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Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks

Name: Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks
Brand: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
SKU: 9780870334511
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Autor: Pat Vojtech

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Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks documents the skipjack and its role in the oyster dredging industry, descri...

Informații despre carte

Autor

Pat Vojtech

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2009

Pagini

154

EAN

9780870334511

ISBN

9780870334511

Enbook ID

06442960

Editura

Schiffer Publishing Ltd

Greutate

880

Dimensiuni

286 x 218 x 17

Descriere completă

Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks documents the skipjack and its role in the oyster dredging industry, describing the natural and manmade disasters that affected the industry, including the August storm of 1933 that swept vessels ashore into pastures, the ice that locked them in harbor for months at a time and led to the novel idea of dredging through the ice with sleighs and later cars and trucks, and the Great Depression that crushed the oyster market overnight and forced many to abandon their vessels and their way of life. By talking to survivors, Vojtech recreates the last moments of some of the worst incidents in dredging history, including the day in 1939 when nine men died on the Choptank.The author interviewed some thirty captains, former captains, and relatives of the men who worked the boats, to recreate events that took place between 1917 and 1993. The early years were reconstructed by research of Maryland dredging records and newspaper accounts.