Ships and Men of the Great Lakes
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (695 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0912514515 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The state of the weather is more difficult to assess in the courtroom than at sea" 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 encounter. ""We are going along like an old shoe."" according to 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 . A must read for anyone living out on the Great Lakes 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 resea
Arnold was smashed to pieces on Lake Superior in 1869, when aids to navigation were practically nonexistent. Years after the fact, the circumstances leading to their demise are still subject to speculation, suspicion, and heated debate.. 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. 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. Yet, 106 years later, in 1975, the gigantic ore carrier, Edmund Fitzgerald, loaded with state-o
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. Boyer specialized in feature-length narratives of life aboard Great Lakes lake freighters, often concentrating on stories of mystery and disaster. . He wrote
He wrote for The Blade (Toledo, Ohio) from 1944-1954, and for The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) from 1954-1978. 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. 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. 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 Fitzgerald in his last book, Ships and Men of the Great Lakes (1977). 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. Boyer specialized in feature