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waders
Large water proof boots.
CL tools and equipment
BT lifesaving and protective equipment
wager
So called because heavy wagers were often laid on the events in which they
appeared. Lightweight with just sufficient room for a single occupant. Clinker
built craft. Name used before mid Nineteenth Century.
CL transport
BT clinker built boat
BT competitive craft
BT human powered boat
RT best boat
NT whiff
USE whale strake
warp
The name given to the rope used for towing a vessel.
CL tools and equipment
BT towing equipment
waste disposal vessel
Craft designed for waste disposal on inland waterways. Do not use for
indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL transport
BT <craft by function>
NT mud hopper
NT suction plant
water barrel
Small barrel with a supporting frame, containing fresh water carried on
certain types of canal boat, often decorated.
CL tools and equipment
CL containers
BT boat equipment
RT breaker
water tank
Metal container for holding water, has many forms and sizes.
CL containers
water wheel propelled boat
A boat that is designed to be propelled by the use of a water wheel.
CL transport
BT <craft by propulsion>
watercan
Large drinking water container with hinged lid, spout and cross handle;
usually kept on narrowboat roof in front of chimney, often decorated. Sometimes
called 'Buckby cans' as they could be bought at a shop at Buckby locks on the
Grand Junction Canal.
UF Buckby can
UF can
CL containers
CL components
BT <component by specific context>
NT <watercraft component by context>
<watercraft component by context>
CL components
BT watercraft component
NT above decks watercraft component
NT below decks watercraft component
waterway maintenance equipment
Equipment designed for maintenance on inland waterways. Do not use for
indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL tools and equipment
BT maintenance and repairing equipment
NT crome
NT dydle
NT hockey stick icebreaker
NT hodder
NT ice tongs
NT keb
NT meag
NT mud scoop
NT shore knife
NT sill scoop
NT tunnel brush
NT underwater viewer
NT weed rake
waterway plank
A raised plank around the edge of a wooden deck which forms a sort of
gutter.
CL components
BT plank (boat component)
Waveney One Design
A class of racing half decked sloops for Suffolk waterways; 22.75 feet
long; 290 square foot sail; carvel built; gunter rigged.
CL transport
BT competitive craft
BT sail propelled boat
Weaver flat
Adaptation of the Mersey flat used on the River Weaver and in the Mersey
estuary.
CL transport
BT canal flat
Weaver packet
Steam and motor barges of the River Weaver. They succeeded the Weaver
sailing flats. They were used mainly to carry salt and chemical products for the
Salt Union or Brunner, Mond and Co. Brunner Mond built up their own fleet of
slightly larger packets and they were known as 'Brunners'.
UF Brunner
CL transport
BT Mersey barge
Weaver sailing flat
Used on the Weaver from the mid Eighteenth to mid Nineteenth Century,
originally bow hauled and later horse towed. The sailing flats were put out of
business in the 1870s by steam packets towing dumb barges, many of which were
ex- sailing flats.
CL transport
BT Mersey sailing flat
USE weed cutting boat
weed cutting boat
A craft designed to cut weed under water.
UF weed cutter
UF weedboat
CL transport
BT channel clearance craft
BT service craft
weed rake
Large rake used to pull floating weeds to the bank side to be pulled out
of the water. Especially associated with bank maintenance.
CL tools and equipment
BT waterway maintenance equipment
USE weed cutting boat
weighing equipment
Equipment designed for weighing in an inland waterways context. Do not use
for indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL tools and equipment
BT measuring equipment
NT boat weighing machine
NT cargo weighing equipment
Welsh narrow boat
Craft of the canals of the South Wales valleys. Double ended boats around
60ft x 9ft loading 20-25 tons and varying draughts. Simple cabins or open boats.
CL transport
BT narrow boat
NT Glamorganshire Canal boat
NT Monmouthshire Canal boat
NT Neath Canal boat
NT Swansea Canal boat
West Country barge
Used on Thames - modern update of Western barge with a pointed bow and
wide transom stern.
UF Upper Thames barge
CL transport
BT Thames barge
RT Thames sailing barge
NT western barge
USE West Country keel
West Country keel
Generally non-tidal boats 57ft 6 inches x 14ft 2 inches, draught 3ft 11
inches.Particularly applied to barges on the Calder and Hebble Navigation.
