HCGL. Historical Collections of the Great Lakes

Abstract The Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company launched the MARINE ROBIN in 1944 at Chester, PA. In 1950 the vessel was added to the M.A. Hanna Co. fleet and renamed JOSEPH H. THOMPSON. This collection contains vessel records for the years 1976-1982. Correspondence describes maintenance and personnel matters, while various logs record operating details of individual trips during the sailing season. Also included is a 1980 incident report which illustrates the company's accident-reporting...

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Lowry was a pioneer settler of Berlin Heights in Erie County, Ohio. He was a master builder and carpenter who did much work with the Huron Steamboat Company. The collection also contains copies of Lowry's obituary and that of his wife, Rebecca.

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Scrapbook of clippings and other material on Great Lakes shipping, the Detroit, area, and the Westcott family.

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Bills of lading for limestone shipped from Kelleys Island in Lake Erie to various Great Lakes ports.

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Research material for study of the vessels owned by the shipping interests headed by Eber Brock Ward and his family. Events covered in the collection date from 1782-1987. Most information in the collection is concentrated between 1840 and 1910.

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Listing of vessels operated by Kinsman, including ship history and statistics, as well as financial statements for the company for 1958-1965.

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

Abstract The Great Lakes shipping industry is documented through the files of one of the principal vessel owners' organizations for issues concerning the lakes and one of the primary benevolent associations for persons employed on lake vessels. Subject files on issues from diverting water out of Lake Michigan for the Illinois canal system to pollution control form most of the files in this collection. Records of death beneficiary payments offer information to genealogists tracing family members who...

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Bill of lading forms for cargoes of barley shipped between May and October, 1974, primarily to breweries in Milwaukee.

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Typescript and holograph transcripts from newspapers of marine incidents related to Lake Ontario, including the barges the GEORGE DAVIE, ISABELLA H., HINCKLEY, and the steamship Martha Ogden.

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

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The operation of a Lake Erie fishing company from 1889 to its closing in 1961 is documented in this collection. Financial and legal papers form the largest part of the collection. A drawing series (1894-1960) show plats for company property and plans for company buildings and equipment.

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A ledger for a grocer based in Cleveland, OH, which provided supplies for a number of Great Lakes vessels, most notably the passenger steamer FOREST CITY.

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A ledger, creator unknown, detailing the cargo of ships arriving at the port of Brooklyn, New York, from 1807-1812. A later section of the volume is a ledger detailing labor and wages for a farm, presumably also in New York. This covers the dates 1811-1846.

Abstract The Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company built the LEON FALK, JR., as the WINTER HILL in 1945. The Skar-Ore Steamship Corp. of Cleveland, OH purchased the vessel from Ships, Inc. in 1960 and renamed it the FALK the following year. This company maintained ownership until the FALK's scrapping in 1985. The collection records daily operational information for the years 1961-1981 and includes ship safety committee minutes, damage report logs, loading logs, miscellaneous cargo logs, trip logs,...

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Letter describing Maumee River charter excursion options and prices for trips from Walbridge Park, Toledo, Ohio, both upriver and downriver past the port facilities.

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Letter concerned with mistakes in an article in the Toronto Globe and Mail, Feb. 5, 1980 related to the Harbor at Toronto

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Letter concerns corrections to factual errors in the book Algoma Central Railway by O.S. Nock.

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Letter concerns Sheppard's career on the Great Lakes.

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Letter concerns beginning of work on the Sault Ste. Marie Canal.

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Letter describes ship movements on the St. Clair River and other marine news of the area.

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Letter deals with iron ore shipping and vessel design on the Great Lakes.

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Correspondence written to John C. Goodrich concerning the ferry MONTAUK.

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Letter to Skip Gillham describes a voyage by the M/V Fort Saint Louis to ports around Frobisher Bay, in the Arctic. Written by Gilbert Lacey, captain of the vessel.

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Letter written by a young boy describing a trip to Saginaw with his father, written to Irving Kelley on Kelleys Island, Ohio.