Dutch barge
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A Dutch barge is a traditional flat-bottomed shoal-draught barge, originally used to carry cargo in the shallow Zuiderzee and the waterways of The Netherlands. There are many types of Dutch barge, wit
Motorised Dutch barge passing a swing bridge on the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal
A pair of schuyts aground, in a print dated 1860
1887 watercolour of a Dutch Barge
Traditional boat on the IJsselmeer
Narrowboat
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A narrowboat is a particular type of barge, built to fit the narrow locks of the United Kingdom. The UK's canal system provided a nationwide transport network during the Industrial Revolution, but wit
Dutch barge
…Lighter Narrowboat – a British canal boat able to enter a 7-foot wide (2.13 m) narrow lock Trekschuit…
Modern narrowboats for leisure cruising, Bugsworth Basin, Buxworth, Derbyshire, England
The horse-drawn narrowboat SIÂN on the Montgomery Canal
Historic working narrow boats on the Macclesfield Canal in Cheshire, England. The leading boat, Forget Me Not, is hauling the un-powered butty Lilith. This became a familiar operating pattern once motors began to replace horses.
A narrowboat, crewed by a boatman and his son, carrying barrels of fruit pulp on the Regent's Canal, London, 1944