Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Built in Scotland in 1907, the boat steamed between Fort William and Port McNicoll for over 50 years until she was sold for scrap in 1967. Saved from the wrecker's torch, Keewatin was towed to Saugatuck, Michigan for use as a museum in 1968. She is the last unmodified Great Lakes passenger liner in existence, and an example of Edwardian luxury.
Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter [e] Interlake Steamship Company [11] 1967 [12] [13] [f] 1987 [15] Sold in 1987 as part of the spin off of the Interlake Steamship Company in a management buyout; [15] repowered in 2009; [12] renamed MV Hon. James L. Oberstar in 2011. [13] SS Col. James Schoonmaker: Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter ...
MV Tim S. Dool is an Algoma Central-owned seawaymax lake freighter built in 1967, by the Saint John Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. in Saint John, New Brunswick.She initially entered service as Senneville when she sailed as part of the fleet of Mohawk Navigation Company.
First 1,000-footer lake freighter. Originally Hull 1173 and nicknamed "Stubby", the ship only consisted of the bow and stern sections. It was then sailed to Erie, Pennsylvania and lengthened by over 700 feet. [2] [18] Henry Ford II, Benson Ford: 1924 First lake freighters with diesel engines. [19] Feux Follets: 1967 Last ship built with a steam ...
Iron ore boats would have plenty of work to do. William P. Snyder also carried iron ore to furnaces to make munitions used in World War I and World War II. [1] St. Marys Challenger in 2012. The lake carrier was originally powered by two Scotch boilers. In 1926, the vessel was sold to the Stewart Furnace Co. of Cleveland, OH, being renamed Elton ...
At a price tag of $6.7 million, JOHN J. BOLAND was designed to haul up to 21,500 tons of coal, stone and iron ore across the Great Lakes. The 250-foot-long unloading boom could transport 3,500 ...
The SS Sylvania was a 572-foot (174 m) (Originally 524-foot (160 m) long) Great Lakes freighter that had a long 79-year career on the Great Lakes. Sylvania was built by the West Bay City Shipbuilding Company of West Bay City, Michigan as hull #613. She was built for the Duluth Steamship Company of Duluth, Minnesota.
Seal-class patrol boat: For Royal Air Force Marine Branch. [12] 15 May United Kingdom: Appledore Shipbuilders Ltd. Appledore: Lundy Gull: Fishing trawler: For Appledore Shipbuilders Ltd. [13] 20 May United States: Avondale Shipyard: Westwego, Louisiana: Chase: Hamilton-class cutter 20 May United States: Mare Island Naval Shipyard: Vallejo ...