dump barge
hopper barge

One end of each was removed, and the two parts were welded together to form a larger dumb barge.

The lift was provided by 18 ships' boats and one dumb barge artillery lighter.

Many were later converted for use as dumb barges by removing the masts, but none are known to have survived to the present day.

Scarrs built dumb barges in addition to powered vessels.

In the late 1930s, the powerful motor vessels and dumb barges owned by the company had a total carrying capacity of 4,500 tons.

They are now only dumb barges that must be docked and undocked from the main hull and manoeuvred only by attendant tugs.

A typical train consisted of a mechanically propelled barge carrying 60 tons, towing three dumb barges each of which had 120 tons of goods.

In order to transport them, Cammell Laird asked Watsons of Gainsborough to build five dumb barges.

Most of the Mersey flats had been converted to dumb barges by the end of the 19th century, which were towed by horses or by steam tugs.

A British Transport film made in the early 1960's featured the tug the Primrose towing dumb barges up the Bristol Channel and along the canal to Gloucester.

Cammell Laird ordered five dumb barges from Watsons shipyard at Gainsborough, and the tug towed trains of two barges, each loaded with one carriage, down the River Trent.