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SS Greater Detroit was a sidewheel steamer on Lake Erie that was launched in 1923. It was operated by the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company and carried passengers between Detroit , Michigan and Buffalo , New York .
Gothic Room. City of Detroit III cost $1,500,000 to build ($49.1 million in 2023 dollars) and was ornately furnished. [4] Forty percent of the steamer's width was situated over the wheels, allowing room for many amenities like salons, a palm court and a winery to be built into the vessel. [7]
On December 8, 1927, the Tashmoo snapped its moorings during a gale and starting drifting up the Detroit River. [6] It collided with a ferry and was found further upstream, stopped by the Belle Isle Bridge. [6] Two tugboats pulled the Tashmoo away from bridge, but the cables broke again and the ship once again headed for the bridge.
SS Lansdowne was a railroad car ferry built in 1884 by the Wyandotte Shipyard of the Detroit Dry Dock Company. It was used as a steamer from 1884 until 1970 between Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, across the Detroit River. At the time of its construction it was the longest ship on the Great Lakes at 312 feet (95 m). [1]
Lewis G Harriman (launched as the purpose-built cement steamer John W Boardman) was scrapped, but the bow was saved as a residence. It was restored in the Boardman's colors. The pilot house of William Clay Ford is part of the Dossin Great Lakes Museum on Belle Isle, Detroit. [13] The bulk freighter was built in 1952 and scrapped in 1987.
SS Ste. Claire is a steamer located in Detroit, Michigan.Built in 1910, she was one of the last propeller-driven excursion steamers to be operated on the Great Lakes.She was declared a US National Historic Landmark in 1992.
The PS Anthony Wayne (also known as Anthony B. Wayne or General Wayne) was an early wooden-hulled sidewheel steamship [A] that sank on April 28, 1850, in Lake Erie off the coast of Vermilion, Ohio, after two of her starboard side boilers exploded. The number of people on board the ship at the time of incident is estimated to be about 100.
A steam freighter, wrecked and aground at Cape Fairweather. [3] Politkofsky: 1915 A sidewheel steamer built by the Russian-American Company, completed 4,000 miles (6,400 km) before being abandoned in St. Michael near the entrance of the Yukon River. Portland: 12 November 1910 A steamship which struck the rocks off Cordova. [10] Princess ...