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SS Howard L. Shaw was a 451 ft (137 m) long Lake freighter that was built in 1900 by the Detroit Shipbuilding Company of Wyandotte, Michigan, for the Eddy-Shaw Transit Company of Bay City, Michigan. She was sunk on July 4, 1960 in Ontario Place where she remains to this day.
W.H. Gilcher was a steel-hulled freighter that went missing on Lake Michigan on 28 October 1892. 18 people were killed. William B. Davock United States: 11 November 1940 Sank near Pentwater in the Armistice Day Blizzard. 32–33 people were killed. Wisconsin United States: October 1929 A steamboat that sank off the coast of Kenosha, Wisconsin.
The SS Benjamin Noble was a steel hulled package freighter package freighter built in 1909, that went down with all hands in 1914, in mid-lake off Knife River, Minnesota. Her wreck was found half buried in 2004, in 365-feet of water.
Various lake freighters were built with an "owner's suite". These suites are rarely used today, but the organization has been able to convince shipping companies to make cruises on board a working lake freighter, in the owner's suite, available to donors. 76 donors have won Great Lake freighter cruises.
The vital shipping channel that connects Lake Erie to Lake Huron and includes the Detroit River has seen three ships go aground this year. Why do freighters keep getting stuck in Detroit, St ...
Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter Interlake Steamship Company [aq] 1915 [ar] 1940 [121] [122] Foundered November 11, 1940, off Little Sable Point Light on the Michigan side of Lake Michigan. [121] [122] MV William J. De Lancey: Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter Interlake Steamship Company 1981 [123] 1987 [as]
The ships are used as dry-bulk lake freighters (two gearless bulk freighter and three self-unloading vessel). [29] The first in the series, Algoma Equinox, was launched in 2013. Trillium class – a new class of lake freighter delivered for Canada Steamship Lines in 2012 (Baie St. Paul) and 2013 (Whitefish Bay, Thunder Bay and Baie Comeau).
Lake freighter + List of Great Lakes museum and historic ships; A. USRC Active (1843) SS Alabama; ... SS Michigan; USS Michigan (1843) USC&GS Mikawe; SS Milwaukee (1902)