ship canal

A canal wide and deep enough to serve ships. Also called shipway.

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ship canal - a canal large enough for seagoing vessels

shipway

canal - long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation

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He was passing between Manchester and Liverpool, Kurt told him; a gleaming band across the prospect was the Ship Canal, and a weltering ditch of shipping far away ahead, the Mersey estuary.

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A passenger on the Manchester Ship Canal cruise said: "We got grounded for an hour and a half in Runcorn at some salt factory, while they offloaded a man into a cage attached to a crane because he was ill."

Sick OAP taken off boat in cage

Police officers and firefighters were called to the canal at Telfords Quay at around 8pm last night (Tuesday, August 6)following reports of a person in the Manchester Ship Canal.

Ellesmere Port man's body found in Manchester Ship Canal by police; Police were called to the canal last night

| MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL Like Donnie Wahlberg, when it comes to Manchester's waterways the Ship Canal is the slightly overlooked big brother to the more famous and attractive Bridgewater Canal.

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It's cut off from the mainland by the Manchester Ship Canal and is effectively part of the massive Essar oil refinery complex, itself secretive and fenced off to deter casual sightseers.

The secret island in the Mersey with abbey ruins and a 24-hour ferry - Stanlow Island; Island tucked away behind oil refinery had village on it until the 1980s

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev reminded the Eurasian Economic Union member states at the EAEU summit in Sochi on May 14 about the plans to build a ship canal to link the Black and Caspian Seas and this way to provide access for Kazakhstan and Central Asian states to the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean.

Nazarbayev offers to build canal to connect Black and Caspian Seas

The shocking clip showed the distressed young cat, called Ben, being thrown over the waterfront railings into the Manchester Ship Canal in Runcorn.

Two boys aged 16 charged over cruel video of kitten being hurled 30ft into canal; Police in Runcorn, Cheshire, began investigating after the shocking clip was shared on social media

Turkish plans for the construction of a ship canal as a maritime by-pass for Istanbul's Bosporus will not be affected by last week's failed military coup and the subsequent widespread instability in the country, it is said on Tuesday.

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