At the other end of the scale, tub-boat canals such as the Bude Canal were limited to boats of under 10 tons for much of their length due to the capacity of their inclined planes or boat lifts.

* Canal, river and lake boats.

As the north shore of the Yangtze gradually silted up to create the sandbank island of Guazhou, it became necessary for boats crossing to and from the Jiangnan Canal to sail the long way around the eastern edge of that island.

The weekend-long event involves concerts, sports tournaments, street parties and most importantly the Canal Pride, a parade on boats on the canals of Amsterdam.

The boats then linked with the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal along the western shore at Wrightsville.

It is the limit of Broads navigation for larger boats, but small boats, and especially non-powered boats, can travel on the North Walsham & Dilham Canal until Honing.

The arrival of the Wabash and Erie Canal enhanced its importance even further ; a sidecut with locks allowed boats to be towed across the river to the town.

The Songo Lock, completed two years before town incorporation, linked Long Lake and Brandy Pond with Sebago Lake, allowing passage of boats from Harrison to Portland through the Cumberland and Oxford Canal in Standish.

The waterways in the area, including the Shinnecock Canal, also provide invaluable routes for boats.

Their vital link was in the restoration, building, and repairing of canal boats along the Lehigh Canal which ran parallel to the Lehigh River.

By 1832, Lewis Weiss began building boats for the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company and the Morris Canal & Banking Company.

Canal boats and rafts moved farm produce, lumber and people up and down the river.

In 1976, the Lancaster Canal Trust mounted a campaign for the construction of slipways on this section, to make the launching of boats easier, which proved to be successful, as they were used at Easter 1978, when a boat rally was held on the upper reaches.

It was opposed by the inhabitants of Worstead and Dilham, who feared that their businesses would collapse if boats could reach North Walsham, but the navigation was nevertheless authorised by an Act of Parliament dated 5 May 1812, which created the Company of Proprietors of the North Walsham and Dilham Canal Navigation.

The single word ' narrowboat ' has been adopted by authorities such as the Canal and River Trust and the magazine ' Waterways World ' to refer to all boats built in the style and tradition of the narrow canal locks.

There was now no horse to look after, but someone had to steer the butty, unless on a wide canal such as the Grand Union Canal where the two boats could be roped side-to-side or ' breasted up ', and handled as one while working locks.

However some traffic continued into the 1980s and beyond including over 2 million tonnes of aggregate carried on the Grand Union ( River Soar ) from 1976 to 1996, latterly using wide beam barges however, and aggregate currently carried by narrow boats ( and wide barges ) between Denham and West Drayton on the Grand Union Canal.

* Rolle Road: This is the site of the Rolle Canal which opened in 1827 to help transport clay, lime and other commodities between the boats on the tidal river at Landcross and the lime kilns, clay pits and farms around Torrington.

* The Aire and Calder Navigation carries boats to Leeds, and ( via the Leeds and Liverpool Canal ), to Lancashire

The canal is a " wide " navigation, meaning that its locks are wide enough for wide-beamed boats, but its shortest locks are amongst the shortest on the connected network of English and Welsh inland waterways, with only the Ripon Canal having locks of a similarly restricted length.

( Note that other factors can restrict the places to which a boat can reach: for instance, boats with a high cabin top, or with insufficient tumblehome may not be able to fit into Standedge Tunnel at the summit of the Huddersfield Narrow Canal ).

With these funds, the Dismal Swamp Canal was widened and deepened, allowing for larger boats to ship their goods.

Although they journeyed westerly as far as Germantown, beyond the Erie roundhouse and the machine shop, and along the Delaware and Hudson Canal, and northward to Brooklyn, below Point Peter, he could see the church spire wherever he looked back.

From there, ships could travel anywhere in the world out of the St. Lawrence Seaway or the Erie Canal to New York City.

However, the commission also recommended that the French work on the Panama Canal should be taken over if it could be purchased for no more than $ 40, 000, 000.

As regards the Red Sea, it was decided after discussion that a healthy vessel could pass through the Suez Canal, and continue its voyage in the Mediterranean during the period of incubation of the disease the prevention of which is in question.

The unfinished Danube-Bucharest Canal, which is long and approximately 70 % completed, could link Bucharest to the Danube River and, via the Danube-Black Sea Canal, to the Black Sea.

Powell was a member of the Suez Group of MPs who were against the removal of British troops from the Suez Canal because such a move would demonstrate, Powell argued, that Britain could no longer maintain a position there and that any claim to the Suez Canal would therefore be illogical.

" Powell added: " The Panama Canal from 1914 onwards could never quite exorcise the spectre ....

The institution of the Grand Canal by the Sui also obviated the need for the army to become self-sufficient farmers while posted at the northern frontier, as food supplies could now easily be shipped from south to north over the pass.

This was foreseen by a Chinese official in 1447, who remarked that the flood-prone Yellow River made the Grand Canal like a throat that could be easily strangled ( leading some officials to request restarting the grain shipments through the East China Sea ).

The horse-drawn wheeled wagons on the Gangway took the form of containers, which, loaded with coal, could be transhipped from canal barges on the Derby Canal which Outram had also promoted.

Heraclius could not attack Ctesiphon itself because the Nahrawan Canal was blocked due to the collapse of a bridge leading over it.

According to Vallée, a Navy veteran who served on board the USS Engstrom noted that the Eldridge might indeed have travelled from Philadelphia to Norfolk and back again in a single day at a time when merchant ships could not: by use of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and the Chesapeake Bay, which at the time was open only to naval vessels.

The first such plan, for a defence along the Lys Canal, could not be carried out because of German advances on 26 May, with 2nd Division and 50th Division pinned down, and 1st, 5th and 48th Divisions under heavy attack.

The United States persuaded Panama that a standing army could threaten the security of the Panama Canal Zone.

The Champlain Canal was opened on 1823, so the ships could navigate from the Hudson river.

The much larger ships that could navigate the Kiel Canal meant that, although situated inland, Rendsburg became a seaport and a dockyard.

There is a set of gates set in the southern outside wall to the cemetery which is adjacent to the Grand Union Canal, where it is said that coffins carried by barge could be unloaded.

When the Delaware and Raritan Canal and Camden and Amboy Railroad were constructed during the 19th century, the profits began to dwindle and the turnpike could not handle the expenses for stagecoaches.

It wasn't until 1868 that the Ogden Mine Railroad began operations and made it economical to ship zinc and iron ore to Nolan's Point on Lake Hopatcong where the Morris Canal had a marine terminal that could ship ore to Newark.

* Shelby Basin – A former wide part of the Erie Canal, where barges could turn is west of Medina.