[PDF] American Steam Vessels Series Great Lakes Steam Vessels eBook

Author : Mark L. Thompson
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 23,37 MB
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0814338356

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Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakestraces the evolution of the Great Lakes shipping industry over the last three centuries. 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 : Raymond A. Bawal
Publisher : Inland Expressions
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 43,3 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0981815723

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Once the mainstay of the Great Lakes fleet, steam powered freighters are now in the twilight of their era on the inland seas. Once numbering in the hundreds, this class is now represented by only twenty active carriers as of the end of the 2008 shipping season. They range from the ST. MARYS CHALLENGER built in 1906, with over 100 years of steadfast service, to the last steam powered freighter constructed on the lakes, the CANADIAN LEADER, built in 1967. Individual histories are given for each vessel providing details of previous and current operations. These steamers encompass a variety of carrier types, including cement carriers, straight deckers, and self-unloaders. Included are numerous never before published photographs, portraying these vessels in both previous and current operations.

Author : Samuel Ward Stanton
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,5 MB
Release : 2003-01-14
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780486423302

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Expert renderings of more than 250 vessels that sailed American coastal waters, rivers, and Great Lakes. Full-length view of each vessel; information on length of hull, type of engine and boiler, and size of paddle wheels or propellers. Includes the Alabama, Iron Queen, Monitor, Robert E. Lee, Thomas Jefferson, many more. 488 black-and-white illustrations.