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Circle Line XVII - commissioned in 1934 as the USCG patrol boat Triton, decommissioned in 1967 and sold to Circle Line in 1973. Circle Line Manhattan - purpose-built in 2008 to replace Circle Line XI. Circle Line Brooklyn - purpose-built in 2009. Circle Line Queens - purpose-built in 2009. The Beast - speedboat that entered service with Circle ...
Map from 1847 showing the routes of ferries in Lower Manhattan, Jersey City, Hoboken, and Brooklyn. The following ferries cross or once crossed the East River in New York City . This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
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]
Team boats served New York City for "about ten years, from 1814-1824. They were of eight horse-power and crossed the rivers in from twelve to twenty minutes." [10]In 1812, two steam boats designed by Robert Fulton were placed in use in New York, for the Paulus Hook Ferry from the foot of Cortlandt Street, and on the Hoboken Ferry from the foot of Barclay Street.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Waterway: Toronto Inner Harbour (Lake Ontario) Transit type: Ferry: Operator: Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division PortsToronto (Toronto Port Authority) Began operation: 1883: System length: City Docks to Centre - 2km City Docks to Hanlan's - 2km City Docks to Ward's - 1.7 km Western Gap - 190m: No. of lines ...
Windsor Racecourse is located on the banks of the River Thames and occupies a large island between the main channel of the River and the Clewer Mill Stream backwater. Although the course is shaped like a figure-of-eight, the full circuit is never used, so in races of 1m, 1m 2f and 1m 3f 99y (the longest distance at Windsor) the runners turn ...
The E. C. Row Expressway is a municipal expressway in the city of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It divides the city in half as it crosses it between the Ojibway Parkway in the west and Banwell Road in the east, a distance of 15.4 kilometres (9.6 mi). It was built between 1971 and 1983, reaching completion across the city on June 9, 1983.
The Quebec City–Windsor Corridor (French: Corridor Québec-Windsor) is the most densely populated and heavily industrialized region of Canada. As its name suggests, the 1,150 km (710 mi)-long region extends from Quebec City in the northeast to Windsor, Ontario in the southwest.