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	Manchester Ship Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Manchester Ship Canal (MSC), affectionately known by locals as The Big Ditch, was opened on 21 May 1894, and is a large canal in North West England.
		The canal was built as a way to reverse the economic decline that Manchester suffered during the late 19th century, by ensuring the city had direct access to the sea to export its manufactured goods, and so would not have to rely for sea access on the nearby Port of Liverpool.
		Unlike most British canals, the MSC and the Bridgewater Canal were never nationalised and remain in the ownership of the Manchester Ship Canal Company, a subsidiary of Peel Holdings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Manchester_Ship_Canal (934 words)

	MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL - LoveToKnow Article on MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The iverpool and Manchester railway at a later date afforded further acilities for conveyance of goods, but the high rates of carriage, added to heavy charges at the Liverpool docks, prejudiced trade, and the question was mooted of a ship canal to bring cotton, imber, grain and other goods direct to Manchester without ransshipment.
		The canal throughout to Manchester has a minimum depth of 28 ft.; the depth originally was 26 ft., but the lock sills were placed 2 ft. lower to allow of the channel being dredged to 28 ft. when necessary.
		For the greater part of this last length the canal is widened at bottom from 120 ft., its normal width, to 170 ft., to enable vessels to lie at timber and other wharves without interfering with the passage of large vessels to or from the docks.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MANCHESTER_SHIP_CANAL.htm (2459 words)

	Ship canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A ship canal is a canal especially constructed to carry ocean-going ships, as opposed to barges.
		Ship canals can be enlarged barge canals, canalised or channelized rivers, or canals especially constructed from the start to accommodate ships.
		For a canal to qualify as a ship canal, it must have a minimum depth of at least 5 metres (16.4 feet), although many are much deeper.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ship_canal (383 words)

	Manchester Ship Canal: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The liskeard and looe union canal is a derelict canal between liskeard and looe in cornwall in the south west of england....
		The chesterfield canal is a canal in the north of england....
		The crinan canal is a canal in the west of scotland....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/manchester_ship_canal.htm (2049 words)

	Manchester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Greater Manchester consists of the metropolitan borough of Manchester and the surrounding boroughs of Trafford, Tameside, Salford, Wigan, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale and Stockport.
		Manchester is situated within a bowl-shaped land area, bordered to the north and east by the Pennine moors and to the south by the Cheshire Plain.
		During this period, a deep canal (the Manchester Ship Canal) was dug, 36 miles long, from Salford to the River Mersey at the port of Liverpool.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Manchester (7742 words)

	The Manchester Ship Canal
		While the Ship Canal had been primarily intended as a means of reviving the ailing cotton trade, it actually promoted Manchester engineering, and became a major attraction to food and raw material importers.
		Ironically, it had been the Ship Canal which had made possible the boom in exports of Manchester-made textile machinery, and it was this in itself which was to be responsible for its own decline.
		The last nail in the coffin of the Manchester Ship Canal was the introduction of containerised freight transportation.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /history/victorian/Victorian4.html (1686 words)

	Manchester Ship Canal
		By the mid 1970s, the canal was handling between 16 and 17 million tons a year, with imports including raw cotton, timber, grain, metals and chemicals, and massive amounts of manufactured goods being exported in return.
		Ship sizes increased dramatically and within a few years, the 10,000-ton ships which were small enough to navigate the canal virtually disappeared.
		Manchester Docks were redeveloped and the old Salford Docks became the "Salford Quays" leisure and residential area.
	www.cottontimes.co.uk /transmanship.htm (733 words)

	Manchester Ship Canal
		A bill to increase the canal depth was approved in August 1904 allowing the canal depth to be increased to 28 feet, and this was achieved in 1909 by allowing the water level to rise by the required two feet, obviating the need for dredging and expensive work on each of the locks.
		The port of Manchester had by 1904 become to be rated as on of the top five ports of the United Kingdom and the crowding and conjestion in the terminal docks, with ships being moored two abreast, indicated a need for expansion.
		Manchester Liners were pioneers in the field of containerisation and were to build a container facility on No. 9 dock in the late 1960's in an attempt to reduce costs, although shipping developments were eventually to defeat them.
	users.breathe.com /g8hxe/manchester_ship_canal.htm (2480 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Manchester Ship Canal
		Manchester is a city in the United Kingdom, famous for being the worlds first industrial city and considered by many to be UKs second city [1][2].
		The Bridgewater Canal is a canal in North West England, near Manchester.
		Pomona Docks is the official terminus of the Manchester Ship Canal.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Manchester-Ship-Canal (2701 words)

