Shipping -- Great Lakes (North America)

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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Columbia Transportation Company records

 Collection
Identifier: GLMS-0047
Scope and Contents This collection provides information on the operation of the Columbia Transportation Company. Data on vessels and officers is available. A series on the annual meeting of vessel masters held in March provides material covering issues of interest to the captains working for the Columbia fleet in the years 1976-1979.Rosters for the Columbia vessels and the officers assigned to them appear for 1978 and 1980. Wage scales, accident reports, and company earnings also appear with these...
Dates: Creation: 1961-1978; Creation: Majority of material found within 1976-1980

G. A. TOMLINSON records

 Collection
Identifier: GLMS-0014
Abstract

The records for the G. A. TOMLINSON date from 1968, however the bulk of the collection consists of material generated in 1979, the last year the TOMLINSON was in service. The collection contains records left by the ship's chief engineer, bills of lading, deck logs, crew lists, and labor contracts. The TOMLINSON was built in 1907 by the Great Lakes Engineering Works at Ecorse, Michigan and was originally the D. O. MILLS.

Dates: Creation: 1959-1980

Winter mooring lists and fleet personnel data

 Collection
Identifier: GLMMS-0421
Scope and Contents

Material from many of the major Great Lakes fleets giving winter mooring lists, appointments, retirements, and deaths for the year, including Amoco, Upper Lakes Shipping, Pickands Mather, Halco, Algoma, Ford, Cleveland Cliffs, Hanna, and others; compiled by Richard Wright.

Dates: Creation: 1973

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Shipping
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Great Lakes (North America)