StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: ice-breaker

This smart tug lives in Dudley. "Coventry" started life as an ice-breaker, so the hull shape is not like that of a standard narrow boat (canal barge) - which makes it interesting to helm!

Seen at the Waterways Museum in Gloucester Docks. This steel / iron hull was an ice-breaker barge from the Sharpness canal - the shape of the bows and girder/rail re-inforcement as well as that of the hull allows it to ride up onto the ice and the weight crushes the ice and so breaks it up. It is resting on the torpedo flat waggon.