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	Charlotte Dundas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There was concern about wave damage to the canal banks, and possibly the boat was found to be underpowered on the canal, so the canal company refused further trials.
		The first sailing was on the canal in Glasgow on 4th January 1803, with Lord Dundas and a few of his relatives and friends on board.
		Plans to introduce boats on the Forth and Clyde canal were thwarted, largely by fears of erosion of the banks, and a project to built tug boats for the Bridgewater Canal had ended with the Duke of Bridgewater's death a few days before the March trial.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charlotte_Dundas (483 words)

	William Symington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While there, he impressed the manager of a local mining company, Gilbert Meason, so much that he was sent to the University of Edinburgh in 1786 to spend a few months attending science lectures.
		This was because he had extensive business interests on the east and west coasts and was governor of the Forth and Clyde Canal Company.
		Therefore, the canal was essential to his business, and steam power could speed up the movement of vessels through the canal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Symington (1402 words)

	Forth and Clyde Canal
		This is the Forth and Clyde Canal which, stretching 35 miles across Scotland was originally built as a ship canal to link the Firth of Forth at Grangemouth with the Firth of Clyde at Bowling.
		The principal local purpose for which the Canal is used is the conveyance of coals from the Temple coal-work, and of stones from the Garscube quarry.
		The main use for the canal at the beginning of the 20th century was still the shipment of coal, stone, timber and manure although the fishing boats and other less usual cargoes were to be seen passing our village on their way to the various manufacturers which were set up by the canal side.
	www.kelvinweb.com /westerton/canal.htm (1400 words)

	The Forth and Clyde Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The notion of a canal from the Forth to the Clyde was first suggested in 1723 by Alexander Gordon and then again by General Roy in 1755.
		Work on the canal lapsed till 1785 and Robert Whiteworth finally took the canal to Bowling in 1790; where it was formally opened by him and the chairman of the Canal Company, Archibald Speirs.
		When the canal was first opened it was deeper than the Clyde, and there was occasion when vessels with a large draft had to use it rather than the river to reach Glasgow.
	www.templum.freeserve.co.uk /history/canal.htm (394 words)

	Historical perspective for Forth and Clyde Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Its length was 38¾ miles-35 miles direct between the Forth and Clyde, 2 miles of the branch to Port Dundas, and a mile of the continuation to the Monkland Canal.
		The greatest height of the canal above the sea is 156 feet, and this is attained by means of twenty locks on the eastern and nineteen on the western sides, a difference due to the different water-level of the two rivers.
		The average breadth of the canal on the surface is 56 feet, and at the bottom 27 feet.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/features/featurehistory131.html (1874 words)

	Chapter XVI. Grangemouth
		In 1834, at the suggestion of the Governor of the Forth and Clyde Canal, Mr.
		The subscribers were incorporated under the name of "the Company of Proprietors of the Forth and Clyde Navigation," their joint stock to consist of 1,500 shares of 100 pounds, with liberty to borrow 50,000 pounds; the holders of 5 shares to vote, by themselves or proxies, and be eligible as managers.
		The former, we know, long before the ‘Comet’ came out on the Clyde, was a close and frequent inspector of Symington’s vessel during the many years that she lay in the canal creek; and was likewise a spectator of the experiments in 1789.
	www.electricscotland.com /HISTORY/stirlingshire/chap16.htm (2997 words)

	History Channel Search Results
		From the source to the falls the Clyde is a fishing stream, but from the falls to the mouth it is the most important commercial water route of Scotland.
		The Firth of Clyde, which is navigable by the largest vessels, is about 103 km (about 64 mi) long and 1.6 km (1 mi) to about 56 km (about 35 mi) wide at the mouth.
		Near Renfrew is the junction of the Clyde with the Forth and Clyde Canal, which connects the Firth of Clyde with the Firth of Forth on the E coast of Scotland.
	www.historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..cl162900.a (338 words)

