New Haven: Its Ships and Its Trades, 1800-1920
George Foote and Richard Silocka
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Lesson I
Objective: Students will be able to work with source material used in the study of merchant marine history.
Lesson Outline
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1. Students will each select two vessels from the list of ships owned by the Benedict-Manson Company.
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2. Using any or all of the following ship lists,
List of Merchant Vessels of the United States,
Bureau of Navigation, Dept. of Commerce, or
Lloyds Universal American Register of Shipping
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Fairbuns’s Merchant Marine History
, have the students accumulate as much information as they can about their ships. (Books are available through either the Yale or New Haven libraries).
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3. Have the students agree on the form they wish to use in organizing the information for presentation to the entire class.
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4. Draw conclusions and raise questions about the information. i.e. Four of the ships were attacked by submarines. Whose subs and why? A majority of the ships were constructed in Maine. Why?
