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The Association of Waterways Cruising clubs is a waterway society and umbrella organisation in England, UK. It was founded in the early 1960s by the St Pancras, Dunstable, Uxbridge and Lee and Stort boat clubs as an inter-club scheme for an emergency service for boaters, and for safe overnight moorings. The Association grew quickly from the ...
Trench boats (for 6' / 1.83 m locks on the Trench, Telford Arm of the Shrewsbury Canal) Tub boats (used on various canals including the Bude Canal and the Grand Western Canal) White boats (on Aire and Calder Navigation; with white side decks for working at night) Widebeams; canal boats more than 6 feet 10 inches (2.08 m) beam; Canal museums
B. Tripboat "Bluebell", Bridge 19-40 Canal Society, West Lothian. Barge Association (DBA) Bedford and Milton Keynes Waterway Trust. Birmingham Canal Navigations Society. Bridge 19-40 Canal Society, Scotland. British Canoe Union (BCU) Broads Society, Norfolk, Suffolk. Burslem Port Trust - for the restoration of the Burslem arm of the Trent ...
Modern narrowboats for leisure cruising, Bugsworth Basin, Buxworth, Derbyshire, England. A narrowboat is a particular type of canal boat, 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 with the advent of the railways, commercial canal ...
The Manchester Ship Canal is a 36 mi-long (58 km) inland waterway in the North West of England linking Manchester to the Irish Sea.Starting at the Mersey Estuary at Eastham, near Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, it generally follows the original routes of the rivers Mersey and Irwell through the historic counties of Cheshire and Lancashire.
The National Community Boats Association (NCBA) is a waterway society, registered charity No. 1108993 and limited company No. 5331820, in the United Kingdom . NCBA supports community boat projects and encourages more people to access the inland waterways of the UK. Its headquarters are at the Yorkshire Waterways Museum in Goole.
Traditional working canal boats In Great Britain nearly 4,000 miles (6,400 km) of canals (shown in brown) were built. The canal network of the United Kingdom played a vital role in the Industrial Revolution. The UK was the first country to develop a nationwide canal network which, at its peak, expanded to nearly 4,000 miles (6,400 kilometres ...
Now a pontoon is set to be installed on the river, meaning the boat will be able to run completely off sunlight. The Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust, which operates the boat, said the pontoon will ...