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T pump
A portable tubular metal hand operated pump used to empty water out of the
hold of a canal narrow boat.
CL components
BT below decks watercraft component
RT pump box
T stud
A 'T' shaped forged metal stud fixed at the bow and stern of a narrow boat
to fasten ropes to.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
tabernacle
An open backed wooden or metal structure which houses the lower end of a
deck mounted mast.
CL components
BT mast and spar component
RT mast
NT shroud
NT stay
table cupboard
A cupboard space in a canal narrow boat cabin having a door which drops
down to a horizontal position to form a table.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
RT table flap
table flap
Bottom hinged cupboard door in a narrow boat cabin which hinges down to a
horizontal position to form a table.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
RT back flap
NT table cupboard
tack line (rigging component)
The tack line is used to pull the tack area of a sail tight
UF pegging noose
CL components
BT rigging component
RT tack roller
tack line (towing line)
The length of a towing line from the toggle to the eye which is used
initially to start a horse boat out of a lock. When the toggle reaches the
tubling the tack line falls slack and the towing line takes the full weight of
the boat.
CL components
BT equine powered propulsion system component
tack roller
A hand operated winch for handling the tack line on a sailing vessel.
CL components
BT rigging component
RT tack line (rigging component)
USE gear
tack (sail component)
The lower forward corner of a sail.
CL components
BT sail component
tanker boat
Narrow boat specially built to carry liquid cargoes in bulk. The hold is a
tank with flush decks over.
UF black boat
UF oil boat
UF tar boat
CL transport
BT narrow boat
tar
Bituminous substance used to waterproof boats and as a protective surface
for wood and metals. Tar is a brittle substance when cool.
CL tools and equipment
BT boat repair equipment
BT ship repair equipment
USE tanker boat
tar boiler
Copper or similar vessel used to heat tar to its molten state for
application.
CL tools and equipment
BT boatbuilding equipment
BT shipbuilding equipment
Tavistock Canal tub boat
Used to carry copper ore, limestone and slate from Morwhellham Quay to the
River Tavy.
CL transport
BT tub boat
tender
A small craft which attends a larger one, often providing a crew or
passenger transfer function.
CL transport
BT service craft
Thames barge
The barge type related to the Thames estuary and associated waterways.
Defined by spritsail rig. The largest loaded around 300 tons but 175 was closer
to the average. Size varied depending on the rivers off the main estuary, which
they used. The rig of the Thames barges can usually be lowered to 'shoot'
bridges across the navigation. Stumpies and Mules were specific variations of
barge sailing gear.
CL transport
BT barge
BT sail propelled boat
NT Arun barge
NT Basingstoke barge
NT boomie
NT Lee barge
NT mule
NT Regents Canal barge
NT stackie barge
NT stumpy barge
NT Thames sailing barge
NT West Country barge
NT Wey barge
Thames boat number plate
Small oval sign with two screw holes enamelled. Gives registration
information. Colours vary from year to year.
CL tools and equipment
BT boat plate
Thames lighter
The current or tide providing the power the sweep was used for direction
rather than propulsion. Have a punt ended shape known as 'swimhead', size varied
considerably.
UF lightener
UF swimhead lighter
CL transport
BT lighter
BT sweep propelled boat
BT tide or current powered boat
NT Lee lighter
Thames rater
Restricted class of fast, light sailing boats developed to control and
rationalise expenditure by Thames racing enthusiasts.
CL transport
BT competitive craft
BT sail propelled boat
Thames sailing barge
The class of barges characterised the Thames estuary and the waterways
relating to the River Thames. Developed for local conditions on the Thames and
nearby shallow estuaries; usually spritsail yawl with leeboards.
CL transport
BT Thames barge
Thames skiff
Used on the upper reaches of the river, had a pointed stem and high or
extended sides. Dimensions averaged between 24-26 feet in length, between 3 feet
9 inches and 4 feet in beam and about 12 inches in depth.
CL transport
BT skiff
Thames Waterman cutter
Used by the Worshipful Company of Watermen.
CL transport
BT service craft
Thames wherry
Long and wide with high pointed stem, often sheated in iron. Some were
pointed at both ends and could be rowed in either direction, usually manned by
professional watermen. Taxi service for the tidal Thames. Dates from prior to
1514 when Watermen's Company empowered to licence watermen.
