{"product_id":"mcdougalls-great-lakes-whalebacks-neel-r-zoss-9780738551432","title":"McDougall's Great Lakes Whalebacks","description":"During the last years of the 19th century, the Duluth Harbor, situated between the sister cities of Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, was the birthplace of a bold and innovative and decidedly odd-looking class of Great Lakes barges and steamships known as whalebacks. Capt. Alexander McDougall and his American Steel Barge Company built the curved-decked, snout-nosed whalebacks on the shores of the harbor, first at Duluth's Rice's Point and later in Howard's Pocket at Superior. The vessels were a radical departure, in design, form, and construction, \u003cbr\u003efrom the standard shipbuilding concepts of the era but proved themselves more than capable as a number of the boats sailed the Great Lakes and the seaboards\u003cbr\u003eof America until the 1960s. All the whalebacks are gone now--either scrapped or sunk--with one exception. After sailing the lakes for more than 70 years, the\u003cbr\u003elast whaleback, the SS Meteor, returned home to Superior in 1972 and is now continuing its service as a magnificent maritime museum on Barker's Island\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Neel R. Zoss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0738551430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780738551432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arcadia Publishing (SC)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.22h x 6.55w x 0.35d","brand":"Neel R. Zoss","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43925791736063,"sku":"9780738551432","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_bb2be0ad-7cd7-426e-9d81-603731c21415.jpg?v=1681079381","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mcdougalls-great-lakes-whalebacks-neel-r-zoss-9780738551432","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}