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She was also called the "Queen of the Great Lakes" and carried around 900 passengers and 120 automobiles in the summer. The amount of oil used varied per round trip, but was approximately 5,500 US gallons (21,000 L; 4,600 imp gal). On week days she made two round trips that took 7 hours each way, using three of the four boilers.
The U.S.-built Ontario (110 feet, 34 m), launched in the spring of 1817 at Sacketts Harbor, New York, began its regular service in April 1817 before Frontenac made its first trip to the head of the lake on June 5. [1] The first steamboat on the upper Great Lakes was the passenger-carrying Walk-in-the-water, built in 1818 to navigate Lake Erie ...
The Great Lakes are home to a large number of naval craft serving as museums (including five submarines, two destroyers and a cruiser). The Great Lakes are not known for submarine activity, but the undersea service fires the imagination of many. Three former army tugs are museums, having come to the lakes in commercial roles.
At a price tag of $6.7 million, JOHN J. BOLAND was designed to haul up to 21,500 tons of coal, stone and iron ore across the Great Lakes. The 250-foot-long unloading boom could transport 3,500 ...
In this trade, it was described in 2019 as making about 30 annual trips to the Port of Chicago. [2] The lake vessel's now-redundant pilothouse was conserved and, in spring 2015, was donated to the National Museum of the Great Lakes for display in Toledo, Ohio. [5] Pilothouse restoration work has uncovered the vessel's original name, William P ...
The SS Badger made its first voyage on March 21, 1953. Its last operational voyage was Nov. 16, 1990, but it was revived in May 1992.
Although she was used for excursions elsewhere around the Great Lakes, her regular schedule was a daily trip to Milwaukee, leaving Chicago mid-morning, sailing to Milwaukee for a two-hour stopover, and then returning (see advertisement right). [23] She made daily round-trip excursions from the Goodrich docks at the Rush Street Bridge. [24]
Portage Lake Lift Bridge: 1959 (N) Hancock, Michigan: US 41 M-26: Portage Lake, a segment of the Keweenaw Waterway (S) Houghton, Michigan: Isle Royale ferry (N) Isle Royale, Michigan (S) Houghton, Michigan: Madeline Island Ferry (I) La Pointe, Wisconsin: Connecting: County Road H WIS 13 (S) Bayfield, Wisconsin: Aerial Lift Bridge: 1905 (N ...