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Language: en
Pages: 231
Pages: 231
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher:
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.
Language: en
Pages: 244
Pages: 244
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Wayne State University Press
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. Thomp
Language: en
Pages: 220
Pages: 220
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-12-01 - Publisher: Wayne State University Press
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 t
Language: en
Pages: 332
Pages: 332
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Wayne State University Press
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 Wa
Language: en
Pages: 117
Pages: 117
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Inland Expressions
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, th