The Welland Canal could handle ships large enough to sail across the ocean, though cargo was generally transferred to or from larger ocean-going vessels at Montreal.
Refugees were brought aboard, transferred from the ship to other vessels, or taken to Kobe.
Once connected, the plug valve can be partially opened to allow the solvent in the Straus flask to be vacuum transferred to other vessels.
Some 30 or 40 boats were using the canal in the 1790s, although the turves were transferred to larger vessels for onward passage along the Don.
Several U-47 crew from the Royal Oak mission did survive, having been transferred to other vessels.
He later directed that these vessels be armed, and equipped with the necessary fittings for use in transferring fuel oil to other vessels.
The measures are meant to increase the care exercised by the petroleum industry in storing oil and transferring it from tanks and refineries to vessels.
Passengers were transferred to other vessels.
It is possible that cargo was transferred to smaller vessels for the journey between the canal and the complex basin.
From there it was transferred to small coastal vessels and ran the blockade to French Mediterranean ports by night.