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Maritime Seattle
ISBN:
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Description: Seattle grew from pioneer settlement to bustling
metropolis, its waterfront evolving from a marsh to a thriving
complex of industrial sites on both salt and fresh water. This
pictorial history weaves the story of the evolution of the Seattle
and King County waterfronts through photographs, images, and maps as
it develops from marsh to container terminal. Beginning in 1850 with
the pre-canal era, here are the lumber mills, local freight and
passenger transportation, coastal and ocean shipping, the shipyards,
and the stories of significant figures in the history of Seattle's
waterfront.Shown also is how the rapid growth of the shipyard
facilities was counterbalanced with the development of the labor
movement. The forging of this shipping epicenter is captured here in
over 200 vintage photographs. |
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Author Bio: For over 50 years the Puget Sound Maritime
Historical Society has been an important resource for the
preservation and interpretation of the maritime heritage of the
greater Puget Sound area. Most of the images are from a collection
of photographs and negatives acquired from the acclaimed Joe
Williamson, one of the society's founding members and a long-time
maritime photographer and collector in the Puget Sound region. . It is published by PSMHS with assistance from King County Landmarks & Heritage Commission, production was managed by Gary White and past president Bill Lerch. Major contributors include Liz Engle, Harold Huycke, Mike Mjelde, Ron Burke and Hal Will. The
PSMHS photo collection is featured in this wonderful, through-the-years look at waterfront activity in the Emerald City over the last 150 years.
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Tall
Ships on Puget Sound
ISBN: 9780738548142 |
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Description: This engaging pictorial history tells of the
tall sailing ships that came to the Pacific Northwest beginning in
the mid-1700s. Met by native Salish people, the ships brought
Spanish, British, Russian, and American explorers, as well as
settlers and entrepreneurs, to the region. Over the next two
centuries, during boom and bust periods, these majestic vessels have
continued to ply the waters of Puget Sound. Today the proud tall
ships operate in a training and education rather than commercial
context; however, the commitment to preserving and promoting their
heritage remains strong within the region, as well as throughout the
United States and around the globe. This groundbreaking book
features 180 rare photographs and illustrations that chronicle the
colorful history of tall ships on Puget Sound. |
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Author Bio: Author and maritime historian Chuck Fowler has hands-on
experience aboard tall ships in Puget Sound and has researched and written about
them for the past two decades. He is a national board member of the American
Sail Training Association, headquartered in Newport, Rhode Island. Fowler is
also a cofounder of the Pacific Northwest Maritime Heritage Council, an officer
of the Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society in Seattle, and a former board
member of Youth Adventure, a nonprofit youth sail-training organization that
formerly owned the 1913 schooner Adventuress.
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Tugboats
on Puget Sound
ISBN:
9780738559728 |
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Description: While square-rigged
sailing ships, steamboats and ferries, and ever-larger cruise and
cargo-carrying vessels have made their mark on Puget Sound’s
maritime history, no other vessels have captured the imagination of
shore-bound seafarers like tugboats. Beginning in the 1850s when the
first steam-powered tugboats arrived in the Sound from the East
Coast via San Francisco, company owners and their crews competed
fiercely for business, towing ships, log rafts, and barges. The
magnetic attraction of powerful, tough tugs both large and small is
unexplainable but enduring. This book, featuring about 200 rare
historic images and carefully researched text, tells the colorful
story of tug boating on Puget Sound. |
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Author Bio: Author and maritime historian Chuck Fowler’s
lifelong interest in tugboats began as a youth, watching the rugged
workboats pass by his family’s island beach house. He has avidly
pursued maritime activities and history, and is past president of
the Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society in Seattle and cofounder
of the regional Pacific Northwest Maritime Heritage Council.
Coauthor Capt. Mark Freeman was reared on Seattle’s Lake Union. The
son of legendary Fremont district boat broker and entrepreneur O. H.
“Doc” Freeman, Mark charted his own maritime course. He operated his
own single-tugboat business at the age of 13, served as a
medal-winning U.S. Coast Guardsman, and later became a tugboat
captain and successful marine businessman. |
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