Captain Peter Thompson

Captain Peter Thompson, master of the steamer Nebraska, is well known to Buffalo marine men, that port having been his home for several years. He has followed the life of a sailor for seventeen years, and has spent the last eight years in the employ of R. H. Hebard, general manager of the "Soo line," the Nebraska having been his first command.

Captain Thompson is a native of Norway. He is married and resides at No. 12 Maple street, Buffalo, N. Y. He is a young man, and his future in the lake marine is sure to be one of sucess. Socially he is a member of the Ship Masters Association, Lodge No. 1.

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Volume I

This version of Volume II is based, with permission, on the work of the great volunteers at the Marine Captains Biographies site. To them goes the credit for reorganizing the content into some coherent order. The biographies in the original volume are in essentially random order.

Some of the transcription work was also done by Brendon Baillod, who maintains an excellent guide to Great Lakes Shipwreck Research.