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Sentence Examples The lower basin needed that water to ship a few barges of grain and other commodities along the channelized river. Appropriately, he spends most of his days on tramp steamers, skiffs and barges. You would have to trans-ship the sheep from the large ship that they're on now, to barges. This was achieved by means of barges which came alongside to transport convicts across the half mile of water to a small jetty. The bridge was a line of old barges that had been crudely tied together, the deck a mishmash of welded patches of dented rusting metal. This was built so that the first barges when not being poled along the navigation by the crews, could be pulled from land by horses. His passion is for boats, in particular traditional barges on the Thames, and his works are executed in watercolour and pen and ink. The Toe to Tow Marathon is a fall classic that follows the path where mules once pulled barges along the Erie Canal. The poor state of the roads meant a considerable amount of river and coastal traffic, mainly in barges or cogs. Cargo ships still to this day jostle with rice barges and fragile sampans, whilst porters sweat in the humidity loading the boats. Fire baskets or cressets mounted at the prows of the fishing barges seem to attract prey for the cormorants. I first wrote to you in May 1996 concerning the parlous state of the hulks and barges moored illegally along the waterfront by Waterman's Park. Until Katrina, Mississippi law required that casinos be located on water in floating barges. It is also fitted with two small masts rigged with spritsails, a sailing rig that is still used by Thames sailing barges today. If river levels sink too low, barges could be grounded and agriculture thrown into chaos. The work will allow boats and barges to land cargo in bad weather because the planned site is sheltered by the reef. Only incidentally did it become a landing stage where houses multiplied and barges moored. This would hamper the use of large hopper dredges and large transport barges. In watercraft delivery, cases of MREs are loaded onto lighters, flat-bottomed boats, or barges and transported from port to port. Visit the observation decks at four area lock and dams to watch barges and riverboats pass through. Show More Sentences The towboat alone is separated from its barges and moved alongside the barges for lockage. There was every kind from little boats to huge cargo ships, from dilapidated sailboats to magnificent barges. It is not known how many scows, barges, and other vessels were involved in transporting brownstone. However, this is a canal basin with a few barges on it, not a yachting marina where you berth a boat ready to sail. The ferry barges across the seafront for its dock with categoric straightness, welcome after the shambles and indirection of Portsmouth. Transport now includes harbour ferries, and ferries or barges on rivers or lakes. During slack water, tugs tow freight barges and rafts of logs through the narrows with scant room to manoeuvre. After checking into their hotel when they arrive, they can stroll up to where the many canal barges are moored. At night, its surface always glittered with the lanterns of passing trade ships and river barges. Although built in 1953 she reflects the design of horse drawn barges used when the canal first opened more than 200 years ago. Over on the river, flat-bottomed barges being loaded with cargo and refugees headed off down the river. His father owns mills in the country and a lot of the barges on the canal and the Thames. In Bordeaux, barges must carry chunks of the fuselage up the Garonne River under an 18 th-century bridge that offers scant clearance. The United States is a very attractive market, easy to access by ocean-going vessels and river barges. The Museum of Richmond is hosting a talk on royal barges and other boats as part of its Tudor by the Thames activities week. Minister O'Donoghue also spoke of the town as a popular boating centre and a base for the pleasure barges on the Barrow. There rode ships from France, England, Holland, China and Japan, while innumerable boats and gilded barges rowed by sixty men plied to and fro. Many involved smaller boats, such as tugs, barges and fishing boats, in the Malacca Straits and Indonesian waters. He purchased the business in 1995 with his wife, Barbara, and rents out canal barges to holidaymakers. Garcia almost escapes in behind the Tunisia defence, but the burly figure of Jaidi barges him out of the way. Show More Sentences He used to lead the horses that drew the barges along the canal for the bargees from Dublin. His smile wasn't nearly as beautiful as Andy's, and then speak of the devil, in barges Andy! Up at the top of 274 steps, Dordrecht and its bridges, rivers and ponderous barges lay open for admiration. It was a wonderful sight to see 21 smacks and bawleys go off, followed half an hour later by 9 barges. He knew the smacks, bawleys and barges, and had sailed aboard most boats suited to the tidal waters. Half the barges were away, already sweeping downriver with thin, white mustaches