Pittsburgh Steamship Company

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A list of all the appointments of officers in the Pittsburgh Steamship Company fleet in 1941. Printed by Kimball & Davis Company.

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Property transfer document for Great Lakes vessel E.C. COLLINS with statistical data on the ship and owners; sold by Pittsburgh Steamship Company to Kinsman Marine Transit Company.

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Property transfer document for Great Lakes vessel MACGILVRAY SHIRAS with statistical data on the ship and owners; sold by Pittsburgh Steamship Company to Kinsman Marine Transit Company.

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Correspondence with information on the vessel MARQUIS ROEN.

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A handwritten list of Pittsburgh Steamship Company vessles in 1945, along with their build dates.

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Logbook arranged by trip, giving location, cargo, time and distance traveled, weather conditions, and other notes.

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Company records, typescripts, and photocopies of newspaper articles containing the annual appointment of officers in the Pittsburgh Steamship Company iron ore fleet.

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Computer printouts from database containing document, data, and index files for Pittsburgh Steamship Company deck officer appointments for the years 1915 to 1940.

Scope and Contents Ship listing of freighters and barges of the Pittsburgh Steamship Company, with data on tonnage, fuel, earnings, cargo, and other costs of operation for 1907-1908. This collection also contains minutes of the Boards of Directors for the Barnes-Duluth Shipbuilding Company 1941-1965), McDougall-Duluth Shipbuilding Company (1919-1942), and McDougall-Duluth Company (a holding company, 1916-1965). Other records include private journals for McDougall-Duluth Shipbuilding (1920), McDougall-Duluth...

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A variety of materials relating to company history including annual meetings minutes for 1950, 1955-1957, and 1960; loading and ballasting manual for several vessels, annual meeting minutes of the Interlake Steamship Company, 1914; and the Shipping Payroll Manual for the Great Lakes Fleet of the United States Steel Corporation.

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Listing of identification signals for the ships of the Pittsburgh Steamship Company fleet, by ship name, and general navigation and port signals

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Transcripts done by Walter Lewis from originals at the Saginaw River Marine Historical Society, made available by Dave Swayze, excerpted from the website of the Maritime History of the Great Lakes, dealing specifically with first-person accounts of the Great Lakes Storm of 1913.

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Sea trials and machinery test results for a variety of Great Lakes vessels; includes index to vessel names at beginning of volume. Some vessel records include booklets and architectural drawings.

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Photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and other materials relating to the Great Lakes careers of William Carlisle and Colin Campbell Carlisle. Colin Carlisle served on the lakes for 45 years from 1921-1965.