Author: E. Lacouture
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Chesapeake Bay Trans-Atlantic Steamers. To the Chambers of Commerce and to the Rail Road Companies in the State of Virginia
Author: E. Lacouture
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Languages : en
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Chesapeake Bay Steamers
Author: Chris Dickon
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738543734
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738543734
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
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.
Steam Packets on the Chesapeake
Author: Alexander Crosby Brown
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Interstate Commerce Commission Reports
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
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Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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Annual Report of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, for the Year ...
Author: New York Chamber of Commerce
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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Annual Report of the Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York
Author: New York Chamber of Commerce
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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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The Old Bay Line, 1840-1940 ...
Author: Alexander Crosby Brown
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ISBN: 9780517224946
Category : Steam-navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
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.
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ISBN: 9780517224946
Category : Steam-navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
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.
Report
Author: New York (State) Chamber of Commerce of State of New York
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Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Languages : en
Pages : 798
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Annual Report of the President and Directors of the Corn and Flour Exchange of the City of Baltimore ...
Author: Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Baltimore
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Category : Baltimore (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 726
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Category : Baltimore (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 726
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