MANCHESTER’S SHIP CANAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 22, 11 September 1911, Page 4

MANCHESTER’S SHIP CANAL.

A ne\V record in the navigation of Llio Maneliestei Ship Canal, and one whh'h can hardly he lioaten, was made the other day by the Fcderal-Houider-Shiro June. Their new twin-screw steamer Argyllshire successfully navigated the Canal from the entrance, and the “Manchester Guardian!” naturally proud of file fact, refers to it as follows:—The successful navigation of tiic Ship Cana! hy the twin-screw s,learner Argyllshire—a now Australian liner of nearly twenty thousand tons displacement—is a great feather in the cap of the Port ol Manchester, li is, indeed, a kind of final triumph, for not until the Canal locks arc entirely remodelled can we expect our inland docks to lie visited by a bugger ship. The locks are sixty-five fict broad, and the Argyllshire, which ’iisr.vd tnmugb them all quite safely yesterday, is sixty-one feel four inches broad in this hoi weather probably an inch nr two more. The importance of the inches is obvious, and in the matter of a tight lit, if in no other particulai. the great liner’s passage into the Manchester Docks must have been ravlici like the successful entrance of a rich man into the kingdom of heaven, tier safe navigation ot the Canal l:;ur end to emi, between sunrise and smi-

■L't with Homo hours to Sparc, is a oi l’ valuable advci ciKomenc Ini Mau•hcatcr, demonstrating in the most ■on\ incing way its capacity ior accomandating bin Hups. .Lot it bo recogisc cl, too, as a striking testimony to ii(‘ skill of the engineers who. wi.'ii io example of a similar kind to guide diem, designed the waterway and its neks. The Argyllshire? lias proved dint the Canal is capable of being navigated by any steamer that can pass dirough its locks, as its designer intended that it should, although most ,f tlio si;ipawners of that day world mv3 scouted the idea of its naviga--ion liy :i ship like the Argyllshire, i hey used to say say at Liverpool that it was really only fit for barges.