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Detroit’s first dry dock

29 June 20166 September 2016 walter0 comment

While the history of the Detroit Dry Dock Company, and to a lesser degree, Clark’s dry dock are reasonably well documented, the first dry dock on the Detroit River is rather more obscure.  Most historical accounts do little more than acknowledge that at some point in the early 1850s (the… Read more“Detroit’s first dry dock”

Sailing Vessels on the Great Lakes

22 May 201622 May 2016 walter1 Comment

Question: What year saw the largest number of commercial sailing vessels on the Great Lakes? I found myself asking this question a couple of years ago, when I was working on an article that ended up being published in The Northern Mariner/le marin du nord last year. [Note: There is… Read more“Sailing Vessels on the Great Lakes”

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