Steamboat Bill
Winter 2010 | No. 272
Join renowned maritime artist Bill Muller and his evocative steamboat paintings as he recalls his teen years as a crew member aboard steamers of the Hudson River Day Line. Richard V. Elliott returns to the pages of Steamboat Bill with the story of the steamer Rockaway--“the greatest excursion steamer New Yorkers never knew.” When the French Line’s Flandre reached her New York dock at the conclusion of her maiden voyage, she did so at the end of a tow line. Steven Duff tells about it in The Unfortunate Debut of the Flandre. Some people build a standard-type cottage on the banks of Lake Erie, but Wayne Sapulski has the story of a lakefront cottage that is the forward portion of a Great Lakes ore freighter. In The Blue Riband—An Elusive Pearl of Achievement, Louis C. Kleber examines that exciting time of the North Atlantic when the watchword was speed.
