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" Tidal rivers and estuaries, where rough water is at times encountered, and where the tide ebbs and flows often with *» considerable velocity, which may, as in the case of the Severn estuary, amount to as much as 12 knots an hour on spring tides. As almost... "
How to Make the Railways Pay for the War; Or, The Transport Problem Solved - Page 231
by Roy Horniman - 1916 - 348 pages
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The Mining Engineer, Volume 33

Mineral industries - 1908 - 852 pages
...the case of the Severn estuary, amount to as much as 12 knots an hour on spring tides. As almost all through routes between important centres at the present...effect of these diversities of gauge is to confine any long-distance through traffic to narrow boats. Nothing but a narrow boat can navigate between London...
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Transactions of the Institution of Mining Engineers, Volume 33

Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain) - Mineral industries - 1908 - 854 pages
...the case of the Severn estuary, amount to as much as 12 knots an hour on spring tides. As almost all through routes between important centres at the present...effect of these diversities of gauge is to confine any long-distance through traffic to narrow boats. Nothing but a narrow boat can navigate between London...
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Auto Motor Journal, Volume 13

Stanley Spooner - Automobiles - 1908 - 978 pages
...the case of the Severn Estuary, amount to as much as 12 knots an hour on spring tides. As almost all through routes between important centres at the present time contain links of narrow boat canal, the beam of any boat selected for canal travelling should not exceed that of a narrow boat,...
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