Great Lakes Ships We Remember III
Author: Detroit Marine Historical Society Staff
Publisher: Freshwater Press
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780912514505
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Detroit Marine Historical Society Staff
Publisher: Freshwater Press
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780912514505
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Peter J. Van der Linden
Publisher: Cleveland : Freshwater Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780912514253
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Marine Historical Society of Detroit
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 432
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Peter J. Van der Linden
Publisher: Cleveland : Freshwater Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 421
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: S. J. Dowling
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Published: 1979-03
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ISBN-13: 9780912514017
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Constance M. Jerlecki
Publisher: Inland Expressions
Published: 2017-02-10
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1939150183
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Mark L. Thompson
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2004-04-13
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780814332269
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A historically accurate, well-rounded picture of shipwrecks on the Great Lakes.
Author: George Woodman Hilton
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780804742405
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the definitive account of the rise, fall, and extinction of steam passenger transportation on Lake Michigan from its origin in the late 1840s to the demise of the last steamers in 1970.
Author: Raymond A. Bawal Jr.
Publisher: Inland Expressions
Published: 2016-02-12
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 1939150132
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For nearly ninety years, lake freighters belonging to the Inland Steel fleet transported the raw materials necessary for the manufacture of steel at their owner’s sprawling industrial complex at Indiana Harbor, Indiana. Easily distinguishable from vessels operated by other shipping companies following the incorporation of a unique color scheme in 1950, the members of the Inland Steel fleet became some of the most recognizable and popular ships to ever sail the waters of the Great Lakes. This volume traces the history of this fleet from its formation, through an era of expansion that included the construction of two groundbreaking vessels and the rebuilding of its older units, to its demise following the sale of the Inland Steel Company in 1998. In addition, complete factual accounts chronicle the careers of each of the ten vessels that served in this fleet over its long history.
Author: Mark L. Thompson
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2017-12-01
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0814343376
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is an account of the ships that have borne the name "Queen of the Lakes," an honorary title indicating that, at the time of its launching, a ship is the longest on the Great Lakes. In one of the most comprehensive books ever written on the maritime history of the lakes, Mark L. Thompson presents a vignette of each of the dozens of ships that have held the title, chronicling the dates the ship sailed, its dimensions, the derivation of its name, its role in the economic development of the region, and its sailing history. Through the stories of the individual ships, Thompson also describes the growth of ship design on the Great Lakes and the changing nature of the shipping industry on the lakes. The launching of the first ship on Lake Ontario in 1678 - the diminutive Frontenac, a small, two-masted vessel of only about ten tons and no more than forty or forty-five feet long - set in motion an evolutionary process that has continued for more than three hundred years. That ship is the direct ancestor of all the ships that ever have operated on the Great Lakes, from the Str. Onoko, launched in 1882 and the first ship to bear the name Queen of the Lakes; to the Str. W. D. Rees, which held its title for only a few weeks, to today's Queen, the Tregurtha, the longest ship on the lakes since its launching in 1981. Although ships on the Great Lakes may be surpassed in size and efficiency by many of the modern ocean freighters, Thompson notes that the ships now sailing on the great freshwater seas of North America have achieved a level of operating mastery that is unrivaled anywhere else in the world, considering the inherent limitations of the Great Lakes system. The Tregurtha reigns as a model of unsurpassed maritime craftsmanship and as heir to a long and glorious tradition of excellence. Every magnificent ship that has borne the title in the past has contributed in some part to the greatness embodied in the Tregurtha. In time, her title as Queen of the Lakes will pass to another monumental freighter that will carry the art and science of shipbuilding and operation to even greater heights.