Download or read book Way s Steam Towboat Directory written by Frederick Way (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the initial release in 1983 of Way's Packet Directory, 1848-1983, the demand was enormous for a similar treatment of the steam towboats that once populated the Mississippi River System. Captain Frederick Way, Jr., aided by Joseph W. Rutter, gathered together this wealth of information concerning steamboats that shoved river barges laden with coal, petroleum products, chemicals, sand, gravel, and similar bulk commodities from the headwaters of the Ohio River to the jetties of the Mississippi. The steam towboats that performed these services have completely disappeared from the scene, their places having been taken by hundreds of modern diesel-propeller towboats, but this thorough and remarkable reference guide helps preserve their history.
Download or read book Directory of Western Rivers Steam Towboats written by Frederick Way (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Directory of Steam Towboats of the Mississippi River System Past and Present written by Frederick Way and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Western Rivers Towboat Directory written by Frederick Way (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Way s Steamboat Directory written by Frederick Way and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ways s Steamboat Directory written by Frederick Way and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Directory of Steam some Motor towboats and U S Engineer Department Vessels on the Mobile Alabama Tombigbee Warrior Rivers 1881 1947 written by Bert Neville and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Way s Steamboat Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Directory of Steamboats with Illustrations and List of Landings written by Bert Neville and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Directory of Western Rivers Steam Towboats written by Frederick Way (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Trow City Directory Co s Formerly Wilson s Copartnership and Corporation Directory of New York City written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Way s Packet Directory 1848 1983 written by Frederick Way (Jr.) and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steamboats on Louisiana s Bayous written by Carl A. Brasseaux and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an extraordinary feat of research and intrepid historical navigation, Carl A. Brasseaux and Keith P. Fontenot serve as guides through the labyrinthian and often harrowing world of Louisiana bayou steamboat journeys of the mid to late nineteenth century. The bayou country's steamboat saga mirrors in microcosm the tale of America's most colorful -- and most highly romanticized -- transportation era. But Brasseaux and Fontenot brace readers with a boldly revisionist picture of the opulent Mississippi River floating palaces: stripped-down, utilitarian freight-haulers belching smoke from twin stacks, churning through shallow swamps and narrow tributary streams, and encountering such hazards as shoals, sawyers, stumps, highwater and dry-bed seasons, and the remains of vessels claimed by those treacheries. For decades, steamboats transported goods, passengers, and mail between New Orleans and south Louisiana's vibrant interior agricultural region, bearing testimony to the resourcefulness, ingenuity, and tenacity of crews in conquering the challenges posed by a forbidding environment. Brasseaux and Fontenot marshaled a monumental array of information, including sources long-buried in courthouses, private collections, and the records of the Army Corps of Engineers. They offer data on some five hundred steamboats, keelboats, and barges known to have operated in the bayou country. This book is the first major study of a fascinating slice of the steamboat industry, showcasing a trade critically important to New Orleans's prosperity but largely forgotten in southern historiography until now. Encompassing economic, social, transportation, and environmental history, it captures the period just before the iron horse emerged as America's undisputed master of inland conveyance.
Download or read book The Waterways Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States Admiralty Law written by Mangone and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge about the application of law to maritime commerce not only may prove financially profitable but also provides an exciting intellectual trip through the historical and legal developments behind commercial activities that depend upon the sea. This work analyzes the growth and formation of maritime law across the centuries, including its origin as England s admiralty law and its adoption into the United States Constitution. It sets out information on the jurisdiction and law appropriate for the carriage of goods by sea, personal injuries and death collisions, salvage and wrecks, marine insurance, and marine pollution. Lawyers, professors, and students of law and anyone involved in marine transportation - carriers, shippers, port managers, freight forwarders, and others - will appreciate this book's succinct and readable style. It includes references to statutes, conventions, and cases - including some historical and social background to enliven and clarify the development of admiralty and maritime law in the United States.
Download or read book Way s Packet Directory 1848 1994 written by Frederick Way and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passenger Steamboats of the Mississippi River System Since the Advent of Photography in Mid-Continent America Frederick Way, Jr."If you want to know anything about a steamboat, Way's directory is the place to start". -- Louisville Courier-Journal
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks written by W. Craig Gaines and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the evening of February 2, 1864, Confederate Commander John Taylor Wood led 250 sailors in two launches and twelve boats to capture the USS Underwriter, a side-wheel steam gunboat anchored on the Neuse River near New Bern, North Carolina. During the ensuing fifteen-minute battle, nine Union crewmen lost their lives, twenty were wounded, and twenty-six fell into enemy hands. Six Confederates were captured and several wounded as they stripped the vessel, set it ablaze, and blew it up while under fire from Union-held Fort Anderson. The thrilling story of USS Underwriter is one of many involving the numerous shipwrecks that occupy the waters of Civil War history. Many years in the making, W. Craig Gaines's Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks is the definitive account of more than 2,000 of these American Civil War--period sunken ships. From Alabama's USS Althea, a Union steam tug lost while removing a Confederate torpedo in the Blakely River, to Wisconsin's Berlin City, a Union side-wheel steamer stranded in Oshkosh, Gaines provides detailed information about each vessel, including its final location, type, dimensions, tonnage, crew size, armament, origin, registry (Union, Confederate, United States, or other country), casualties, circumstances of loss, salvage operations, and the sources of his findings. Organized alphabetically by geographical location (state, country, or body of water), the book also includes a number of maps providing the approximate locations of many of the wrecks -- ranging from the Americas to Europe, the Arctic Ocean, and the Indian Ocean. Also noted are more than forty shipwrecks whose locations are in question. Since the 1960s, the underwater access afforded by SCUBA gear has allowed divers, historians, treasure hunters, and archaeologists to discover and explore many of the American Civil War-related shipwrecks. In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, Gaines scoured countless sources -- from government and official records to sports diver and treasure-hunting magazines -- and cross-indexes his compilation by each vessel's various names and nicknames throughout its career. An essential reference work for Civil War scholars and buffs, archaeologists, divers, and aficionados of naval history, Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks revives and preserves for posterity the little-known stories of these intriguing historical artifacts.
