Life on the Great Lakes: A Wheelsman's Story (Great Lakes Books Series)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.69 (891 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814322603 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Serving under many captains on a dozen and a half vessels, he spices his account with profiles of ships' officers and crew and with details of deckhand work.Life on the Great Lakes provides a concentration of information that otherwise would need to be assembled in fragments from a hundred sources. Fred Dutton's story tells of the time before the gyro when ships were steered by magnetic compass and men had to estimate the degree of error in navigational calculations. Historians, folklore buffs, and ship lovers will discover details of vessel operation usually available only in the dialogue of a passing generation of very elderly sailors.. Dutton recounts the terror of ships meeting and passing in the fog and the subtleties of handling ships at the docks
Excellent! Plymouth Writer One of the best books I have read (and I've read a lot of them) telling about life on a Great Lakes freighter.. Brett J. Ratell said A Wheelsman's Story. This book gives an insight as to how much work it was to steer and navigate th Great Lakes before all the modern radar and radio communiction was there. Plus he throws in a few tales of his experiences with different people on the Great Lakes. It was a fairly quick enjoyable read. I have not read "A Sailor's Logbook : A Season Aboard Great Lakes Freighters" to compare it to because its kind of hard to find. This is book is not a reference book or read like one either as other Great Lakes books can be.. Great Lakes Sailors Remembered I grew up watching the Lake boats come and go from Cleveland. Fred Dutton captured a vivid portrait of them before it was too late. He saw the ships from many angles, as a guest, a deckhand, a coal passer, and in later life , a relief wheelsman. His writing style is plain and matter of fact, but he captured the atmosphere aboard these vanished ships perfectly.Seeing the Great Lakes shipping fleet in it's heyday I wonder if he realized he was recording the end of a glorious era in America's industrial past. I haven't heard a ste
Fred Dutton was sixteen in 1916 when he first went to work on a Great Lakes ship. Born into a well-to-do shipping family, he went to sea rather than join the family business. He eventually became a railroad lawyer, but managed to keep his hand on a ship's wheel, arranging each summer with steamship companies to sail relief wheelsman during his vacation.William Donohue Ellis is editor of Inland
Born into a well-to-do shipping family, he went to sea rather than join the family business. About the AuthorFred Dutton was sixteen in 1916 when he first went to work on a Great Lakes ship. He eventually became a railroad lawyer, but managed to keep his hand on a ship's wheel, arranging each summer with steamship companies to sail relief wheelsman during his vacation.William Donohue Ellis is editor of Inland Seas and the author of more than twenty books, including Land of the Inland Seas, The Ordinance of 1787, and the highly acclaimed Bounty lands Trilogy.