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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 ...
Queen of the Lakes has been used as the name of three vessels that sailed on the Great Lakes, but none was the longest on the lakes at the time. The first was a three-masted Canadian schooner built in 1853 as Robert Taylor, measuring 133 feet (41 m). It was renamed Queen of the Lakes sometime before 1864. [2]
While the ship had been known as the "Queen of the Great Lakes" it is now also a symbol of the end of passenger cruises on the Great Lakes. SS North American and SS South American would continue to sail until 1967 when South American made a final run delivering passengers to the 1967 World's Fair in Montreal, Quebec.
The Eisenhower Locks in Massena, New York St. Lawrence Seaway St. Lawrence Seaway separated navigation channel near Montreal. The St. Lawrence Seaway (French: la Voie Maritime du Saint-Laurent) is a system of locks, canals, and channels in Canada and the United States that permits oceangoing vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes of North America, as far inland as Duluth ...
Mohawk (1956), since 1995 Diamond Queen of Diamond Jack's River Cruises; Island Express (1988), catamaran, now Pictured Rocks Express of Pictured Rocks Cruises in Munising, Michigan. Straits Express (1995), catamaran, was in New York City being used as a commuter ferry for Hornblower Cruises after leaving Michigan. It is now in service under ...
A Great Lakes cruise ship that burned and sank at Toronto dock, with over 100 passengers killed. North Star: 26 November 1886 The schooner sank with a load of coal off Stony Island. Ocean Wave: 1853 Paddlewheeler. Old Steamer: Eastern Lake Ontario in 90 feet (27 m) of water Olive Branch: 30 September 1880 Schooner Oliver Mowat: 9 January 1921 ...
SS Edward L. Ryerson is a steel-hulled American Great Lakes freighter that entered service in 1960. Built between April 1959 and January 1960 for the Inland Steel Company, she was the third of the thirteen so-called 730-class of lake freighters, each of which shared the unofficial title of "Queen of the Lakes", as a result of their record-breaking length.
She was the oldest floating ship on the great lakes at the time of her scrapping. SS Norisle was built in 1946 and operated as a ferry between Tobermory and South Baymouth, Manitoulin Island. Used as a museum ship in Manitoulin Island, the ship fell into disrepair and was closed. She was towed to Port Colbourne, Ontario in fall of 2023 and ...