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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Allan A Kirk; Sydney Cannington |
OCLC Number: | 461485 |
Notes: | Based on research material assembled by Sydney Cannington and others. |
Description: | 186 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Grim determination and successive failures -- Further failures and successful salvage -- Meet the founders -- A remarkable engineer and a historic ship -- More gold, more ships -- The anchor line of steam packets -- Crisis and survival -- Through turbulent waters -- Enter Will Rogers -- A new company and a new look -- And now we are eight -- Fine ships for the nightly ferry service -- The fleet reaches its peak -- Exit the ferry service -- The foundry -- The men on the bridge -- Company personalities -- Contemplation and conjecture -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Index. |
Responsibility: | by Allan A. Kirk. |
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