Book
Ships and shipwrecks : stories from the Great Lakes
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.