R. L. Polk & Co.’s Marine Directory of the Great Lakes (1884-91) 1884 1888 Another volume has survived from 1891 Beeson’s Marine Directory (1888-1921) 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917… Read more“Great Lakes Business Directories”
Month: February 2019
Insurance Classification Registers
While many are familiar with Lloyd’s Register of Shipping and the products of some of the other major international classification societies, most of these organizations were not very active in classifying vessels on the Great Lakes. What follows are some of the regional organizations that were active on the Lakes… Read more“Insurance Classification Registers”
Official Ship Documentation: Canada
Original Ship Registers An abstract of ship information which includes most of the surviving ship registers in Canada can be found in the Naval Marine Archive’s Ships database. Most of the surviving manuscript registers were microfilmed at Library and Archives Canada and are available via the Héritage site of Canadiana.ca. A handful have… Read more“Official Ship Documentation: Canada”
Official Ship Documentation: United States
Enrolments from American Great Lakes ports are available on microfilm from the US National Archives. A thorough abstract of the enrolments can be found at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum hosted Gerald C. Metzler Great Lakes Vessel Database at http://www.greatlakesvessels.org. A set of transcriptions of some of the pre-1860 Great Lakes enrolments (including most… Read more“Official Ship Documentation: United States”