CL transport
BT Norfolk wherry
RT randan
NT Severn wherry
NT shallop
thole pin
A pin inserted into the gunwhale of a rowing boat over which fits the oar.
It acts as a pivot and securing point.
CL components
BT human powered propulsion system component
RT crutches
Thorne and Hatfield Canal boat
28ft x 6ft clinker built, carrying peat/turf.
CL transport
BT miscellaneous cargo craft types
three hundred and seventy ton barge
Three hundred and seventy ton barge carried by a BACAT ship.
CL transport
BT BACAT barge
throat (sail component)
The upper foremost corner (nearest to the mast) of a four edged sail.
CL components
BT sail component
thrum
The thrum (usually silk) is attached to the end of the leather or cord
thong of the smacking whip and produces a high pitched 'crack'.
CL tools and equipment
BT equine driving equipment
RT smacking whip
thwart
A plank set across the width of a vessel, usually used as a seat in rowing
boats.
CL components
BT below decks watercraft component
NT centre thwart
NT coxwains
NT fore thwart
tide or current powered boat
A boat whose motive power source is provided by a tide or current.
CL transport
BT <craft by motive power>
NT Parrett barge
NT Parrett flatner
NT Thames lighter
tiller
The lever by which the rudder is turned.
UF sweep (tiller)
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
NT butty tiller
NT motor boat tiller
RT ram's head
NT rudder
NT rudder stock
NT swan's neck
NT tiller pin
tiller bar
A metal tube (sometimes brass) fitted with a wooden handle at one end and
open at the other end, which is slid onto the swan's neck of a motor narrow boat
to provide the leverage needed to turn the rudder to steer the boat.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
RT motor boat tiller
NT swan's neck
tiller pin
Decorative pin (often brass) fitted through the tiller of a motor narrow
boat to secure it to the swan's neck.
CL components
BT pin
RT swan's neck
NT tiller
timber dog
Iron rods with the ends turned down at opposing right angles, they are
driven into timbers for temporary fastening, eg. during boat construction.
CL tools and equipment
BT boatbuilding equipment
BT shipbuilding equipment
timber hook
Hooks for securing and lifting baulks of timber.
CL tools and equipment
BT hook
tip cat fender
A banana shaped fender, fastened to the stern end of a motor narrow boat
to protect the rudder.
CL tools and equipment
BT fender
tippet
A long cloth, about a foot wide, used on top of the running planks on a
narrow boat to protect the top cloth.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
RT running planks
NT top cloth
titanium boat
A boat whose main construction material is titanium.
CL transport
BT <craft by material>
toe rail
An obstacle placed on the sides of the deck of a barge to prevent crew
falling overboard.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
RT barge
USE Aire and Calder compartment boat
<tools and equipment by context>
CL tools and equipment
NT boat equipment
NT equine equipment
NT ship's equipment
<tools and equipment by material worked upon>
CL tools and equipment
NT metalworking equipment
NT rope working equipment
NT woodworking equipment
<tools and equipment by process>
CL tools and equipment
NT cleaning equipment
NT communications equipment
NT construction equipment
NT diving equipment
NT docking equipment
NT engineering equipment
NT forming and shaping equipment
NT founding equipment
NT handling equipment
NT heating equipment
NT lifesaving and protective equipment
NT maintenance and repairing equipment
NT marking equipment
NT measuring equipment
NT moving and transport equipment
NT navigating equipment
NT power producing equipment
NT pumping equipment
NT salvaging equipment
NT striking equipment
NT surveying equipment
top cloth
The large cloth that fits over the sidecloths and entire hold on a narrow
boat.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
RT tippet
NT top cloth strings
top cloth strings
The ropes used to hold the top cloth in place on a narrow boat.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
RT top cloth
top fuller
A shaping tool, triangular in shape but with a blunt edge for reducing the
thickness of the metal when struck.
CL tools and equipment
BT fuller
top mast
Sliding section of mast fitted into the mast box on a canal narrow boat
and adjustable in height.
CL components
BT equine powered propulsion system component
BT mast and spar component
RT box mast
NT luby
NT mast pin
USE running planks
top rocker
Icebreaker rocked from a bar or rope in the centre of the boat usuallly
with a platform built on the boats sides to increase the cntre of graveity and
enhance the rocking motion
CL transport
BT ice breaker
top sail
A sail positioned above the main sail.
