Locks
There are four locks, of various sizes at the North Sea mouth of the canal: When the north canal lock was opened in 1929 it was the largest canal lock in the world.
| name | completed | dimensions (L x W x D) meters |
dimensions (L x W x D) feet |
|---|---|---|---|
| South | 1876 | 110 x 20 x 8 | 360 x 65 x 26 |
| Small | 1876 | 110 x 11 x 3.5 | 360 x 36 x 11 |
| Middle | 1896 | 225 x 25 x 10 | 738 x 82 x 33 |
| North | 1929 | 400 x 50 x 15 | 1312 x 164 x 49 |
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Famous quotes containing the word locks:
“He’s made a harp of her breast-bane,
Whose sound wad melt a heart of stane.
He’s ta’en three locks o’ her yellow hair,
And wi’ them strung his harp sae rare.”
—Unknown. Binnorie; or, The Two Sisters (l. 41–44)
“If courtesans and strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much rigour as some silly people would have it, what locks or bars would be sufficient to preserve the honour of our wives and daughters?”
—Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)
“Nodding, its great head rattling like a gourd,
And locks like seaweed strung on the stinking stone,
The nightmare stumbles past,”
—Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)