HCGL. Historical Collections of the Great Lakes

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Unpublished manuscript, with handwritten comments and corrections by Richard J. Wright.

Scope and Contents This collection documents daily activities in the engine room of the THOMAS E. MILLSOP (U.S. 224662) and general vessel inspections during its service with National Steel Corporation. Engine room logs in 8 volumes cover, in scattered form, the years 1957-1975. The chief engineer assigned to the MILLSOP on each trip during the shipping season was responsible for the entries in this log. Engine performance and ballast water monitoring are two primary items examined daily through these logs....

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A letter written by Thomas Graham to the Assistant Lighthouse Keeper at Meldrum Bay, Manitoulin Island, Ontario, regarding LaSalle's GRIFFON. Includes a response from the Assistant. Also present is a similar response with Dwight Boyer of the Toledo Blade.

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The records in this collection document the activities of the Toledo/Lucas County Port Authority from the late nineteenth century to the present day. The collection includes: minutes, monthly reports, annual reports, correspondence, shipping statistics, engineering reports, financial records, and newsletters. The collection provides excellent sources for the study of the operations of a major port authority and the importance of the St. Lawrence Seaway to the economy of an inland port.

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Correspondence of a stockholder in Tomlinson Fleet Corporation with balance sheets, reports, lists of stockholders, and other inquiries.

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Handwritten note on Hawgood & Avery letterhead listing names of ships in the fleet and their tonnage.

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General layout plans, drawn on thin tissue or tracing paper. Possibly traced from the book The county of Bay, Michigan : maps, history, illustrations and statistics produced by D.A. Bullock & Co., 1896.

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Typescript of several letters written by J. Marshall Hinchman to his mother in 1861 regarding travel on the steamboat MOHAWK.

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Testimony in the Court of Common Pleas, Erie County, Ohio, involving the death of John Swart at the coal-loading operation of Huron Dock Company, Huron, Ohio.

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Testimony in the Court of Common Pleas, Erie County, Ohio, involving a dispute for payment of work done for the Post Fish Company for repairs on the vessel GRANDON.

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Transcript of an oral history interview conducted by BGSU doctoral candidate William Peterson in 1995. Interview was on the topic of the social history and atmosphere of the settlement of Vermilion Point, Michigan. The interviewer was a long-time friend of the interviewee. This oral history was conducted in preparation for Peterson's doctoral dissertation.

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Typescripts of newspaper articles from a wide variety of newspapers from cities on Lake Michigan, mainly in Michigan and Wisconsin. The main newspapers represented are the Milwaukee Sentinel and the Ludington Record-Appeal.

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Summary transcripts of logs of several Great Lakes vessels created by Mark Shumaker. Data normally includes date, type of cargo loaded/unloaded, source port, and destination port.

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Transcriptions of ship-building information from U.S. Coast Guard records in the National Archives Branch, Chicago.

Scope and Contents This collection records details of maintenance activities conducted on ten vessels on which the Triad Salvage Company performed salvage and repair work. These vessels were the C.L. AUSTIN (US 208397), COMET (US 211398), H.C. HEIMBECKER (C. 317133), FRANCIS E. HOUSE (US 203917), KINSMAN ENTERPRISE (US 203543), MANITOBA (C. 325772), GEORGE W. PERKINS (US 202166), SYLVANIA (US 201840), VERONA (US 204684), and the WESTDALE (C 317133). The records in this subject file date from 1902-1981....

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Listing noting dates for each trip, ports to and from, and cargo carried. Photocopy.

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Log documenting trips for July 19-December 15, 1977.

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A set of several invoices and checks for various tug services and sundry supply orders for various vessels operating in Toledo harbor.

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The tug EDNA G. served at Two Harbors, MN from 1896 to 1981. Included in this microfilmed collection are logbooks for the years 1917-1981. Logs for 1936-1940 are missing. Accompanying the logs are ledgers for tug charges covering 1947-1956. Recorded information includes names of assisted vessels, date and type of assistance provided, and tug charges. This collection is available only on microfilm.

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Cost estimate forms, correspondence, telegrams, and memoranda relating to hulls built by the Union Dry Dock Company (and Buffalo Dry Dock Company) from the 1880s to 1911.

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Shipping records, inventories of furs, and other records of Mackinac Island trade, 1802-1816; and ship enrollment forms, 1865.

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Certificate issued by the Inspectors of Steam Vessels at Buffalo, NY, for service as a ship master and pilot on Lake Champlain.

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Certificate issued by the Inspectors of Steam Vessels for service as a shipmaster on the Great Lakes.

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Certificate issued by the Inspectors' of Steam Vessels at Buffalo, N.Y. for service as a pilot on the Great Lakes between Buffalo and Chicago.

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Summary of the initial claim in a lawsuit from the federal government alleging violations of the Clayton Act after American Ship Building Company purchased the bulk carrier fleet of Litton Industries.