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  2. Anderton Boat Lift - Wikipedia

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    Anderton Boat Lift. The Anderton Boat Lift is a two- caisson lift lock near the village of Anderton, Cheshire, in North West England. It provides a 50-foot (15.2 m) vertical link between two navigable waterways: the River Weaver and the Trent and Mersey Canal. The structure is designated as a scheduled monument, and is included in the National ...

  3. History of the British canal system - Wikipedia

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    The Anderton Boat Lift, the world's first commercially successful boat lift and until the opening of the Falkirk Wheel the only boat lift in the United Kingdom. Bingley Five Rise Locks, a staircase lock that is the steepest in the country. Burnley Embankment, an innovative solution to a canal crossing a wide valley.

  4. Falkirk Wheel - Wikipedia

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    A timelapse from inside a boat. The Falkirk Wheel (Scottish Gaelic: Cuibhle na h-Eaglaise Brice) is a rotating boat lift in Tamfourhill, Falkirk, in central Scotland, connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal. It opened in 2002 as part of the Millennium Link project, reconnecting the two canals for the first time since the 1930s.

  5. Boat lift - Wikipedia

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    Boat lift. A boat lift, ship lift, or lift lock is a machine for transporting boats between water at two different elevations, and is an alternative to the canal lock. It may be vertically moving, like the Anderton boat lift in England, rotational, like the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland, or operate on an inclined plane, like the Ronquières ...

  6. List of RNLI stations - Wikipedia

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    If more than one boat is provided they are sometimes stationed in separate buildings at different locations in the same town. Current RNLI boats fall into three broad groups: All weather lifeboats (ALBs): Mersey, Severn, Shannon, Tamar, and Trent. Inshore lifeboats (ILBs): D-class (IB1), Atlantic 85 and E-class. Hovercraft: H-class.

  7. St Davids Lifeboat Station - Wikipedia

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    St Davids RNLI Lifeboat Station. St Davids Lifeboat Station (based in St Justinian, St Davids, Pembrokeshire, Wales) is a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) station. It was opened in 1869 and to date has been involved in saving over 360 lives at sea in more than 420 launches. [1] The station operates both an all-weather (ALB) and an ...

  8. Grand Western Canal - Wikipedia

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    It included an inclined plane and seven boat lifts, the earliest lifts to see commercial service in the UK. The lifts predated the Anderton Boat Lift by nearly 40 years. The 11 miles of Devon section remains open, despite various threats to its future, and is now a designated country park and local nature reserve, and allows navigation. The ...

  9. Edwin Clark (civil engineer) - Wikipedia

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    Edwin Clark FRAS [1] (7 January 1814 – 22 October 1894) [2] was an English Civil Engineer, specialising in hydraulics.He is remembered principally as the designer of the Anderton Boat Lift (1875) near Northwich in Cheshire, which links the navigable stretch of the River Weaver with the Trent and Mersey Canal.

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