Buckets and Belts: Evolution of the Great Lakes Self-Unloaders

by William M. Lafferty, Valerie van Heest, Kenneth Pott

On a warm summer afternoon in 1927 off South Haven, Michigan, an old barge began taking on water. Helpless to staunch the flow and realizing their vessel would inevitably sink, the crew escaped to the accompanying tug, and watched as their ship plunged beneath Lake Michigan. Its loss unlamented, its career unheralded, it slumbered on the sandy bottom in the same obscurity that had shrouded its earlier work days as a steam freighter sailing the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0980175003
• ISBN13: 9780980175004
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: In-Depth Editions, LLC
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.0" x 10.0"