Author: George H. MossPublisher: Ploughshare Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Steamboat to the Shore: a Pictorial History of the Steamboat Era in Monmouth County, New Jersey
Author: George H. MossPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Steam-navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Steamboat Days on the Chesapeake
Author: James Tigner, Jr.Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764331091
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Over 300 postcards and engaging text present Maryland's beach resorts of yesteryear. Before the completion of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and improved highways, the Chesapeake Bay was dotted with many beach resorts. By the 1890s, the two most popular beaches in Maryland were Betterton and Tolchester Beach. It was a time when going to the beach meant an excursion boat ride across the bay. Betterton's heyday was from the 1890s to the 1940s, when Betterton's Victorian wooden hotels were booked solid and served home cooked meals all summer. From its beginnings as a small picnic ground in the 1870s, Tolchester Beach grew to become the Chesapeake Bay's biggest and best-known amusement park and bathing beach until 1962. This book is a must read for beach lovers, historians, and postcard collectors alike.
Steamboat
Author: Judith Heide GillilandPublisher: Dk Pub
ISBN: 9780789425850
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Describes how Blanche Douglas Leathers studied the Mississippi River and passed the test to become the first female steamboat captain in 1894. By the Caldecott Honor illustrator of Hush!
Ship Ablaze
Author: Ed O'DonnellPublisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307490874
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The true story of one of the greatest tragedies in New York history On June 15, 1904, the steamship General Slocum was heading from Manhattan to Long Island Sound when a fire erupted in one of the storage rooms. Faced with an untrained crew, crumbling life jackets, and inaccessible lifeboats, hundreds of terrified passengers--few of which were experienced swimmers--fled into the water. By the time the captain found a safe shore for landing, more than 1000 people had perished. It was New York’s deadliest tragedy prior to September 11, 2001. The only book available on this compelling chapter in the city’s history, Ship Ablaze draws on firsthand accounts to examine why the death toll was so high, how the city responded, and why this event failed to achieve the infamy of the Titanic’s 1912 demise or the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Masterfully capturing both the horror of the event and heroism of men, women, and children aboard the ship as the inferno spread, historian Edward T. O’Donnell brings to life a bygone community while honoring the victims of that forgotten day.
Robert Fulton's Steamboat
Author: Renée C. RebmanPublisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780756533519
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Covers the life and career of Robert Fulton, the American inventor whose version of the steamship provided travelers with a relatively fast and inexpensive means of transportation.
The First Steamboat Voyage on the Western Waters
Author: John Hazlehurst Boneval LatrobePublisher:
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Stories heard as child by author, backed up by documentation, of voyage taken by his sister and her husband, Nicholas J. Roosevelt in 1811.
Tidewater by Steamboat
Author: David C. HollyPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
"The name Weems, and the Weems line," writes David C. Holly, "symbolized nearly the entire epoch of the steamboat on the Chesapeake." The Weems line began in Baltimore in 1819, as steamboats first appeared on the Chesapeake and its rivers. It was sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1905, at the height of the steamboat's "Golden Age," though its boats continued to serve the Bay until the 1930s. Illustrated with maps, drawings, and rare photographs, Tidewater by Steamboat is the vivid portrait of life on the Patuxent, the Potomac, and the Rappahannock, where Weems boats sailed and the course of the American republic was set.
The First Steamboat Voyage on the Western Waters
Author: John Gottlieb MorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Steam-navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Steamboat Disasters of the Lower Missouri River
Author: Vicki Berger Erwin & James ErwinPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467143251
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
During the nineteenth century, more than three hundred boats met their end in the steamboat graveyard that was the Lower Missouri River, from Omaha to its mouth. Although derided as little more than an "orderly pile of kindling," steamboats were, in fact, technological marvels superbly adapted to the river's conditions. Their light superstructure and long, wide, flat hulls powered by high-pressure engines drew so little water that they could cruise on "a heavy dew" even when fully loaded. But these same characteristics made them susceptible to fires, explosions and snags--tree trunks ripped from the banks, hiding under the water's surface. Authors Vicki and James Erwin detail the perils that steamboats, their passengers and crews faced on every voyage.
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