Eight steamboats : sailing through the sixties /
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| Author / Creator: | Livingston, Patrick. |
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| Imprint: | Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2004. |
| Description: | xvi, 306 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Great Lakes books |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5373986 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Neal Shine
- Introduction : take me to the river
- 1. Steamboat I : last of the queens : the SS South American
- 2. Steamboat II : the Detroit, Belle Isle and Windsor Ferry Company : the SS Columbia
- 3. 1968 : welcome to my nightmare
- 4. Steamboat III : lost at sea on the tanker SS Mercury
- 5. Steamboat IV : days of rage on the SS John Hulst
- 6. 1969 : the war comes home
- 7. Steamboat V : "the Ford got hot ..." : the MV Henry Ford II
- 8. Steamboat VI : deckhand at last on the SS Paul H. Carnahan
- 9. 1970 : fitting out and related tragedies
- 10. Steamboat VII : the summertime blues on the SS Bethlehem
- 11. 1971 : the last trip up the lakes
- 12. Steamboat VIII : laying up the SS Champlain
- 13. 1972 : last call
- Afterword : shadows of our forgotten ancestors.
