Ice Water Museum"Records show that more than 3,500 lakers have been lost on the five Great Lakes. The bottoms of the big lakes are littered with the remains of wooden schooners, sidewheel steamers, arched package freighters, iron and steel ore freighters of all kinds, many well-preserved in the cold dark depths. Undiscovered are the vast majority of these wrecks, waiting for decades and in many cases, centuries. The blue-green expanse of the Great Lakes is in essence an enormous ice water Museum, where some of the exhibits are on open display, some are accessible to only a few visitors and most are waiting in the depths, forgotten or undiscovered. In this book the reader will be taken on a tour of the ice water museum, and along the way we will look into the obscure and often forgotten adventures of the vessels and people who have sailed the lakes."--Back cover. |
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... beam and sporting a scant nine feet eight inches in depth . Her hull looked like that of a schooner with raised fo'c'sle and she had all of her cabins stacked aft with a tall hogging arch attached to each of her beams , supposedly to ...
... beam and sporting a scant nine feet eight inches in depth . Her hull looked like that of a schooner with raised fo'c'sle and she had all of her cabins stacked aft with a tall hogging arch attached to each of her beams , supposedly to ...
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... beams , and sideports for cargo . Sliding from the ways at John L. Wolverton's yard , the wooden steamer's hull measured 186 feet in length , 31 feet in beam and a modest 11 feet in depth , with a burden of 600 tons . Her initial ...
... beams , and sideports for cargo . Sliding from the ways at John L. Wolverton's yard , the wooden steamer's hull measured 186 feet in length , 31 feet in beam and a modest 11 feet in depth , with a burden of 600 tons . Her initial ...
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... beam finally scraped the yawl . Benumbed hands from each craft grasped one another , as the survivors were plucked from the lake's clutch . Unfortunately as William Sparks , one of the NEW YORK's firemen , was being pulled to safety he ...
... beam finally scraped the yawl . Benumbed hands from each craft grasped one another , as the survivors were plucked from the lake's clutch . Unfortunately as William Sparks , one of the NEW YORK's firemen , was being pulled to safety he ...
Contents
The Rites of Spring | 15 |
Along Pridgeons Line | 33 |
Among the Jumble of King Lumber | 51 |
Copyright | |
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