|  c 1907 Black and white postcard of the Kingston waterfront featuring a concrete grain elevator. Clustered around the elevator and the neighbouring wharf are schooners, barges, tugs and a larger freighter. At the head of the wharf a barge is either under construction or being repaired. A barge is being... |
| A woodcut engraving from the Canadian Illustrated News of the launch of a schooner in Hamilton in 1863. Used to illustrate Ivan S. Brookes, Hamilton Harbor, 1826-1901 . |
| c 1863 Photograph of Louis Shickluna's shipyard at Saint Catharines, reported to have been taken in 1863, showing the propeller AMERICA in the right foreground. The barkentine PRIDE OF AMERICA appears in the centre, with the propeller HER MAJESTY in the background. Used to illustrate Ivan S. Brookes, ... |
| c 1873 View of Zealand's Wharf, taken from the top of the high bank. At the lower left, a vessel is under construction in A. M. Robertson's Shipyard. Used to illustrate Ivan S. Brookes, Hamilton Harbor, 1826-1901 . |
| A great crowd gathers to watch the curling bonspiel on Burlington Bay. This view, lookiing north east from the foot of Catherine St., Hamilton shows Myles Coal wharf on the left and Murton & Reid's wharf, with the schooner ELLA MURTON wintering, on the right. Used to illustrate Ivan S. Brookes, ... |
| Captain J. B. Fairgrieve's steamer Arabian fitting out at Robertson's Shipyard in 1892 Used illustrate Ivan S. Brookes, Hamilton Harbor, 1826-1901 signed "I.S. Brookes" |
| The Geddes Brothers propeller OCEAN hauled out on Rathbun's ways at Deseronto after her confrontation with the Ogdensburg Coal & Towing Company barge KENT. Used to illustrate Ivan S. Brookes, Hamilton Harbor, 1826-1901 signed "I.S. Brookes" |
| 1913 The Bow of the CHIPPEWA in Drydock at Kingston. The fron of the dock had to be lengthened in 1902 in order to accommodate her. Used in Barlow Cumberland, A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River
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| 1913 The Bow of the CHIPPEWA in dry dock at Kingston. The fron of the dock had to be lengthened in 1902 in order to accommodate her. Used in Barlow Cumberland, A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River
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| c 1897 Advertising card for the Polson Iron Works in Toronto, Canada featuring a photograph of the Canadian Pacific Railway steamboat MANITOBA. The picture is probably from Owen Sound where the Polson's built the MANITOBA. "The Polson Iron Works Toronto, Canada."
"Steel Steam Vessels of Every... |
| c 1907 Coloured postcard of Collingwood shipyard with three steamboats at the main wharf Divided back. Postmarked Little Current, 2 Aug 1908 "Shipyard and Dry Dock, Collingwood, Canada"
Reverse: " Published by Stedman Bros., Brantford, Canada. Made in Germany 655" |
| c 1907 Coloured postcard of Collingwood shipyard with a number of vessels in the yard and more at the main wharf and grain elevator Divided back. Postally unused. "The Docks, Collingwood, Canada" "101,426"
Reverse: "Valentine & Sons' Publishing Co. Ltd., Montreal and Toronto. Printed in Great Britain.... |
| 1902 Panoramic view of the Superior Ship Yards, West Superior, WI. with upwards of twenty lakers in port or under construction. Two whalebacks are visible at the extreme left and right of the photograph. |
| 1890 The shipyard of the Detroit Dry Dock Company with a collection of ships in the yard including the propeller W. A. HASKELL, a sidewheeler, a four masted schooner, and the barge JOHN DOYLE. Along the waterfront is the tug JOHN OWEN, the propeller W. J. AVERILL. Illustration from History of Detroit... |
| 1890 The second shipyard of the Detroit Dry Dock Company and Wyandotte MI with a four different hulls, including a sidewheeler, under construction and in front of the yard. Along the Detroit River waterfront is the sidewheel steamboat CITY OF CLEVELAND and a propeller. Illustration from History of... |
| 1899 Illustration of the building of the GRIFFIN, from an engraving in a book by Father Hennepin published in 1704 Illustration from J. B. Mansfield, ed., History of the Great Lakes. Volume I, Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1899 |
| 1899 Photograph of the American Steamship Company freighter SUPERIOR CITY waiting for its launch Illustration from J. B. Mansfield, ed., History of the Great Lakes. Volume I, Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1899 "Superior City -- Before Launching. First vessel launched from the Lorain shipyard of the... |
| 1899 Photograph of the American Steamship Company freighter SUPERIOR CITY after its launch Illustration from J. B. Mansfield, ed., History of the Great Lakes. Volume I, Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1899 "Superior City -- After Launching. First vessel launched from the Lorain shipyard of the Cleveland... |
| c1907 Coloured postcard of the shipyards and dry dock at Midland, ON "Ship Yards and Dry Dock, Midland, Ont., Can."
