Manchester Ship Canal
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The Manchester Ship Canal is a wide, 36 mile (57.936384 km) long, river navigation in North West England, opened on 21 May 1894. At the time of its completion, it was the largest navigation canal in the world.[1]
The "Big Ditch", as it is sometimes known, consists of the rivers Irwell and Mersey made navigable for seagoing ships from the Mersey Estuary to Salford Docks in Greater Manchester. It transformed Manchester from a landlocked city into a major sea port.
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- ↑ Owen (1983), p. 120.
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