Beyond the Windswept Dunes: The Story of Maritime Michigan by Elizabeth B. Sherman PDF

By Elizabeth B. Sherman

past the Windswept Dunes takes the reader right into a global of maritime event because it used to be skilled by way of the sailors, passengers, rescue employees, transport magnates, industrialists, and lots of folks whose livelihoods revolved round Michigan’s port urban of Muskegon. At one time the forefront of westward growth, Muskegon used to be a spot the place lumbering and lakers merged and the place rails met decks, a spot located halfway alongside the coast of a very good and occasionally stormy inland sea. the following Elizabeth Sherman bargains either a delivery historical past and a portrait of the town. The occasions coated variety from the stopover at via the British sloop H.M.S. Felicity in 1779 via Muskegon’s increase years as "Lumber Queen of the World," from the city’s revitalization with the hole of the St. Lawrence Seaway to its contemporary institution of a floating museum complicated for historical naval vessels.

The book’s concentration is at the ships themselves—such because the Lyman M. Davis, Salvor, road sixteen, and Milwaukee Clipper—vessels that have been noteworthy for being the 1st in their style or for his or her reputation, strange and unique careers, or tragic losses. a few ships have been misplaced in Lake Michigan close to Muskegon Harbor, and the tales of a few of the main amazing wrecks and rescue missions seem during this ebook, together with the psychic intervention that led the William Nelson to the intriguing rescue of the group aboard the sinking Our Son. The publication deals many first-hand statements of shipwreck survivors and different witnesses, lending an actual voice to the accounts.

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