Narrowboat Shackleton moored near Sandbach, Cheshire
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Narrowboat Shackleton moored near Sandbach, Cheshire
Image: © Roger D Kidd Taken: 31 Aug 2011
This is a converted old wooden hulled ice breaker, as its name suggests. Currently there is another good image here: http://nbepiphany.co.uk/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=39097&g2_serialNumber=1 Icebreakers would have had a round bottom rather than the usual flat, and a special reinforced sharply pointed bow to cut through the canals. The boat would have been rocked by the men in it, causing a shock wave from the bow that rippled through the ice.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.154481
Longitude
-2.404297