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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 ...
The ship was originally planned as SS Boadicea, for the Wilson and Furness-Leyland Line, but was acquired by the Atlantic Transport Line shortly after completion to replace ships requisitioned during the Spanish–American War. She made a single voyage under the name Boadicea, and was renamed Marquette on 15 September 1898.
USS Marquette, a World War II US ship launched in 1945; USS Neshanic, a World War II US ship built as the SS Marquette, launched in 1942; SS Marquette, a Lake Superior shipwreck off the coast of Wisconsin, United States; SS Marquette, a British World War I transport ship torpedoed in the Aegean in 1915
SS Marquette may refer to: SS Marquette (1881) was a lake freighter that sank in 1903. SS Marquette (1897) 1897–1915 was a British troopship that was torpedoed off south of Salonica, Greece with the loss of 167 lives. SS Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 was a train ferry that disappeared with all hands on Lake Erie; SS Marquette is an American ...
Early world maps cover depictions of the world from the Iron Age to the Age of Discovery and the emergence of modern geography during the early modern period.Old maps provide information about places that were known in past times, as well as the philosophical and cultural basis of the map, which were often much different from modern cartography.
The following ships have used the name SS Pere Marquette; SS Pere Marquette (1896), the world's first steel train ferry; SS Pere Marquette 18, a Great Lakes train ferry built in 1902; SS Pere Marquette (1943), a Liberty ship built in 1943 for World War II, scrapped in 1971
Pere Marquette carferry being launched in 1896. The SS Pere Marquette (also Pere Marquette 15) was the world's first steel train ferry.It sailed on Lake Michigan and provided a service between the ports of Ludington, Michigan, and Manitowoc, Wisconsin, for the Pere Marquette Railway from 1897 to 1930.
The Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Michigan off the coast of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.It protects 38 known historically significant shipwrecks ranging from the 19th-century wooden schooners to 20th-century steel-hulled steamers, as well as an estimated 60 undiscovered shipwrecks.