Author: Chuck Fowler
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738559728
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While square-rigged sailing ships, steamboats and ferries, and ever-larger cruise and cargo-carrying vessels have made their mark on Puget Sound's maritime history, no other vessels have captured the imagination of shore-bound seafarers like tugboats. Beginning in the 1850s when the first steam-powered tugboats arrived in the Sound from the East Coast via San Francisco, company owners and their crews competed fiercely for business, towing ships, log rafts, and barges. The magnetic attraction of powerful, tough tugs both large and small is unexplainable but enduring. This book, featuring about 200 rare historic images and carefully researched text, tells the colorful story of tug boating on Puget Sound.
Author: Gordon Newell
Publisher:
Published: 2011-09
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781258103903
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gordon R. Newell
Publisher: Seattle : Superior Publishing Company
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A pictorial account of sidewheelers and motor ferries.
Author: David R.P. Guay
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2016-07-02
Total Pages: 666
ISBN-13: 1459735579
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The untold history of the maritime branches of two giants of early-twentieth-century Canadian railroads. The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and the Canadian Northern Railway, two giants of Canadian rail transportation, each operated maritime shipping ventures during the early twentieth century. Numerous vessels, including sidewheel, paddlewheel, and propeller steamers, tugboats, and barges, helped to build and serve these railways. Passenger and merchant ships sailed the West Coast, the Great Lakes, and St. Lawrence River, and served Canadian and European ports, in a time when groundings, shipwrecks, and sinkings often claimed lives. These same steamship lines played an important role in World War I, when Canadian vessels ferried men and war supplies. Many troopships and freighters were torpedoed, and Canadian Northern’s entire transatlantic fleet was virtually obliterated. Illustrated with contemporary photographs and drawings, this book pays tribute to the maritime enterprises of two trailblazing Canadian railway greats.
Author: E. W. Wright
Publisher: Portland, Or. : Lewis & Dryden Print. Company
Published: 1895
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gordon R. Newell
Publisher:
Published: 1959
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Picture history of coastwise passenger liners. Companion volume to "Pacific tugboats" and "Pacific steamboats."