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Description: | The stern and propeller of the icebreaker boat 'Shackleton' of the Birmingham Canal Navigations, which has the typical rounded bottom of an icebreaker boat (most other canal boats had flat bottoms). The boat is in the repair shop at Ocker Hill. To break the ice it was rocked by the men in it, causing a shock wave from the bow that rippled through the ice. If the ice was too thick to break, the boat would be pulled out and across the ice by horses. The condition of the boat's underside, which appears to be wooden, suggests that the boat had been in the water for some time. (Courtesy of the T. W. King collection held at Dudley Archives & Local History Service). | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Dudley Archives | Rights holder: | Mrs. R. Collins | Subjects: | Canals | Temporal: | 1937 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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