Shipping -- Great Lakes (North America)

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

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A log for the self-propelled barge CONSTITUTION covering eleven trips for the 1913 season, and one trip in October 1914. Data recorded includes date, time, location, bearing, and basic weather information.

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Log of a wooden propeller vessel on the Great Lakes; enrolled out of Detroit.

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Logbook of a general cargo sailing vessel on the Great Lakes, operating out of Ogdensburg, NY.

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Photocopy of the deck log for the CONALLISON (former J.R. SENSIBAR) for the 1981 shipping season. Data recorded includes date, time, plac, weather, heading, and notes.

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Logbook of a general cargo sailing vessel on the Great Lakes. Contains weather, cargo, sailing conditions, crew status, and other data.

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General logs for April 16-September 3, 1956, and October 16-December 9, 1958.

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Logbooks for carferry trips between January 1-July 19, 1963 (v.1) and June 29-December 22, 1966 (v.2).

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Master's scrap logbooks for April 8-December 16, 1960, and April 28-December 8, 1965.

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Logbooks for sailing vessel detailing cargoes carried, ports visited, weather, and other data.

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Engineer's log for United States lighthouse tender HAZE for May 6-Oct 31, 1873 and the general log for May 1-Oct 27, 1874.

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General logs for October 11, 1941, through April 26, 1942, and August 27, 1953-September 17, 1958.

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Engineer's log for April 1-December 16, 1967, and the pilothouse log for March 26-October 1, 1968.

Scope and Contents The microfilmed scrapbooks in this collection document the history of the Lorain Electronics Corporation from 1931 to 1976. The news clippings and articles describe the growth of the company from a small entertainment-oriented manufacturer to a marine communications giant. The filmed scrapbooks are of overlapping dates and are prepared as follows:Scrapbook 1: 1933-1939 Scrapbook 2: 1931-1956 Scrapbook 3: 1939-1970 Scrapbook 4: 1971-1975Photographic items were removed...

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Letters to his wife Addie, concern Great Lakes shipping and family matters; cover letter from donor includes biographical data. Letters written during Lucien's serivce aboard the schooner COMRADE.

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The Lucy Neff was a wooden vessel built at West Bay City, Michigan in 1893 as the W.P. Ketcham; renamed the Lucy Neff in 1902 and served in the coastal trade; foundered during a storm on December 17, 1915. This logbook details a difficult voyage from Detroit San Francisco, winter-over for repairs in Maine, and another voyage down the coast and to California, covering 1907-1908.

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

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Photocopy of a volume that includes name of seaman, position, and rate of pay; original name of ship was the WILLIAM CRIPPEN from 1874-1881.

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Extracts of articles on Great Lakes shipping from the Saugatuck Commercial, Lake Shore Commercial, and the Saugatuck Commercial-Record. Includes an index to vessel names.

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Legal document, filed after encountering damaging weather conditions, to protect the vessel and her owners against further claims brought forward by charterers, shippers or cargo receivers.

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Log of a ship owned by Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, possibly written by B.H. Otten while in training on a merchant vessel during World War I with the U.S. Naval Auxiliary Reserves; includes numerous sketches of the Marquette and notes on seamanship along with some printed pamphlets. Ship originally built for the Dearborn Transit Company as the E.L. WALLACE and operated by them between 1906 and 1915.

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The Marsh and McLennan Marine Underwriters collection consist of Hull Claims Case Files, Personal Injury Case Files, Hull loss Records, Protection and Indemnity Loss Records, and Insurance Reviews, ranging from 1920 to 1973.

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Commercial traffic can be examined from the vessel, cargo and crew data compiled in the abstracts to form a view of the Great lakes regional economy around the middle of the nineteenth century. The information in each abstract generally contains dates of arrivals and departures, name and rig of vessel, clearance and departure ports, tonnage and crew data.

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8mm films taken by engineer Matt Ojala during his time aboard Great Lakes freighters in the 1950s and 1960s.

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This collection contains a collection of ship's logs for four vessels: the schooner-barge NAIAD, 1898-1902; the steamer ARGO, 1927-1935; the steamer N.J. NESSEN, 1913-1917; and the steamer CHARLES HORN, 1923-1926.