On coal, with reference to its screening, transport, etc

by Frederick Charles Danvers

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 ...by canal or river, the shipment of coal into barges may have to be resorted to in many localities where railway accommodation is wanting, whilst the means of water carriage is available. In the " History of Fossil Fuel, &c," it is stated that "places for the convenience of lading coals from the "bankside into keels, were no doubt constructed at a "very early period; and in the chartulary of Tynemouth "Monastery, 'staithes' are incidentally mentioned as "early as A.d. 1338;.there were, probably, however, "nothing more than small wharves, or platforms, as in a "grant made by the Bishop of Durham, in 1575, the "lessee of certain mines is to have ' sufficient way leave "to the water of Tyne, where he was to have a staith to "lay the coals on." The word staith is plainly derived from the Anglo-Saxon staVe, ripa, littus, stationavum. At Hythe, in Kent, the landing-place is called the stade, and at Whitehaven, they are called steers. Keels are barges employed at Newcastle to carry Coals from the land to the ships. Formerly they held twenty chaldron of 53 cwt. each. In the Minutes of Evidence attached to the Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords, appointed, in 1829, to take into consideration the state of the coal trade of the United Kingdom, three modes of shipping coal are described as follows, at page 35:--"The first or original plan is by carrying them down the "river from the staiths, which are depots in which coals "are placed when they come from the collieries by "wagons, to be ready to be loaded into keels. The next "mode is by what are called tubs or boxes, which are "loaded from the wagons, and pass down in bulk to "the ship, where they...

42 pages, Paperback

Published May 19, 2012