The reconstruction of the Lake Champlain sidewheel steamer Champlain II /
19th-century wooden' steamship construction were combined to
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | 19th-century wooden' steamship construction were combined to a passenger line boat. Particular attention is paid to the Ames. Attention is paid to the original construction of and the Champlain Transportation Company, and chronicles the but was in service only a few years before she was Champlain II holds an important place in the development of changes in Oakes Ames ownership and her subsequent refit as contemporary vessels has led to the conclusion that Champlain create a reconstruction of the Champlain II, ex-Oakes,Ames. detail and discussed as part of the overall architecture of detailed corporate and financial history of the vessel's details of the wreck and the folklore that grew surrounding dramatically wrecked on the night of July 16, 1875. ferry as a specific vessel type. The narrative includes a findings of the archaeological recording are presented in framing and longitudinal support systems that were quite historical and economic background of Champlain II, ex-Oakes II, although built for nonpassenger, cross-lake traffic, had IIs hull construction and comparison between it and lines, construction and propulsion plans of the vessel. The Oakes Ames and includes a discussion of the railroad car of the dimensions of the hull timbers by divers. The owners, the Rutland Railroad, the Delaware and Hudson Company period. railroad car transfer ferry in 1868 at Marks Bay, Burlington, steamboat wrecks of Lake Champlain. Analysis of Champlain steamships on Lake Champlain. This thesis examines the summers of 1993 and 1994, which involved full documentation the event. The thesis also includes a narrative of the two- the hull. The archaeological data and archival materials on The reconstruction is graphically depicted in this thesis by The steamship Champlain II, ex-Oakes Ames, was built as a typical for Lake Champlain passenger line steamers of the Vermont in the private shipyard of Napoleon B. Proctor. The vessel is then compared to other archaeologically examined vessel was later converted to a passenger line boat in 1873, year archaeological study of the vessel, undertaken in the |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Anthropology". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 203 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm. Also available online. Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |