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packet boat
Principally carrying mail, packets and also passengers.
CL transport
BT passenger vessel
paddle
Roughly spoon shaped hand held device used to propel such vessels as
canoes and coracles.
CL tools and equipment
CL components
BT boat equipment
BT human powered propulsion system component
BT motive power producing equipment
NT double bladed paddle
NT single bladed paddle
paddle propelled boat
A boat that is designed to be propelled by the use of paddles.
CL transport
BT <craft by propulsion>
paddle wheel propelled boat
A boat that is designed to be propelled by the use of a paddle wheel.
CL transport
BT <craft by propulsion>
USE Aire and Calder compartment boat
pan head rivet
A rivet with a truncated conical head (roughly saucepan shaped).
CL components
BT rivet
Parnalls Canal tub boat
Isolated Cornish Canal with boats 6ft x 4ft x 1ft.
CL transport
BT tub boat
Parrett barge
Flat bottom with up to 8 side strakes up to 52ft long. Short fore and aft
decks were fitted.
UF Bridgwater barge
CL transport
BT tide or current powered boat
Parrett flatner
Boats of the Parrett up to 20 feet long, similar to a Parrett barge. Flat
bottom with two wide side strakes.
UF Bridgwater flatner
CL transport
BT tide or current powered boat
Parrett Shoe tub boat
20ft x 8ft x 3ft carrying 5 tons used in trains.
CL transport
BT tub boat
passenger vessel
Vessel designed to carry passengers on inland waterways. Do not use for
indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL transport
BT transport craft
NT canal passenger boat
NT ferry
NT hoy
NT launch
NT packet boat
NT shallop
NT state barge
pattern
A model from which a mould is made for casting.
CL tools and equipment
BT engineering equipment
BT founding equipment
peak
The upper aft corner (furthest from the mast) of a four edged sail.
CL components
BT sail component
USE tack line (towing line)
CL tools and equipment
CL components
BT oar
perfect
A fixed-seat, fixed-pin, clinker coxed pair used at Eton. Called a
'perfection' before 1894.
CL transport
BT clinker built boat
BT competitive craft
BT human powered boat
peter boat
Thames rowing or sailing boat used for fishing, decked fore and aft. It
was clinker built, double-ended. It included a watertight box built into the
hull for live fish.
CL transport
BT clinker built boat
BT human powered boat
BT recreational craft
petrol powered boat
A boat whose motive power source is a petrol engine.
CL transport
BT <craft by motive power>
Pidcocks Canal tub boat
Tub boats used in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire carrying between
Middle Forge and the tin plate works at Lydney. Size unknown.
CL transport
BT tub boat
piercing equipment
Equipment used for piercing 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 sailmaker's awl
pigeon box
Box-shaped ventilator above the engine room of a motor narrow boat.
CL components
BT ventilator
RT motor narrow boat
piling flat
A maintenance craft concerned with piling the waterways, carrying a crane
or piling hammer and a frame to hold piles whilst they are hammered in.
CL transport
BT work flat
pillar
A solid metal bar set vertically to support the upper decks of a multi
decked vessel.
CL components
BT below decks watercraft component
pin
Small fastener with a pointed or tapered end made of various materials
used for pinning something down or fastening something together.
CL components
BT fastener
NT anser pin
NT mast pin
NT mooring pin
NT tiller pin
USE apron (costume)
USE apron (costume)
pit saw
Large two-man saws used to saw boards from the lengths of logs which are
placed over big pits. The saws are operated by one man standing on the log and
the other standing in the pit.
CL tools and equipment
BT saw
pitch
A sticky black resinous substance made from tar, used for waterproofing in
boat and shipbuilding.
CL tools and equipment
BT boat repair equipment
pitch hood
Projector canvas hood for head and upper torso used by workers moving
pitch which is very dusty. It has a clear screen face and a breathing apparatus
to filter air built into it.
CL tools and equipment
BT lifesaving and protective equipment
pitch ladle
A long handled ladle with a spouted bowl used for pouring pitch into the
seams of a deck after caulking.
CL tools and equipment
BT boatbuilding equipment
BT caulking equipment
BT shipbuilding equipment
pitch mop
A small tufted brush on the end of a long handle. The mop is dipped into
hot pitch and then brushed along the outer planks of a boat of ship to fill the
seams after caulking.
