Shipping -- Great Lakes (North America)

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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Ship listing giving name, hull number, and year.

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

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

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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.

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...

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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.

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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.

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Pilothouse log for April 1-December 13, 1959.

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General log for April 7 through Aug 13, 1960.