0-9, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z [Contents]
0-9,
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C,
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F,
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H,
I,
J,
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M,
N,
O,
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R,
S,
T,
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V,
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X,
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Z [Contents]
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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