UF tops'le
CL components
BT sail component
top strake
The highest run of planking in a hull side.
CL components
BT strake
top swage
The swage used by the blacksmith to shape metal from above.
CL tools and equipment
BT swage
top timber
The uppermost timber of a multi part frame.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
RT frame
NT futtocks
USE top sail
Torrington tub boat
Boats carrying limestone, coal and agricultural produce from Torrington to
the River Torridge in Devon.
CL transport
BT tub boat
towed boat
A boat that is designed to be propelled by the using another vehicle to
tow it.
CL transport
BT <craft by propulsion>
towing equipment
Equipment designed for towing on inland waterways. Do not use for
indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL tools and equipment
BT moving and transport equipment
NT swingle tree
NT towing mast
NT warp
towing mast
General term to describe fixed or removable masts on inland waterways
craft.
CL tools and equipment
CL components
BT equine powered propulsion system component
BT towing equipment
RT top mast
town class boat
A large class of 86 pairs of narrow boats ordered by the Grand Union Canal
Carrying Company in 1936. They were named after towns and were designed to carry
cased goods.
CL transport
BT <narrow boat by type>
NT large Northwich
NT large Ricky
NT large Woolwich
USE harness
USE spreader
USE spreader
tractor tug
A tug specifically designed to pull craft over distances desgined with a
good shape to go through the water but with less manouverability than other
tugs.
CL transport
BT tug
traffic boat
Any keel with a covered hold whether by hatchboards or cloths.
CL transport
BT keel (boat)
trail boat
Privately owned boats designed to be moved between waterways on a trailer
and launched generally on slipways.
CL transport
BT recreational craft
training craft
Craft designed for crews to train in on inland waterways. Do not use for
indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL transport
BT <craft by function>
NT bank tub
NT tub pair
USE countersunk head nail
USE countersunk head nail
transport craft
Craft designed for transporting items, humans or animals on inland
waterways. Do not use for indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL transport
BT <craft by function>
NT cargo vessel
NT passenger vessel
treble crease iron
A caulking iron with a treble groove ('crease') edge, used for compressing
the oakum down below the surface of the seam.
CL tools and equipment
BT making iron
USE trenail
Tremadoc Canal boat
Size and shape unknown.
CL transport
BT miscellaneous cargo craft types
trenail
Wooden peg used to fasten planks and frames together in a wooden vessel.
UF treenail
UF trunnel
CL components
BT nail
RT ship maul hammer
NT trenail iron
trenail iron
Similar to the spike iron but with a blunt edge, used for splitting and
spreading the head of a trenail before inserting caulking material.
CL tools and equipment
BT caulking iron
RT trenail
USE Trent ketch
Trent ketch
Variation on the Humber keel, with a sharper stern and usually 74ft x 14ft
with a 5ft 6 inch draught for use on the shallower River Trent.
UF Trent catch
CL transport
BT Humber keel
Trent motor barge
Motor barges built for use on the Trent with boats from 142ft x 17ft 6
inches, carrying 250 tons being built after 1954. Smaller craft were used above
Nottingham.
CL transport
BT North Eastern motor barge
Trent pan
Dumb (unpowered) boats built from the 1920s to fit new locks on the Trent.
Trent pans were 82ft 6 inches x 14ft.
CL transport
BT North Eastern barge
tricolour lamp
Combination lamp for small vessels combining red/green and white lenses in
single body. Oil or electric types designed to be hung from a small mast.
UF launch lamp
CL tools and equipment
BT ship's lamp
trip boat
A leisure craft crewed by staff run primarily for short cruises or day
trips to the public characterised by large numbers of seats on deck.
CL transport
BT recreational craft
triple scull
Racing shell for three scullers without cox. Scullers use two oars each.
UF x3
CL transport
BT competitive craft
BT human powered boat
tripping bucket
A bucket whose point of suspension is below its centre of gravity so that
unless it is secured upright it automatically tips to empty its contents.
CL components
BT cargo handling system component
trow
The wooden sailing vessel of the Rivers Severn and Wye, typically 60 to 70
feet long and 12 to 20 feet beam, with a shallow draught and a flat bottom.
