|
May I suggest that you navigate the site via the
index on page 001. PRIOR PAGE / NEXT PAGE
Just a start on a page. Far from being complete. But ready enough,
as a framework, to now
publish!
Do you want to make a comment? A site guestbook is here. Test.
To search for specific text on this page, just press 'CTRL +
F' & then enter your search term. A general site search facility is here.
WHALEBACK SHIPS
A second 'whaleback' page, that hopefully will, in the
future, contain some
good sizes images, generally of
'whaleback' vessels not specifically identified. The first 'whaleback' page is
here.
Should any site visitor have images for inclusion on this page, the webmaster would love to hear from you.
Just 6 images, so far.
1) The first image is of a "PHOSTINT" CARD postcard by Detroit Publishing Co. # 6652.
'Blockade of boats Sault Ste Marie, Michigan.' Do you know what event is depicted? The vessel at right would seem to be
the E. B. Bartlett. her two, being unpowered barges,
bear numbers on their sterns, but I am unable to decipher the actual numbers.
However, from an expired e-Bay item,
a card postmarked in 1909, I learn that many of the ships in the image have been identified ...
'from left to right: Bulgaria, Wallula, Barge 118,
Barge 103, & E. B. Bartlett', of course.
2) An 'Underwood & Underwood Publishers'
stereo card.
 |
The image at left is one of a pair of images on
an 'Underwood & Underwood Publishers'
stereo card No. (68) - 7994.
The rear of the card advises that the image is of 'Poe Lock', 800 ft. long, at
Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan - looking west towards Lake Superior. The Michigan
shore is at left & the Canadian side is at right, visible through the steel
girders of the Canadian Pacific R.R. bridge. The Sault Ste. Marie rapids are, we
are advised, just off at the right, this side of the bridge.
The two whalebacks
shown,
a steamer & an unpowered whaleback barge, are not identified
by name. But this site states that the steamer is James B. Colgate.
The
complete card can be seen here.
|
3) A wonderful image of a whaleback barge, ex the U.S.
Library of Congress image archives. The image appears on this page thanks to
Mark Richardson, who saw the image & kindly advised the webmaster of its
existence.
4) A wonderful postcard image of whaleback barges
& whaleback steamers at Detroit, Michigan. The barge at front left would seem to be Baravia ex
Barge 109, built by American Steel Barge Company in 1891 for Pittsburgh
Steamship Company of Cleveland, Ohio. A larger version of the image can be seen
here.
5) In Weitzel Lock, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.
 |
Below, a wonderful image of a whaleback
barge in Weitzel Lock at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. I show most of the
available image which is also ex the U.S. Library of Congress archives.
So far as I can determine, the name of the whaleback
barge is not known though one can read the word Duluth on her stern. Now the many commercial sources that market the image seem, to
me at least, to
imply that the whaleback barge is named Mariska. Not so! Mariska
is the name of the steamer at image left, as you can read on her stern &  in the
enlargement. But, a most beautiful image.
|
6) A fine c1910 postcard image of whaleback steamers loading ore at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Iron Docks
at Escanaba, Michigan -
long a shipping point for iron ore, lumber & copper. A larger version of the image can be seen
here.
May I suggest that you navigate the site via the
index on page 001.PRIOR PAGE / NEXT PAGE
Thomas M. M. Hemy Data Pages
01,
02
&
03 are now on site. Plus all
of the other image pages, accessible though the index on page
05.
[ ] £
To MV Danmark
Slider Puzzle
page
&
to the
Special Pages Index.
| A SITE SEARCH FACILITY
THE GUEST BOOK - GO
HERE
|
|
|
