Beyond the Windswept Dunes: The Story of Maritime MichiganWayne State University Press, 1 juni 2003 - 216 sidor Beyond the Windswept Dunes takes the reader into a world of maritime adventure as it was experienced by the sailors, passengers, rescue workers, shipping magnates, industrialists, and many other people whose livelihoods revolved around Michigan’s port city of Muskegon. At one time the leading edge of westward expansion, Muskegon was a place where lumbering and lakers merged and where rails met decks, a place situated midway along the coast of a great and sometimes stormy inland sea. Here Elizabeth Sherman offers both a shipping history and a portrait of the city. The events covered range from the visit by the British sloop H.M.S. Felicity in 1779 through Muskegon’s boom years as "Lumber Queen of the World," from the city’s revitalization with the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway to its recent establishment of a floating museum complex for historic naval vessels. The book’s focus is on the ships themselves—such as the Lyman M. Davis, Salvor, Highway 16, and Milwaukee Clipper—vessels that were noteworthy for being the first of their kind or for their popularity, unusual and distinctive careers, or tragic losses. A number of ships were lost in Lake Michigan near Muskegon Harbor, and the stories of some of the most notable wrecks and rescue missions appear in this book, including the psychic intervention that led the William Nelson to the exciting rescue of the crew aboard the sinking Our Son. The book offers many first-hand statements of shipwreck survivors and other witnesses, lending an authentic voice to the accounts. |
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Sida 9
... weather and lake conditions. Despite the hazards, a voyage by ship was preferable to a slow journey by land via woodland trails or barely passable roads. However, ships could only make it through when there was open water. Thus, winters ...
... weather and lake conditions. Despite the hazards, a voyage by ship was preferable to a slow journey by land via woodland trails or barely passable roads. However, ships could only make it through when there was open water. Thus, winters ...
Sida 14
... weather conditions were beyond human control and could either speed or delay a ship on its voyage, or prevent it from entering the harbor for several days on end, but manual and mechanical labor could be driven to high levels of ...
... weather conditions were beyond human control and could either speed or delay a ship on its voyage, or prevent it from entering the harbor for several days on end, but manual and mechanical labor could be driven to high levels of ...
Sida 20
... weather can kick up choppy, white-capped waves on the lake, these are mere ripples compared to the huge, foaming breakers that batter the eastern shoreline of Lake Michigan during an autumnal gale. However, vesselmen on both schooners ...
... weather can kick up choppy, white-capped waves on the lake, these are mere ripples compared to the huge, foaming breakers that batter the eastern shoreline of Lake Michigan during an autumnal gale. However, vesselmen on both schooners ...
Sida 21
... weather. Other channels along the west Michigan shore could also be hazardous, but Muskegon's gained a reputation of being the worse to enter in stormy weather, with a wicked combination of heavy surf and hidden sandbars at the entrance ...
... weather. Other channels along the west Michigan shore could also be hazardous, but Muskegon's gained a reputation of being the worse to enter in stormy weather, with a wicked combination of heavy surf and hidden sandbars at the entrance ...
Sida 24
... weather, a ten-foot-high catwalk was built on top of the south pier. The extension of both south and north piers continued periodically until the late 1800s when they stretched some distance into Lake Michigan—350 feet on the south side ...
... weather, a ten-foot-high catwalk was built on top of the south pier. The extension of both south and north piers continued periodically until the late 1800s when they stretched some distance into Lake Michigan—350 feet on the south side ...
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3 Steamships and Car Ferries of Muskegon | 53 |
4 Maritime Muskegon in the Twentieth Century | 113 |
New Ships and Old | 151 |
The Good Captain | 155 |
Angus LinklaterThe Granada | 157 |
Capt J D DunbarThe R B King | 159 |
Frank BlakefieldThe Erie L Hackley | 169 |
Doc Ray CookeThe Alabama | 171 |
Guy E JonesThe Naomi | 175 |
Capt Edward MillerThe Muskegon | 177 |
Lyman NedeauThe Salvor | 181 |
Notes | 185 |
Glossary | 193 |
Bibliography | 197 |
Frank DulachThe Waukesha | 161 |
Frank Dulach Reiterates | 165 |
Toronto Evening TelegramThe Lyman M Davis | 167 |
Index | 207 |
Back_Cover
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Beyond the Windswept Dunes: The Story of Maritime Muskegon Elizabeth B. Sherman Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2003 |
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