	Eyewitness in Manchester: Manchester Ship Canal Cruise
		SHIPS ARE NOT AS FREQUENT as they used to be, but it's important to note that the lower sections of the canal are in regular use by oil tankers going to and from the Stanlow oil refinery.
		Much of what you see on the Manchester Ship Canal is industrial heritage - and as we pass the marker into the 21st century, people are finding the factories and railway bridges of 19th and 20th centuries increasingly as interesting as the palaces and castles of the 18th and before.
		It was containerisation and the economies of scale which, in the 1960's and 70's, made the Ship Canal obsolete as a major artery for trade.
	www.manchesteronline.co.uk /ewm/newsletter/ewm338.html (2403 words)

	The Manchester Ship Canal
		Near Stanlow the canal met with the River Gowy and one needed to pass the other and the ingenious solution was to have two huge cast iron siphons 400ft long placed underneath the canal to allow the river to flow freely.
		The Canal helped the traders and manufacturers not just of Manchester but the whole of Lancashire, in it's first year nearly a million tonnes of cargo was to be carried by the canal and this was to see it's peak in the late 1950's of nearly 19 million tonnes.
		Even today the canal is still heavily used although the Manchester Docks which fell into disuse are now better known as Salford Quays consisting of a an up-market housing development, a large retail outlet, cinemas and the Lowry Centre with the Imperial War Museum North on the opposite bank in Trafford Park.
	www.phillrawlins.co.uk /mscc.htm (1062 words)

	MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL - Online Information article about MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL
		Weaver with the canal, the level of the canal thus being reduced to its normal height.
		Brindley, and since it was built at only sufficient height to allow of barges passing under it, means had to be found to allow of this important canal being maintained, and yet to permit steamers to use the ship canal below it.
		The traffic on the canal gradually increased from 925,659 tons in 1894 to 2,778,108 tons in 1899 and 5,210,759 tons in 1907.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /MAL_MAR/MANCHESTER_SHIP_CANAL.html (3797 words)

	Manchester Ship Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Manchester Ship Canal (MSC), opened in 1894, is a large canal in northern England, which is 36 miles (57 kilometres) long and links the city of Manchester to the Irish Sea.
		It was built as a way to reverse the economic decline that Manchester suffered during the late 19th century, by ensuring that the city had direct access to the sea to export its manufactured goods, and wouldn't have to rely for sea access on the nearby port city of Liverpool.
		Unlike most British canals, the MSC was never nationalised and to this day is owned by the Manchester Ship Canal Company.
	www.wikiverse.org /manchester-ship-canal (263 words)

	Manchester UK
		The City of Manchester and innumerable small satellite towns and villages surrounding it saw the rapid growth of factories manufacturing merchandise for cotton weaving and spinning, dyeing, fulling and all apects of the textile industry.
		In the 1970s, Greater Manchester was born - a still controversial grouping of 8 towns and 2 cities which were subsumed into one large administrative connurbation, the Metropolian County of Greater Manchester.
		For 11 million people living within 50 miles of the City of Manchester, it is the place where they come to work, or to shop or to visit the many attractions and entertainments which only a large dynamic city such as this could hope to offer.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com (310 words)

	Manchester Ship Canal on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL [Manchester Ship Canal] 35.5 mi (57 km) long with a minimum depth of 28 ft (8.5 m), connecting Manchester, W England, with the Mersey estuary at Eastham, above Birkenhead.
		Cotton waterway; 100 years of Manchester and its ship canal.
		WASTE BRITAIN; On the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal, 120,000 discarded fridges are evidence that the UK still has a recycling problem.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/ManchesS1C1.asp (268 words)

	IWA Individual Waterways - Manchester Ship Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Boat owners must seek permission to use the canal from the Manchester Ship Canal Company, proving that their boat is seaworthy, insured and has the required safety equipment on board.
		The canal stretches for 36 miles from Eastham, on the southern shore of the Mersey estuary 6 miles from Liverpool, almost to the centre of Manchester.
		Manchester Ship Canal, opened in 1894, linked Manchester with the coast and provided access to the city for large ocean-going vessels.
	www.waterways.org.uk /ind_waterways/manc_ship (338 words)

	Manchester Ship Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A proposal for a ship canal from the Dee estuary to Manchester.
		A Hundred Years of the Manchester Ship Canal by Edward Gray, ISBN 1 85926 030 6 :130 pages, Published by Aurora Eterprises Ltd 1994 The story of the building and history of the canal published to coincide with its centenary.
		Junction with this branch of the Bridgewater Canal.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/Manchester-Ship-Canal.html (1143 words)