under their bluff bows, when a commotion awoke ashore. More than 6,000 ships, warships, merchantmen, landing craft and barges, sailed across the channel in marked lanes cleared by minesweepers. Supermarket trolleys and burned-out cars replaced the brightly coloured barges that once proudly carried grain, coal, wool, salt and timber. Farmers throughout the Midwest and southern states ship their produce on barges down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, where they are loaded onto ocean-going vessels. River-users who had painted nightmare scenarios of fully laden petrol barges sheering off mud banks into the bridge welcomed the change of heart as a triumph for common sense. The lift was originally used to carry barges of salt, coal and clay. The transport vessels are trailing suction hopper dredges with barges. Using two barges, The Wimbrown VII and the Hercules as their operating Bases, SEALs patrolled the sea searching for minelayers thought to be illegally mining the local waters. He was one of 160 blacks chosen to serve on the Mason, a destroyer escort assigned to shepherd convoys of Army barges and tugs from the United States to England. Along East Biloxi's casino row near the beach, workers in hard hats buzzed around hotels and beached casino barges, clearing sand and making repairs. When the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lets water out of Georgia's West Point Lake to bring barges up the Chattahoochee River, it pulls the plug on recreational boating, too. The oarsmen fore and aft of the middle of the ship would provide power when the wind dropped or came ahead, the conditions under which sailing barges would anchor and wait. Moreover, if the staffage reminds us of the kinds of figures found in his earlier work, they do also represent the people who worked on the Thames barges. That's because more than 70,000 people were counted on merchant sea-going and coasting boats, inland barges and boats as well as naval vessels when the census was taken. During the mid 1800s, many colleges purchased their own barges, often from London livery companies, which they used as club rooms and moored alongside Christ Church meadow. Show More Sentences Starting at the Palais Rohan, where Napoleon dumped Josephine, long glass-roofed bateaux mouches, or river barges, follow a lazy route through the Ill canals. We sell barges and barge mounted piledrivers with hydraulic hammers. Instead of gondolas, there are magenta-coloured barges which transport tourists along a two-mile stretch of river, past the native cypresses and gaudy glass-fronted hotels. To solve this problem, coal was lowered from the higher levels by means of an inclined plane, the long, narrow barges riding on iron frames operated by hand-winches. One firm sent its lighters, the London County Council dispatched its hopper barges, and the Port of London nine of its tugs which towed Thames sailing barges behind them. A small port had been built and colossal barges looking like giant overflowing matchboxes were being towed the short distance down the coast to Korea. After all, the track follows in the hoofprints of horses, which for hundreds of years pulled barges upstream along these same, now asphalted, riverside towpaths. Many are from the East Coast, such as barges, bawleys and smacks. The vessel had completed the discharge of a full load of barges and was then deballasted to her usual seagoing condition of 4.25m draught even keel. Mr. Moe has also started looking at using barges to ship oil down America's water ways. Suitable types might include sailing barges, historic tugboats, a wartime landing craft, steam motor yachts, or even a retired lightship, submarine, or hydrofoil. A little before six o'clock, we were casting plugs about a mile above St. Anthony Falls when the Patrick Gannaway, a towboat, came chugging upriver with two barges. Yet they willingly sail those barges out into the ocean, spending weeks on end slamming down into the troughs of waves and heaving their way up the next crest to do it again. Many Indian and Arab traders chose to land their products at Mergui and use barges to travel upriver to Tenasserim and then have their good portaged the rest of the way. Horses pulled barges from the towpath before boat engines were used. Suddenly the serenity is broken as a giant bird, recalling the mythological roc, barges through the brush, creating a momentary panic among the dawn horses. The railroad cars, moved via rails welded to the flat decks of the barges, are secured to the deck with giant turnbuckles. God knows what will happen if she barges in unannounced and finds Howard playing with his Donkey Kong. In the evening, Evelyn reported that the river was covered with barges and boats making their escape piled with goods. In 1867 the Fletchers built a private railway line and the Bedford Basin with facilities for loading coal from Howe Bridge onto barges. Show More Sentences The jetty was also opposed by the Tees Conservancy Commissioners and they moored barges along the foreshore to obstruct construction. In what became known as the Battle of the Tees, a fight broke out when a steam