Many of the types just mentioned are now often built of steel.
The “Prij” should also be mentioned in the chapter relating to these boats; it is a “spits” made in two distinct parts, each of which can be loaded separately.
[26] As the names of the boats which follow are almost strictly local, no attempt has been made to translate them. Péniche, however, is the general name in France and Belgium for the standard canal boat of about 300 tons.
Shipbuilding in Europe developed around two centres which came into contact in the neighborhood of 1300. The fusion of the two zones took place only between 1450 and 1500.
The Northern centre, that of the Baltic Sea, which had its origin in Sweden and Norway, only reached its full expansion in the time of the Vikings. The types of boats of the various nations along the shores of the seas of the North of Europe show undeniable analogies both in form and in mode of construction.
Going further into the continent, the same striking analogies still appear, so that the likeness of forms is further strengthened along the East-West line.
Map No 1 herewith shows in green the sphere of the Northern centre; the probable direction of the movement of the rounded Frisian types being given by a full line, the direction of the finer types by a dotted line and that of the types of the Lower Rhine by a broken and dotted line.