History of Great Lakes Shipping

[Timerover51]

Are you still interested in buying a ship to roam the South Pacific?

It depends on what the doctors say about my latest health issues, to be quite honest.

[Darryl]

Really captures that earlier era. Wish the powers to be had the foresight to keep it as a more vital part of industry into today and going forward...

[Guest]

Are you still interested in buying a ship to roam the South Pacific?

[Timerover51]

While scanning through Project Gutenberg, I came across the following quite interesting book: The Great Lakes; The Vessels That Plough Them: Their Owners, Their Sailors, and Their Cargoes. The author is James Oliver Curwood, and the book dates from 1909. Aside from having some excellent photos of Lake Boats of the period. there is a chapter on the author's trip on a Great Lakes freighter, the Harry Berwyn.

The link is as follows:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52976/52 ... -h.htm#VII

Enjoy your reading.