CL tools and equipment
BT boatbuilding equipment
BT caulking equipment
BT shipbuilding equipment
plane
A tool consisting of a block containing a cutting edge. Used to smooth and
shape wood.
CL tools and equipment
BT woodworking equipment
NT jack plane
NT jointer plane
NT moulding plane
NT rebate plane
NT roughing plane
NT smoothing plane
NT trying plane
plank (boat component)
Usually a long flat, rectangular shaped piece of timber. A key component
in wooden boatbuilding.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
BT below decks watercraft component
NT ceiling plank
NT deck plank
NT lining plank
NT margin plank
NT running planks
NT skin plank
NT waterway plank
plate furnace
Used to heat plates before shaping on a former or die, eg. for a metal
hull. Have various size hearths.
CL tools and equipment
BT boatbuilding equipment
platelayer's brace
A large iron crank with an auger welded to the end of a long foot. Used by
platelayer's for boring holes in railway sleepers and also in common use by
shipwrights.
CL tools and equipment
BT drilling equipment
RT auger
NT shipwright's brace
pleasure punt
Flat bottomed, propelled by a pole. It is 26-28 feet long, 33 inches in
the beam and 12-14 inches deep.
CL transport
BT punt
pole mast
A short mast on a sailing vessel, made in one piece.
CL components
BT mast
polka mast
A short top mast on a sailing vessel.
CL components
BT mast
USE float (boat)
port lamp
A quarter round lamp with a red lens in front of the burner.
CL tools and equipment
BT navigation lamp
portable forge
A small freestanding forge.
CL tools and equipment
BT blacksmith's equipment
portlight
A metal frame with a glass insert which allows light to enter enclosed
compartments in the hull or superstructure of a vessel.
CL components
BT lighting component
Potteries day boat
An open boat used for carrying bulk good on short journeys in the
Potteries area.
CL transport
BT open day boat
power producing equipment
Equipment used to produce power 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 motive power producing equipment
Preston flat
Adaptation of the Mersey flat, Preston flats sailed up the canal to
Preston Brook where cargoes were transferred to narrow craft.
CL transport
BT canal flat
USE sailmaker's awl
propeller boat
A boat that is designed to be propelled by the use of a propeller.
CL transport
BT <craft by propulsion>
propulsion system component
Objects which form part of a propulsion system in an inland waterways
context. Do not use for indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL components
BT system component
NT equine powered propulsion system component
NT human powered propulsion system component
NT wind powered propulsion system component
puddler
Tool used for homogenising the clay and water mix to render it watertight.
UF punner
CL tools and equipment
BT canal construction equipment
RT puddling boots
puddling boots
Heavy hobnail boots used for treading down clay in the bed of a canal when
building or mending waterways.
CL tools and equipment
BT lifesaving and protective equipment
RT puddler
USE ship's block
pump
A mechanical device using suction or pressure to raise or move fluids.
CL tools and equipment
BT pumping equipment
NT barrel pump
NT bilge pump
NT hydraulic pump
pump box
A wooden box fixed vertically into the hold of a canal narrow boat to
allow the T pump to be inserted into the bilges when the boat is loaded.
CL components
BT below decks watercraft component
RT T pump
pumping equipment
Equipment used for pumping 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 pump
punch
Tools used to make indentations or perforations in various materials;
usually in the form of a steel rod whose end may take a variety of shapes; used
for marking, blanking, and decoration.
CL tools and equipment
BT marking equipment
NT round punch
NT rove bunter
NT square punch
USE puddler
punt
Originally punts were flat bottomed, square ended recreational craft for a
few people, one of whom propelled the punt with a pole. Later developed into
types for camping, wildfowling and sailing.
UF bank boat
CL transport
BT human powered boat
BT recreational craft
NT camping punt
NT Fen punt
NT gun punt
NT pleasure punt
NT rough punt
punt pole propelled boat
A boat that is designed to be propelled by the use of a punt pole.
CL transport
BT <craft by propulsion>
punting pole
Pole designed to propel a punt.
CL components
BT human powered propulsion system component
pusher
A tug specifically designed to push craft but occasionally pulling them.
CL transport
BT tug
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