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Robert Milligan (19 August 1746 – 21 May 1809) was a Scottish merchant, ship-owner and slave trader who was the driving force behind the construction and initial statutory sectoral monopoly of the West India Docks in London. From 1768 to 1779 Milligan was a merchant in Kingston, Jamaica.
In its heyday, the D&C Line was among the most well-known shipping companies in business on the Great Lakes, with its vessels being among the largest and most palatial ever seen. Two of them, SS Greater Buffalo and the SS Greater Detroit , were both built in 1923, and were known as the largest side-wheeler passenger ships in the world.
The vessel, built by Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, was the first U.S.-flagged, Jones Act-compliant ship built on the Great Lakes since 1983. [8] and the first built by Interlake since 1981. [9] The ship was christened MV Mark W. Barker in Cleveland, Ohio [8] on 1 September 2022. [10]
James A. Farrell was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on February 15, 1863, to John Guy Farrell and Catherine Whalen.John Guy Farrell was a ship owner and captain who was lost at sea when James was less than 16 years old, forcing the boy to find a job to help support the family.
In 1930 Nicholson purchased cargo ship SS Liberty 757-ton ship and also the SS Fellowcraft 1,640-ton cargo steamship. Nicholson started a new firm in 1931 the Nicholson, Erie, Dover, Ferry Line to operate the ship SS Keystone. SS Keystone was a 1,923-ton passenger liner with home ports in River Rouge, Michigan and Detroit. Overlakes Freight ...
The China-based, Japanese-inspired store recently signed a lease agreement.
The Pickands Mather Group is an American company which provides shipping of coal and other bulk commodities, and the purchase, sale, and marketing of bulk coal.Founded in 1883 as Pickands Mather & Company, it once had the second largest shipping fleet on the Great Lakes in the 1910s and 1920s.
A Michigan couple allegedly abandoned their adopted Haitian child at a Jamaican boarding school that was shut down over abuse claims, leaving him alone in the foreign county for months.