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Life on the Great Lakes

A Wheelsman's Story

By: Fred W. Dutton,Great Lakes Historical Society

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Life on the Great Lakes

A Wheelsman's Story

By: Fred W. Dutton,Great Lakes Historical Society

Fred Dutton's story tells of the time before the gyro when ships were steered by magnetic compass and men had to estimate the degree of error in navigational calculations. Dutton recounts the terror of ships meeting and passing in the fog and the subtleties of handling ships at the docks. Serving under many captains on a dozen and a half vessels, he spices his account with profiles of ships' officers and crew and with details of deckhand work. Life on the Great Lakes provides a concentration of information that otherwise would need to be assembled in fragments from a hundred sources. Historians, folklore buffs, and ship lovers will discover details of vessel operation usually available only in the dialogue of a passing generation of very elderly sailors.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814322611

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9780814322611

Life on the Great Lakes

A Wheelsman's Story

By: Fred W. Dutton,Great Lakes Historical Society

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A Wheelsman's Story

By: Fred W. Dutton,Great Lakes Historical Society

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Maritime Empires

British Imperial Maritime Trade in the Nineteenth Century

By: National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)

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Maritime Empires

British Imperial Maritime Trade in the Nineteenth Century

By: National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)

Britain's overseas Empire pre-eminently involved the sea. In a two-way process, ships carried travellers and explorers, trade goods, migrants to new lands, soldiers to fight wars and garrison colonies, and also ideas and plants that would find fertile minds and soils in other lands. These essays, deriving from a National Maritime Museum (London) conference, provide a wide-ranging and comprehensive picture of the activities of maritime empire. They discuss a variety of issues: maritime trades, among them the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Honduran mahogany for shipping to Britain, the movement of horses across the vast reaches of Asia and the Indian Ocean; the impact of new technologies as Empire expanded in the nineteenth century; the sailors who manned the ships, the settlers who moved overseas, and the major ports of the Imperial world; plus the role of the navy in hydrographic survey. Published in association with the National Maritime Museum. DAVID KILLINGRAY is Emeritus Professor of Modern History, Goldsmiths College London; MARGARETTE LINCOLN and NIGEL RIGBY are in the research department of the National Maritime Museum.

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Boydell Press

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1843830760

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9781843830764

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