Author: John Orville GreenwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Namesakes, 1910-1919
Author: John Orville GreenwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Namesakes of the 90's
Author: John Orville GreenwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Queen of the Lakes
Author: Mark L. ThompsonPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814343376
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Queen of the Lakes is a Great Lake Books publication.
Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes
Author: Mark L. ThompsonPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814338356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakestraces the evolution of the Great Lakes shipping industry over the last three centuries. The Great Lakes shipping industry can trace its lineage to 1679 with the launching on Lake Erie of the Griffon, a sixty-foot galley weighing nearly fifty tons. Built by LaSalle, a French explorer who had been commissioned to search for a passage through North America to China, it was the first sailing ship to operate on the upper lakes, signaling the dawn of the Great Lakes shipping industry as we know it today. Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes is the most thorough and factual study of the Great Lakes shipping industry written this century. Author Mark L. Thompson tells the fascinating story of the world's most efficient bulk transportation system, describing the Great Lakes freighters, the cargoes of the great ships ,and the men and women who have served as crew. He documents the dramatic changes that have taken places in the industry and looks at the critical role that Great Lakes shipping plays in the economic well-being of the U.S. and Canada, despite the fact tat the size of the fleet and the amount of cargo carried have declined dramatically in recent years. Spanning more than three centuries, from LaSalle's voyage in 1679, through 1975 with the mysterious sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, to life aboard today's thousand-foot behemoths, this important volume documents the evolution of the industry through its "Golden Age" at the end of the nineteenth century to the present, with a downsized U.S. fleet that numbers fewer than seventy vessels.
Namesakes, 2000
Author: John Orville GreenwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Graveyard of the Lakes
Author: Mark L. ThompsonPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814332269
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
A historically accurate, well-rounded picture of shipwrecks on the Great Lakes.
Stormy Disasters
Author: Wes OleszewskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A compilation of two of Wes Oleszewski's original books,
Sailing Into Disaster
Author: Constance M. JerleckiPublisher: Inland Expressions
ISBN: 1939150183
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
One of the most prominent geographical features of North America, the Great Lakes played a pivotal role in the economic and industrial development of Canada and the United States. While allowing the establishment of a highly efficient transportation system, these freshwater seas have also proven particularly unforgiving when stirred up by the forces of nature. Capable of producing some of the most treacherous conditions faced by mariners anywhere on the globe, the Great Lakes have claimed thousands of vessels since the earliest days of navigation on their waters. Sailing Into Disaster details the stories of ten vessels that met their demise without leaving a single survivor. Ranging from early wooden schooners to steel steamships, the tales included in this volume represent not only the perils faced by these vessels but also their crews prior to the advent of modern navigation equipment. While a few of their number have been uncovered through concerted search efforts, the majority of these lost ships remain elusively hidden in the watery depths of these landlocked oceans. Among others, this book includes the loss of an early Great Lakes schooner on Lake Superior, the mysterious disappearance of a steel steamer that sparked tales of it becoming a wandering ghost ship, the unexplained sinking of two naval trawlers, a small tugboat that sailed into oblivion on Lake Erie, and a self-unloading bulk carrier that remains missing in the depths of Lake Michigan to this very day. A lifelong resident of Michigan, Constance M. Jerlecki has written four books concerning the history of the state she calls home. This is her first book on Great Lakes shipwrecks.
The Ford Fleet (1923-1989)
Author: Clare J. SniderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cargo ships
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Fleet Histories Series: The fleets of Papachristidis Shipping, Minnesota Steamship, Minnesota-Atlantic Transit, Mathews Steamship, Carrollton Steamship, Eastern Steam (Can.), Eastern and Western Steamship (U.S.), Shell Oil, Interstate Steamship, Waterways Navigation, Wolverine Steamship, F.D. Gleason Coal, and the Kinnney Steamship Companies
Author: John Orville GreenwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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