Manchester Ship Canal

The Manchester Ship Canal (MSC) is a wide, 36 mile (58 km) long river navigation in north west England, opened on 21 May 1894.The "Big Ditch" (as it is said to be known to locals) consists of the River Irwell and River Mersey made navigable to Manchester for seagoing ships leaving the Mersey Estuary at Eastham Locks on the south east side of the Wirral Peninsula. It turned Manchester from a landlocked city into a major sea port.
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