Steamboats Sailors Of The Great Lakes

Author : Mark L. Thompson
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814323596

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Steamboats & Sailors of the Great Lakes by Mark L. Thompson Pdf

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.

Author : Mark L. Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Inland water transportation
ISBN : 0814338356

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Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes by Mark L. Thompson Pdf

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.

Author : Patrick Livingston
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814331750

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Eight Steamboats by Patrick Livingston Pdf

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.

Author : Mark L. Thompson
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814343371

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Queen of the Lakes by Mark L. Thompson Pdf

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.

Author : Maurice D. Smith
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1550288857

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Steamboats on the Lakes by Maurice D. Smith Pdf

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.

Author : Harry Albert Musham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015023141768

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Early Great Lakes Steamboats by Harry Albert Musham Pdf

Author : Joel Stone
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472051755

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Floating Palaces of the Great Lakes by Joel Stone Pdf

A lively history of the most majestic ships to ever ply the Great Lakes

Author : Knut Gjerset
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Norwegian Americans
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041807921

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Norwegian Sailors on the Great Lakes by Knut Gjerset Pdf

Author : George D. Jepson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493077649

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Sailing the Sweetwater Seas by George D. Jepson Pdf

The Great Lakes were America’s first superhighway before railroad lines and roads arrived in the late nineteenth century. This book tells the story of the ships and boats on which the United States, barely decades old, moved to the country’s middle and beyond, established a robust industrial base, and became a world power, despite enduring a bloody Civil War. The “five sisters,” as the Great Lakes came to be called, would connect America’s far-reaching regions in the century ahead, carrying streams of Irish, German, and Scandinavian settlers to new lives, as the young nation expanded west. Initially, schooner fleets delivered passengers and goods to settlements along the lakes, including Chicago, Milwaukee, and Green Bay, and returned east with grain, lumber, and iron ore. Steam-driven vessels, including the lavish “palace” passenger steamers, followed, along with those specially designed to carry coal, grain, and iron ore. The era also produced a flourishing shipbuilding industry and saw recreational boating advance. In text and photographs, this book tells the story of a bygone era, of mariners and Mackinaw Boats, schooners and steamboats, all helping to advance the young nation westward.

Author : J. Disturnell
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382508500

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Sailing on the Great Lakes and Rivers of America by J. Disturnell Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Frank Boles
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781628952803

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Sailing into History by Frank Boles Pdf

The Great Lakes create a vast transportation network that supports a massive shipping industry. In this volume, seamanship, cargo, competition, cooperation, technology, engineering, business, unions, government decisions, and international agreements all come together to create a story of unrivaled interest about the Great Lakes ships and the crews that sailed them in the twentieth century. This complex and multifaceted tale begins in iron and coal mines, with the movement of the raw ingredients of industrial America across docks into ever larger ships using increasingly complicated tools and technology. The shipping industry was an expensive challenge, as it required huge investments of capital, caused bitter labor disputes, and needed direct government intervention to literally remake the lakes to accommodate the ships. It also demanded one of the most integrated international systems of regulation and navigation in the world to sail a ship from Duluth to upstate New York. Sailing into History describes the fascinating history of a century of achievements and setbacks, unimagined change mixed with surprising stability.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Michigan Library
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015011016774

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Sailing on the Great Lakes and Rivers of America by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard N. Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0981737188

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Lake Effect by Richard N. Hill Pdf

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.

Author : Nelson Haydamacker,Alan D. Millar
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472026425

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Deckhand by Nelson Haydamacker,Alan D. Millar Pdf

Long before popular television shows such as Dirty Jobs and The Deadliest Catch, everyday men and women---the unsung heroes of the job world---toiled in important but mostly anonymous jobs. One of those jobs was deckhand on the ore boats. With numerous photographs and engaging stories, Deckhand offers an insider's view of both the mundane and the intriguing duties performed by deckhands on these gritty cargo vessels. Boisterous port saloons, monster ice jams, near drownings, and the daily drudgery of soogeying---cleaning dirt and grime off the ships---are just a few of the experiences Mickey Haydamacker had as a young deckhand working on freighters of the Great Lakes in the early 1960s. Haydamacker sailed five Interlake Steamship Company boats, from the modern Elton Hoyt 2nd to the ancient coal-powered Colonel James Pickands with its backbreaking tarp-covered hatches. Deckhand will appeal to shipping buffs and to anyone interested in Great Lakes shipping and maritime history as it chronicles the adventures of living on the lakes from the seldom-seen view of a deckhand. Mickey Haydamacker spent his youth as a deckhand sailing on the freighters of the Great Lakes. During the 1962 and '63 seasons Nelson sailed five different Interlake Steamship Company ore boats. He later went on to become an arson expert with the Michigan State Police, retiring with the rank of Detective Sergeant. Alan D. Millar, to whom Haydamacker related his tale of deckhanding, spent his career as a gift store owner and often wrote copy for local newspaper, TV, and radio.

Author : John Disturnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015071185816

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Sailing on the Great Lakes and Rivers of America by John Disturnell Pdf