Originally a trow had a square rig with decks forward and aft only, and an open
cargo space amidships. During the Nineteenth Century those trows trading below
Gloucester tended to adopt a fore and aft rig and a more enclosed hold, but some
remained open. Trows made use of the wind and tide where possible and in
confined waters could be towed by gangs of men, and later horses.
UF Severn barge
UF Severn frigate
CL transport
BT River Severn craft
BT sail propelled boat
NT boxed trow
NT full box trow
NT iron trow
NT Stroud barge
NT <trow by hull type>
NT <trow by rig type>
NT up river trow
NT Wich barge
RT Bristol barge
NT Kennet barge
CL transport
BT trow
NT boxed trow
NT flush decked trow
NT half boxed trow
NT open moulded trow
CL transport
BT trow
NT ketch rigged trow
NT sloop rigged trow
NT smack rigged trow
NT square rigged trow
truck (boat component)
A small circular wooden cap on top of a mast.
CL components
BT mast and spar component
USE trenail
trying plane
Long planes, 22 to 24 inches long, used for smoothing boards.
CL tools and equipment
BT plane
RT jointer plane
tub boat
Rectangular Craft designed to carry cargo as part of a train of similar
vessels.
CL transport
BT <craft by context>
NT Birmingham Canals tub boat
NT Bude Canal tub boat
NT Burnturk tub boat
NT Cann Quarry tub boat
NT Coalisland tub boat
NT Cyfarthfa Canal tub boat
NT Grand Union Canal tub boat
NT Grand Western and Chard Canal tub boat
NT Kidwelly and Llanelli tub boat
NT Kymer tub boat
NT Parnalls Canal tub boat
NT Parrett Shoe tub boat
NT Pidcocks Canal tub boat
NT Shropshire Canal tub boat
NT Tavistock Canal tub boat
NT Torrington tub boat
tub pair
Half-outrigged gig for two rowers for training.
CL transport
BT competitive craft
BT human powered boat
BT training craft
tube boat
A boat modified by removal of its hold cross beams to provide a clear and
unobstructed space to carry bundles of steel tubes. They were mostly owned by
Stewarts and Lloyds and used at their works at Coombeswood on the Birmingham
Canal Navigation. They were a variety of both wooden and metal boats, single and
double ended boats, open Birmingham boats and former long distance boats.
CL transport
BT Birmingham day boat
tue iron
A nozzle through which an air blast is delivered to a forge or blast
furnace fire.
UF tuyere
CL tools and equipment
BT blacksmith's equipment
BT founding equipment
tug
A craft built specifically to move other craft, generally with a powerful
engine and crew accommodation but no space to carry cargo or passengers.
CL transport
BT service craft
NT berthing tug
NT pusher
NT shunting tug
NT tractor tug
tumblehome
The inward slope of either the hull sides of a vessel (to lower its centre
of gravity) or, more commonly with inland waterways craft, the inward slope of
the cabin sides in order to ease passage through low bridges.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
BT below decks watercraft component
USE Worsley mine boat
tunnel brush
A brush in 3 parts, designed for use in Blisworth Tunnel on the Grand
Union Canal.
CL tools and equipment
BT waterway maintenance equipment
tunnel hook
Metal hook fitted to the hull sides of a horse or butty narrow boat to
enable boats to be towed in trains without interfering with the rudder movement.
Also used when joining 2 narrow boats side by side on wide waterways.
UF breasting hook
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
RT anser pin
tunnel lamp
Generally oil powered lamp with 170 degree glass and reflector used as a
warning lamp at the bows of a boat in a tunnel. Some later lamps were converted
for low voltage electricity.
CL tools and equipment
BT boat lighting equipment
tup
A punch or set held by a wire handle, is held against a bolt head for the
final drives of the maul. In narrowboat work it was used to fasten the bottoms
to the bottom strakes.
CL tools and equipment
BT boatbuilding equipment
RT bottom board
NT strake
turk's head
A woven knot of rope, used round the rudder stock of the tiller to
decorate and protect it from knocks on locks.
CL tools and equipment
BT ropework
RT rudder stock
USE tue iron
twitch
Horse whip used for driving the animal when walking alongside. The wooden
handle has a short loop of leather attached for 'smacking' against the flanks of
the horse to keep it moving.
CL tools and equipment
BT equine driving equipment
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