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Trows were sea-worthy, as with an added keel they could take 90 tons of salt from Droitwich to France across the English Channel. The flat bottomed Trows sailed on the sea by hauling a twenty foot log of wood under the hull strapped with chains to give 'grip' and stop the hull sliding sideways.

Are there any sources for these two statements? DonBarton 19:35, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Some refs added. That text is from anons from 2004/2005. Gimmetrow 20:03, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

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The books mentioned below were recommended to me after I attended a meeting about the Droitwich Salt Canal.

F.G.G.Carr, [Director of the Maritime Museum, Greenwich] “Sailing Barges” Basil Greenhill “The Merchant Schooners” Grahame E. Farr, article in “Mariner’s Mirror” April 1946 [Vol XXXII number 2]

From these I have made the following notes:

- Trows are mentioned 1411 in the rolls of parliament. - They are considered one of the oldest varieties of trading craft in Britain. - The name “trow” derives from “trog”, a drinking trough, also a dugout. - For most of their history they were open-moulded [no side decks]. Later versions, with side decks, were called box-trows - They were shallow built, but unlike the Thames barges they had no leeboards, instead, a removable keel-plank, 28 feet long by 2 feet deep by 3 inches thick, was slipped under the hull and secured by brackets and chains

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droitwich_Canal

ETYMOLOGY OF THE NAME

Bosworth and Toller, “An Anglo Saxon Dictionary”, Clarendon Press, Oxford [1954]

“trog” also spelt “troh” occur on page 1015 [right hand column] with synonyms in Latin [since the examples are derived from medieval documents which use both languages] e.g. albeus, genus vasis, peluem, conabulum,

trog = trough, tub, basin, vessel a trough-shaped thing, cradle, boat a water-pipe, conduit [in the form “mylen-trog”, mill-conduit]

trog-scip [pronounced trogship] Some kind of boat.

The Latin words which it translates are “littoraria” [coaster, or maybe in this context, landing-stage] and “tonsilla”. The ordinary meaning of tonsilla is a sharp-pointed pole to fasten vessels to the shore, i.e. a stake.

Kwesibronyi (talk) 10:33, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

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