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underwater viewer
A long tin cylinder, glazed
at one end that is placed in the water so that underwater brick work can be
inspected from the canal bank.
CL tools and equipment
BT waterway maintenance equipment
Union scow
Scow 60 ft long and 12 ft 6 inches
wide for use on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal, round bilged, double
ended.
unpowered boat
A boat which is designed
without a motive power source.
CL transport
BT <craft by motive power>
NT butty boat
up river trow
A trow which traded on the river
above Gloucester, usually with an open hold and a square rig.
CL transport
BT trow
RT Severn flat
Upper Trent keel
Square sailed and limited to
the river above Keadby. 60 ft x 14 ft on a draught of 2 ft 6 ins.Open hold with
no hatch boards.
uprights
Long and thin diagonal braces that
fit between the top of the gunwhale on a narrow boat and the underside of the
running planks. They at intervals along the hold of a narrow boat to give
rigidity to the running planks when the cloths are tied tightly over them.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
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