Ocean Lock No 13
Ocean Lock No 13 is one of a group of locks on the Aire and Calder Navigation (Main Line - Goole to Castleford); it has a rise of only a few inches a few miles from Preston.
Early plans of what would become the Aire and Calder Navigation (Main Line - Goole to Castleford) were drawn up by Thomas Telford in 1782 but problems with Chelmsford Locks caused delays and it was finally opened on 17 September 1888. Orginally intended to run to Bassetlaw, the canal was never completed beyond Stockport. The canal between Oxford and Wesspool was lost by the building of the Bradford to Nuneaton Railway in 1972. "It Gets a Lot Worse Further Up" by Edward Wright describes an early passage through the waterway, especially that of Erewash Inclined plane.

This is a lock, the rise of which is not known.
| Ouse - Aire and Calder Junction | 1¼ furlongs | |
| Ocean Lock No 13 | ||
| North Docks | ¾ furlongs | |
| South Dock Bridge | 2¼ furlongs | |
| South Dock Basins | 3¼ furlongs | |
| Goole Marina | 5½ furlongs | |
| Viking Marina | 6¼ furlongs | |
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Wikipedia has a page about Ocean Lock
Océan Lock is a single chamber lock on the Canal du Midi. The adjacent locks are Mediterranee Lock 5190 metres to the east and Emborrel Lock 4157 metres to the west. Ocean Lock marks the start of the summit section of the canal when travelling west to east.
It is located in the commune of Montferrand, Aude.


![Locking into Goole Docks (1). Rix Owl enters the main lock from the River Ouse, having come up on the making tide. Rix deal in petroleum products. For the next picture see [[579238]] by Alan Murray-Rust – 07 October 2007](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/photos/57/92/579235_0a085cb0_120x120.jpg)
![Locking into Goole Docks (2). Going up! Even a boat of this size gets a bit of a buffeting from the inrush of water into the lock chamber. The public footpath across the lock gates enables this view to be taken.For the next stage see [[579246]] by Alan Murray-Rust – 07 October 2007](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/photos/57/92/579238_0e434734_120x120.jpg)












![Locking into Goole Docks (3). Rix Owl makes its way out of the lock and will turn left to carry on along the Aire and Calder Navigation. A public footpath crosses this pair of lock gates.To start the sequence, go here [[579235]] by Alan Murray-Rust – 07 October 2007](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/photos/57/92/579246_00765427_120x120.jpg)






![Dutch River Mouth, Goole, at high tide. Compare with a similar view in 1974 [[374685]]. The Dutch River was created by the Dutch engineer Vermuyden. by Christine Johnstone – 24 August 2017](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/05/51/37/5513781_ce40fd87_120x120.jpg)
![The River Ouse, outside Ocean Lock, Goole. Looking upstream [locally north]. by Christine Johnstone – 24 August 2016](https://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/05/11/28/5112876_02d339e7_120x120.jpg)





