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The ship was originally planned as SS Boadicea, for the Wilson and Furness-Leyland Line, but was acquired by the Atlantic Transport Line shortly after completion to replace ships requisitioned during the Spanish–American War. She made a single voyage under the name Boadicea, and was renamed Marquette on 15 September 1898.
The second of two ships built for and named after the Marquette & Bessemer Dock & Navigation Company, she was commonly referred to as "The Car Ferry" by the residents of Conneaut, while Marquette & Bessemer No. 1 was known as "The Collier," as her cargo was always railway cars filled with coal. [1]: p.151
The SS Marquette was a wooden-hulled, American Great Lakes freighter built in 1881, that sank on Lake Superior, five miles east of Michigan Island, Ashland County, Wisconsin, Apostle Islands, United States on October 15, 1903. [2] On the day of February 13, 2008 the remains of the Marquette were listed on the National Register of Historic ...
SS Marquette may refer to: SS Marquette (1881) was a lake freighter that sank in 1903. SS Marquette (1897) 1897–1915 was a British troopship that was torpedoed off south of Salonica, Greece with the loss of 167 lives. SS Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 was a train ferry that disappeared with all hands on Lake Erie; SS Marquette is an American ...
Neshanic was built as the SS Marquette, ex MC hull 519 under Maritime Commission contract by the Bethlehem Shipyard, Inc., Sparrows Point, Maryland. The ship was launched with the name Neshanic on 31 October 1942, sponsored by Mrs. Richard C. Culyer. The tanker was acquired by the US Navy and commissioned on 20 February 1943.
The Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Michigan off the coast of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.It protects 38 known historically significant shipwrecks ranging from the 19th-century wooden schooners to 20th-century steel-hulled steamers, as well as an estimated 60 undiscovered shipwrecks.
The SS Pere Marquette (also Pere Marquette 15) was the world's first steel train ferry. It sailed on Lake Michigan and provided a service between the ports of Ludington, Michigan , and Manitowoc, Wisconsin , for the Pere Marquette Railway from 1897 to 1930.
Overloaded with limestone, the load shifted during an unexpected June gale and the ship was capsized by waves when the steering chains broke. At least eight people perished. The wreck was discovered in 2017. Marquette & Bessemer No. 2: 8 December 1909 A car ferry that sank in a storm. Thirty-four to thirty-eight people perished. Marshall F. Butters