Shipping -- Great Lakes (North America)

Repair and maintenance request forms for routine renovation, welding, and repair needs.

Financial record including accounts from his time on the Great Lakes vessels MAPLETON, TURRET CAPE, SCOTTISH HERO, C.A. JAQUES, and SARNIAN between 1911 and 1915. Also present are several newsclippings and obituaries for Simpson.

The collection contains publications, correspondence, and manuscript materials both collected and written by Dr. Richard J. Wright, founder of the Center for Archival Collections.

Compiled listing of individual trips during the 1971 sailing season, indicating the points of departure/arrival, cargo, and tonnage statistics.

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

Includes handwritten, typewritten, and computer printouts of sailing times for the M/V BUFFALO, BAIE COMEAU, and other unknown vessels.

The collection contains records from a company that surveyed damage to Great Lakes and ocean vessels for insurance purposes. Files from 1919 to 1982 document the types of accidents commonly occurring within maritime fleets. The economic impact on shipping companies is detailed in the repair cost estimates presented in survey reports.

This collection is composed of shipping documents from the Sault Ste. Marie area and nearby ports from 1802-1866. Among these documents are shipping manifests, clearance documents, bills of sale, enrollment bonds, Treasury Department circulars to custom collectors at the Port of Sault Ste. Marie and nearby ports, and personal and business correspondence. Early documentation includes significant material dealing with the American Fur Company.

Receipt record for expenses and services. Includes sources such as captains of other vessels, ports, tugboat companies, and chandlers.

Logbook noting dates, location readings, course, wind and weather, distance from last reading, and notes; from August 23, 1951 through July 29, 1953.

Notice of shipping for merchandise shipped September 3, 1859 from Buffalo, N.Y to J.C. Lockwood, Milan, Ohio. on board the schooner MITCHELL.

Narrative detailing the history and conditions of excursion and passenger service on the Great Lakes during the period of 1915 to 1923, with additional information on the equipment and duties of the radio operator on such vessels.

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

Technical data and narrative description of details of a yacht designed by John F. Small for Edward Ford, including equipment, hardware, room woodwork and finishing, and general layout.

Logbook for the 1945 shipping season noting dates, location readings, weather, distance from last reading, average speed, and tank soundings; from April 2 through December 8.

Articles of agreement between the master and seamen, or mariners of the steamer STATE OF OHIO. Includes roster of ship crew, giving name, period of service, occupation, rate of pay, and total payment received.

The PAUL J. TIETJEN was built by the American Ship Building Company and was launched at Cleveland, Ohio on January 12, 1907. The vessel was originally the MATTHEW ANDREWS (1907-1933) and later sailed as the HARRY L. FINDLAY (1933-1965). Most of the material in the collection dates from the 1970's and includes service reports, chief engineer's instructions, engine room workbook and log, inspections, and crew members' information cards.

Information sheets on a variety of Great Lakes vessels, including vessel statistics, transcripts from news-clippings, and other history.

Annual reports of accidents and maritime law cases on the Great Lakes which were investigated by the Steamboat Inspection service and its successor, the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation.

Booklet of railroad and steamboat freight rates for different destinations across the Midwest.

Bills of lading for iron shipped from various Great Lakes ports.

Shipbuilding company financial record sheets noting general, operating, labor, maintenance, plant expenses, and liabilities, and earnings from stocks, shipyards, and property resources.

Unidentified company ledger, probably of a fuel and supply company in the Duluth-Superior area, serving Great Lakes vessels.

Bethlehem Ship Building Co. built the POLARIS in 1945 as LST 1063 for the U.S. Navy at Hingham, Massachusetts. Cleveland Tankers acquired the vessel in 1949 and rebuilt the ship as a tanker. The collection spans the years from 1958 to 1977 when the POLARIS was scrapped and includes correspondence, injury reports, vessel casualty reports, wage scales, and individual trip records. there is no information for the years 1945-1957.