McDougall’s Great Lakes Whalebacks

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  • McDougall’s Great Lakes Whalebacks Book Detail

  • Author : Neel R. Zoss
  • Release Date : 2007-08-15
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Genre : Transportation
  • Pages : 132
  • ISBN 13 : 1439635056
  • File Size : 27,27 MB
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McDougall’s Great Lakes Whalebacks by Neel R. Zoss PDF Summary

Book Description: During the last years of the 19th century, the Duluth Harbor, situated between the sister cities of Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, was the birthplace of a bold and innovative and decidedly odd-looking class of Great Lakes barges and steamships known as whalebacks. Capt. Alexander McDougall and his American Steel Barge Company built the curved-decked, snout-nosed whalebacks on the shores of the harbor, first at Duluths Rices Point and later in Howards Pocket at Superior. The vessels were a radical departure, in design, form, and construction, from the standard shipbuilding concepts of the era but proved themselves more than capable as a number of the boats sailed the Great Lakes and the seaboards of America until the 1960s. All the whalebacks are gone noweither scrapped or sunkwith one exception. After sailing the lakes for more than 70 years, the last whaleback, the SS Meteor, returned home to Superior in 1972 and is now continuing its service as a magnificent maritime museum on Barkers Island.

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