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
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
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
Narrowboat
…steering deck entirely, by imitating some river cruisers in providing wheel steering from a central cockpit. This layout has the advantage (as have many Dutch barges) of enabling an aft cabin to be separate from the forward accommodation. Narrowboats are Category D boats under the Recreational Craft Directive…
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