tug sent by the Commissioners interrupted men moving the barges. The barges were successfully moved, but a more serious fight developed the following night when three of the Commissioners' steam tugs arrived. Accounts record the large number of wagons and barges which delivered the jointed timbers to Westminster for assembly. The walk along Walbrook Wharf is closed to pedestrians when waste is being transferred onto barges. Steamers, ferries, and tugboats pulling strings of barges behind them created rush-hour traffic on a laneless thoroughfare. In good conditions, barges travelled daily from Oxford to London carrying timber, wool, foodstuffs and livestock. It also makes it harder for rogue ships and barges knocking out both bridges in the same accident. Finally Supervisor level 2 expands on that, allowing firing from barges, bridges, rooftops and over unusual sites. On 13 September, they carried out another large raid on the Channel ports, sinking 80 large barges in the port of Ostend. The loss of these barges may have contributed to Hitler's decision to postpone Operation Sea Lion indefinitely. Types of RORO vessels include ferries, cruiseferries, cargo ships, barges, and RoRo service for air deliveries. Contrary to custom and against the wishes of the Church, many corpses were loaded onto barges and buried at sea beyond the mouth of the Tagus. Until the 1930s, a towing system using a chain on the bed of the river existed to facilitate movement of barges upriver. On any day in the late 19th century, six million oysters could be found on barges tied up along the city's waterfront. In the early 1930s the Texas Company developed the first mobile steel barges for drilling in the brackish coastal areas of the Gulf of Mexico. In the early 1930s, the Texas Company developed the first mobile steel barges for drilling in the brackish coastal areas of the gulf. The Germans had no specialised landing craft, and would have had to rely primarily on river barges to lift troops and supplies for the landing. The barges were not designed for use in open sea and, even in almost perfect conditions, they would have been slow and vulnerable to attack. There were also not enough barges to transport the first invasion wave nor the following waves with their equipment. Show More Sentences Of the barges collected for the invasion, 1,336 were classified as peniches and 982 as Kampinen. They would also have been used to carry supplies directly ashore during the six hours of falling tide when the barges were grounded. It is also easier to gain access to local labour resources and heavy equipment such as floating cranes and barges. The mariners were reassigned to load grain on barges of the Grand Canal and to build the emperor's mausoleum. The Maya did not employ a functional wheel, so all loads were transported on litters, barges, or rolled on logs. Fireworks are launched simultaneously from four barges in the Bay as well as from a pier in Imperial Beach. The ships arrived at Novyy on 7 September, discharged their cargo to barges and departed on 12 September, bound for the Kara Gates and Rotterdam. A bridge of barges is built connecting Giudecca to the rest of Venice, and fireworks play an important role. Modern furnaces are equipped with an array of supporting facilities to increase efficiency, such as ore storage yards where barges are unloaded. After travelling along the canal the barges continued down the estuary to the port. The pipeline has been installed by Saipem s SEMAC and CASTORONE barges from Darwin to the Ichthys Field. While the majority of tonnage is downbound, the numbers of upbound and downbound barges and tows at each lock each year are about equal. The group used horses as land transportation and barges on water. After Gort's announcement pleasure craft, yachts, trawlers, tugs, fishing boats, motor boats, barges, lifeboats, draggers, river ferries and even cockleboats all set sail. French Country Waterways French Country Waterways is offering two-for-one fares on June 6 departures on the 12-passenger luxury barges Nenuphar and Adrienne. The organization has grown to include 10 full-time employees and a fleet of four barges, a towboat, six workboats, two skid steers, five work trucks, and a large box truck. The two locks at Cromwell became one, capable of holding eight Trent barges, dredging equipment was updated, and several of the locks were mechanised. Stanvac's North China Division, based in Shanghai, owned hundreds of river going vessels, including motor barges, steamers, launches, tugboats and tankers. The Blackstone Canal was built starting in 1824 and provided early freight transport by horse pulled barges from Uxbridge and Worcester, to the port of Providence and returns. The Topaz Marine fleet consists of AHTS's, PSV's, DP2 cable laying vessels, ERRV's, Workboats, Flotels, Ice Breakers, Survey Vessels and a variety of barges. Show More Sentences By the year 600, there were major build ups of silt on the bottom of the Hong Gou canal, obstructing river barges whose drafts were too deep for its waters. Some believe that in the spring of 1940 the NKVD towed some of the 10,000 unaccounted