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Dangerous Coast<br>Pictured Rocks Shipwrecks

Dangerous Coast
Pictured Rocks Shipwrecks
Stonehouse, Frederick and Fountain, Daniel R.
$15.95

Condition: New
Binding: Trade Paper

Dangerous Coast tells the maritime history of one of the most shipwreck-strewn ares in the Great Lakes: Superior's Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.    more...

Great Lakes Freighter, Tanker & Tugboat Disasters
Kadar, Wayne Louis
$16.95

Condition: New
Binding: Trade Paper

Commerial vessels transport millions of tons of cargo around the Great Lakes, occasionally running into trouble. This book brings to the reader twenty-four, sometimes tragic, incidents that have occured to freighters, takers and tugboats around the Great Lakes.    more...

Great Lakes Passenger Ship Disasters
Kadar, Wayne Louis
$16.95

Condition: New
Binding: Trade Paper

Fire, mechanical problems, storms and collision can all spell doom to a Great Lakes ship. Ships are destroyed, sailors die and cargo is lost. But when it happens to a passenger ship, it can result in the loss of many, possibly hundreds of lives.

The shipwrecks recovered here describe the terror and devastation of 16 Great Lake passanger ship disa more...

Great Lakes Shipwrecks & Lighthouses
Oleszewski, Wes
$16.95

Condition: New
Binding: Trade Paper

This is a book of "factual historical narrative". In other words, this is a collection of absolutely true stories of shipwreck and lighthouse adventures, of real people and actual plces on the Great Lakes. Text within these pages contains the sagas of some of the most obscure and thrilling events that can be told of lighthouse keepers, lifesavers a    more...

Ice Water Museum<br>Forgotten Great Lakes Shipwrecks

Ice Water Museum
Forgotten Great Lakes Shipwrecks
Oleszewski, Wes
$14.95

Condition: New
Binding: Trade Paper

"Record show that more than 3,500 lakers have been lost on the five Great Lakes. The bottoms of the big lakes are littered with the remains of wooden schooners, sidewheel steamers, arched package freighters, iron and steel ore freighter of all kinds, many well-preserved in the cold dark depths.    more...

Lake Superior's Shipwreck Coast
Stonehouse, Frederick
$15.95

Condition: New
Binding: Trade Paper

A survey of the Maritime Accidents of Lake Superior, from Whitefish Bay's Point Iroquois to Grand Marais. A fascinating look at the many shipwreck, life-savers and lighthouses along the shoreline known as "The Graveyard of Lake Superior." Excellently illustrated with photographs.    more...

Mysteries And Histories<br>Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes

Mysteries And Histories
Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes
Oleszewski, Wes
$16.95

Condition: New
Binding: Trade Paper

Beneath the keels of the giant modern lakeboats that crawl the distant horizon, the lake bottoms are littered with the bones of shipwreck history.    more...

Steel On The Botom
Stonehouse, Fredrick
$16.95

Condition: New
Binding: Trade Paper

A Strong steel hull is no guarantee of safety or longevity on the Great Lakes as Steel On The Bottom proves beyond a doubt.

Storm, collision and human folly all played a part in sending these big steel ships thundering to the bottom of the lakes where they quietly disintegrate into nothing.

Steel On The Bottom tells the dramatic s more...

Stormy Disasters
Oleszewski, Wes
$16.00

Condition: New
Binding: Trade Paper

Ride the stormy seas with the sailors of yesteryear. Tales of actual vessels, people and events.    more...

Strange & Unusual Shipwrecks on The Great Lakes
Kadar, Wayne Louis
$16.95

Condition: New
Binding: Trade Paper

Any shipboard disaster is a tragic event. Vessels, crew, cargo and passengers can be lost. Yet the cause and results of some Great Lakes maritime mishaps are interesting and educational due to the conditions the surround the event.    more...

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