Eight Steamboats: Sailing Through the Sixties

Patrick Livingston

Great Lakes Books Series
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Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword     Neal Shine

Introduction: Take Me to the River

• 1. Steamboat I
• Last of the Queens: The SS South American

• 2. Steamboat II
• The Detroit, Belle Isle, and Windsor Ferry Company: The SS Columbia

• 3. 1968
• Welcome To My Nightmare

• 4. Steamboat III
• Lost at Sea on the Tanker SS Mercury

• 5. Steamboat IV
• Days of Rage on the SS John Hulst

• 6. 1969
• The War Comes Home

• 7. Steamboat V
• “The Ford Got Hot . . .”: The MV Henry Ford II

• 8. Steamboat VI
• Deckhand at Last on the SS Paul H. Carnahan

• 9. 1970
• Fitting Out and Related Tragedies

• 10. Steamboat VII
• The Summertime Blues on the SS Bethlehem

• 11. 1971
• The Last Trip up the Lakes

• 12. Steamboat VIII
• Laying Up the SS Champlain

• 13. 1972
• Last Call

• Afterword: Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
• Index