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Eight Steamboats - Sailing Through the Sixties (Paperback, New)
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Eight Steamboats - Sailing Through the Sixties (Paperback, New)
Series: Great Lakes Books Series
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In the 1960s, an era of widespread social turbulence, the shipping
industry in the Great Lakes was on the threshold of Immense change.
Developed during World War II, the US merchant fleet faced
threatening competition from the newer Canadian fleet. The demand
for iron ore skyrocketed as baby boomers matured in the age of auto
and appliance buying. To meet the increasing need, there was talk
of expanding the size of the Soo Locks to accommodate larger
vessels and even of lengthening the shipping season. It was
glaringly obvious that a time of change was upon the aging US ships
and even more so upon the men who sailed them. Eight Steamboats
chronicles Patrick Livingston's adventures on eight shipping
vessels - only one of which survives - during the 1960s. Told from
the perspective of a writer who sails rather than a sailor who
writes, the tales are spiced with connections between shore and
sea. While the city of Detroit burned in 1967, Livingston served
milkshakes to passengers on the South American of the Georgian Bay
Lines. Later, Livingston sailed with the notorious George
""Bughouse"" Schultz on the III-starred tanker Mercury. When
financial need forced him to forgo a trip to the Democratic
National Convention in Chicago, he sailed Lake Michigan instead. In
subsequent years, he dropped out of school to catch the mailboat to
his ships as they transited the Detroit River. With lively
dialogue, Livingston details his experiences up to his signing off
the Champlain in 1972 and then setting sail for landlocked Nepal to
work with the Peace Corps. Both maritime and Great Lakes
enthusiasts will enjoy this voyage back to an earlier era in the
Great Lakes shipping industry.
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