	Cities of Science - Greater Manchester - The Manchester Ship Canal
		Thanks to the Manchester Ship Canal, Manchester became the hub of the trade, industry and commerce of the Lancashire cotton industry.
		The Manchester Ship Canal was opened by Her Majesty Queen Victoria on 1st January 1894.
		The Manchester Ship Canal provided a cheap and direct link to the world’s oceans from the industrial city of Manchester, compared to rail or road: Salt, minerals, iron, pottery, nitrates, resin, textiles, cotton, timber, and sugar.
	www.citiesofscience.co.uk /go/Manchester/ContentPlace_3272.html (257 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Manchester Ship Canal
		He had moved to Manchester in 1947 to start work at the Manchester Ship Canal Company, where he was employed until he retired in 1970.
		Manchester, England- based Peel in January raised its stake in Mersey Docks to 26 percent.
		Manchester ship canal owner Peel first made the 10 per share share approach for Mersey Docks in January but since then Mersey's share price has edged lower on doubts about whether the bid would succeed.
	news.surfwax.com /geography/files/Manchester_Ship_Canal.html (1440 words)

	The Manchester Ship Canal
		"The Manchester Ship Canal is the largest work of its class in this country; and the mechanical appliances used in its construction have been on the largest possible scale; in order to minimise the employment of labour and to hasten the completion of the work.
		These lines, with those laid in the bed of the canal for excavating purposes, amount to a length of 228 miles of single line.
		After his death in 1889 the work was carried on by the Canal Company, and the Canal was opened from Eastham Locks to Ellesmere Port on 16th July 1891, extended to Runcorn on 9th June 1893, and throughout to Mode Wheel Locks (Manchester) on 1st January 1894.
	www.irsociety.co.uk /Archives/21/MSC.htm (589 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Manchester \| Dirty canal now supports fish
		A famously polluted canal is now supporting one of the fastest growing fish populations in the UK, experts say.
		The water quality is so good in the Manchester Ship Canal after a three-year clean-up initiative that it now supports more than 30 species of invertebrate and fish compared with fewer than five in 1991.
		At one time the canal was so polluted with industrial waste and domestic sewage there were reportedly signs on the banks warning people not to smoke because of the flammable gases rising from the water.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/manchester/3230940.stm (402 words)

	The Quays and Manchester Ship Canal
		A good place to get a hint of the Ship Canal in former times is at Barton Bridge and Aqueduct, five miles west from the city on B5211, close to the Trafford Centre.
		This masterpiece of civil engineering is from 1894 by Edward Leader Williams and uses an island in the Ship Canal as a pivot.
		As the Canal was being constructed a navvy by the name of Laurance fell in and drowned.
	www.manchesteronline.co.uk /tourist/museums/s/64/64048_the_quays_and_manchester_ship_canal.html (860 words)

	Manchester Ship Canal (4) - Barton, Trafford Park
		A boat on the Bridgewater Canal passes across Barton Swing Aqueduct.
		Manchester Ship Canal from Barton swing Aqueduct, looking east towards Eccles and Salford.
		The coaster Arklow Valour is discharging maize from France at Cerestar Wharf, Trafford Park.
	www.penninewaterways.co.uk /manchester/m33.htm (113 words)

	Mersey Ferries - Manchester Ship Canal Cruises
		Mersey Ferries fascinating Manchester Ship Canal Cruise is a truly memorable journey along the 35-mile stretch of canal.
		It includes a lively commentary giving a revealing insight into the facts, the history and the dramas of one of Britainâs major waterways.
		The cruise costs Â£30.00 per person (Â£29 for seniors citizens and children) and includes return bus transfer to take you back to your starting point at the end of the cruise.
	www.merseyferries.co.uk /manchester-scc/index.aspx (220 words)

	The Manchester Ship Canal Revision Order 1987
		(2) The Manchester Ship Canal Acts and Orders 1885 to 1984 and this Order may be cited together as the Manchester Ship Canal Acts and Orders 1885 to 1987.
		This Order authorises the Manchester Ship Canal Company to abandon the greater part of Dock No. 9 in the city of Salford.
		The applicant for the Order is the Manchester Ship Canal Company, Dock Office, Trafford Road, Manchester M5 2XB.
	www.hmso.gov.uk /si/si1987/Uksi_19871790_en_1.htm (749 words)

	Articles - Ship canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		# White Sea-Baltic Canal in Russia, 141 miles (227 km) long, opened in 1933, is partly a canalised river, partly an artificial canal, and partly some natural lakes.
		# Houston Ship Canal in the USA, 56 miles (91 km) long, connects Houston, Texas to the Gulf of Mexico.
		# Manchester Ship Canal in England, 35 miles (57 km) long, opened in 1894.
	www.foreverd.com /articles/Ship_canal (395 words)

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