Steamboats Sailors Of The Great Lakes
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Steamboats Sailors Of The Great Lakes
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Author : Mark L. Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 1991
Steamboats Sailors Of The Great Lakes written by Mark L. Thompson and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Business & Economics categories.
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 place 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 that the size of the fleet and the amount of cargo carried have declined dramatically in recent years.
Steamboats And Sailors Of The Great Lakes
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Author : Mark L. Thompson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Steamboats And Sailors Of The Great Lakes written by Mark L. Thompson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Inland water transportation categories.
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.
Eight Steamboats
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Author : Patrick Livingston
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2004
Eight Steamboats written by Patrick Livingston and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the 1960s, an era of widespread social turbulence, the shipping industry in the Great Lakes was on the threshold of immense change. Developed during World War II, the U.S. merchant fleet faced threatening competition from the newer Canadian fleet. The demand for iron ore skyrocketed as baby boomers matured into the age of auto and appliance buying. To meet the increasing need, there was talk of expanding the size of the Soo Locks to accommodate larger vessels and even of lengthening the shipping season. It was glaringly obvious that a time of change was upon the aging U.S. ships and even more so on the men who sailed them. Eight Steamboats chronicles Patrick Livingston's adventures on eight shipping vessels-only one of which survives-during the 1960s. Told from the perspective of a writer who sails rather than a sailor who writes, the tales are spiced with connections between shore and sea. While the city of Detroit burned in 1967, Livingston served milkshakes to passengers on the South American of the Georgian Bay Lines. Later, Livingston sailed with the notorious George "Bughouse" Schultz on the ill-starred tanker Mercury. When financial need forced him to forgo a trip to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, he sailed Lake Michigan instead. In subsequent years, he dropped out of school to catch the mailboat to his ships as they transited the Detroit River. With lively dialogue, Livingston details his experiences up to his signing off the Champlain in 1972 and then setting sail for landlocked Nepal to work with the Peace Corps. Both maritime and Great Lakes enthusiasts will enjoy this voyage back to the early years of the Great Lakes shipping industry.
Steamboats And Sailors Of The Great Lakes
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Author : Mark L. Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2017-12-01
Steamboats And Sailors Of The Great Lakes written by Mark L. Thompson and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-01 with History categories.
fleet that numbers fewer than seventy vessels.
Queen Of The Lakes
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Author : Mark L. Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2017-12-01
Queen Of The Lakes written by Mark L. Thompson and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-01 with History categories.
Queen of the Lakes is a Great Lake Books publication.
Early Great Lakes Steamboats
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Author : Harry Albert Musham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1943
Early Great Lakes Steamboats written by Harry Albert Musham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1943 with Canada categories.
Steamboats On The Lakes
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Author : Maurice D. Smith
language : en
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
Release Date : 2005-10-25
Steamboats On The Lakes written by Maurice D. Smith and has been published by James Lorimer & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-25 with History categories.
Filled with rich illustrations, discover how steamships shaped the people and places of 19th century Ontario In the nineteenth century, steamships ruled the Great Lakes and rivers of Upper Canada (now Ontario). Powered by ever-evolving engines that helped them defy the forces of wind and waves governing the progress of a sailing ship, steamships sped up not only the transportation of passengers and goods throughout the province but its very settlement and growth. In Steamboats on the Lakes, marine historian Maurice D. Smith brings together technological and social history. From the story of the building of the first Ontario steamship in 1816, the Frontenac, and its successors that carried vital supplies into and rich resources out of growing communities, to the fire on board the passenger ship Noronic in 1949 -- an event that marked the beginning of the end for the steamboat era -- and the preservation of the Segwun, Smith shows us the range and colour of these magnificent vessels' history. With a rich collection of paintings, photographs, and other illustrations from museums and archives across Ontario, Steamboats on the Lakes tells the unique story of the boats, the dangerous waters they plied, and the daring entrepreneurs and hardy sailors who navigated the many rough and glorious passages of the steamships' heyday.
Lake Effect
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Author : Richard N. Hill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Lake Effect written by Richard N. Hill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
A deckhand's coming-of-age story of sailing the Great Lakes steamboats during the social and political turbulence of the early 1970s, Lake Effect is a vivid and memorable account, told in a light-hearted and entertaining narrative style, of life aboard the giant ore boats. In the early 1970s, the author sailed on four different US Steel freighters as a deckhand and deckwatch. Ten years later, he enrolled in the Great Lakes Maritime Academy with the intention of becoming a deck officer, and sailed on the 1000-foot Columbia Star. This humorous yet poignant memoir follows his voyage of self-discovery.
Early Great Lakes Steamboats 1816 To 1830
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Author : Harry Albert Musham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1946
Early Great Lakes Steamboats 1816 To 1830 written by Harry Albert Musham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1946 with Great Lakes categories.
Early Great Lakes Steamboats The Walk In The Water
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Author : Harry Albert Musham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1945
Early Great Lakes Steamboats The Walk In The Water written by Harry Albert Musham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1945 with Great Lakes (North America) categories.