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Chicago Maritime Museum
Posted by:
nordsider
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Date: January 14, 2014 12:58PM
An interesting web site; the Chicago Maritime Museum.
http://www.chicagomaritimemuseum.org/
http://www.chicagomaritimemuseum.org/
Re: Chicago Maritime Museum
Posted by:
daveg
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Date: January 14, 2014 02:25PM
Very interesting nordsider. Thanks for the link.
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/14/2014 02:26PM by daveg.
Re: Chicago Maritime Museum
Posted by:
nordsider
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Date: January 15, 2014 11:03AM
daveg,
The book, (published in 2000), Maritime Chicago by Theodore J. Karamanski and Deane Tank Sr., is also an interesting source; one item being the Henry Grebe Shipyard located on the North Branch of the Chicago River, across from Riverview, during World War II; a company that produced wooden submarine chasers.
and also: Chicago Maritime: An Illustrated History by David M. Young (published 2001)
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/16/2014 07:29PM by nordsider.
The book, (published in 2000), Maritime Chicago by Theodore J. Karamanski and Deane Tank Sr., is also an interesting source; one item being the Henry Grebe Shipyard located on the North Branch of the Chicago River, across from Riverview, during World War II; a company that produced wooden submarine chasers.
and also: Chicago Maritime: An Illustrated History by David M. Young (published 2001)
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/16/2014 07:29PM by nordsider.
Re: Chicago Maritime Museum
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davey7
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Date: January 16, 2014 04:05PM
I didn't even [i]know[/i] that there was a Chicago Maritime Museum! Thanks!
Re: Chicago Maritime Museum
Posted by:
rjmachon
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Date: January 16, 2014 10:37PM
Does anyone remember the USS Submarine, The Silversides? Before it was at Navy Pier, I remember it along the lake in the mid 1960's. My Dad took me on a tour of the submarine then. That was pretty neat.
Re: Chicago Maritime Museum
Posted by:
WayOutWardell
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Date: January 17, 2014 12:48AM
rjmachon Wrote:
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> Does anyone remember the USS Submarine, The
> Silversides? Before it was at Navy Pier, I
> remember it along the lake in the mid 1960's. My
> Dad took me on a tour of the submarine then. That
> was pretty neat.
Sure do, it was still there, open for tours, in the '80s when I was a kid. I think it's in Grand Haven, MI, now.
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> Does anyone remember the USS Submarine, The
> Silversides? Before it was at Navy Pier, I
> remember it along the lake in the mid 1960's. My
> Dad took me on a tour of the submarine then. That
> was pretty neat.
Sure do, it was still there, open for tours, in the '80s when I was a kid. I think it's in Grand Haven, MI, now.
Re: Chicago Maritime Museum
Posted by:
EHSresearch
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Date: April 06, 2014 01:33PM
I wonder if Grebe Shipyard made the boats used on Riverview rides? Chute the chutes, and wasn't there a tamer one . . . Mill of the Floss maybe?
Re: Chicago Maritime Museum
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Larz
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Date: March 05, 2015 03:27AM
I just saw that the maritime museum has an open house and free lecture on the 3rd Friday night of each month. This month, March 20, they have a lecture on the reversal of the Chicago River and the construction of the Sanitary and Ship Canal.
http://www.chicagomaritimemuseum.org/event/march-third-friday-building-canal-save-chicago/
http://www.chicagomaritimemuseum.org/event/march-third-friday-building-canal-save-chicago/
Re: Chicago Maritime Museum
Posted by:
WayOutWardell
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Date: March 07, 2015 12:44PM
Here's a really cool photo of a wooden minesweeper (which was sunk by a mine in '45) being launched from Grebe in '43, with Riverview in the background:
[url=http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/111908401.jpg]YMS-1 Launch, 1942[/url]
[url=http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/111908401.jpg]YMS-1 Launch, 1942[/url]
