Shipping -- Great Lakes (North America)

Scope and Contents

Record of 28 shipping runs carrying primarily taconite ore on the Great Lakes between April 21 and December 3, 1965.

Abstract

The records for the G. A. TOMLINSON date from 1968, however the bulk of the collection consists of material generated in 1979, the last year the TOMLINSON was in service. The collection contains records left by the ship's chief engineer, bills of lading, deck logs, crew lists, and labor contracts. The TOMLINSON was built in 1907 by the Great Lakes Engineering Works at Ecorse, Michigan and was originally the D. O. MILLS.

Abstract This collection contains items accumulated by Captain G. Victor Chamberlain during his career on lake vessels from 1940 to 1981. A file of correspondence reveals the importance of safety issues, while radar logs and loading logs record operations aboard the ship. News clippings, particularly ones covering the sinking of the EDMUND FITZGERALD, provide insight on events of interest to Captain Chamberlain. Navigational and weather-related charts illustrate another area of the captain's...

Abstract

The diary of George A. Kelley is a handwritten journal owned by an early settler of Kelley's Island, Ohio. The diary begins on January 1, 1880 and continues through December 31, 1880.

Scope and Contents

Loose log sheets for trips made on Sept 21, Oct. 3, 8, 1974, and May 4, 8, 13, 14, 1977; gives information on course, cargo, and some remarks on weather.

Scope and Contents

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

Scope and Contents

Trip details giving location, cargo, expenses, fuel record, list of any passengers aboard, and other notes.

Scope and Contents

Personal correspondence with Elizabeth Phillips of Philadelphia, Pa., his future wife, while Getz was sailing on Great Lakes vessels. Describes daily shipboard activities and personal matters.

Scope and Contents

Listing by vessel of grain cargoes loaded for shipment.

Scope and Contents The collection mainly consists of Port Pilots produced by the Club by the combined efforts of its members. These publications sought to document sailing directions and amenities for all ports available to recreational watercraft on the Great Lakes. Even those locations with no services are listed. Maps and navigational charts complement them. Also included in the collection are Harbor Updates, which provide new information and corrections to the annual Port Pilots. The collection is rounded...

Scope and Contents

Resolution of a complaint filed related to the transportation of pig iron on the Great Lakes; Docket No. W-C-14.

Scope and Contents

Report compiled by the general manager, naval architect, and engineers of the Canadian Shipbuilding & Engineering Limited.

Abstract In 1899 the Great Lakes Towing Co. was organized to provide tug service at important harbors on the Great Lakes. By combining the fleets of several smaller tug operators, the company assembled a fleet approaching two hundred tugs and became the largest tug operator on the Great Lakes. The bulk of the materials in this collection pertain to the Port of Buffalo from 1902-1966. Types of records include: winter storage and mooring, vessel arrivals and departures, vessels in port, winter storage...

Scope and Contents This collection documents activities of the Great Lakes Waterways Development Association for the years 1972-1977. The lobbying efforts of this Canadian organization are emphasized through correspondence (folders 3-6) directed to members and Canadian ministry offices concerned with Great Lakes issues. Topics designated for each year's lobbying campaigns were approved by resolutions passed at annual meetings. These proceedings files (folders 1-2) offer a view of the Association goals in the...

Scope and Contents

Guestbook with names, addresses, and noted sentiments, presented to retiring Captain Carroll Shaw by Mr. & Mrs. Ralph J. Bauer, during a voyage aboard the JOHN P. REISS.

Scope and Contents

The collection contains a minor trip log from an unknown year, and crew lists for the vessels of the Hanna Mining Company from 1947-1951.

Abstract The Henry N. Barkhausen Collection contains subject files, newsclippings, and architectural drawings documenting the maritime history of the Great Lakes. The Barkhausen files date primarily from c.1879-1940. Items of note are architectural drawings of 14 schooners built for the Great Lakes trade from 1867 to 1918. Numerous sail plans are included to document this aspect of marine technology. Clippings regarding vessel sinkings in the 1930s and 1940 offer views of reactions to these tragedies...

Scope and Contents

A narrative of the last sailing schooner on the Great Lakes, which spent various times as a lumber and pulpwood carrier, rum runner, and museum.

Scope and Contents

Great Lakes vessel history, including photocopies of certificates, wreck reports, and photographs.

Scope and Contents

Photocopies of enrollment certificates, newclippings, typed notes, photographs, correspondence, articles and extracts from published histories and a compiled vessel list, relating to the Slauson Fleet, involved in the Great Lakes lumber and grain trade out of Racine, Wisconsin.

Scope and Contents

Narrative history of the sidewheel steamer PLOUGHBOY, which was launched at Chatham, Ont., in 1851 and lost in 1871. A published version of this narrative appeared in the periodical Fort Malden Museum, No. 53.8.14 in 1953

Scope and Contents

Transcripts of articles about Great Lakes shipping at the port of Ogdensburg, NY, from 1877-1892, compiled by Lawrence G. Bovard.

Abstract

Engineer's logs, Official Logs, Rough Deck Logs, crew lists and articles of agreement for six freighters owned by the Inland Steel Company, 1978-1981.

Scope and Contents

American Bureau of Shipping and U.S. Coast Guard certificates documenting vessel inspections and load line surveys over a fifteen-year span for the CARLE C. CONWAY.