Mcdougalls Great Lakes Whalebacks

Author : Neel R. Zoss
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738551432
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book McDougall's Great Lakes Whalebacks written by Neel R. Zoss and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last years of the 19th century, the Duluth Harbor, situated between the sister cities of Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, was the birthplace of a bold and innovative and decidedly odd-looking class of Great Lakes barges and steamships known as whalebacks. Capt. Alexander McDougall and his American Steel Barge Company built the curved-decked, snout-nosed whalebacks on the shores of the harbor, first at Duluth's Rice's Point and later in Howard's Pocket at Superior. The vessels were a radical departure, in design, form, and construction, from the standard shipbuilding concepts of the era but proved themselves more than capable as a number of the boats sailed the Great Lakes and the seaboards of America until the 1960s. All the whalebacks are gone now--either scrapped or sunk--with one exception. After sailing the lakes for more than 70 years, the last whaleback, the SS Meteor, returned home to Superior in 1972 and is now continuing its service as a magnificent maritime museum on Barker's Island.

Author : C. Roger Pellett
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814344771
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whaleback Ships and the American Steel Barge Company written by C. Roger Pellett and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The whaleback ship reflected the experiences of its inventor, Captain Alexander McDougall, who decided in the 1880s that he could build an improved and easily towed barge cheaply by using the relatively unskilled labor force available in his adopted hometown of Duluth, Minnesota. Captain McDougall’s dream resulted in the creation of the American Steel Barge Company. From 1888 to 1898, the American Steel Barge Company built and operated a fleet of forty-four barges and steamships on the Great Lakes and in international trade. These new ships were considered revolutionary by some and nautical curiosities by others. Built from what was then a high tech material (steel) and powered by state-of-the-art steam machinery, their creation in the remote north was a sign of industrial accomplishment. In Whaleback Ships and the American Steel Barge Company, Roger C. Pellett explains that the construction of these ships and the industrial infrastructure required to build them was financed by a syndicate that included some of the major players active in the Golden Age of American capitalism. The American Steel Barge Company operated profitably from 1889 through 1892, each year adding new vessels to its growing fleet. By 1893, it had run out of cash. The cash crisis worsened with the onset of the Panic of 1893, which plunged the country into a depression that mostly halted the ship-building industry. Only one shareholder, John D. Rockefeller, was willing and able to invest in the company to keep it afloat, and by doing so he gained control. When prosperity returned in 1896, the interest in huge iron ore deposits on the Mesabe Range required larger, more efficient vessels. In an attempt to meet this need, the company built another vessel that incorporated many whaleback features but included a conventional Great Lakes steamship bow. Although this new steamship compared favorably with vessels of conventional design, it was the last vessel of whaleback design to be built. Whaleback Ships and the American Steel Barge Company objectively examines the design of these ships using the original design drawings, notes the successes and failures of the company’s business strategy, and highlights the men at the operating level that attempted to make this strategy work. Readers interested in the maritime history of the Great Lakes and the industries that developed around them will find this book fascinating.

Author : Mark L. Thompson
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814323595
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steamboats & Sailors of the Great Lakes written by Mark L. Thompson and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Thompson tells the fascinating story of the world's most efficient bulk transportation system, describing the Great Lakes freighters, the cargoes of the great ships, and the men and women who have served as crew. He documents the dramatic changes that have taken place in the industry and looks at the critical role that Great Lakes shipping plays in the economic well-being of the U.S. and Canada, despite the fact that the size of the fleet and the amount of cargo carried have declined dramatically in recent years.

Author : Theodore J. Karamanski
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299326306
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mastering the Inland Seas written by Theodore J. Karamanski and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodore J. Karamanski's sweeping maritime history demonstrates the far-ranging impact that the tools and infrastructure developed for navigating the Great Lakes had on the national economies, politics, and environment of continental North America. Synthesizing popular as well as original historical scholarship, Karamanski weaves a colorful narrative illustrating how disparate private and government interests transformed these vast and dangerous waters into the largest inland water transportation system in the world. Karamanski explores both the navigational and sailing tools of First Nations peoples and the dismissive and foolhardy attitude of early European maritime sailors. He investigates the role played by commercial boats in the Underground Railroad, as well as how the federal development of crucial navigational resources exacerbated sectionalism in the antebellum United States. Ultimately Mastering the Inland Sea shows the undeniable environmental impact of technologies used by the modern commercial maritime industry. This expansive story illuminates the symbiotic relationship between infrastructure investment in the region's interconnected waterways and North America's lasting economic and political development.

Author : Michael Varhola
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493083228
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shipwrecks and Lost Treasures: Great Lakes written by Michael Varhola and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-11-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-one riveting stories and illustrations about ships that met their end in the treacherous waters of the Great Lakes, such as: British gunboat H.M.S. Speedy in 1804, American Navy brig U.S.S. Niagara in 1820, Civil War steamer Island Queen in 1864, the infamous freighter Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975, and many more!

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Total Pages : 778 pages
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Author : John Brandt Mansfield
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1150 pages
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Download or read book History of the Great Lakes ... written by John Brandt Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 848 pages
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Download or read book The Encyclopædia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Harrison De Puy
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Total Pages : 838 pages
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Download or read book The World-wide Encyclopedia and Gazetteer written by William Harrison De Puy and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
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Download or read book New Americanized Encyclopd̆ia Britannica written by Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: