The Luff-barge. 1859. From The Book of the Thames from its Rise to its Fall, p. 410. “Dropping quietly down the stream, we often encounter the Luff-Barge. It is a smaller class of barge than the square barge of the Thames, being sharp forward, and altogether more like an ordinary vessel. Perhaps this accounts for the name of clipper-barge, which it sometimes receives. Luff-barges are rigged with a sprit and foresail, without a mizen, and generally carry goods where larger vessels are unable to go: their trade is mostly confined to London and the upper part of the river. ” (411).
Other drawings and photographs of Victorian barges
- The River Torridge Barge, the Tetty Boat
- The Cambria
- Hay-boat on the Thames
- Barges at Blackfriars
- Steam barge
- The Lord Mayor's Barge
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Bibliography
Hall, Samuel Carter, and A. M. Hall. The Book of the Thames from its Rise to its Fall. London: Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Co., 1859. Internet Archive version of a copy in the William and Mary Darlington Memorial Libray, the University of Pittsburgh. Web. 10 March 2012.
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