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Dry Cargo Barges on the Humber Waterways (Paperback)
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Dry Cargo Barges on the Humber Waterways (Paperback)
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List price R405
Loot Price R332
Discovery Miles 3 320
You Save R73 (18%)
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This book completes Mike Taylor's three-volume coverage of craft on
the Humber's inland waterways. Volume one dealt with tugs and
towing barges and volume two with tanker barges. This final
instalment concentrates on the story of the dry cargo barges that
plied the Humber waterways from the early days in the seventeenth
century, through their flourishing heyday, to their gradual decline
due to the proliferation of roads and railways. From time
immemorial barges have afforded a means of moving dry cargoes from
place to place on rivers and estuaries, carrying many times the
weight of goods that were transported by cart or packhorse. A
thriving trading network was in place on the Humber waterways well
before the start of the twentieth century and continued to prosper
despite the construction of roads and the coming of railways.
Although the use of waterways transport did eventually start to
subside, some still exists today. In this detailed history, a
wealth of illustrations describe the development of dry cargo
carrying on the Humber waterway from the days of unpowered craft
through to the self-propelled vessels and push-towed craft of later
times, covering keels, sloops, pull-towed vessels and motorised
dumb barges.
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