	Canal History
		The Forth and Clyde Canal enjoyed an active life, but by the end of the Second Word War there were faster ways to transport goods and this trade fell away but the day tripping and transits from one coast to the other continued, though to a lesser extent than before.
		The Union Canal Company was established under the Act to construct a canal from Lock 16 at Camelon to Edinburgh and in August 1817 Hugh Baird was appointed as Canal Engineer.
		However the Canal is currently being totally reopened to navigation as a result of the Millennium Link Project and in 2001 will be open again for navigation from Edinburgh to Falkirk and, by a giant wheel that will convey boats down to the Forth and Clyde Canal, through to Glasgow.
	www.seagulltrust.org.uk /html/canal_history.html (2732 words)

	History of Airdrie 1850 - 1920
		By 1846 Airdrie and Coatbridge Water Company was founded to construct (along with Forth and Clyde Canal Company) the reservoir at Roughrigg.
		In 1852 the regiment was renamed the "Lanarkshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry".
		On the outbreak of the South African War of 1899-1902, a mounted infantry battalion of four companies was organised from the Scottish Yeomanry.
	airdrie.net /acthist3a.htm (808 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Forth And Clyde Canal
		The Forth and Clyde Canal stretches across central Scotland from Grangemouth on the River Forth, to Bowling on the River Clyde.
		In 1793 the Glasgow branch of the canal was extended to Port Dundas (Half a mile from Glasgow city centre) where it was linked to the Monkland canal.
		Ownership of the canal was transfered to the British Transport Commission in 1948 and in 1962 control of the canal was handed over to the British Waterways Board.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A621712 (899 words)

	Camelon Industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In addition to these there was Henderson's Canal Steel and File Works which was situated on the North bank of the Forth and Clyde Canal, to the west of Union Road.
		When the Union Canal finally reached Camelon there started a regular passenger service between Edinburgh and Glasgow and passengers travelled by one boat on the Union Canal and transferred at Camelon to another boat on the Forth and Clyde.
		On the Forth and Clyde the charges were cabin three shillings and 3 pence and steerage two shillings three and a half pence.
	www.falkirk-wheel.com /wheel/falkirk/information/industry.htm (1034 words)

	MIDDLESEX CANAL COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY
		In contrast, canals were considered to be a cheap and efficient means of distributing goods because their effectiveness had been clearly proven in England by such works as James Brindley’s Worsely-Manchester Canal (1759-1761), the Forth and Clyde Canals of John Smeaton, and the Ellesmere and Caledonian Canals of Thomas Telford (Clarke 1974:13).
		The overwhelming acceptance of canals in England seemed to provide the board of directors of the Middlesex Canal Corporation with clear proof that their venture, though subject to the variable conditions of the weather, would be able to easily compete with, and surpass the traditional forms of overland transportation.
		The Canal storehouse, which was on the western wharf, was two stories high, sixty feet long, and forty feet wide and served several functions: a boardinghouse, a bar, and for storage, and before 1832 a room in the finished part of the building was the Canal office.
	www.middlesexcanal.org /Phase_IV_Report.html (16088 words)

	Union Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Union canal has the only canal tunnel in Scotland and this was constructed at the demand of a powerful landowner who objected to the prospect of being able to see the canal from his house (Callendar House in Falkirk).
		The canal is famous for the discovery of the Solitary Wave of Motion by John Scott Russell in 1834 and the new aqueduct over the A720 Edinburgh City bypass was named after him.
		The canal was doomed to closure with the inception of the railways and a rapid decline of the Union Canal began in 1842 with the opening of the Glasgow to Edinburgh railway.
	www.falkirk-wheel.com /wheel/union/union.htm (345 words)

	canals : British Waterways Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The canal was created to open up the west coast and improve access to the Western Isles, offering a safe transit route from Ardrishaig on Loch Fyne to Crinan, thus avoiding the often difficult sail around the Mull of Kintyre and cutting over 100 miles (160km) off the journey time.
		The Forth and Clyde Canal Company bought the Monkland in 1846, and in 1867 these canals were in turn bought by the Caledonian Railway.
		The Forth and Clyde is 56 miles (35 km) long from Grangemouth on the Firth of Forth to Bowling on the Firth of Clyde with the Glasgow branch another 35 miles (56 km).
	www.scottishcanals.co.uk /scotland/scot_about_us/canals.html (1616 words)