Reverse: "No. 658 Published by J. W. Bald, Midland, Ont., Can." |
| c1903 Black and white postcard of the shipyard at Sorel, QU, on the Richelieu River. Three vessels are on the ways in various stages of construction or repair. Undivided back. Postally unused "1. -- Chantier de constructions navales á SOREL (P.Q.)"
"Desjardins" |
| c1916 Coloured postcard of artist's birdseye view of American Shipbuilding Company yard at Toledo, OH Undivided back. Postmarked Toledo, OH, 25 Feb 1916 "Bird's-eye View of Shipyards, Toledo, O." |
| 1916 Black and white photograph of the CITY OF DOVER on the stocks in the shipyard at Port Dover, ON in 1916. John E. Paasch, the shipwright, and W. F. Kolbe, the owner, are probably in the photograph. Two men in World War I uniforms stand on the deck frames. A crowd of men and women of a variety of... |
|  c1920 Black and white photograph of a ship in frame in the yard at Port Dover about 1920 |
| c1860s Heavily cropped photograph of two steamboats in a drydock. The vessels have been tentatively identified as the KATE WILLIAMS and FRANKLIN MOORE. The image was mounted on the back of a portrait of a couple, which was later cropped for an oval mount. |
| c1915 Coloured postcard of the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company steamboat MONTREAL in the Duke of Connaught Dry Dock in Montreal Divided back. Postmarked Cornwall, ON, 3 Nov 1915 "Dry Dock "Duke of Connaught" Montreal"
Reverse: "Montreal Import Co., Montreal No. []"
Addressed to: "Alvin Dube,... |
| 1907 Postcard of the Montreal Transportation Company steamboat IROQUOIS in the drydock in Collingwood. Divided back. Postmarked Collingwood, 22 Apr 1907 "Dry Dock of Collingwood Shipbuilding Co." |
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| c1910 Real photo postcard of the shipyard in Sorel, QU complete with dredges and tugs. In the middle distance is one of the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation steamboats in winter quarters (or there for repair) "Shipyard, Chautier de Sorel, Que" |
|   "Dry Dock in Oswego," Syracuse Journal (Syracuse, NY), April 18, 1867 Dry Dock in Oswego. - Mr. Carrington , President of the Oswego and Syracuse Railroad Company , is now constructing a magnificent dry dock in Oswego . The excavation is entirely out of solid rock, and of course the blasting is on a magnificent scale. The contract for blasting has been taken... |
| Craig, W., The Launch of the C. P. R. Steamship "MANITOBA" at Owen Sound, "The Launch of the C. P. R. Steamship "MANITOBA" at Owen Sound," The Dominion Illustrated (Montreal, QU: G. E. Desbarats), 22nd June 1889, p. 393 Three photographs of the launch of the Canadian Pacific Railway steamboat MANITOBA at Owen Sound |
| 1893-1902 Photograph of the Montreal Transportation Company freighter BANNOCKBURN in the Kingston dry dock. |
| Old Salt on the Lakes, Naval Construction in 1813, "Naval Construction in 1813," The Monthly Nautical Magazine and Quarterly Review (New York, NY: Griffiths & Bates, 1855), December 1854, pp. 160-61 NAVAL CONSTRUCTION IN 1813.