Polish military personnel out to the White Sea in barges and deliberately sank them. The second is an extensive attestation in the Oxyrhynchus corpus, where it seems most frequently to describe the Nile barges of the Ptolemaic pharaohs. Most notable are Caligula's pleasure barges in Lake Nemi, Italy. From a tactical point of view, working in unprotected waters is less hospitable for floating cranes, construction tenders, dredges and equipment barges. Though the Type A barges could disembark several medium tanks onto an open beach, this could be accomplished only at low tide when the barges were firmly grounded. Given barely two months to assemble a large seagoing invasion fleet, the Kriegsmarine opted to convert inland river barges into makeshift landing craft. Steel GBS are predominantly used when there is no or limited availability of crane barges to install a conventional fixed offshore platform, for example in the Caspian Sea. Dredge ship with barges on Neva bay in Saint Petersburg, Russia. This area was a source of timber, wax, amber, resins, and furs, along with rye and wheat brought down on barges from the hinterland to port markets. Focusing only upon the Few, with no mention of RAF bomber attacks against invasion barges, the Battle of Britain was soon established as a major victory for Fighter Command. The barges had begun embarking some 10,000 troops and the storm wrecked the troop and equipment transports, sinking some with the loss of all hands. Descending is more difficult, and barges often needed to start their descent with one tide, lay up before crossing Longney Sands, and finish the descent at the next tide. This was no longer necessary when barges were powered by steam. They stayed at Worsley Hall, with a view of the canal, and were given a trip between Patricroft railway station and Worsley Hall, on state barges. These barges would be protected by the large ships of the Armada. From Detroit to Daytona Beach, from Brooklyn to the Bay Area, the streets are ruled by tight superbikes that put yesterday's Evo-powered billet barges to shame. Examples from Classical Literature The effluent water was let flow into the river, and the sludge was carried down the river in barges and cast into the sea. We resembled Reason and Hope, or one of Pickford's barges and a towing-horse. So you can take it that barges what carry same as grain and oilcake and cement and bricks and such-like is mostly good too. The stream is tidal up to the port of Redon, and is navigable for barges as far as Rennes. The barges in which we now embarked were very small, owning to the shallowness of the river. He was about a half-a-mile from where the barges lay moored against the stone-faced embarkment. The Salt River and the Cabaritta, also in the south, are navigable by barges. Cigar-shaped barges stream under the lacework of the many bridges and make me think of tranquil days and willow-fringed horizons. Down near its mouth, where it widens towards the cherwell, are the barges of the different boat clubs or universities. These barges go as far as Tumen with their cargoes, but of this more hereafter. With such hints for divagation, let us resume our way down the river, henceforth navigable by barges and bridled by locks. Every now and then they could see long strings of barges being towed up and down the river between Coblentz and dusseldorf. The very fire that warmed you when you were a babby, was picked out of the river alongside the coal barges. The other barges in the cortege were rowed by Greenwich pensioners. There were some boats and barges astrand in the mud, and these enabled us to come within a few yards of her without being seen. Most of the barges had derrick masts, and all these masts were moving. I see him lying now on his back under those dull-green waters, with the heavy barges floating over him and long weeds catching in his hair. At the moment he reached the little port of Pirial, five large barges, laden with stone, were leaving it. There were a few lighters and barges, but none of the great merchantmen such as ply the upper air between the cities of the outer world. Fast-moving torpedo boats, warships, merchantmen, minesweepers, landing craft and barges. Show More Sentences Now we're covering towboats and barges which mostly go down stream to New Orleans where they transfer cargo to ships for export overseas. They were threading the tiers of barges moored on the southern side. The seven-mile long procession will have Dunkirk little ships, historic vessels, steam boats and tugs, rowed shallops, Dutch barges and passenger ships. Every conceivable vessel will be afloat on the Thames from kayaks, skiffs, Dunkirk little ships and dragon boats to tugs, barges, rowed shallops and passenger vessels. The steel artworks hark back to a time when our industries relied on horse power to pull barges along the country's network of canals and waterways. A wide stream flowed through the garden, and on it floated richly ornamented barges and gondolas filled with people dressed in the most elegant manner and covered with jewels. Find more words! 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