Canal Boats
- Bastard boats or Statters (12' / 3.65 m beam; wide boats on Manchester, Bolton & Bury)
- Broad-beam boats (called "wide boats" on the Grand Union canal, 2.2 m to 4.3 m beam)
- Cabin Cruisers
- Fly boats (long and short; on the Aire and Calder Navigation)
- Keels (on Aire and Calder Navigation)
- Long boats (narrow boats used on the River Severn)
- Mersey Flat, a doubled-ended, fully decked carvel-built barge that worked canals in NW England.
- Narrowboats or Narrow Boats (nominally 6 feet 10 inches (2.08 m) beam); originally working boats on Midlands canals; now mostly pleasure boats)
- Severners (used on the River Severn)
- Short boats (on Northern canals such as Leeds & Liverpool, Calder & Hebble, Aire and Calder Navigation)
- Stort boats – used on the Stort Navigation, with a 13 feet 3 inches (4.04 m) beam
- Sloops (on Aire and Calder Navigation)
- Starvationers used in the Worsley Navigable Levels and the Bridgewater Canal.
- Trench boats (for 6' / 1.83 m locks on the Trench, Telford Arm of the Shrewsbury Canal)
- Tub boats (used on various canals including the Bude Canal and the Grand Western Canal)
- White boats (on Aire and Calder Navigation; with white side decks for working at night)
- Wide-beam narrowboats (more than 4.3 m beam)
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