Shipping -- Great Lakes (North America)

 Subject

Found in 260 Collections and/or Records:

Kelley Island Lime & Transport Co. bills of lading

 Collection – Box GLMMS 26, Folder: 14
Identifier: GLMMS-0795
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: Creation: 1924-1947

Kenneth R. Hall collection

 Collection
Identifier: GLMS-0101
Abstract

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.

Dates: Creation: 1782-1987; Creation: Majority of material found within 1840-1910

LACKAWANNA logbook

 Collection – GLMMS 20, Folder: 2
Identifier: GLMMS-0754
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: Creation: 1942

Lake Carriers' Association records

 Collection
Identifier: GLMS-0044
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...
Dates: Creation: 1860-; Creation: Majority of material found within 1910-1991

Lake grain bills of lading for the RUTH HINDMAN

 Collection – GLMMS 20, Folder: 5
Identifier: GLMMS-0763
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: Creation: May 3-October 5, 1974 (scattered dates)

LANDBO logbook

 Collection – GLMMS 20, Folder: 10
Identifier: GLMMS-0769
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: Creation: 1916-1918

Ledger for Morten and Co.

 Collection – Volume 1
Identifier: GLMMS-2208-f
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: Creation: 1854

LEON FALK, JR., records

 Collection
Identifier: GLMS-0061
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,...
Dates: Creation: 1961-1981

Letter from Andrew Merrilees to S.A. Black of Algoma Central Railway Company

 Collection – Box GLMMS 13, Folder: 3
Identifier: GLMMS-0683
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: Creation: November 6, 1976

Letter from E.B. Williams, American Shipbuilding Company, to Allan L. Apter

 Collection
Identifier: GLMMS-0599
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: Creation: September 1, 1961

Letter from F.G. Crowe to John C. Goodrich regarding the MONTAUK

 Collection – Box GLMMS 26, Folder: 25
Identifier: GLMMS-0807
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: Creation: 1955

Letter from Gilbert B. Lacey to Skip Gillham

 Collection
Identifier: GLMMS-0670
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: Creation: 1971

Letter from Hermie to Master Irving Kelley and Willie [Kelley]

 Collection – Box GLMMS 14, Folder: 6
Identifier: GLMMS-0726
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: Creation: February 19, 1869

Letter from President Paul E. Trimble to Archie C. Salyards of the Duluth News-Tribune

 Collection
Identifier: GLMMS-0674
Scope and Contents

Letter concerns navigation season extension on the Great Lakes and shipping safety.

Dates: Creation: 1976

Life of an Ore Boat Deckhand

 Collection – Box GLMMS 41, Folder: 5
Identifier: GLMMS-2128
Scope and Contents

Narrative of the experiences of deckhand David Barner, who served for two sailing seasons aboard the WILLIAM A. IRVIN. Barner was 18-19 years old at the time of sailing.

Dates: Creation: 2018

List of Hulls Built by Bay Shipbuilding Corporation

 Collection
Identifier: GLMMS-0597
Scope and Contents

Ship listing giving name, hull number, and year.

Dates: Creation: 1969

List of steamers operated by Pittsburgh Steamship Company in 1945

 Collection – Box GLMMS 45, Folder: 3
Identifier: GLMMS-2156
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: Creation: undated

List of vessels powered by coal

 Collection
Identifier: GLMMS-0639
Scope and Contents

Listing of Great Lakes vessels which used coal as their fuel source, as of January 1979; compiled by unknown source.

Dates: Creation: January 1979

Logbook and historical notes on the brig JOHN G. DESHLER

 Collection – Box GLMMS 35, Folder: 1
Identifier: GLMMS-1349
Scope and Contents

Log book of brig between May 14, 1859 to September 17, 1860, sailing from Cleveland to Europe with a cargo of staves. Includes separate sheet of abstracted newspaper reports on the ship from 1859-1864 and vessel notes collected by John E. Poole.

Dates: Creation: 1859-1860

Logbook collection

 Collection
Identifier: GLMS-0126
Scope and Contents This collection contains over 500 logbooks from at least 100 different vessels. The number of logs available for each varies widely, with some vessels represented by individual logs. The best documented vessels include the B. F. AFFLECK, ARMCO, BLACK RIVER, PAUL H. CARNAHAN, CHAMPLAIN, LEON FALK, JR., E. G. GRACE, G. M. HUMPHREY, SARNIA, and JOSEPH H. THOMPSON. Record types mainly include standard logs, captain's or master's logs, radio telephone logs, trip logs, engine room logs, engineer's...
Dates: Creation: 1925-1985; Creation: Majority of material found within 1952-1981

Logbook for the ALFRED H. SMITH

 Collection – Volume 1
Identifier: GLMMS-2182-f
Scope and Contents

Record of the ALFRED H. SMITH from October 1929-September 1930. Data includes location, time, heading, wind direction, weather distance traveled, engine revolutions, and notes.

Dates: Creation: 1929-1930

Logbook for the car ferry SPARTAN

 Collection – Reel 1
Identifier: GLMMS-2215-mf
Scope and Contents

The logbook contains detailed data on arrival and departure times, ports visited, number of railcars and/or vehicles loaded, weather, travel times, and other data. Also contains a note regarding the rescue of three boaters off Milwaukee.

Dates: Creation: June 12, 1972-April 29, 1973

Logbook for the EDWIN W. MUDGE

 Collection – Box GLMMS 53, Folder: 3
Identifier: GLMMS-0751
Scope and Contents

Pilothouse log for April 1-December 13, 1959.

Dates: Creation: 1959

Logbook for the FRANK PURNELL

 Collection – Volume 1
Identifier: GLMMS-0580-f
Scope and Contents

General log for April 7 through Aug 13, 1960.

Dates: Creation: 1960

Logbook for the schooner SEVENTH OHIO

 Collection – Reel GLMMS 871 mf - 875 mf, Item: 5
Identifier: GLMMS-0875-mf
Scope and Contents

Logbook of a sailing ship detailing cargoes carried, ports visited, weather, and other data.

Dates: Creation: 1864

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Great Lakes (North America)