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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 ...
The SS Marquette was a wooden-hulled, American Great Lakes freighter built in 1881, that sank on Lake Superior, five miles east of Michigan Island, Ashland County, Wisconsin, Apostle Islands, United States on October 15, 1903. [2] On the day of February 13, 2008 the remains of the Marquette were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Lake freighter. SS Arthur M. Anderson, with pilothouse forward and engine room astern, also equipped with a self-unloading boom. Lake freighters, or lakers, are bulk carriers operating on the Great Lakes of North America. These vessels are traditionally called boats, although classified as ships. [1][2] Freighters typically have a long, narrow ...
Lake freighter. 22 May 1913. Foundered on Lake Huron, in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. The James C. Carruthers was a 550-foot-long (170 m) Canadian freighter that foundered in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. 44°48′04″N 82°23′49″W / 44.801°N 82.397°W / 44.801; -82.397 (SS James Carruthers) SS Henry B. Smith. 1906.
Early wrecks. Still to be found beneath the waves of Lake Superior are the wooden sidewheeler, Cumberland (1877); bulk freighter, Chester Congdon (1918); and the first 10,000-long-ton (10,000 t) Canadian wheat packet, Emperor (1947). Earlier, the Kamloops which "went missing" in 1927 was found on the northern shore of the island in 1977.
47°31′29″N 90°55′03″W / 47.524625°N 90.917619°W / 47.524625; -90.917619 (George Herbert) George Spencer. Wooden bulk freighter. 1884. 1905. 20 feet (6.1 m) On November 28, 1905 the George Spencer and her towing steamer Amboy were bound from Buffalo, New York for Duluth, Minnesota with a cargo of coal.
March 30, 1973. The Stannard Rock Light is a lighthouse located on a reef that was the most serious hazard to navigation on Lake Superior. [6][7][8] The exposed crib of the Stannard Rock Light is rated as one of the top ten engineering feats in the United States. [9] It is 24 miles (39 km) from the nearest land, making it the most distant (from ...
Until 1876, Marquette was the only port on Lake Superior that shipped iron ore to the east. [5] After the Civil War, advancement was rapid. The Cleveland Iron Mining Company's dock was 30 feet (9.1 m) above the lake level and was originally built with 29 schooner pockets and 6 steam boat pockets. By 1872, it had been extended an additional 350 ...