A ship channel can be an artificial or dredged waterway for moving ship traffic. A ship channel can also be a channel formed through surface ice by a ship.
Several waterways are referred to as the Ship Channel
- Houston Ship Channel
- Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel
- Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project
Famous quotes containing the words ship and/or channel:
“I saw a ship a-sailing,
A-sailing on the sea,”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. I saw a ship a-sailing (l. 1–2)
“How old the world is! I walk between two eternities.... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that valley digging its channel ever deeper, that forest that is tottering and those great masses above my head about to fall? I see the marble of tombs crumbling into dust; and yet I don’t want to die!”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)