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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: 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: 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: 282
Pages: 282
Type: BOOK - Published: 1928 - Publisher:
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