Description: Major Great Lakes Vessels and their history (Vessels measuring 1000 or more gross registered tons) by Sterling P. Berry.
(Vessels measuring 1000 or more gross registered tons)
I have studied the history of Great Lakes vessels off and on for more than seventy years (my first grade-school-era notebook dates from the middle 1930s) and until now most of my records have been in pencil on home grown data sheets, in notebooks and on miscellaneous sheets and scraps of paper. This is an attempt to summarize my information in formal individual vessel histories. The sheets do not include vessels which have joined the fleet since the 1980s because detailed information on these vessels is eas
The notes in my files are from many many sources, some not fully documented by me, and accordingly some are good and unfortunately some others not so good, and therefore undoubtedly contain errors. And for many of the vessels I don’t have as much information as I’d like but have presented what I have. I will correct errors as I find them or as they are sent to me. I therefore earnestly solicit corrections where they are in order, and suggested additions to the information I should be including to make the r