Marine Museum Publications

FreshWater - A Journal of Great Lakes Marine History

Published by the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston
There is a limited number of back issues available: Vol 1.2, 2.1, 2,2, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.3 and 10.1
Volume 12, Number 1, 1997
Contents
  • Senator W.E. Sanford and his yacht NAIAD
  • "Heaving To" or Action at Sea in a Heavy Storm
  • Navigation Before Electronics and Satellites
  • Kingston Built Lightship Heads South
  • Boys Naval Brigade - a pictorial

Volume 10, Numbers 2-4, 1996
Volume 11, Numbers 1-4, 1996 Contents
  • The Boneyard Below the Bridge
  • Aboard HMCS Portage: Recollections of a Young Sailor
  • The Working Life of a Naval Architect
  • Frank MacInnis - A Life of Sailor: From Fish Tug to Lake Ships

Volume 10, Number 1, 1994
Contents
  • The Polson Iron Works of Owen Sound
  • Captain T. Beaupre
  • Violence, Oh God, Violence!

Volume 9, Number 4, 1994
Contents
  • Up and Down the St. Lawrence Canals Before the Seaway
  • Pictures in Review
    • The Milverton
    • Redcloud
    • The belleville
    • S.S, Corona
    • S.S. Selkirk
    • The Launching of the S.S. Quebec
    • Victoria pier in 1928 or 1929

Volume 9, Number 3, 1994
Contents
  • The Evolving Upper Canadian Steam Packet Service, 1916-1850
  • The Heritage Launch & The Survey of Toronto Harbour

Volume 9, Number 2, 1994
Contents
  • S.S. Cayuga and the Toronto-Queenston Steamer Service
  • Cayuga: Selected Documents
  • Notes: C.H.J. Snider
  • C.H.J. Snider, "The Skipper"

Volume 9, Number 1, 1994
Contents
  • Putting Out the Lightkeepers
  • German & Milne: Its Role in the History of Ship design in Canada
  • A Mariners Observations

Volume 8, Number 1 & 2, 1993
Contents
  • Construction of the S.S. Mathewston in 1922

Volume 7, Number 2, 1992
Contents
  • So That's the Way It Was: Ship Models and the Interpretation of Maritime History
  • Sea-Change: The Racey and the Mapledawn
  • Library & Archive Research Resources

Volume 7, Number 1, 1992
Contents
  • Life and Death on the Ocean Wave
  • New Ships on the Stocks
  • Passages

Volume 6, Number 2, 1991
Contents
  • S.S. "Manitoulin" in 1946, "Different, Delightful and So Inexpensive"
  • The "Adelaide" and Ear;y Canadian Steam above Niagara
  • Prospectus: Cayuga Steamship Co. Ltd.
  • HMS St. Lawrence: Commodore Yeo's Unique First-Rate

Volume 6, Number 1, 1991
Contents
  • Grant Macdonald: The Artist, The Protagonist and the War at Sea
  • Language of the Navy
  • A Choice of Three
  • Grant Macdonald's Navy

Volume 5, Number 2, 1990
Contents
  • The Evolution of the Great Lakes Ship
  • Iroquois
  • British Competition: Canadian Great Lakes Vessels Built in United Kingdom Shipyards 1854-1965
  • Significant Developments in Ontario Passenger Ships: 1990
  • Captain John Donnelly - Wrecker
  • A Visit to Main Duck Island through Old Photo Albums

Volume 5, Number 1, 1990
Contents
  • Forgotten Watercraft: Small Craft for Work and Pleasure in Toronto Harbour
  • The Lodor Proposal
  • Steamboats on Lake Erie, January 1836
  • Paper Passages: An Introduction to the Sources for the Study of Great Lakes History at the National Archives of Canada
  • Kingston Shipyards - World War II
  • Kingston Drydock Engineer Honhoured

Volume 4 1989
Contents
  • The Long and the Short of It: Kingston As the Foot-Of-The-Great-Lakes-Terminus
  • In Search of Shipwrecks: Canadian Government Archive Sources relating to Marine Casualties in Canada
  • The Montreal Transportation Company
  • Treating Tars: Amn 1811 order of medical supplies for the Lake Ontario Brig U.S.S. Oneida
  • The Ward Brothers, George Brush and Montreal's Foundry
  • "The freight carrier of the future": Whalebacks and the St. Lawrence River Canal System, Two Documents

Volume 3, Number 1 1988
Contents
  • R.M.S. Segwin, A Mirine Response to Change
  • Naval Shipbuilding on the Great Lakes, 1940-45
  • Early Ship Registration in Canada
  • The Canadian Great Lakes Lifesaving Service
  • Reminiscences of the Maplecliffe Hall
  • Provisioning Lake Ontario Merchant Schooners, 1809-1812
  • George A. Cuthbertson - Freshwater Fleets

Volume 2, Number 2 1987
Contents
  • The First Propellers at Kingston
  • The Great Lakes Historic Research Project: Computers and the Analysis and Documentation of Small Craft
  • The Guildersleeve House
  • Early Transportation on the Upper Lakes
  • S.S. Fort Henry
  • Customs Collection -- and Dutiable Goods, Lake Ontario Ports, 1801-1812

Volume 2, Number 1 1987
Contents
  • The Sinking of the Hamilton and Scourge - How many men were lost?
  • 'Fool Propositions': Mackenzie King, the Dominion Marine Association and the Inland Water Freight Rates Act of 1923
  • Ontario - First Steamboat on the Great Lakes
  • The Frontenac: A Reappraisal: The First Canadian Steamship on the Lakes - 1817
  • The Queen's Wharf Lighthouse

Volume 1, Number 2 1986
Contents
  • The Great Lakes Schooner in the Painting of Nicholas Henderson
  • Nicholas Henderson: Marine Painter
  • The Huronic and the Kingston, A Comparison
  • British Naval History in Full Sail at Penetanguishene (H.M.S. Bee (1817-1831), Her History and Rebirth)
  • The Designing of H.M.S. Bee
  • The Scrap Parade Continues
  • The Steamer Toronto of 1825

Volume 1, Number 1 1986
Contents
  • The Canadian Navigation Company
  • 1896, And All That
  • Current Canadian Shipbuilding on the Great Lakes
  • Schooner and Pin Flat
  • Cooks and Ladies Maids: Women in Sail and Steam on the Great Lakes in the Nineteenth Century
  • John By
  • Are Their Really 10,000 Shipwrecks in the Great Lakes?
  • Hotels
  • The Mary H. Boyce and the Hochelaga, A Comparison

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