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Ship ready for launch at the Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse/River Rouge Yard, in Michigan

View of the Great Lakes Engineering Works at Ecorse/River Rouge, Michigan. Ships under construction at the yard. A ship is on the ways ready to launch. Ship yard buildings are seen and yard workers climbing over the floating dry dock to view the launch. (The blocks on the floating dry dock support the vessels when they are brought to rest for repairs.) Many spectators are gathered to watch the launch. An American flag and bunting are displayed near them. An executive motor launch maneuvers near the spectators and two Tug boats are standing by in water to move the ship after launching. A lake freighter passes on the Detroit River in the background.

Date: 1919
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030172
Coast Guard personnel in Muskegon Michigan demonstrate use of breeches buoy to rescue sailor

Vessel in trouble is sighted and alarm bell sounded on shore of Lake Michigan near Muskegon, Michigan. Men of U.S. Coast Guard Life Saving Station No 269, Muskegon, Michigan, roll Breeches buoy equipment from the station and rush to shore to set it up. Line thrown over vessel using a Lyle Gun. Lines anchored deep in sand. Breeches buoy sent out to vessel and a sailor passenger is brought to shore. Equipment returned to shelter. A light house and beach patrol framed by a U.S. Coast Guard life preserver.

Date: 1916
Duration: 4 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035670
Men load mail bags on a plane.

Men load a DC-3 airplane with mail bags. Transport truck brings more mail. 1918 Map of United States connects New York with Washington. 1923, 1928, 1933 and 1938 maps show further connections: Chicago, Salt Lake, San Francisco and other destinations. Men load mail bags on a plane. The DC-3 plane takes off. Dirigible in background.

Date: 1938, May 15
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040099
Motorized life boat removed from Muskegon Station shelter by eight man crew dressed in foul weather gear

Single beach patrol walks along shoreline of Lake Michigan, near Muskegon, Michigan. Motorized life boat removed from U.S. Coast Guard Life Saving Station No 269, Muskegon, Michigan by eight man crew dressed in foul weather gear. The Coast Guardsmen launch the boat on tracks from shelter to shore. Sail hoisted in a heavy sea.

Date: 1916
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035669
Sailors pull a seaplane out of a hangar and move it down a wooden ramp towards water at Naval Station Great Lakes

During World War I, U.S. Navy sailors in training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in the United States. The sailors are seen near Curtiss F-Boat aircraft hangars near the water. Airplanes half out of the hangar doors. The sailors pull a seaplane out of a hangar. They move it down a wooden ramp towards Lake Michigan.

Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077395
U.S. sailors work on a Curtiss flying boat aircraft which takes off for a flight at Naval Station Great Lakes

U.S. Navy sailors in training near a seaplane during World War I. They look in the cockpit of the seaplane which is a Curtiss F-Boat. Two men in aviator garb. A sailor helps an aviator into a life preserver. The sailors work on the seaplane and turn a crank to start the engine. Some of the sailors lay wooden planks on water. They ease the flying boat with aviators aboard and propellers turning down the planks into water of Lake Michigan. Some buildings of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station visible in the background. The flying boat takes off and in flight. Change of scene and aerial view of a Kearsarge class battleship. Tugs off the starboard side. Scene change again to the Curtiss flying boat. The seaplane comes in for a landing.

Date: 1917
Duration: 2 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077396