Logbooks

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Loose log sheets for trips made on Sept 21, Oct. 3, 8, 1974, and May 4, 8, 13, 14, 1977; gives information on course, cargo, and some remarks on weather.

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

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Trip details giving location, cargo, expenses, fuel record, list of any passengers aboard, and other notes.

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Engineer's logs, Official Logs, Rough Deck Logs, crew lists and articles of agreement for six freighters owned by the Inland Steel Company, 1978-1981.

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Log of a sailing vessel detailing cargoes carried and ports visited.

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

Abstract This collection documents vessels used in Great Lakes and ocean commerce. Clippings files, research notes, vessel log books, and a 60,000-item card file contain information on marine transportation in the United States and Canada. Events from the period 1814-1958 receive coverage. Scrapbooks form an illustrated record of vessels from circa 1890-1930. Loose clippings are drawn extensively from published articles dated c. 1930-1958. Research notes extracted from a variety of sources describe...

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The collection contains captain logs and account books for the tugboat TOURIST for 1921-1939, including business affairs, ports of arrivals, passenger lists, crew lists, cargo lists and prices, maintenance entries, cash accounts, newspaper clippings and a 1952 end log entry of the transfer of the TOURIST to Standard Towing Corp. An account book for the tugboat SCHNODEN begins on September 15, 1921 and continues to November 26, 1921.

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

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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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.

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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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A combination logbook/diary kept by Henry D. Johnson while engaged in fishing expeditions in Epoufette Bay on the south shore of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Johnson and his companions traveled to Epoufette in September-October of 1860 and 1861. John recorded the daily catch, demonstrating the high numbers of the fish population in the time period.

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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.