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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 ...
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.
Ship Launched ATL Service Notes Columbia: 1914 1935–1936 Ex Belgic, ex Belgenland. Scrapped 1936 Korea: 1901 1915–1916 Purchased from the Pacific Mail Steamship Company in 1915. In 1916 the ship was sold to Toyo Kisen Kaisha of Yokohama, Japan, and renamed Korea Maru. Scrapped 1934 Mackinaw: 1890 1897–1923 Ex British Crown. Scrapped 1923 ...
Pere Marquette carferry being launched in 1896. 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.
The ship was rebuilt as a straight deck bulk carrier and lengthened from 500 feet (150 m) to 730 feet (220 m), the maximum size for the new Saint Lawrence Seaway, re-entering service in 1961. She was sold to Pioneer Steamship Co., and renamed SS Pioneer Challenger. She was again resold in 1962 to the Oglebay Norton Corporation, renamed SS ...
One of the last coal-burning car ferries on Lake Michigan, she entered service for the Pere Marquette Railway company in March 1941 as the largest Great Lakes ferry. Powered by two Skinner Unaflow steam engines , the City of Midland 41 was capable of speeds up to 20 miles per hour (17.4 kn) with a cruising speed of 17.6 miles per hour (15.3 kn).
Built in Cleveland, Ohio in 1905, the SS Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 was a train ferry built to transport railway cars across Lake Erie from Conneaut, Ohio, to Port Stanley, Ontario. She had a length of 338 feet (103 meters) and a beam of 54 feet (16 meters), and her gross register tonnage was 2,514.
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 ...