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2. Julia Belle Swain - Wikipedia

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   The Julia Belle Swain is a steam-powered sternwheeler currently under restoration in La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States. [ 1] Designed and built in 1971 by Capt. Dennis Trone, the Julia Belle was the last boat built by Dubuque Boat & Boiler Works of Dubuque, Iowa. The boat's steam engines were built in 1915 by the Gillett and Eaton Company and ...

3. Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac - Wikipedia

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   The Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac is a 333-mile (289 nmi; 536 km) annual yacht race starting in Lake Michigan off Chicago, Illinois, and ending in Lake Huron off Mackinac Island, Michigan. It is hosted and managed by the Chicago Yacht Club. The "Mac" (as it is known) was first run in 1898 and is the oldest annual freshwater distance race ...

4. Michipicoten (1952 ship) - Wikipedia

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   Michipicoten. (1952 ship) Michipicoten docked in Marquette, Michigan. Michipicoten (named Elton Hoyt II when she entered service in 1952) is a self-discharging lake freighter owned and operated by Canadian shipping firm Lower Lakes Towing. [3] Michipicoten primarily hauls taconite from Marquette, Michigan, to the Algoma Steel Mill in Sault Ste ...

5. List of boat types - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of boat types. For sailing ships , see: List of sailing boat types This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.

6. List of ship types - Wikipedia

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   Naval vessel able to launch and retrieve airplanes Amphibious warfare ship vessels of various sizes for landing personnel and vehicles Aviso (Spanish, French or Portuguese) Originally a dispatch boat, later applied to ships equivalent to the Royal Navy sloop Barque A sailing vessel with three or more masts, fore-and-aft rigged on only the aftermost

7. SV Mandalay - Wikipedia

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   The SV Mandalay is a three-masted schooner measuring 163.75 ft (49.91 m) pp, [1] with a wrought iron hull. It was built as the private yacht Hussar (IV), and would later become the research vessel Vema, one of the world's most productive oceanographic research vessels. The ship currently sails as the cruising yacht Mandalay in the Caribbean.

8. LCVP (United States) - Wikipedia

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   LCVP (United States) The landing craft, vehicle, personnel (LCVP) or Higgins boat was a landing craft used extensively by the Allied forces in amphibious landings in World War II. Typically constructed from plywood, this shallow-draft, barge-like boat could ferry a roughly platoon -sized complement of 36 men to shore at 12 knots (14 mph; 22 km/h).

9. T-top (boat) - Wikipedia

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   A T-top is a type of top for center console boats that is built with a T-shaped structure when viewed from the side. The top is tall enough to stand under, and provides shade and rain protection for two or more passengers at the boat 's helm. The T-top is distinguished from other boat tops in that the entire structure is attached to the center ...