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Largest ship to have sunk on the Lakes; Most well known Queen; most recent lake freighter to sink Murray Bay: September 17, 1959 December 7, 1962 730 222.5 bulk carrier September 17, 1958 renamed Comeaudoc: Out of service December 4, 1996; scrapped, Port Colborne, Canada 2002 First 730 ft vessel on the Lakes SS Arthur B. Homer: November 7, 1959
The J. Pierpont Morgan was the Queen of the Lakes, when launched – i.e. the longest ship on the Great Lakes. [3] She was Queen of the Lakes from April 12, 1906, to August 18, 1906. According to Mark L. Thompson , author of Queen of the Lakes , she was the first of the " 600-footers ", a series of dozens of lake freighters built to her design ...
The St. Petersburg Open Invitational, first played as the St. Petersburg Open, was a PGA Tour event that was held at three St. Petersburg, Florida area clubs for 29 years from 1930 until 1964. [1]
MV Paul R. Tregurtha aground in the outbound channel of the St. Marys River, August 15, 2012. At around 3 a.m. on August 15, 2012, as she was proceeding downbound with 62,000 tons of coal, the bow of MV Paul R. Tregurtha grounded in the outbound channel of St. Marys River, just north of the Neebish Island ferry crossing, near Sault Ste. Marie.
SS Edward L. Ryerson is a steel-hulled American Great Lakes freighter that entered service in 1960. Built between April 1959 and January 1960 for the Inland Steel Company, she was the third of the thirteen so-called 730-class of lake freighters, each of which shared the unofficial title of "Queen of the Lakes", as a result of their record-breaking length.
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Hotel Clermont is a fairly unassuming building (so much so that my Uber driver passed it twice) along the very traffic-heavy Ponce de Leon Avenue in downtown Atlanta.. It was built in 1924, fell ...
The steamship Col. James M. Schoonmaker began life on 1 July 1911 at the Great Lakes Engineering Works in Ecorse, Michigan. At the time of her launch she took the title of Queen of the Lakes which is given to the biggest ship on the Great Lakes. She became the flagship of the Shenango Furnace Company.