Lock (water Transport) - Ship Sizes Named After Locks

Ship Sizes Named After Locks

Locks restrict the maximum size of ship able to navigate a waterway, and some key canals have given rise to the name of standard ship sizes, such as the Panamax and the Seawaymax.

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Famous quotes containing the words ship, named and/or locks:

    The ship goes on
    as though nothing else were happening.
    Generation after generation,
    I go her way.
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    who should moor at his edge
    And fare on afoot would find gates of no gardens,
    But the hill of dark underfoot diving,
    Closing overhead, the cold deep, and drowning.
    He is called Leviathan, and named for rolling,
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    Nodding, its great head rattling like a gourd,
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    The nightmare stumbles past,
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