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Tidewater Triumph: The Development and Worldwide Success of the Chesapeake Bay Pilot Schooner

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The fast, agile pilot schooners of Chesapeake Bay – employed not only for piloting but for cargo-carrying – began to build their legend in the eighteenth century, becoming blockade runners during the American Revolution, privateering vessels during the War of 1812, armed dispatch and policing vessels for European navies, and a favored type for the activities of pirates, smugglers and slavers. Variations on the final “clipper” model of the Baltimore schooner continue… More >>

Tidewater Triumph: The Development and Worldwide Success of the Chesapeake Bay Pilot Schooner

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Tidewater by Steamboat: A Saga of the Chesapeake

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“The name Weems, and the Weems line,” writes David C. Holly, “symbolized nearly the entire epoch of the steamboat on the Chesapeake.” The Weems line began in Baltimore in 1819, as steamboats first appeared on the Chesapeake and its rivers. It was sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1905, at the height of the steamboat’s “Golden Age,” though its boats continued to serve the Bay until the 1930s. Illustrated with maps, drawings, and rare photographs, Tidewater by Stea… More >>

Tidewater by Steamboat: A Saga of the Chesapeake

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