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Book Synopsis Keweenaw Shipwrecks by : Frederick Stonehouse
Download or read book Keweenaw Shipwrecks written by Frederick Stonehouse and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A comprehensive documentation of the ships lost of the Keweenaw Peninsula. This book looks into the life of the lightkeepers as they struggled to keep the ships off the rocks. An exciting glimpse into the maritime history of Michigan's magnificent Keweenaw Peninsula. It is the most comprehensive examination of the many wrecks off treacherous Keweenaw Point ever produced."--Pub. desc.
Book Synopsis Shipwrecks of the Lakes by : Dana Thomas Bowen
Download or read book Shipwrecks of the Lakes written by Dana Thomas Bowen and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of shipwrecks have a definite fascination and a universal appeal. They are not only exciting and thrilling but usually contain some element of mystery. They recount the struggle of man to survive, pitting himself, or in several instances-herself, and the ship against the elements of destruction, calling forth his utmost skill, his strength, and his ingenuity, often with his very life as the high stake. Some emerge heroes; others are never heard from again.In this book are told only a selected number of the outstanding number of the shipwrecks of the Great Lakes. To attempt to put into a single book all the shipwrecks occurring on the Great Lakes would be sheer folly. Here are true tales of dozens of thrilling shipwrecks told in an interesting manner - complete with dozens of photographs. Heroic rescues from Duluth to the St. Lawrence make fascinating reading. Shipwrecks are recounted, covering a period of over one hundred years, from the old wooden immigrant steamers and the lofty-masted sailing vessels, up to the present ships of today.Much lake lore is woven into the tales of the wrecks, but nothing has been retold from Mr. Bowen's other books, Lore of the Lakes and Memories of the Lakes.
Book Synopsis Shipwrecks of Lake Superior by : James R. Marshall
Download or read book Shipwrecks of Lake Superior written by James R. Marshall and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of the popular Shipwreck of Lake Superior is updaed and redesigned to best present the engaging collection of maps, photos and accounts of the boats that once sailed the Greatest of Lakes. New this edition: the story of the last big wreck on Lake Superior -- the Mesquite -- and the latest theories on why the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in 1975.
Book Synopsis Shipwreck of the Mesquite by : Frederick Stonehouse
Download or read book Shipwreck of the Mesquite written by Frederick Stonehouse and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows the life of the Mesquite from its launch in Duluth during World War II to its tragic death on the rocks of Keweenaw Point in the Upper Peninsula on December 4, 1989. The ship has been saved from salvage and is now part of a new underwater preserve. Complete with color photography, charts and never before-printed historical photos of the Mesquite's construction.
Book Synopsis Beyond the Boundaries by : Larry Lankton
Download or read book Beyond the Boundaries written by Larry Lankton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-05-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the years 1840-1875, Beyond the Boundaries focuses on the settlement of Upper Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, telling the story of reluctant pioneers who attempted to establish a decent measure of comfort, control, and security in what was in many ways a hostile environment. Moving beyond the technological history of the period found in his previous book Cradle to the Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines (OUP 1991), Lankton here focuses on the people of this region and how the copper mining affected their daily lives. A truly first-rate social history, Beyond the Boundaries will appeal to historians of the frontier and of Michigan and the Great Lakes region, as well as historians of technology, labor, and everyday life.
Book Synopsis Graveyard of the Lakes by : Mark L. Thompson
Download or read book Graveyard of the Lakes written by Mark L. Thompson and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-13 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historically accurate, well-rounded picture of shipwrecks on the Great Lakes.
Book Synopsis Munising Shipwrecks by : Frederick Stonehouse
Download or read book Munising Shipwrecks written by Frederick Stonehouse and published by AuTrain, Mich. : The Studios. This book was released on 1983 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Julius F. Wolff Jr.'s Lake Superior Shipwrecks by : Julius Frederic Wolff
Download or read book Julius F. Wolff Jr.'s Lake Superior Shipwrecks written by Julius Frederic Wolff and published by Duluth, Minn. : Lake Superior Port Cities. This book was released on 1990 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete history of Lake Superior shipwrecks.
Book Synopsis Southwest Cultural Resources Center Professional Papers by :
Download or read book Southwest Cultural Resources Center Professional Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Submerged Cultural Resources Study by : C. Patrick Labadie
Download or read book Submerged Cultural Resources Study written by C. Patrick Labadie and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Great Lakes Shipwrecks & Survivals by : William Ratigan
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.
Book Synopsis Shipwrecks of Lake Michigan by : Benjamin J. Shelak
Download or read book Shipwrecks of Lake Michigan written by Benjamin J. Shelak and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shipwrecks of Lake Michigan" is a comprehensive collection of information about legendary wrecks on Lake Michigan--1800 to present. Author Benjamin J. Shelak.
Book Synopsis Great Lakes Shipwrecks & Survivals by : William Ratigan
Download or read book Great Lakes Shipwrecks & Survivals written by William Ratigan and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 1989-01-18 with total page 0 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.
Book Synopsis Many a Midnight Ship by : Mark Bourrie
Download or read book Many a Midnight Ship written by Mark Bourrie and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riveting stories of maritime tragedies on North America's "inland seas"
Book Synopsis Queen of the Lakes by : Mark L. Thompson
Download or read book Queen of the Lakes written by Mark L. Thompson and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the longest on the Great Lakes. In one of the most comprehensive books ever written on the maritime history of the lakes, Mark L. Thompson presents a vignette of each of the dozens of ships that have held the title, chronicling the dates the ship sailed, its dimensions, the derivation of its name, its role in the economic development of the region, and its sailing history. Through the stories of the individual ships, Thompson also describes the growth of ship design on the Great Lakes and the changing nature of the shipping industry on the lakes. The launching of the first ship on Lake Ontario in 1678 - the diminutive Frontenac, a small, two-masted vessel of only about ten tons and no more than forty or forty-five feet long - set in motion an evolutionary process that has continued for more than three hundred years. That ship is the direct ancestor of all the ships that ever have operated on the Great Lakes, from the Str. Onoko, launched in 1882 and the first ship to bear the name Queen of the Lakes; to the Str. W. D. Rees, which held its title for only a few weeks, to today's Queen, the Tregurtha, the longest ship on the lakes since its launching in 1981. Although ships on the Great Lakes may be surpassed in size and efficiency by many of the modern ocean freighters, Thompson notes that the ships now sailing on the great freshwater seas of North America have achieved a level of operating mastery that is unrivaled anywhere else in the world, considering the inherent limitations of the Great Lakes system. The Tregurtha reigns as a model of unsurpassed maritime craftsmanship and as heir to a long and glorious tradition of excellence. Every magnificent ship that has borne the title in the past has contributed in some part to the greatness embodied in the Tregurtha. In time, her title as Queen of the Lakes will pass to another monumental freighter that will carry the art and science of shipbuilding and operation to even greater heights.
Book Synopsis Went Missing Redux by : Frederick Stonehouse
Download or read book Went Missing Redux written by Frederick Stonehouse and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Went missing redux tells the exciting tales of ships lost on the Great Lakes with all hands and still missing. Their dead hulls still rest somewhere out in the stormy waters, undiscovered by searchers, past and present. [The book] takes a look at nine of these "went missing" ships and tries to piece together rational explanations for their loss and offer suggestions for the location of the wrecks"--P. [4] of cover.
