The Old Bay Line

New York: Bonanza Books, [1977?]. Reprint edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xv, [1], 176 pages. With 57 Illustrations (including map). Appendix (List of Incorporators and Presidents, Route and Schedule, Roster of Ships, 1840-1940). Bibliography. Index. Ink notations inside front cover. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Some page soiling and staining. Introduction by Legh R. Powell, Jr. , President of the Baltimore Steam Packet Company. Brown authored more than twenty-two books, mostly with maritime subjects. He sailed around the world and was an authority on the Chesapeake Bay, its canals, steamboats, and shipping. He was a former editor of American Neptune, and the Daily Press (Newport News, Va.), and on the staff of the Mariners Museum before his death in 1993. One of the Old Bay Line's steamers, the former President Warfield, later became famous as the Exodus ship of book and movie fame, when Jewish refugees from war-torn Europe sailed aboard her in 1947 in an unsuccessful attempt to emigrate to Palestine. The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, nicknamed the Old Bay Line, was an American steamship line from 1840 to 1962 that provided overnight steamboat service on the Chesapeake Bay, primarily between Baltimore, Maryland, and Norfolk, Virginia. Called a "packet" for the mail packets carried on government mail contracts, the term in the 19th century came to mean a steamer line operating on a regular, fixed daily schedule between two or more cities. When it closed in 1962 after 122 years of existence, it was the last surviving overnight steamship passenger service in the United States. In addition to regularly calling on Baltimore and Norfolk, the Baltimore Steam Packet Company at various times provided freight, passenger and vehicle transport to Washington, D.C., Old Point Comfort, and Richmond, Virginia. The Old Bay Line, as it came to be known by the 1860s, was acclaimed for its genteel service and fine dining, serving Chesapeake Bay specialties. Condition: Good / Very good.

Keywords: Baltimore Steam Packet Company, Old Bay Line, Steamboat, Legh Powell, Thomas Morgan, Fortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort, George Leary, James Cannon, Howard Edgar, Moses Rogers, Willie Harris, Thomas Skinner, Transportation, Maritime, Norfolk, Portsmo

ISBN: 0517224941

[Book #76447]

Price: $45.00

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