Queen of Sea Routes
Subtitle: The Merchants and Miners Transportation Company
Publisher: Purple Mountain Press
Published: December 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9781930098008
Subjects: Transportation; Merchants and Miners Transport; Coastwise shipping; Business/Economics; Merchants and Miners Transportation Co.; General; Atlantic Coast (U.S.); History
First sentence: The modest genesis of the Merchants and Miners Transportation Company took place in Baltimore in 1852, when a group of local merchants, associated for the most part with the leather-tanning trade, conceived a plan to start a new steamship line between their city and Boston, Massachusetts.