Captains of concrete
Subtitle: memorable moments aboard North America's first self-propelled concrete ship
By: by Sonny Moran
Edition: Original ed.
Publisher: Baico Publishing
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ottawa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
ISBN-13: 9781926596273
Subjects: Concrete Ships; Navires en ciment; Concretia (Ship); Onaygorah (Ship); Onaygorah (Navire); Concretia (Navire)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 103) and index.
Table of contents: title: ch. 1.; title: Oliver Mowat captain drowns -- -- ch. 2.; title: Acetylene gas buoys -- -- ch. 3.; title: CGS Concretia -- -- ch. 4.; title: Singing of ships' articles -- -- ch. 5.; title: Preparing the Concretia for the 1923 navigation season -- -- ch. 6.; title: Life aboard Concretia not always routine -- -- ch. 7.; title: Wages of Concretia's crew -- -- ch. 8.; title: Concretia's captains -- -- ch. 9.; title: Concretia hits rough waters -- -- ch. 10.; title: Concretia encounters prohibition -- -- ch. 11.; title: Why were ships built out of Ferro cement? -- -- ch. 12.; title: Concretia's public service career ends -- -- ch. 13.; title: Concretia renamed the Onaygorah -- -- ch. 14.; title: Sailing through the Coral and Bermuda Triangles -- -- ch. 15.; title: Giant waves at sea and shipping disasters.