A ship channel can be an artificial or dredged waterway for moving ship traffic. A ship channel can also be a channel formed through surface ice by a ship.
Several waterways are referred to as the Ship Channel
- Houston Ship Channel
- Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel
- Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project
Famous quotes containing the words ship and/or channel:
“Small pity for him!—He sailed away
From a leaking ship in Chaleur Bay,—”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)
“This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.”
—Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801–1890)