Shipwrecks -- Great Lakes (North America)

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Reports compiled for Marsh & McLennan, Inc. detailing various accidents and damage incidents involving Bulk Navigation and Towing vessels.

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Programs, handouts, photographs, and ephemera from the Great Lakes Shipwreck Festival held at the Ford Motor Company World Headquarters Auditorium on February 15, 1986.

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Reports compiled for Marsh & McLennan, Inc. detailing various accidents and damage incidents involving Great Lakes Steamship Company vessels.

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Reports compiled for Marsh & McLennan, Inc. detailing various accidents and damage incidents involving Great Lakes Towing Company vessels.

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Reports compiled for Marsh & McLennan, Inc. detailing various accidents and damage incidents involving Interlake Steamship Company vessels.

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Photocopies of a series of regular columns on Great Lakes history written by James Donahue of the Port Huron Times-Herald from 1988-1996.

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Typescript of information from the Chicago Inter-Ocean listing vessel losses on the Great Lakes for 1891.

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List, from unknown source, gives date, vessel name, rig, country, tonnage, loss of life, damage to cargo, damage to vessel, location, and other remarks.

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A narrative of a witness to the wreck, correspondence, and photo printouts of the wreck. Compiled by Thomas Moore, a former faculty member of the Unitersity of Michigan.

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Reports compiled for Marsh & McLennan, Inc. detailing various accidents and damage incidents involving Midland Steamship Line vessels.

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Reports compiled for Marsh & McLennan, Inc. detailing various accidents and damage incidents involving Nicholson Transit Company and Ecorse Transit Company vessels

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Reports compiled for Marsh & McLennan, Inc. detailing various accidents and damage incidents involving Pioneer Steamship Company vessels.

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Collection contains the titles Hall's Record of Lake Marine, Embracing the Marine Casualties of 1877: rules of navigation, collisions, insurance, courses and distances, steamboats and propellers, also the names of deceased captains, etc., published in 1878, and Hall's Marine disasters on the Western lakes during the navigation of 1871, published in 1872.

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Accident reports and correspodnence filed in Duluth between 1971 and 1977 by a variety of vessels.

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Reports compiled for Marsh & McLennan, Inc. detailing various accidents and damage incidents involving Republic Steel Corporation Lake Fleet vessels.

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List, from unknown source, noting the date, name of vessel, tonnage, and location of casualty.

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Filmed copy of the first 10 volumes of the Cleveland, Ohio Life-Saving Service wreck reports.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of research materials regarding the sinking of the CYPRUS collected by William Forsythe. After the discovery of the shipwreck in 2007, Forsythe conducted extensive research on the history of the vessel, its technology, and its crew. Materials collected include photographs, newspaper and periodical articles, genealogical and burial information on the crew, patent data, and correspondence with other researchers. The research materials are available in both physical and...

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Photocopies and transcripts of 19th-century annual lists of shipwrecks from several regional newspapers.