Download or read book Floating Palaces of the Great Lakes written by Joel Stone and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively history of the most majestic ships to ever ply the Great Lakes
Download or read book River Palace written by Walter Lewis and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2008-08-18 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steamboats carrying passengers from Hamilton to Montreal via the rapids of the St. Lawrence were a popular sight in the latter half of the nineteenth century. In 1855, the Kingston, an iron steamboat built for John Hamilton, appeared in the Great Lakes. When the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) toured British North America in 1860, the Kingston became his floating palace for much of his time between Quebec and Toronto. While many steamboats claimed to be floating palaces, the Kingston truly was one. In 1855, the Kingston, an iron steamboat built for John Hamilton (1802-82), appeared in the Great Lakes. When the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) came to British North America for the first royal tour in 1860, the Kingston became his floating palace for much of his time between Quebec and Toronto. Many steamboats claimed to be floating palaces. The Kingston was. The Kingston was wrecked many times and survived spectacular fires in 1872 and 1873. Late in her career, she was converted into a salvage vessel and renamed the Cornwall. In 1930 she was finally taken out and sunk near one of Kingstons ship graveyards. There she remained until diver Rick Neilson discovered her in 1989. Today, the once palatial Kingston is a popular dive site and tourist attraction.
Download or read book The Forgotten Iron King of the Great Lakes written by Michael W. Nagle and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Gilded Age industrialist becomes Michigan's wealthiest resident and helps shape the nation.
Download or read book Great Lakes Ships We Remember written by Marine Historical Society of Detroit and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of the Great Lakes written by Edward Channing and published by New York : The Macmillan Company. This book was released on 1909 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost Lake Erie written by Jennifer Boresz Engelking and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serene one moment and destructive the next, Lake Erie's moods mirror its tumultuous role in history. As the site of Cleveland's Great Lakes Exposition, the lake offered visitors a respite from the Great Depression, and Hotel Victory, once considered the world's largest summer resort, drew thousands to Put-In-Bay. Daring postal workers dangerously crossed the ice-covered surface on hybrid "boats" and by foot. Canal Street, at the Buffalo Wharf, was once called "the Wickedest Street in America." The Erie is one of thousands of ships that lie in a solemn graveyard below the surface. And rum runners turned the lake into a watery highway for illegal booze during Prohibition. Author Jennifer Boresz Engelking reveals entertaining, heartbreaking, and nostalgic stories of the lost sites, businesses and industries of Lake Erie.
Download or read book Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes written by Dwight Boyer and published by New York : Dodd, Mead. This book was released on 1968 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the missing "ghost ships" of the Great Lakes, the big freighter and ore carriers of yesterday and today that disappeared, never to be seen again.
Download or read book Great Lakes Shipwrecks Survivals written by William Ratigan and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1989-01-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this breathtaking chronicle of the most spectacular shipwrecks and survivals on the Great Lakes, William Ratigan re-creates vivid scenes of high courage and screaming panic from which no reader can turn away. Included in this striking catalog of catastrophes and Flying Dutchmen are the magnificent excursion liner Eastland, which capsized at her pier in the Chicago River, drowning 835 people within clutching distance of busy downtown streets; the shipwrecked steel freighter Mataafa, which dumped its crew into freezing waters while the snowbound town of Duluth looked on; the dark Sunday in November 1913 when Lake Huron swallowed eight long ships without a man surviving to tell the tale; and the bitter November of 1958 when the Bradley went down in Lake Michigan during one of the greatest killer storms on the freshwater seas. An entire section is dedicated to the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald -- the most famous maritime loss in modern times -- in Lake Superior in 1975. Chilling watercolor illustrations, photographs, maps, and news clippings accentuate Ratigan's compelling and dramatic storytelling. Sailors, historians, and general readers alike will be swept away by these unforgettable tales of tragedy and heroism.
Download or read book Great Lakes Shipwrecks Survivals written by William Ratigan and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1977 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tragic, memorable, or miraculous, the author here dramatizes the most spectacular shipwrecks and most incredible survivals in the history of the Great Lakes. Re-creating scenes of high courage and screaming panic, Ratigan writes of strange tales, like the captain who went down with his ship rather than let her die alone, and includes the three greatest killer storms in modern times on the freshwater seas -- among them, the squall that caused the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, to which an entire section of the book is dedicated. These are stories destined to be retold by generations of sailors and lovers of the Great Lakes.
Download or read book History of the Great Lakes written by J. B. Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Western Journals of Nehemiah and Henry Sanford 1839 1846 written by Kenneth E. Lewis and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late antebellum period saw the dramatic growth of the United States as Euro-American settlement began to move into new territories west of the Mississippi River. The journals and letters of businessmen Nehemiah and Henry Sanford, written between 1839 and 1846, provide a unique perspective into a time of dramatic expansion in the Great Lakes and beyond. These accounts describe the daily experiences of Nehemiah and his wife Nancy Shelton Sanford as they traveled west from their Connecticut home to examine lands for speculation in regions undergoing colonization, as well as the experiences of their son Henry who later came out to the family’s western property. Beyond an interest in business, the Sanfords’ journals provide a detailed picture of the people they encountered and the settlements and country through which they passed and include descriptions of events, activities, methods of travel and travel accommodations, as well as mining in the upper Mississippi Valley and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and a buffalo hunt on the Great Plains. Through their travels the Sanfords give us an intimate glimpse of the immigrants, settlers, Native Americans, missionaries, traders, mariners, and soldiers they encountered, and their accounts illuminate the lives and activities of the newcomers and native people who inhabited this fascinating region during a time of dramatic transition.
Download or read book Sailing on the Great Lakes and Rivers of America written by John Disturnell and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nine foot Channel from the Great Lakes to the Gulf written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select committee on nine-foot channel from the Great lakes to the gulf of Mexico and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ship Canal from the Great Lakes to the Navigable Waters of the Hudson River written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sailing on the Great Lakes and Rivers of America With Map and Embellishments written by John DISTURNELL and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nine foot Channel from the Great Lakes to the Gulf written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nine-Foot Channel from the Great Lakes to the Gulf and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sailing on the Great Lakes and Rivers of America Embracing a Description of Lakes Erie Huron Michigan and Superior and Rivers St Mary St Clair written by John Disturnell and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1874 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
