Chesapeake Bay Steamers
Title | Chesapeake Bay Steamers PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Dickon |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | 66 |
Release | 2006-11-21 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 1439617562 |
The Chesapeake Bay has been a multifaceted engine of American history and commerce since its first settlers touched the shore in the early 1600s. Since English settlers first touched the shore of the new country in 1607, the Chesapeake Bay has been a multifaceted engine of American history and commerce. The body of inland tidal water between the largest bay cities, Norfolk and Baltimore, was large enough to be the setting of adventure and close enough to allow smaller towns and cities to grow up on its shores. The common community came to life with the technologies of steamboats that could cover the long distances between North and South relatively quickly. Steamers filled in the nooks and crannies of the bay's geography, and by the mid-19th century, the skies over the bay were lined with dark, waterborne contrails in all directions. Strong machines built to master rough seas while moving gently enough for small harbors, many steamers had life spans that crossed whole eras in American history. Some were drafted into distinguished service in domestic and foreign wars. The steamers plied the bay and its rivers with a feminine grace well into the mid-20th century, when they were overtaken by the rush of modern times. The last steamer sailed into oblivion exactly 150 years after the first of them appeared in Baltimore harbor.
Steam Packets on the Chesapeake
Title | Steam Packets on the Chesapeake PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Crosby Brown |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN |
Chesapeake Steamboats
Title | Chesapeake Steamboats PDF eBook |
Author | David C. Holly |
Publisher | Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers |
Total Pages | 328 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN |
An appendix details the workings of early steamboat engines. Other appendices provide data on steamboats discussed in the text and maps of the region. The narratives extend the history of the era from that included in other books on the topic. The book, above all, is an enthusiastic, nostalgic, and thoroughly readable exposition of a bygone era and a "vanished fleet."
Side Wheel Steamers of the Chesapeake Bay, 1880-1947
Title | Side Wheel Steamers of the Chesapeake Bay, 1880-1947 PDF eBook |
Author | John Antonio Hain |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 146 |
Release | 1951 |
Genre | Steam-navigation |
ISBN |
Tidewater by Steamboat
Title | Tidewater by Steamboat PDF eBook |
Author | David C. Holly |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 344 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
"The name Weems, and the Weems line," writes David C. Holly, "symbolized nearly the entire epoch of the steamboat on the Chesapeake." The Weems line began in Baltimore in 1819, as steamboats first appeared on the Chesapeake and its rivers. It was sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1905, at the height of the steamboat's "Golden Age," though its boats continued to serve the Bay until the 1930s. Illustrated with maps, drawings, and rare photographs, Tidewater by Steamboat is the vivid portrait of life on the Patuxent, the Potomac, and the Rappahannock, where Weems boats sailed and the course of the American republic was set.
Chesapeake Bay Steamers
Title | Chesapeake Bay Steamers PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Dickon |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | 66 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780738543734 |
Since English settlers first touched the shore of the new country in 1607, the Chesapeake Bay has been a multifaceted engine of American history and commerce. The body of inland tidal water between the largest bay cities, Norfolk and Baltimore, was large enough to be the setting of adventure and close enough to allow smaller towns and cities to grow up on its shores. The common community came to life with the technologies of steamboats that could cover the long distances between North and South relatively quickly. Steamers filled in the nooks and crannies of the bay's geography, and by the mid-19th century, the skies over the bay were lined with dark, waterborne contrails in all directions. Strong machines built to master rough seas while moving gently enough for small harbors, many steamers had life spans that crossed whole eras in American history. Some were drafted into distinguished service in domestic and foreign wars. The steamers plied the bay and its rivers with a feminine grace well into the mid-20th century, when they were overtaken by the rush of modern times. The last steamer sailed into oblivion exactly 150 years after the first of them appeared in Baltimore harbor.
The Old Bay Line, 1840-1940 ...
Title | The Old Bay Line, 1840-1940 ... PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Crosby Brown |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 196 |
Release | 1940 |
Genre | Steam-navigation |
ISBN | 9780517224946 |
The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, now familiarly knows as the Old Bay Line, has for a century run steamers up and down the Chesapeake Bay.