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  2. SS Keewatin - Wikipedia

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    She served this purpose by linking the Railroad's Owen Sound depot to Fort William Port Arthur on Lake Superior. In 1912 Port McNicoll, Ontario, was established as the new 'super port' and rail terminus and the ships moved there. The ships took two and a half days to make the trip each way, including half a day traversing the Soo Locks. [1]

  3. Georgian Bay Line - Wikipedia

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    Both vessels advertised weeklong cruises through the upper Great Lakes, with the South American traditionally visiting Lake Superior and the North American taking the Lake Michigan run. Mackinac Island, in the Straits of Mackinac, was the division point where the Y-shaped arms of the Georgian Bay Line's service territory came together.

  4. Great Lakes passenger steamers - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Great Lakes Waterway - Wikipedia

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    The shipping channels pass on opposite sides of Neebish Island in the St Marys River. The waterway allows passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the inland port of Duluth on Lake Superior, a distance of 2,340 miles (3,770 km) and to Chicago, on Lake Michigan, at 2,250 miles (3,620 km). [3]

  6. SS America (1898) - Wikipedia

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    America was a packet boat transporting passengers, mail, and packages between settlements along the North Shore of Lake Superior, an inland sea in central North America.. Built in 1898, America sank in Washington Harbor off the shore of Isle Royale in 1928, where the hull still re

  7. Soo Locks - Wikipedia

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    The Soo Locks (sometimes spelled Sault Locks but pronounced "soo") are a set of parallel locks, operated and maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, that enable ships to travel between Lake Superior and the lower Great Lakes.

  8. Ferries in Michigan - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Great Lakes - Wikipedia

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    The Lake Superior shipwreck coast from Grand Marais, Michigan, to Whitefish Point became known as the "Graveyard of the Great Lakes". More vessels have been lost in the Whitefish Point area than any other part of Lake Superior. [117] The Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve serves as an underwater museum to protect the many shipwrecks in this area.

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