Know Your Ships, Guide to Boatwatching on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway

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Know Your Ships 1959
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Know Your Ships 2009
50th Anniversary Edition

Guide to Boats & Boatwatching
Great Lakes & St. Lawrence Seaway
ISBN: 978-1891849-12-1
Edited by Roger LeLievre

Welcome to the 2009, 50th edition of Marine Publishing Co.'s annual boatwatching field guide “Know Your Ships”. This year, there are 182 pages (32 more pages than last year!), illustrated with dozens of current and historic images.

“Know Your Ships” is meant not only for those with a casual interest in the parade of nautical commerce that passes our shores, but also for more serious-minded individuals who have a passion for all the details about the ships that ply the inland seas. Our cover this year honors the Great Lakes’ first 1,000-footer, Stewart J. Cort. It was the advent of the 1,000-footer that launched some of the most amazing changes in the Great Lakes shipping industry over the past five decades.

This year’s edition is truly a collector’s item and not to be missed.

The 50^th edition is a little different than the past 49. In addition to including everything ship fans need to know about the freighters, tankers, tugs, salties, passenger ships and other vessels sailing the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway, the 2009 book also pays tribute to the past 50 years of Lakes and Seaway shipping.

Complete data on hundreds of U.S., Canadian and international-flag cargo vessels, tugs, excursion boats and barges in regular Great Lakes & St. Lawrence Seaway service, including owner and port of registry, year and shipyard where built, length, beam, depth, cargo capacity and former names, plus type of engine, horsepower and top speed for major Great Lakes and Seaway vessels. Changes in the shipping scene from year to year are chronicled in the “Passages” section, the meanings of whistle signals are explained and the book also includes nine pages of colorful stack markings of all Great Lakes & Seaway fleets, including stack markings of many of the saltwater fleets that regularly visit the Seaway system.

This year we’ve included a special tribute to the St. Lawrence Seaway, which also turns 50 in 2009, and honored Tom Manse, our founder. And we’ve looked back into our past with a special 50-year photo retrospective of images that have filled our pages over the years and created a sampling of some of the stack markings and houseflags that have disappeared from the scene the past 50 years. Finally, an illustrated timeline revisits important Marine Milestones since 1959.

“Know Your Ships" has covered the waterfront for five decades. We’ve enjoyed putting this issue together and hope you enjoy reading it. Here’s to the next 50 years!

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED READING

This is a stunning, hardcover record of an extraordinary ship, beautifully photographed and lovingly produced to exacting standards, with text capturing perfectly the magic that is a steamboat in action, the St. Marys Challenger.

Ordering Information for this book only:
Centennial: Steaming Through the American Century, Chris Winters, 2008. 247 pages, hardcover, many current and historic photos, $50 + s-h, order at http://www.runninglightpress.com/books.php or 414-257-4168

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