who pinched all the water

http://www.southstseaport.org/index1.aspx?BD=8993

My mistake, built in southampton in 1885 for R.W. Leyland & Company of Liverpool, called the Wavertree

A bit late but here is a pic from a few nights ago of the lock gates being refurbished at low tide Attachment 5339

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Originally Posted by Waterways

The UN stated Liverpool has historic dock waterways, but no historic ships. There is few places, in one of the world's largest ports, with half of it redundant, to put historic ships. The council are fully to blame for allowing sharks like Peel to make the dock waters shallow for inland canal boats. What is needed is the Princess Half-Tide river locks re-instated and a few dredgers to get in them docks and deepen them. Then get some historic ships in there and ideal berths for the tall and visiting ships.



The Brunswick river lock is there and is cheap for small craft. The Coburg lock, anyone any pics?

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Just had a talk with my elder brother who used to keep his boat in the Cocklehole. he reckons the Coburg lockgates were concreted in 60 or 70 years ago. He also said they were known locally as the "the Dead Gate" as many small craft used to founder there.

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Originally Posted by gregs dad

Just had a talk with my elder brother who used to keep his boat in the Cocklehole. he reckons the Coburg lockgates were concreted in 60 or 70 years ago. He also said they were known locally as the "the Dead Gate" as many small craft used to founder there.

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The Coburg river lock gates were originally made in anticipation for paddle wheel vessels. I say anticipation, that is how far ahead they thought in those days. They are very wide. As paddles went and screw props came and ships got wider these lock gates were useful.

But very large ships could not enter most of the south end docks and a deeper dredged channel would be needed for entrance to the small Coburg dock. Large ships could not negotiate into Brunswick and Queens docks from the Coburg.

The twin Brunswick river locks were adequate for largish Brunswick, Toxteth, Coburg, Kings and Queens Docks. Also the Canning river lock could serve Wapping, Kings and Queens too for smaller vessels. The Herculaneum served Harrington and Toxteth Docks as well.

So the wide Coburg locks into small Cobug dock were closed off.

Cool, always nice to know these bit of info!