Ships and Shipping
Found in 177 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history interview with Homer T. Shaver
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.
Homer T. Shaver papers
Radio interview with Homer T. Shaver
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.
Shaver Transportation Company records
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.
Frederick H. Sherman papers
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.
Ship design No. EC2-S-C1 plans
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.
Letterpress copybook of the ship Henry Failing
Sigurdson Navigation Company records
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.
Frank J. Smith papers
Collection includes correspondence, ephemera, miscellaneous materials and articles on maritime history including steamboating.
So that ships may pass: historical, structural and operational development of navigation - Lower Columbia and Willamette Rivers
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.