Ships and Shipwrecks : Stories from the Great Lakes.

"In this book, Richard Gebhart tells the tales of Great Lakes ships and their captains and crews, from their launches to their sad demises-or sometimes, their celebrated retirements"--

Bibliografiset tiedot
Päätekijä: Gebhart, Richard
Aineistotyyppi: Licensed eBooks
Kieli:englanti
Julkaistu: : Michigan State University Press, 2021.
Sarja:Greenstone Bks.
Linkit:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/j.ctv1zqdw3c
Sisällysluettelo:
  • A linkage of coincidence : Havana, California, City of Green Bay
  • The immaculate disappearance of the Thomas Hume
  • Travels, triumphs and tragedy : the life of the Hattie A Estelle
  • The Gilcher goes missing
  • A detestable day along the Chicago lakefront : May 18, 1894
  • Distress again? The saga of the Red, White & Blue
  • Early days, early troubles : the Eastland sets sail
  • The coming of the yellow monster
  • The reluctant acceptance of wireless use on the Great Lakes
  • The remarkable remnants of the lost Sevona
  • Hard Bark Harry May and the mournful Arcadia
  • A longer look at the ungainly Choctaw
  • Mr. Plimsoll finally leaves his mark on the Great Lakes
  • Brotherhood of the Muskegon breakwater
  • The ghosts of Philo Parsons
  • The blue waters of the Juniata
  • Welland Good.