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Ships and Shipping

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 177 Collections and/or Records:

Oral history interview with Homer T. Shaver

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9501
Abstract

Oral history interview with Homer T. Shaver conducted by Charles Digregorio on September 8, 1976. Shaver discusses his family's business, the Shaver Transportation Company, of which he became president in 1967.

Dates: 1976 September 8

Homer T. Shaver papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2041
Abstract Homer T. Shaver joined his family business, Shaver Company, in 1921. He helped organize a towboat firm, Shaver Forward Company, to haul grain to Portland from the Upper Columbia River. In 1967, he became president of Shaver Transportation. Papers include a typescript copy of an address to the 41st meeting of the Veteran Steamboatmen of the West, July 31, 1966, regarding Portland streets named after river vessel operators. Papers also include typescript correspondence, 1953, regarding the...
Dates: 1953-1966

Radio interview with Homer T. Shaver

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9502
Abstract

Radio interview with Homer T. Shaver conducted by Doug Porter on August 14, 1963, for the Junior Chamber of Commerce evening program, “Mr. Jaycee Report.” Shaver discusses his tug and barge business, the Shaver Transportation Company, which operated on the Willamette and Columbia rivers.

Dates: 1963 August 14

Shaver Transportation Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2021
Abstract

Records include minutes, 1893-1930; bills of sale of enrolled vessels, 1893-1933; history of the Shaver Transportation Company, 1893-1959; plan of proposed boat mooring; history of Shaver Forwarding Co. and Tidewater-Shaver Barge Lines, 1932-1943.

Dates: 1893-1959

Frederick H. Sherman papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1003
Abstract

Correspondence and steamboating licenses, 1883-1922; notebooks, 1892-1929, with accounts, logs and schedules of steamer runs; and a passenger register from the S.S. Bailey Gatzert, 1898.

Dates: 1883-1929

Ship design No. EC2-S-C1 plans

 Collection
Identifier: Mss4061
Abstract

Twelve blackline photocopy plans and 9 charts on 3 sheets of a ship, design no. EC2-S-C1, for the U.S. Maritime Commission, Emergency Ship Construction Division, built by Richmond Shipyard No. 1 of the Permanente Metals Corp. in Richmond, California.

Dates: July 1941

Letterpress copybook of the ship Henry Failing

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 297
Abstract Letterpress copybook of Jacob Merriman, captain of the merchant vessel Henry Failing, containing copies of approximately 400 letters sent by Merriman to his partners, including ship captain William H. Besse and merchant, banker and politician Henry Failing of Portland, Oregon. The bulk of the letters were sent from 1883 to 1894, during the time the ship carried such cargoes as coal, oil, wheat, and tea. The ship was a sailing vessel built in Bath, Maine, and launched from the shipyard of...
Dates: 1874-1894

Sigurdson Navigation Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1690
Abstract

Collection includes correspondence and financial accounts regarding operations of the SS Nehalem and SS Seakist, and the Warrenton Clam Company, Portland, Oregon; logs of the Nehalem and the Seakist; patents on cannery machinery, tariff and tow rates.

Dates: 1923-1929

Frank J. Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss1431
Abstract

Collection includes correspondence, ephemera, miscellaneous materials and articles on maritime history including steamboating.

Dates: circa 1905-1950

So that ships may pass: historical, structural and operational development of navigation - Lower Columbia and Willamette Rivers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2945
Abstract

Typescript history regarding the history of the development of the Willamette and Lower Columbia Rivers from Captain Robert Gray's discovery of the Columbia in 1792 to 1968.

Dates: 1968