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On a single stack steamer : plying Northwest waters / Christian Parker.
LIBRA HD8039.S42 U6643 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parker, Christian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Parker, Benjamin Poole, 1879-.
- Parker, Benjamin Poole.
- Parker, Charles Harrison, 1920-1979.
- Parker, Charles Harrison.
- Loken, Adolf Nils, 1869-1933.
- Loken, Adolf Nils.
- Parker family.
- Løken family.
- Marine engineers--Northwest, Pacific--Biography.
- Marine engineers.
- Merchant mariners--Northwest, Pacific--Biography.
- Merchant mariners.
- Steamboats--Northwest, Pacific--History.
- Steamboats.
- Norwegian Americans--Biography.
- Norwegian Americans.
- History.
- Northwest, Pacific--History.
- Northwest, Pacific.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 228 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition, revised.
- Place of Publication:
- Chimacum, Wash. : Olympic Dispatch Publishing, [2011]
- Contents:
- I. The marine engineer and the golden era of the steamship
- II. From the Old Country: Adolf Nils Loken of Old Norway ; The life at sea in the Revenue Cutter Service
- III. A belle from the Naze: Cornella Berntsen and Farsund, Norway ; The Search for the Rainbow's end
- IV. A Victorian romance in bustling Port Townsend
- V. The Coast and Geodetic Survey Service: The Explorer ; WWI ; Back on The Explorer
- VI. The roaring Twenties in West Seattle
- VII. Out of New England: Benjamin Parker, the early years ; The Boston Parkers
- VIII. Great Northern, Klondike, and Seattle
- IX. On a steamer bound for Puget Sound: Great Northern and the Minnesota ; Ben and Geneva ; Mosquito Fleet days ; WWI shipbuilding boom in Seattle and the Niels Nielsen ; Charles Harrison Parker, Sr ; Esther June Parker
- X. Coastwise lines: The Alaska Line
- XI. Foreign bound lines: Admiral Oriental Line ; Dollar Line and the American Mail Line
- XII. The Dollar Line and the New Deal
- Xiii. A Kings Pointer, class of '42
- XIV. Campaign in the Aleutians: A diary of battle ; Voyage 2 of the Liberty ship Cushman K Davis ; Voyage 3 of the Liberty ship Cushman K Davis
- XV. On to victory!: A Danish beauty ; Battle of Layte Gulf ; The American Mail Line and APL
- XI. Post war prosperity: On Puget Sound ; the inter-modal freight era ; Wilhelmina and Scan Travel ; End of an era
- The legacy
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 229) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780981583853
- 0981583857
- 9780981583846 :
- 0981583849 :
- OCLC:
- 793386298
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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