On a single stack steamer
Subtitle: plying Northwest waters
By: Christian Parker
Publisher: Olympic Dispatch Publishing; Olympic Dispatch
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chimacum, Wash
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780981583846
Subjects: Steamboats; Merchant mariners; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 186) and index.
Table of contents: title: I. The golden era of steamship; title: The marine engineer; title: Benjamin Parker and the Massachusetts Nautical School; title: II. From the Old Country; title: Adolf Nils Loken of Old Norway; title: The life at sea in the Revenue Cutter Service; title: III. A belle from the naze; title: Cornella Berntsen and Farsund, Norway; title: The search for the Rainbow's end; title: IV. A victorian romance in bustling Port Townsend; title: V. The Coast and Geodetic Survey Service; title: The Explorer; title: WWI; title: Back on the Explorer; title: VI. The roaring Twenties in West Seattle; title: VII. Out of New England; title: Benjamin Parker and the Reading, Massachusetts Parkers; title: Benjamin Poole Parker and New Orleans, the early years; title: The Boston Parkers; title: VIII. On a steamer bound for Puget Sound; title: Great Northern Railroad to Seattle; title: Ben and Geneva; title: Across the ocean; title: Charles Harrison Parker, Sr; title: Esther June Parker; title: IX. The Alaska Steamship Company; title: X. A Kings Pointer, class of '42; title: A Danish Beauty; title: The American mail line; title: XI. Post war prosperity; title: On Puget Sound; title: Wilhelmina and Scan Travel; title: End of an era; title: The legacy; title: Bibliography; title: Index.