	The Scotland Guide: Glasgow: The Forth and Clyde Canal: surveying the canal
		Possible routes for the canal was surveyed in 1726 by Alexander Gordon and in 1762 by Robert Mackell and James Murray.
		The political intrigue started: Glasgow tobacco merchants were angry at it bypassing the city, the influential Carron Iron Company supported it because its eastern terminus was handy for them, and various landowners along the route sought to use the canal to increase their own wealth.
		The canal passes through the district of Maryhill, much of whose development depended on the success of the canal.
	www.scotland-guide.co.uk /ALL_AREAS_IN_SCOTLAND/Glasgow/Areas/Canal/surveying_the_canal.htm (224 words)

	Holidays on the Forth & Clyde and Union Canals of Scotland.
		Popular features of the canal include the Avon, Almond and Slateford Aqueducts, which are amongst the finest in Britain, and the Laughin' and Greetin' Bridge at Glen Village, famous for its carved faces on the keystones.
		The canal is famous for the discovery of the Solitary Wave of Motion by John Scott Russell in 1834.
		The Forth and Clyde Canal is 56km (35 miles) long, from Grangemouth on the Firth of the Forth to Bowling on the Firth of Clyde.
	www.latelink.com /Scotland/clyde.htm (456 words)

	The Scotland Guide: Glasgow: The Forth and Clyde Canal: building the canal
		By the end of 1771 the canal workings which lay to the east of the summit had been finished and Kirkintilloch was reached in August 1773.
		The canal was officially opened in July 1790 and the occasion was marked by a company boat travelling the 19km (12 miles) from Glasgow to Bowling in four hours.
		The canal was now 62km (39 miles) long, with a width of 9m (30 feet) at the bottom and 18m (60 feet) at the surface; it was 3m (9½ feet) deep.
	www.scotland-guide.co.uk /ALL_AREAS_IN_SCOTLAND/Glasgow/Areas/Canal/building_the_canal.htm (353 words)

	Young: "The Fouling and Corrosion of Iron Ships: Their Causes and Means of Prevention, with Mode of Application to the ...
		It is most probable that she was a canal barge; but whatever she may have been, there can be but little doubt that she was the first iron vessel.
		She was sent up to London in parts, and put together in the Surrey Canal Dock, where she took in a cargo of linseed and iron castings, and, under the command of the late Admiral Sir Charles (then Captain) Napier, M.P., with Mr.
		Scott Russell, and the ideas on which a ship to fulfil the conditions proposed to be accomplished by the company, which was got up to construct her, were promulgated before 1838 by a Mr.
	www.bruzelius.info /Nautica/Shipbuilding/Young(1867)_Ch3.html (3684 words)

	(Forth & Clyde Canoe Club - History) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This was part of the initiative to promote greater use of the Forth and Clyde Canal as the club name suggests and also to provide access to the sport for anybody in Maryhill and the surrounding area.
		In the early years of the Club the Canal Community Project and the Club were closely aligned, with the Canal Community Project supplying promotional facilities, equipment and storage areas and the club supplying personel and expertise when requested.
		The Forth and Clyde Canoe Club and the Canal Community Project parted company in 1998 but the Club continues to promote canoeing in the Maryhill area, with charges kept to a minimum to encourage anyone interested to join.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /jackson13/fccc02.html (180 words)

	BBC News \| SCOTLAND \| Canal cleared of mercury
		A Scottish canal which was contaminated with high levels of poisonous mercury from an old bomb-making factory is being cleaned up at a cost of £3m.
		British Waterways is undertaking the work on the Union Canal, which runs from the Lochrin Basin, in the Tollcross area of Edinburgh and links with the Forth and Clyde Canal at Falkirk.
		It is understood the company used a compound called mercury forminate which seeped from the factory, down a hill and into the canal.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/scotland/885583.stm (543 words)

	Clyde and Tay Canal
		It was during this period of euphoria that the ambitious Clyde and Tay canal was proposed and built.
		Early work on the canal in Glen Falloch was proving difficult, the cost of carving the locks from the rock of the side of the glen caused the cost of the project to escalate rapidly.
		The true value of the canal was proved by the famine of 1783 and 1784, when harvests in Scotland failed, and Baltic grain was imported through the canal.
	www.users.zetnet.co.uk /belhavia/CTcanal.htm (954 words)

