Author: John Kennedy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Steam-navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The History of Steam Navigation
Author: John Kennedy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Steam-navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Steam-navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
History of American Steam Navigation
Author: John Harrison Morrison
Publisher: New York, W. F. Sametz & Company, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Steam-navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Publisher: New York, W. F. Sametz & Company, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Steam-navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Bradshaw's monthly railway and steam navigation guide
The Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States, Porto Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba
The History of North Atlantic Steam Navigation
Author: Henry Fry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States, Porto Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba
The National Board of Steam Navigation (Incorporated) 1871-1921
Author: National Board of Steam Navigation (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Steam Navigation, Its Rise and Progress, with Authentic Tables of the Extent of the Steam Marine of All Parts of the Globe, Contrasted with the Steam Power of the British Empire
Author: Boyman Boyman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Steam-navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Steam-navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Sandbars and Sternwheelers
Author: Pamela A. Puryear
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781585440580
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Nature never intended the Brazos River for navigation, but before the coming of the railroads Brazos steamboats were a necessary, if always erratic, form of transport. And there were men to meet the challenge. One captain, heedless of shallows, shoals, snags, and falls, boasted that he could tap a keg and run a boat four miles on the suds. Based on rich archival sources, this authoritative and entertaining book tells of the men and boats that braved the river from the earliest days to the late 1890s. Steamboat captains and plantation aristocrats, business tycoons and empire builders, mud clerks and river rats, all were obsessed with a single idea: to open the Brazos for steamboats from its headwaters to the Gulf of Mexico. The river was dredged and snags were removed, boats were designed with shallow draft, and boat owner, captain, and pilot (often one and the same) pitted their skills against the river. But the Brazos was recalcitrant. Seasonal rises silted in manmade channels and left behind new snags to catch the unwary. And as railroads inched their way across the state, the need for river transport dwindled. Railroad bridges across the Brazos finally created barriers that even a steamboat riding a "red rise" could not negotiate. By the turn of the century, the dauntless Brazos paddlewheelers were only a memory, but, even today, the dream dies hard along the river.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781585440580
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Nature never intended the Brazos River for navigation, but before the coming of the railroads Brazos steamboats were a necessary, if always erratic, form of transport. And there were men to meet the challenge. One captain, heedless of shallows, shoals, snags, and falls, boasted that he could tap a keg and run a boat four miles on the suds. Based on rich archival sources, this authoritative and entertaining book tells of the men and boats that braved the river from the earliest days to the late 1890s. Steamboat captains and plantation aristocrats, business tycoons and empire builders, mud clerks and river rats, all were obsessed with a single idea: to open the Brazos for steamboats from its headwaters to the Gulf of Mexico. The river was dredged and snags were removed, boats were designed with shallow draft, and boat owner, captain, and pilot (often one and the same) pitted their skills against the river. But the Brazos was recalcitrant. Seasonal rises silted in manmade channels and left behind new snags to catch the unwary. And as railroads inched their way across the state, the need for river transport dwindled. Railroad bridges across the Brazos finally created barriers that even a steamboat riding a "red rise" could not negotiate. By the turn of the century, the dauntless Brazos paddlewheelers were only a memory, but, even today, the dream dies hard along the river.
Pacific Steam Navigation Company
Author: Ian Collard
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445635054
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Founded in 1838, and operating to South America from Liverpool, the Pacific Steam Navigation Co. was the first to operate steamships in the Pacific.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445635054
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Founded in 1838, and operating to South America from Liverpool, the Pacific Steam Navigation Co. was the first to operate steamships in the Pacific.