Eight Steamboats
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Author |
: Patrick Livingston |
Publisher |
: Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages |
: 332 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0814331750 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780814331750 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Eight Steamboats by : Patrick Livingston
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 |
: David C. Holly |
Publisher |
: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015032254172 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chesapeake Steamboats by : David C. Holly
An appendix details the workings of early steamboat engines. Other appendices provide data on steamboats discussed in the text and maps of the region. The narratives extend the history of the era from that included in other books on the topic. The book, above all, is an enthusiastic, nostalgic, and thoroughly readable exposition of a bygone era and a "vanished fleet."
Author |
: Joseph Gaston |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 986 |
Release |
: 1911 |
ISBN-10 |
: YALE:39002004921731 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Portland, Oregon, Its History and Builders by : Joseph Gaston
Author |
: Benson John Lossing |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 582 |
Release |
: 1912 |
ISBN-10 |
: PSU:000068750381 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1912 by : Benson John Lossing
Author |
: William Armstrong Fairburn |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 848 |
Release |
: 1955 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015004467166 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Merchant Sail by : William Armstrong Fairburn
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 912 |
Release |
: 1841 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015067168263 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Journal of the Franklin Institute by :
Vols. 1-69 include more or less complete patent reports of the U. S. Patent Office for years 1825-1859. cf. Index to v. 1-120 of the Journal, p. [415]
Author |
: Frederick Edward Saward |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 1072 |
Release |
: 1885 |
ISBN-10 |
: PSU:000060210227 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sawards' Coal Freight Circular by : Frederick Edward Saward
Author |
: Ernest Howard Ruffner |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 1885 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:600025064 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Practice of the Improvement of the Non-tidal Rivers of the United States by : Ernest Howard Ruffner
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 1076 |
Release |
: 1898 |
ISBN-10 |
: UIUC:30112060210330 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Transactions of ASME. by :
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 458 |
Release |
: 1898 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015084561227 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Scientific American by :