Ships and Men of the Great Lakes
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (828 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0912514515 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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. He wrote for The Blade (Toledo, Ohio) from 1944-1954, and for The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) from 1954-1978. He excelled in constructing a conjectural trajectory for the cargo vessels that disappeared in the great storms of the past, never being seen in again in their home port or any other harbor of refuge. He had many friends in the shipping trade and among the newsgatherers of the Great Lakes ports, and carefully weighed the information they gave him. About the Author Dwight Boyer (November 18, 1912 in Elyria, Ohio – October 15, 1978 in Willoughby, Ohio) was a reporter and marine historian of the Great Lakes. Boyer discussed the 1882 foundering of the SS Asia, the 1927 disappearance of the SS Kamloops, and the 1929 foundering of the SS Milwaukee, in Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes (1968), and retold an account of the 1975 disappearance of the SS Edmund Fitzg
""The state of the weather is more difficult to assess in the courtroom than at sea"" according to Luan Gaines. The Great Lakes have taken their share of unfortunate victims, the daily dramas and misadventures common to any seafaring venture, where the indomitability of nature presupposes the predictable. Illustrated with photographs and maps, this volume tells the stories of some of the brave souls who encountered the elements, some successful. "We are going along like an old shoe." ealovitt The late marine historian, Dwight Boyer has written many of my favorite books about the Great Lakes, including Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes and Great Stories of the Great Lakes. This particular volume is one of his lesser efforts, but still interesting. Except for the last two stories, "A Stranger on the Life Raft" (the sinking of t. A must read for anyone living out on the Great Lakes christian When I was a kid, I had begun to learn a bit about local history of my town. (Ashtabula, OH) A big factor that made up a great deal of the history was the shipping industry that had once flourished in the area. This book by Dwight Boyer was also read to us by one of my history teachers.Mr. Boyer's research and writing abilities keep a
. He excelled in constructing a conjectural trajectory for the cargo vessels that disappeared in the great storms of the past, never being seen in again in their home port or any other harbor of refuge. He had many friends in the shipping trade and among the newsgatherers of the Great Lakes ports, and carefully weighed the i
Stories of dreadful tragedy and unbridled stupidity are intermingled with unsurpassed acts of heroism such as recounted in the ill-fated voyage of the passenger steamer Erie. Yet, 106 years later, in 1975, the gigantic ore carrier, Edmund Fitzgerald, loaded with state-of-the-art navigational equipment, also disappeared, with all hands, in Lake Superior. One August 9, 1841, the Erie left her dock at Buffalo, New York bound for Chicago with stops in Erie, Cleveland, and Detroit with over three hundred passengers aboard. Arnold was smashed to pieces on Lake Superior in 1869, when aids to navigation were practically nonexistent. Ships and men of the Great Lakes spans more than a century of Great Lakes history in a series of true, thoroughly documented dramas, most of them describing the misadventures of vessels and the men who sailed them. What ever happened to the sturdy old SOO CITYwhat caused her to vanish with all hands? There was no mystery, however, about why the Daniel J. Morrell went down one stormy night in November 1966, although the survival of crewman Dennis Hale and his graphic account of his encounter with a ghostly stranger on the life raft is another matter. Years after the fact, the circumstances leading to their demise are still subject to speculation, suspicion, and heated debate.. She never made it! The W.W