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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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