Author: Hilary Russell, Jr.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578541167
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
This book chronicles the life and times of Arthur Russell, his sons, and grandsons in their various maritime businesses-sail lightering, tugboats, barges, ship building-in the harbor of New York from 1844-1962. The book also contains genealogies of four generations of Russells, stories remembered and retold by various tugboat captains, and the contributions of the Russell wives and daughters. As well, the book documents the influential rural experiences the family had in their house in Mt. Kisco, New York.
Author: Hilary Russell, Jr.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578541167
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
This book chronicles the life and times of Arthur Russell, his sons, and grandsons in their various maritime businesses-sail lightering, tugboats, barges, ship building-in the harbor of New York from 1844-1962. The book also contains genealogies of four generations of Russells, stories remembered and retold by various tugboat captains, and the contributions of the Russell wives and daughters. As well, the book documents the influential rural experiences the family had in their house in Mt. Kisco, New York.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Small business
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Author: Robert Mattsson
Publisher: Robert Mattsson
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This a compilation of stories of my younger days in the ship yard and on tug boats in New York Harbor and the New York State Barge Canal and the Hudson River.
Author: I. M. Clark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clyde River (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Shipbuilding
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
Book Description
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Navigation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Towboats
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 89-16. Considers H.R. 723 and H.R. 156, to authorize Coast Guard regulation of towing vessels propelled by means other than steam. Also considers H.R. 7491, to provide for licensing of officers of towing vessels propelled by machinery.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishery law and legislation
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author:
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Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: George Matteson
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814757383
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Complemented by 150 black-and-white period photographs and personal anecdotes of life on the New York waterways, a visual history traces the lore and use of tugboats in New York from their early nineteenth-century precursors to their heyday in the 1950s, detailing their various roles guiding large ships safely, conducting rescue operations, and navigating quantities of resources through traffic-clogged waters. Reprint.
