North Eastern motor barge
NT Nottingham pan
NT Trent pan
North Eastern motor barge
Originally the motor barges used in the North East were converted from
keels but took on their own construction and design when iron and steel motors
were developed. Sizes varied from 51ft 6 inches on the Calder and Hebble
Navigation to 180ft long on the Aire and Calder Navigation.
CL transport
BT North Eastern barge
NT Trent motor barge
RT steam keel
North Walsham and Dilham Canal wherry
A small type of Norfolk wherry built to the size of the North Walsham and
Dilham Canal. 50 ft x 12 ft x 3 ft 6 ins max.
CL transport
BT Norfolk wherry
USE feed bag
USE feed bowl
USE feed tin
not under command lamp
Similar in appearance to an anchor lamp but has a red lens.
CL tools and equipment
BT navigation lamp
RT anchor lamp
Nottingham pan
Nottingham pans going to Burton on Trent, Leicester and Grantham were 72ft
x 14ft dumb boats.
CL transport
BT North Eastern barge
number flag
A flag bearing a number, used for communication.
CL components
BT signal flag
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