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The Detroit River is an international river in North America.The river, which forms part of the border between the U.S. state of Michigan and the Canadian province of Ontario, flows west and south for 24 nautical miles (44 km; 28 mi) from Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie as a strait in the Great Lakes system.
The US postal zip code 48222 is exclusive to the floating post office and its ship addressees; as of 2016, the boat has a contract with the US Postal Service through 2021. [2] The mail is delivered to the appropriate ships (mainly lake freighters) as they transit the Detroit River, utilizing ropes and buckets. [2]
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.
Garfield Arthur "Gar" Wood (December 4, 1880 – June 19, 1971) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and championship motorboat builder and racer who held the world water speed record on several occasions. He was the first man to travel over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) on water.
In 1903, the plant owned eighty-five acres (34 ha) along the Detroit River that included 1,400 feet (430 m) of river frontage. [4] The company began with a capital of $1.5 million and a $500,000 bond issue. [5] Within three years of GLEW's formation, Detroit built fifty percent of the tonnage of all ships in the Great Lakes. [3]
Ore Carriers: The many ore boats of the American and Canadian fleets is filled with many different old and new ore carriers. Historical ore carriers include Herbert C Jackson (1959), Wilfred Sykes (1949), Lee A. Tregurtha (1942), Saginaw (1953), Cuyahoga (1943), SS Edward L. Ryerson (1960), MV Kaye E. Barker (1952), and the John G Munson (1952)
Detroit, later called Iroquois (built 1922) Mackinac (1909) Mackinac Islander (1922), in use 1938–69, originally The Oliver H. Perry, later freighter and sank as Alaska crab fishing boat Belair in 1974 [16] Mackinac Islander (1958), sold in the 1980s, now Diamond Belle of Diamond Jack's River Cruises on the Detroit River
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]