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Author | : Chris Dickon |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2006-11-21 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1439617562 |
Download Chesapeake Bay Steamers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Chesapeake Bay has been a multifaceted engine of American history and commerce since its first settlers touched the shore in the early 1600s. Since English settlers first touched the shore of the new country in 1607, the Chesapeake Bay has been a multifaceted engine of American history and commerce. The body of inland tidal water between the largest bay cities, Norfolk and Baltimore, was large enough to be the setting of adventure and close enough to allow smaller towns and cities to grow up on its shores. The common community came to life with the technologies of steamboats that could cover the long distances between North and South relatively quickly. Steamers filled in the nooks and crannies of the bay's geography, and by the mid-19th century, the skies over the bay were lined with dark, waterborne contrails in all directions. Strong machines built to master rough seas while moving gently enough for small harbors, many steamers had life spans that crossed whole eras in American history. Some were drafted into distinguished service in domestic and foreign wars. The steamers plied the bay and its rivers with a feminine grace well into the mid-20th century, when they were overtaken by the rush of modern times. The last steamer sailed into oblivion exactly 150 years after the first of them appeared in Baltimore harbor.
Author | : Alexander Crosby Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : |
Download Steam Packets on the Chesapeake Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : David C. Holly |
Publisher | : Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : |
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An appendix details the workings of early steamboat engines. Other appendices provide data on steamboats discussed in the text and maps of the region. The narratives extend the history of the era from that included in other books on the topic. The book, above all, is an enthusiastic, nostalgic, and thoroughly readable exposition of a bygone era and a "vanished fleet."
Author | : John Antonio Hain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : Steam-navigation |
ISBN | : |
Download Side Wheel Steamers of the Chesapeake Bay, 1880-1947 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : David C. Holly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Tidewater by Steamboat Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"The name Weems, and the Weems line," writes David C. Holly, "symbolized nearly the entire epoch of the steamboat on the Chesapeake." The Weems line began in Baltimore in 1819, as steamboats first appeared on the Chesapeake and its rivers. It was sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1905, at the height of the steamboat's "Golden Age," though its boats continued to serve the Bay until the 1930s. Illustrated with maps, drawings, and rare photographs, Tidewater by Steamboat is the vivid portrait of life on the Patuxent, the Potomac, and the Rappahannock, where Weems boats sailed and the course of the American republic was set.
Author | : Chris Dickon |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738543734 |
Download Chesapeake Bay Steamers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Since English settlers first touched the shore of the new country in 1607, the Chesapeake Bay has been a multifaceted engine of American history and commerce. The body of inland tidal water between the largest bay cities, Norfolk and Baltimore, was large enough to be the setting of adventure and close enough to allow smaller towns and cities to grow up on its shores. The common community came to life with the technologies of steamboats that could cover the long distances between North and South relatively quickly. Steamers filled in the nooks and crannies of the bay's geography, and by the mid-19th century, the skies over the bay were lined with dark, waterborne contrails in all directions. Strong machines built to master rough seas while moving gently enough for small harbors, many steamers had life spans that crossed whole eras in American history. Some were drafted into distinguished service in domestic and foreign wars. The steamers plied the bay and its rivers with a feminine grace well into the mid-20th century, when they were overtaken by the rush of modern times. The last steamer sailed into oblivion exactly 150 years after the first of them appeared in Baltimore harbor.
Author | : Alexander Crosby Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Steam-navigation |
ISBN | : 9780517224946 |
Download The Old Bay Line, 1840-1940 ... Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, now familiarly knows as the Old Bay Line, has for a century run steamers up and down the Chesapeake Bay.
Author | : Chesapeake Steamship Company |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 1932 |
Genre | : Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) |
ISBN | : |
Download Chesapeake Steamship Line Between Baltimore, Old Point Comfort and Norfolk Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Jack Shaum |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2015-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1625855443 |
Download Lost Chester River Steamboats Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the golden age of the steamer, the rich bounty of the Eastern Shore was transported down the Chester River and across the Chesapeake Bay to the port of Baltimore. For over one hundred years, vessels like the Maryland, the Chester and the B.S. Ford traversed these winding waters laden with fruit, grains, crabs and oysters. For a dollar, passengers could enjoy the novelty of a ride and the slow panorama of the shoreline. Through freeze and fog, skilled captains plied the waterways until the last of the steamers--the Bay Belle--made its final passage in the 1950s. Author and historian Jack Shaum journeys back to the bygone days of the Chester River's steamboats.
Author | : William M. Denny |
Publisher | : Amer Literary Press |
Total Pages | : 53 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9781561679966 |
Download Days of Gratitude Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Days of Gratitude" captures the role the steamboat Gratitude played in connecting Kent County, Maryland with the centers of commerce in Baltimore and Annapolis.