> From: GUEST,henryp - PM
> Date: 21 May 24 - 11:15 PM
> On 21 May 1894: The Manchester Ship Canal was opened.

[Pedant mode on] Yes but the song quoted in the rest of that post is not about the Ship Canal but about one of the older canals serving Manchester. As described here, insofar as the place names make any sense, they refer to a "voyage" from somewhere on the eastern side of Manchester, past Wilson's Brewery and ending "just south of Salford station".