	Untitled Normal Page
		Forth and Clyde canal between Auchinstarry and the village of Twechar.
		Forth and Clyde canal and the village of Banton on the hillside left of print.
		The Forth and Clyde canal at Auchinstarry, preparation work for the construction of the new bypass road and bridge, this will accommodate and open up the canal from east to west when these bridges at Kirkintilloch, Twechar, Auchinstarry and Coneypark, Banknock, are completed.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /kilsyth/canal-2.htm (704 words)

	Firth of Clyde Forum
		An alternative was transport on the river itself by one of the many “fly boats” which plied between Greenock/Gourock and Glasgow, or one of the horse drawn conveyances on the Forth and Clyde canal.
		The railway companies – Glasgow and South Western and Caledonian on the south banks of the river and North British to the north – began to offer more and more services from their pierhead termini, competing with each other to offer the fastest journey time and the most comfortable voyage.
		Having presented the development of transport on the Firth of Clyde throughout its “golden age, Emily Malcolm presentation by inviting anyone interested in finding out more to visit the Glasgow Museum of Transport or to contact her on 0141 287 2720.
	www.clydeforum.org /conference/2.htm (1301 words)

	The Forth & Clyde Canal and Union Canal
		A ride on this magnificent structure, which is served by a new section of canal, two aqueducts, and a 476ft (145m) tunnel, is possible on a special trip boat departing from the Exhibition and Visitor Centre.
		Hireboats on the Forth and Clyde and Union Canals...
		Marine Cruisers base by the stunning Falkirk Wheel is ideally situated to cruise the fascinating Forth and Clyde and Union Canals and explore Edinburgh.
	www.canaljunction.com /canal/forth_clyde.htm (744 words)

	Canal Holidays in Scotland with Capercaillie Cruisers
		For the finest canal holidays in Scotland and to experience the magnificent Falkirk Wheel, a visit to Scotland’s ‘newest’ canal is a must.
		The Forth and Clyde is a sea-to-sea canal linking the east and west coasts of Scotland and the Union is a more traditional narrow contour canal meandering its way from Edinburgh until it emerges from a tunnel at the top of the wheel.
		The canal system is both peaceful and tranquil with a minimum of boat traffic and often only the swans for company.
	www.capercailliecruisers.co.uk (325 words)

	History of canal
		The Canal ran from Edinburgh to Falkirk where it was joined by a series of eleven locks to the Forth and Clyde Canal to continue the journey to Glasgow.
		Hugh Baird's design of a contour canal meant that when he arrived at river valleys he was not always at a narrow part and the result was he had to build large aqueducts.
		The locks joining it to the Forth and Clyde Canal were filled in in 1933 and the commercial life ceased in 1936.
	www.lucs.org.uk /page12.html (664 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The canal, completed in 1790, stretched from Bowling on the Clyde to the new town of Grangemouth on the Forth, a distance of some 35 miles.
		There is also the Union Inn, built by the canal company to provide refreshment for travellers transferring between the Union and Forth and Clyde canals, which met at a large basin in front of the inn.
		This contour canal was begun in 1818 and ran from Edinburgh to Falkirk.
	www.falkirk.gov.uk /heritage_and_leisure/heritage/canals.htm (215 words)

	IWA Individual Waterways - Forth & Clyde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The canal was opened in 1790 to link the Firth of Clyde and the Firth of Forth and provided a safe route for coasters during the war with France.
		The canal was closed in 1963 to facilitate road construction.
		Forth and Clyde and Union Canals (with the Crinan Canal)
	www.waterways.org.uk /ind_waterways/forth&clyde (203 words)

	Emmet's Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A 35 mile canal, with 39 locks, from Bowling on the northern bank of the Clyde to the southern side of the Forth near Grangemouth.
		Linlithgow Union Canal Society : Linlithgow is on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal which is 31½ miles long and links the centre of Edinburgh to the Forth and Clyde Canal at Falkirk.
		A canal which was promoted to serve various metal works, mines and cotton manufacturers in the Holywell and Greenfield area of Flintshire and to connect them to a deep anchorage on the Dee estuary at Pentre Rock.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/Emmets-Canal.html (1679 words)

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