Great Lakes Pilot, Vol. 1
Great Lakes Pilot, Vol. 1

Author: United States Hydrographic Office

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-09-23

Total Pages: 896

ISBN-13: 9781390925678

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Excerpt from Great Lakes Pilot, Vol. 1: Lake St. Clair, St. Clair River, Lake Huron, Georgian Bay Including North Channel, Lake Michigan, and Lake Superior 1921 Besides the foregoing there are two methods by which, without obtaining the precise position, the navigator may assure himself that he is clear of any particular danger. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Great Lakes Pilot
Great Lakes Pilot

Author: United States Hydrographic Office

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781019313510

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Great Lakes Pilot
Great Lakes Pilot

Author: U S Lake Survey

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 9781230417882

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... I mile long north and south, and has a least depth of 7 feet. At the northwestern edge there is a square crib with a light flashing red and white every 30 seconds, and visible 17 miles, serving as a guide for vessels bound from Detour to the Straits of Mackinac by the South Channel. The south end of the reef is marked by a second-class red' nun buoy moored in 20 feet of water. Charts: Straits of Mackinac: North End of Lake Michigan; Lake Huron; Lake Michigan. III.--North Shore, St. Ignace To Cape Hurd, At South Side Of Entrance To Georgian Bay. (a) From Point St. Ignace to Detour Passage. A detached spot with a depth of 17 feet lies i mile SE. by S. off the southeasterly point of Rabbits Back Peak. Another detached 17-foot spot lies 1 i miles offshore about halfway between Rabbitts Back Peak and Gross Point. East of Gross Point, at a distance of g mile, there is a 9-foot spot. From the southerly end of He St. Martin, rocky shoals and spits with depths of 4 to 14 feet extend south and southeast 1J miles. South of Point St. Martin, at a distance of jj mile, there is a rocky reef with a least depth of 8 feet, running 1J miles in an east and west direction. There is good water between the point and the reef. Go: ise Island Shoal, a dangerous reef lying 3 miles southwest of Goose Island, has a least depth of 5 feet; it extends j mile north and south, and is i mile in breadth. Great care should be taken to avoid it. Goose Island is surrounded by shoals, and a rocky reef extends from its southerly end, 1 mile in a SSE. direction. Along the coast from Point Fuyards to Beaver Tail Point, there are many indentations formed by the islands of Les Cheueaux. The inlets and channels between these islands have deep water, but, on account of the...

Ships and Shipwrecks
Ships and Shipwrecks

Author: Richard Gebhart

Publisher: MSU Press

Published: 2021-12-01

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1948314118

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From the day that French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle launched the Griffin in 1679 to the 1975 sinking of the celebrated Edmund Fitzgerald, thousands of commercial ships have sailed on the vast and perilous waters of the Great Lakes. In a harbinger of things to come, on the return leg of its first trip in late summer 1679, the Griffin disappeared and has never been seen again. In the centuries since then, the records show that an alarming number of shipwrecks have occurred on the Great Lakes. If vessels that wrecked but were later repaired and returned to service are included, the number certainly swells into the thousands. Most did not mysteriously vanish like the Griffin. Instead, they suffered the occupational hazards of every lake boat: collisions, groundings, strands, fires, boiler explosions, and capsizes. Many of these disasters took the lives of crews and passengers. The fearsome wrath of the storms that brew over the Great Lakes has challenged and defeated some of the staunchest vessels constructed in the shipyards of port cities along the U.S. and Canadian lakeshores. Here Richard Gebhart tells the tales of some of these ships and their captains and crews, from their launches to their sad demises—or sometimes, their celebrated retirements. This volume is a must-read for anyone intrigued by the maritime history of the Great Lakes.