UF West Country boat
CL transport
BT Yorkshire keel
western barge
The general term for barges related to the medieval type used on the River
Thames and its connections above London. Originally, they were square sailed and
man or horse towed above the tideway. Punt shaped bows and sterns later
developed into a pointed bow and transom stern. Depending on how far inland they
were to be used they varied in size from 40 to 140 tons. West Country Barges
80ft x 12ft were used through the Thames and Severn Canal off the Upper Thames
until the 1840s when the locks were shortened. 60ft x 12ft boats used the river
and canal to carry salt from Droitwich.
CL transport
BT barge
NT Newbury barge
RT West Country barge
Wey barge
Wey Barges were built like unrigged Thames barges. They were around 73ft x
13ft 10in and carried 85 tons on the Thames, less on the River Wey.
CL transport
BT Thames barge
RT Thames sailing barge
whale strake
A strake of planking thicker than the skin planking.
UF wale strake
CL components
BT strake
RT skin plank
wharf boat
An over large open boat built to work specific lengths of canal without
the use of locks, usually on narrow canals.
CL transport
BT narrow boat
NT Hampton boat
USE Norfolk wherry
wherry wheelbarrow
Used for unloading cargoes such as stone from wherries. The barrow had no
legs so that it could be rested on the 11 inch wide planks on the side of the
boat. Made with wood and strengthened with iron bands.
CL tools and equipment
BT cargo handling equipment
RT Norfolk wherry
whiff
Narrow sculling boat used for racing or training, fitted with outriggers.
It superseded the older type of wager boat and was in turn replaced by the best
boat and modern shell. Mainly of clinker build, but light and handy the average
whiff was 20-23 feet long, 16-18 inches wide and 6 inches deep from keel to the
top of the stem.
CL transport
BT competitive craft
BT human powered boat
NT rumtum
NT whiff gig
RT best boat
NT wager
whiff gig
Version of the whiff. Carried a passenger. Only 19 feet long but at least
2 feet 8 inches in the beam and 12 inches deep.
CL transport
BT whiff
USE Yare and Bure One Design
Wich barge
A wooden sailing vessel, related to a trow, with a single mast.
Particularly used to carry salt from Droitwich to Bristol and sized to fit the
locks of the Droitwich Canal.
CL transport
BT trow
USE barge
Wilson House Canal boat
Size and shape unknown.
CL transport
BT miscellaneous cargo craft types
winch
A hauling or lifting device consisting of a rope or chain winding around a
horizontal rotating drum, turned by a crank or motor.
CL components
BT cargo handling system component
BT lifting equipment
wind powered boat
A boat whose motive power source is provided by the wind.
CL transport
BT <craft by motive power>
wind powered propulsion system component
Objects that make up a wind powered propulsion system designed for inland
waterways. Do not use for indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL components
BT propulsion system component
NT mast and spar component
NT rigging component
NT sail component
windlass
Removable crank handle fitted to the end of a shaft to provide manual
leverage to rotate the shaft against a load for operating sluice and paddle
gear.
UF lock windlass
CL tools and equipment
BT boat equipment
USE blinkers
Woodeaves Canal boat
Size and shape unknown.
CL transport
BT miscellaneous cargo craft types
wooden boat
A boat whose main construction material is wood.
CL transport
BT <craft by material>
woodworking equipment
Equipment designed for working with wood in an inland waterways context.
Do not use for indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL tools and equipment
BT <tools and equipment by material worked upon>
NT adze
NT cramp
NT gouge
NT mortise chisel
NT plane
NT saw
Worcester and Birmingham Canal barge
A example of this vessel, built to barge dimensions to work along the
Birmingham to Tardebigge section, is recorded in the 1795 Warwickshire Boat
Register.
CL transport
BT miscellaneous cargo craft types
work flat
A craft specifically for maintenance purposes, ranging from a flat punt to
one with cabin and workshop. Rectangular.
CL transport
BT service craft
NT bricklayer's flat
NT piling flat
Worsley mine boat
Double ended wooden craft with many wooden frames. They were designed to
work in the 46 mile underground Worsley mines canal system. In three main sizes
- 36 ftx4 ft.x2 ft. 6 inches carrying 8 tons, 55ft boats loading 10 tons in
containers (used for onward transport to Manchester) and narrower, shallower
boats only 19 inches deep, limited to 2 tons. They are thought to be the
forerunners of the narrow boat and were also known as 'starvationers', because
the 'ribs showed'.
UF starvationer
UF tunnel boat
CL transport
BT mine boat
RT narrow boat
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