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 worlds a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-Interest always runs a good race.”
—Gough Whitlam (b. 1916)
“Nodding, its great head rattling like a gourd,
And locks like seaweed strung on the stinking stone,
The nightmare stumbles past,”
—Robert Penn Warren (19051989)