Know Your Ships, Guide to Boatwatching on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway

Know Your Ships 2008
Guide to Boats & Boatwatching
Great Lakes & St. Lawrence Seaway
ISBN: 978-1891849-11-4

Welcome to the 2008, 49th edition of Marine Publishing Co.'s annual boatwatching guide “Know Your Ships”. Our cover this year honors the classic m/v Calumet, which was retired near the end of the 2007 season..

This popular volume includes everything ship fans need to know about the freighters, tankers, tugs, salties, passenger ships and other vessels sailing the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway. Now the only such directory on the lakes, "Know Your Ships" is meant not only for those with a casual interest in the parade of nautical commerce that passes our shores, but also for more serious-minded individuals who have a passion for all the details about the ships that ply the inland seas.

Although at heart a field guide, “Know Your Ships” is far more than facts and figures. The book salutes, in story and pictures, an annual “Vessel of the Year” and takes a closer look a familiar freighters with in-depth “Vessel Spotlights”. Changes in the shipping scene from year to year are chronicled in the “Passages” section, and a “Great Lakes Glossary” defines nautical terminology. The meanings of whistle signals are explained, and a section gathers maritime museums together for easy reference. Pages devoted to the Soo Locks, Welland Canal and St. Lawrence Seaway familiarizes readers with those vital waterways.

Complete data on hundreds of U.S., Canadian and International-flag cargo vessels, tugs, excursion boats and barges in regular Great Lakes & St. Lawrence Seaway service, including owner and port of registry, year and shipyard where built, length, beam, depth, cargo capacity and former names, plus type of engine, horsepower and top speed for major Great Lakes and Seaway vessels.

This book also includes nine pages of colorful stack markings of all Great Lakes & Seaway fleets, including stack markings of many of the saltwater fleets that regularly visit the Seaway system, flags of major nations in the marine trade and house flags of major Great Lakes and Seaway fleets, VHF marine radio scanner frequencies, phone numbers to help track vessel movements and meanings of boat whistles.

The book is topped off with dozens of superb color pictures from all around the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway. The professional quality images reflect the maritime activity that is so fascinating to watch as it carries the commerce so vital to the United States, Canada and nations around the world.

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