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:
“When the rose reigns, and locks with ointments shine,
Let rigid Cato read these lines of mine.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
“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)
“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)