Locks
There are four locks, of various sizes at the North Sea mouth of the canal: When the north canal lock was opened in 1929 it was the largest canal lock in the world.
| name | completed | dimensions (L x W x D) meters |
dimensions (L x W x D) feet |
|---|---|---|---|
| South | 1876 | 110 x 20 x 8 | 360 x 65 x 26 |
| Small | 1876 | 110 x 11 x 3.5 | 360 x 36 x 11 |
| Middle | 1896 | 225 x 25 x 10 | 738 x 82 x 33 |
| North | 1929 | 400 x 50 x 15 | 1312 x 164 x 49 |
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Famous quotes containing the word locks:
“Nodding, its great head rattling like a gourd,
And locks like seaweed strung on the stinking stone,
The nightmare stumbles past,”
—Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)
“When the rose reigns, and locks with ointments shine,
Let rigid Cato read these lines of mine.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
“He’s made a harp of her breast-bane,
Whose sound wad melt a heart of stane.
He’s ta’en three locks o’ her yellow hair,
And wi’ them strung his harp sae rare.”
—Unknown. Binnorie; or, The Two Sisters (l. 41–44)