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Buckets and Belts: Evolution of the Great Lakes Self-Unloader - Couverture souple

Van Heest, Valerie; Lafferty, William

 
9780980175004: Buckets and Belts: Evolution of the Great Lakes Self-Unloader
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0980175003 ISBN 13 : 9780980175004
Editeur : In-Depth Editions, LLC, 2009

Synopsis

On a warm summer afternoon in 1927 off South Haven, Michigan, an old barge began taking on water. Helpless to staunch the flow and realizing their vessel would inevitably sink, the crew escaped to the accompanying tug, and watched as their ship plunged beneath Lake Michigan.  Its loss unlamented, its career unheralded, it slumbered on the sandy bottom in the same obscurity that had shrouded its earlier work days as a steam freighter sailing the Great Lakes.  However, the vessel's anonymity ended in 2006 when Michigan Shipwreck Research Associates located the sunken wreck of the Hennepin . It is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the world's first self-unloading vessel.         Buckets and Belts: Evolution of the Great Lakes Self-Unloader traces more than a century of innovative technological advancements in the conveying of bulk cargos from the Hennepin's conversion to a self-unloader in 1902 to today's mammoth thousand-foot long lakers.       Enhanced with the most comprehensive collection of self-unloader images ever published and dozens of underwater photographs, the book also explores the lives of the people who designed these vessels, the crewmen who sailed them and the self-unloaders that tragically went to the bottom, often taking entire crews with them.

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On a warm summer afternoon in 1927 off South Haven, Michigan, an old barge began taking on water. Helpless to staunch the flow and realizing their vessel would inevitably sink, the crew escaped to the accompanying tug, and watched as their ship plunged beneath Lake Michigan.  Its loss unlamented, its career unheralded, it slumbered on the sandy bottom in the same obscurity that had shrouded its earlier work days as a steam freighter sailing the Great Lakes.  However, the vessel's anonymity ended in 2006 when Michigan Shipwreck Research Associates located the sunken wreck of the Hennepin . It is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the world's first self-unloading vessel.         Buckets and Belts: Evolution of the Great Lakes Self-Unloader traces more than a century of innovative technological advancements in the conveying of bulk cargos from the Hennepin's conversion to a self-unloader in 1902 to today's mammoth thousand-foot long lakers.       Enhanced with the most comprehensive collection of self-unloader images ever published and dozens of underwater photographs, the book also explores the lives of the people who designed these vessels, the crewmen who sailed them and the self-unloaders that tragically went to the bottom, often taking entire crews with them.

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Éditeur
In-Depth Editions, LLC
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0980175003
ISBN 13 
9780980175004
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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