Ship Channel

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:

    “A ship may belong to her captain, but the lifeboats belong to the crew.”
    —John Farrow. Winkler (Claude Akins)

    “This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and No.”
    —Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801–1890)