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Book

Ships and shipwrecks : stories from the Great Lakes

Call Number

  • H 977 G2938 (CEN)

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Publication Information

East Lansing, Michigan : Greenstone Books, [2022]

Physical Description

xvi, 177 pages ; 23 cm

Summary

"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"--

Contents

  • Havana, California, City of Green Bay, linked by coincidence
  • The immaculate disappearance of the Thomas Hume
  • The life of the Hattie A. Estelle
  • The W.H. Gilcher goes missing
  • A detestable day along the Chicago lakefront
  • The saga of the Red, White & Blue
  • 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 River
  • Welland good.

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