Whaleback City
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Whaleback City
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2019-07-31
Whaleback City written by and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-31 with Dundee (Scotland) categories.
Whaleback City is a unique anthology of poems inspired by the city of Dundee and its surroundings. In it you will find poems about the city, its history, its architecture and its landscape. There are poems spanning six centuries, capturing the spirit and temperament of its people, both celebrated and ordinary. Poets range from Sir Walter Scott and William McGonagall through to contemporary voices such as Douglas Dunn and Don Paterson. The poems themselves speak of subjects as diverse as the Tay and its bridges, the Jute industry, Liz McColgan, the People's Friend, Dens Road Market and a hundred other things that are uniquely Dundonian. Whether you love poetry or you love Dundee, this is a very special collection saluting Scotland's most industrious and enterprising city.
Mcdougall S Great Lakes Whalebacks
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Author : Neel R. Zoss
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2007
Mcdougall S Great Lakes Whalebacks written by Neel R. Zoss and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
During the last years of the 19th century, the Duluth Harbor, situated between the sister cities of Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, was the birthplace of a bold and innovative and decidedly odd-looking class of Great Lakes barges and steamships known as whalebacks. Capt. Alexander McDougall and his American Steel Barge Company built the curved-decked, snout-nosed whalebacks on the shores of the harbor, first at Duluth's Rice's Point and later in Howard's Pocket at Superior. The vessels were a radical departure, in design, form, and construction, from the standard shipbuilding concepts of the era but proved themselves more than capable as a number of the boats sailed the Great Lakes and the seaboards of America until the 1960s. All the whalebacks are gone now--either scrapped or sunk--with one exception. After sailing the lakes for more than 70 years, the last whaleback, the SS Meteor, returned home to Superior in 1972 and is now continuing its service as a magnificent maritime museum on Barker's Island.
Whaleback City
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Author : W. N. Herbert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Whaleback City written by W. N. Herbert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Dundee (Scotland) categories.
Mill Town
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Author : Norman H. Clark
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2011-10-01
Mill Town written by Norman H. Clark and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-01 with History categories.
�The Pacific Northwest�s classic confrontation between militants demanding ambiguous change and an establishment intransigently defending the status quo occurred on Sunday, November 5, 1916. To this day no one knows who shot first, nor even how many died, but thanks to Mill Town, we have at last a charting of the forces, economic and personal, that led to the tragedy.��Murray Morgan
Report
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Author : United States Geographic Board
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
Report written by United States Geographic Board and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with Names, Geographical categories.
Sail Steam And Diesel
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Author : Eric Hirsimaki
language : en
Publisher: MSU Press
Release Date : 2024-04-01
Sail Steam And Diesel written by Eric Hirsimaki and has been published by MSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-01 with Transportation categories.
Water transportation has played a key role in the Great Lakes region’s settlement and economic growth, from providing entry into the new lake states to offering cheap transportation for the goods they produced. There are numerous tales surrounding the Great Lakes shipping trade, but few storytellers have addressed the factors that influenced the use, design, and evolution of the ships that sailed the inland seas. Sail, Steam, and Diesel: Moving Cargo on the Great Lakes provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of Great Lakes ships over the centuries, from small birch-bark canoes originally used in the region to the massive thousand-footers of today. The author also looks at the economics of vessel operation in the context of the expanding scope of the shipping industry, which was crucial in catapulting America into becoming an industrial juggernaut. The captains of industry and the sailors whose labor propelled the trade populate this account, which also offers solemn acknowledgment of the high cost paid in both lost ships and lives. Although they might not realize it, millions of Americans have owed their livelihoods to the Great Lakes boats, and this volume is an excellent way to recognize the importance of this regional industry.
Mining And Scientific Press
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
Mining And Scientific Press written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with Mineral industries categories.
Light List
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1944
Light List written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1944 with Aids to navigation categories.
Whaleback Ships And The American Steel Barge Company
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Author : C. Roger Pellett
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-14
Whaleback Ships And The American Steel Barge Company written by C. Roger Pellett 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 2018-05-14 with Transportation categories.
The whaleback ship reflected the experiences of its inventor, Captain Alexander McDougall, who decided in the 1880s that he could build an improved and easily towed barge cheaply by using the relatively unskilled labor force available in his adopted hometown of Duluth, Minnesota. Captain McDougall’s dream resulted in the creation of the American Steel Barge Company. From 1888 to 1898, the American Steel Barge Company built and operated a fleet of forty-four barges and steamships on the Great Lakes and in international trade. These new ships were considered revolutionary by some and nautical curiosities by others. Built from what was then a high tech material (steel) and powered by state-of-the-art steam machinery, their creation in the remote north was a sign of industrial accomplishment. In Whaleback Ships and the American Steel Barge Company, Roger C. Pellett explains that the construction of these ships and the industrial infrastructure required to build them was financed by a syndicate that included some of the major players active in the Golden Age of American capitalism. The American Steel Barge Company operated profitably from 1889 through 1892, each year adding new vessels to its growing fleet. By 1893, it had run out of cash. The cash crisis worsened with the onset of the Panic of 1893, which plunged the country into a depression that mostly halted the ship-building industry. Only one shareholder, John D. Rockefeller, was willing and able to invest in the company to keep it afloat, and by doing so he gained control. When prosperity returned in 1896, the interest in huge iron ore deposits on the Mesabe Range required larger, more efficient vessels. In an attempt to meet this need, the company built another vessel that incorporated many whaleback features but included a conventional Great Lakes steamship bow. Although this new steamship compared favorably with vessels of conventional design, it was the last vessel of whaleback design to be built. Whaleback Ships and the American Steel Barge Company objectively examines the design of these ships using the original design drawings, notes the successes and failures of the company’s business strategy, and highlights the men at the operating level that attempted to make this strategy work. Readers interested in the maritime history of the Great Lakes and the industries that developed around them will find this book fascinating.
Report Of The City Statistician
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Author : Superior (Wis.). Statistician
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
Report Of The City Statistician written by Superior (Wis.). Statistician and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Superior (Wis.) categories.