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A scow is a smaller type of barge. Some scows are rigged as sailing scows. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, scows carried cargo in coastal waters...

public works department….blasting the old Barnston Island ferry scow which sank above the ferry slip. During….1948, the wreck upended and the resulting...

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half ton of provisions were taken. A skiff was chopped to pieces and the ferry scow set adrift, leaving only the cable over the river. The following day the...

year, a ferry scow was built, cable installed, and service began. At low water, a temporary bridge replaced the 12-by-4-metre (38 by 12 ft) ferry. In 1898...

(later known as Miller) established a scow ferry near the site of the present suspension bridge. This reaction ferry was assisted by being pulled by hand...

began operating a ferry service to the new Toronto Island Airport, then under construction. A scow was adapted for use as a cable ferry, with the intention...

bridge. In 1922 Mason County provided a ferry service to Harstine Island with the ferry Island Belle, which was a scow equipped with a 10 horsepower (7.5 kW)...

1883. According to Dumont's 1878 licence, the ferry was a scow measuring 7.6m (23 feet) by 4m (12 feet). Ferry service continued near Gabriel's crossing until...

launch largely moved cattle. Constructed at the Nelson ferry landing, the wooden four-car-capacity scow was guided by a 520-metre (1,700 ft) cable and propelled...

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sail and oars scow ferry connecting the Kingston Peninsula with the Kennebecasis Valley. Pitt was the inventor of the underwater cable ferry. His new invention...

following ships that worked Lake Washington and Puget Sound: the small steam scow Squak, Laura Maud, Elfin, Hattie Hansen (also known as Sechelt), and Mist...

addition, Skookum had a scow that was 40 feet (12 m) by 16 feet (4.9 m) by 4 feet (1.2 m) to handle livestock or one vehicle. If the scow was needed, the customer...

a large scow to carry a four-horse rig. The 1875 flood snapped the rope, which was replaced by a steel cable in 1876. High water set the ferry adrift in...

Electric-class ferry previously part of the Washington State Ferries system Nisqually, the former cargo ship SS Suremico which was converted into a scow and lost...

shorter bridge proved satisfactory. 1917: The cable snapped, setting the scow adrift until grounding near the Kitselas Canyon, where the passengers escaped...

from the drifting ferry. The scow was destroyed by the raging torrent downriver. After a month, a new scow was in operation. The ferry received a government...

and the Australian Government. During the war, the Putney shipyard built scows and landing craft; however Slazengers also built military huts, houses for...

a scow as an improvised ferry and transported over 700 vehicles during that summer. In April 1921, Elfving incorporated as the Astoria-McGowan Ferry Company...