Messrs. Editors : -- I have been thinking that if the British
Admiralty knew how fast we can work on this side of the At-
lantic, when a fleet or a fortress is to be taken, it may be they
would have given an order for enough vessels of light draught
of water ... |
| "Shipbuilding on the Lakes, No. 1 Buffalo and the District of Buffalo Creek, N.Y.," The Monthly Nautical Magazine and Quarterly Review (New York, NY: Griffiths & Bates, 1855), January 1855, pp. 289-998 SHIP-BUIlDING ON THE LAKES.
No I.
BUFFALO AND THE DISTRICT OF BUFFALO CREEK, N. Y.
It was originally our intention, in preparing a series of articles
on Ship-building on the Lakes, to have gone back to the earliest
period in its history, when the schooner Washington, the
first ... |
| "Shipbuilding on the Lakes, No. 2," The Monthly Nautical Magazine and Quarterly Review (New York, NY: Griffiths & Bates, 1855), February 1855, pp. 374-77 SHIP-BUILDING ON THE LAKES.
(Continued from page 298.)
No. 2.
The following Table will show the class, name, tonnage, by whom built, and
at what ports other than Buffalo, of all Vessels built in the District of
Buffalo Creek, during the past ten years : --
1845.
Class. ... |
| "Screw propellers," The Monthly Nautical Magazine and Quarterly Review (New York, NY: Griffiths & Bates, 1855), March 1855, pp. 407-11 SCREW PROPELLERS.
It has been contended for a considerable time by engineers,
that the submerged propeller, as a mode of propulsion, was not
the best adapted to the higher rates of speed in navigation, and
that whatever might be the form, whether that of the regular,
that of the ... |
| "Whittaker's Substitution of Side Screw for the Paddle-wheel," The Monthly Nautical Magazine and Quarterly Review (New York, NY: Griffiths & Bates, 1855), April 1855, pp. 53-54 WHITTAKER'S SUBSTITUTION OF SIDE SCREW FOR THE PADDLE-WHEEL
The entire success of the steamer Baltic since the removal of
the side paddle-wheels, and the substitution of screws, having
more fully come within our reach since our last issue, we propose to furnish the facts relative to her ... |
| "Tables of the Schooner Challenge," The Monthly Nautical Magazine and Quarterly Review (New York, NY: Griffiths & Bates, 1855), May 1855, pp. 106-11 TABLES OF THE SCHOONER CHALLENGE.
In giving the mould-loft tables of this vessel, it may not be
improper to make a few remarks, even though the writer and
the builder should be found in the same individual. We are not
of those who hold, that silence is always to be observed when ... |
| "Draught and Calculations of the Lake Propeller "Oriental."," The Monthly Nautical Magazine and Quarterly Review (New York, NY: Griffiths & Bates, 1855), May 1855, pp. 139-40 DRAUGHT AND CALCULATIONS OF THE LAKE PROPELLER "ORIENTAL."
The "Oriental" was built at Buffalo, in 1854, by Messrs. Bidwell and Banta, and is the largest screw vessel on the Lakes.
She is of 950 tons register, and carries 750 tons of freight.
The weight of engine, boiler, and 100 tons of ... |
| Stetson, Thomas D., On Elevated Screw-Propellers, "On Elevated Screw-Propellers," The Monthly Nautical Magazine and Quarterly Review (New York, NY: Griffiths & Bates, 1855), May 1855, pp. 141-46 |
| "The Practicability of Side-screw Propulsion," The Monthly Nautical Magazine and Quarterly Review (New York, NY: Griffiths & Bates, 1855), May 1855, pp. 146-49 |
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