item: #1 of 4
          id: 38542
      author: Cumberland, Barlow
       title: A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River
        date: None
       words: 57457
      flesch: 67
     summary: When the captain of a first-class Atlantic liner enters on his log, as ours did next day, _dangerous sea_, one may feel satisfied that something unusual had been going on. It was a close call, and Mrs. Cumberland was always anxious until at last we got the _Chicora_ safely to Toronto.
    keywords: a.m.; american; boat; buffalo; business; canada; canadian; canal; captain; central; chicora; city; co.; company; connection; cumberland; days; dock; falls; feet; fort; general; good; kingston; lake; lake ontario; lewiston; line; men; miles; navigation; new; new york; niagara; niagara navigation; niagara river; ontario; p.m.; passenger; place; point; port; public; queenston; railway; river; river route; rothesay; route; running; season; service; ship; states; steamer; street; time; toronto; trip; united; upper; vessels; water; winter; years; york
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        item: #2 of 4
          id: 40067
      author: Mears, James R.
       title: The Iron Boys on the Ore Boats; or, Roughing It on the Great Lakes
        date: None
       words: 52613
      flesch: 92
     summary: He never permitted his shifting eyes to meet those of Steve Rush, nor did Steve make any effort to address the man. The hotel was named after a famous Indian Chief, but the prices asked for the luncheon made Steve gasp.
    keywords: boat; bob; boys; captain; deck; eyes; face; good; great; head; hold; house; iron; jarvis; lad; life; man; mate; men; ore; pilot; right; room; rush; ship; simms; sir; steve; steve rush; time; water; way; work
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        item: #3 of 4
          id: 45157
      author: Forwood, William Bower, Sir
       title: Reminiscences of a Liverpool Shipowner, 1850-1920
        date: None
       words: 27801
      flesch: 67
     summary: Nature has practically closed the Rock Channel and the old Victoria Channel, and concentrated her forces and opened up the Queen's Channel with over 20 feet of water at low tide in the dredged cut at the Bar, thus making the port open for ordinary vessels during twelve hours out of the twenty-four, and making Liverpool the great port she is--the only deep water port on the West Coast capable of taking such great ships as the Aquitania and Olympic. Mr. Inman's policy was to cultivate the emigration trade, which had hitherto been carried by sailing ships; in this he was very successful, and the Inman Line, which existed for nearly forty years, will be remembered as containing some very fine and fast ships.
    keywords: american; atlantic; british; channel; chapter; company; days; engine; good; illustration; line; liverpool; man; new; port; position; power; sailing; sand; sea; ship; shipowners; shipping; sir; speed; steamers; submarine; time; tonnage; tons; trade; vessels; war; water; work; years
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        item: #4 of 4
          id: 46731
      author: Evans, Cerinda W.
       title: Some Notes on Shipbuilding and Shipping in Colonial Virginia
        date: None
       words: 27664
      flesch: 77
     summary: The grounds upon which this order was based were (1) the injustice of granting privileges to Virginia ship owners, not enjoyed by the owners of English vessels, trading in Virginia waters; (2) the success of the navigation laws would be impaired by creating a Virginia fleet, able to transport tobacco, without the assistance of English vessels; and (3) owners of English ships might be tempted to order them as belonging to Virginians. Teste, Joseph Billups, Jr. Various statistics were given by different writers for the number of Virginia owned vessels in the period just before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War.
    keywords: bbl; boat; building; captain; century; cleared; colony; corn; county; creek; england; feet; ferries; george; hhd; james; james river; john; june; land; landing; london; march; new; norfolk; number; point; pounds; river; schooner; ship; shipbuilding; sir; sloop; thomas; tobacco; tons; use; vessels; virginia; west; william; york; york river
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