Sailing the Sweetwater Seas (eBook)

Wooden Boats and Ships on the Great Lakes, 1817-1940

George D. Jepson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
200 Seiten
Sheridan House (Verlag)
978-1-4930-7764-9 (ISBN)

Infos

The Great Lakes were America's first superhighway before railroad lines and roads arrived in the late nineteenth century. This book tells the story of the ships and boats on which the United States, barely decades old, moved to the country's middle and beyond, established a robust industrial base, and became a world power, despite enduring a bloody Civil War. The ';five sisters,' as the Great Lakes came to be called, would connect America's far-reaching regions in the century ahead, carrying streams of Irish, German, and Scandinavian settlers to new lives, as the young nation expanded west. Initially, schooner fleets delivered passengers and goods to settlements along the lakes, including Chicago, Milwaukee, and Green Bay, and returned east with grain, lumber, and iron ore. Steam-driven vessels, including the lavish ';palace' passenger steamers, followed, along with those specially designed to carry coal, grain, and iron ore. The era also produced a flourishing shipbuilding industry and saw recreational boating advance. In text and photographs, this book tells the story of a bygone era, of mariners and Mackinaw Boats, schooners and steamboats, all helping to advance the young nation westward.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 116 Illustrations including: - 9 Black & White Illustrations; - 88 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 17 Halftones, Color including Color Photographs; - 2 Maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schiffe
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: bark American Union • barkentines • Barks • Buffalo New York • canal schooners • Captain Frederick Marryat • Captain George Jepson • Charles Dickens • C. Patrick Labadie • David Syren • DeWitt Clinton • Eli Peck • Erie Canal • George David Jepson • George Henderson Jepson • George Lewis Jepson • Great Lakes archaeology • Great Lakes history • great lakes shipwrecks • Henry Barkhausen • John M. Longyear • Kenneth Pott • Lake Erie • Lake Huron • Lake Michigan • Lake Ontario • Lake Superior • Manitowoc, Wisconsin • Marine Art • Maritime Archaeology • Maritime History • Marquette, Michigan • Matt Murphy • "mosquito" schooners • "mosquito" steamers • naphtha launch • naphtha launch Abbie • nineteenth century maritime • ore boats • palace steamers • "Roaring Dan" Seavey • Robert McGreevy • schooner Mamie Jepson • scow schooners • Shipwreck Coast • side-wheel steamers • St. Joseph, Michigan • Thomas Truscott • Truscott Boat Manufacturing Company • Truscott rowboat • twentieth century maritime • Walk-in-the-Water • Wisconsin Maritime Museum • wooden bulk freighter • wooden passenger steamers • wooden schooners • wooden steam barge
• ISBN-10: 1-4930-7764-3 / 1493077643
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4930-7764-9 / 9781493077649