Shipping -- Great Lakes (North America)

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Letter concerns pickup of a shipment of household goods at Kelleys Island, Ohio, but also includes a table listing the local passenger fares for the company for various stops between Cleveland and Saginaw.

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Letter outlining the background, services and ships of Newfoundland Steamships Limited.

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Letters outlining the background history and ownership details of the schooner JOHN WEBER.

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Letters and memoranda relating to supplies, company instructions/procedures, and maintenance issues.

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Record book giving seaman name, position, contact information, and account of dates on or off the ship; ship originally named the Frank ROCKEFELLER. Also contains a list of the death dates for the sailors in the listings.

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Reports compiled by Marsh & McLennan, Inc., detailing damage sustained to the vessel's starboard main shaft due to stress of extreme weather and expenses of repair.

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Several pages of notes and correspondence relating to damage to dock infrastructure and vessels.

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The log contains routine navigational and and trip information recorded. Information includes location, time, course, wind speed and direction, weather, distance traveled, engine revolutions, and notes.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of a scrapbook of materials compiled by David and Annette Soule, as well as Great Lakes historian Walter Remick. A large portion of the materials in the scrapbooks are brochures to mark the christening of a number of different vessels, mainly from Collingwood Shipbuilding Company and Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company. There are also a number of brochures for trips aboard passenger vessels and ferries like the North American, ...

Scope and Contents This collection contains material compiled by Captain Delmar R. Webster during his career on the Great Lakes. The largest series in the collection contains deck logs from the J. BURTON AYERS for 1945-1973. Records of the trips the AYERS made note ports of arrival and departure along with cargo and weather data. A log for loading information from the EDMUND FITZGERALD is also included for 1972-1973.Meeting information for the 1982 and 1983 conventions of Columbia Transportation...

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The collection is composed of fourteen volumes documenting commercial vessels traveling upbound and downbound in the Detroit River from 1973-1982. The volumes contain alternating lists of upbound and downbound travel. Information includes the date, vessel name, and time.

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Financial records of a Great Lakes schooner demonstrating the cost of crew expenses and operational costs. Photocopy.

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Lake Carriers' Association Certificate of Membership in Welfare Plan and Discharges, and photocopies of Certificates of Discharge from the Coast Guard covering the 1940s to the early 1970s.

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Manifests from eight different vessels ranging from canoes to steamers, with early cargoes starting with furs and pelts and progressing to copper ores.

Scope and Contents This collection presents readers with information from 1968-1991 on Great Lakes vessels, shipping statistics for the Quebec and Ontario Transportation Company and data on the history of the Welland Canal.Correspondence from 1987 compiles Welland Canal information for readers. Cargo reports for 1968-1983 detail the activities of one company fleet for 15 years. Cargo data shows the relative importance of particular commodities in the overall structure of what the boats in the...

Abstract This collection contains correspondence and research notes compiled by Edward Middleton during the course of his preparation of histories of numerous vessels and shipping companies. Events covered in these notes extend from 1833 to 1984. Companies receiving the most extensive treatment are the Crosby Transportation Company, the Goodrich Transportation Company, and the Morton Navigation Company. A clipping file for 1912-1985 describes shipping activities on the Great Lakes. Included also are...

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Engineer's log data for trips between April 17 and Nov 7, 1960.

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Pictorial and printed material regarding the Great Lakes sailing career of Emmet R. Dowdell and his leisure activities after retirement. Scrapbooks contain photographs, clippings, and brochures spanning the years 1860-1976, including views of vessels and street scenes in Lakewood and Lorain, Ohio.

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Engineer's log for June 10, 1904-December 11, 1909.

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Schedule listing of ships giving vessel name, flag, master, loading and discharging ports, sailing dates, and remarks on cargo; includes ports in the Great Lakes and overseas.

Abstract This collection is comprised of the papers of marine historian Erik Heyl. As a specialist in early American and Canadian steamers, especially Great Lakes vessels, Mr. Heyl researched and produced hundreds of scale drawings and models. Most of this material was published in his six volume series Early American Steamers.The collection includes the correspondence, illustrations, research notes, vessel histories, vessel lists, drawings and miscellaneous materials from which Heyl's...

Scope and Contents This collection contains pilot house log books from the ERNEST T. WEIR for c.1954-1969. These logs give daily accounts of the progress the WEIR made during each trip of the shipping season. Cargo data reflects what was transported and the trip information reflects to where the cargo was shipped and how much time was require for shipment. These daily details document the reality of Great Lakes transportation repeated hundreds of times each year during the shipping season by vessels such as...

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News items related to Great Lakes shipping compiled by Timothy Hunt and his brothers from the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

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Summary of the life of Captain Thomas Wilford on the Great Lakes from 1859-1911.