The Pacific Coast Maritime Shipping Industry, 1930-1948
The Pacific Coast Maritime Shipping Industry, 1930-1948

Author: Wytze Gorter

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2022-09-23

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 0520346823

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1952.

Ships That Sail No More
Ships That Sail No More

Author: Giles T. Brown

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2021-12-14

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0813194415

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This chronicle of coastal shipping in the western United States forms an important but hitherto neglected part of the history of transportation in America. From the beginning the seaways were a vital link among the developing West Coast settlements, and even after the completion of a north-south rail line sturdy steamers continued to serve as the major carriers of freight and passengers along the Pacific Coast and as the chief economic and cultural contact of this region with the rest of America. Here, Giles T. Brown surveys this transportation system at the height of its activity and in particular he traces the history of the Admiral Line which dominated West Coast shipping during the early decades of the twentieth century—and whose decline mirrored that of the industry.