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City of Muskegon was an American steel-hulled sidewheel package and passenger steamer, [1] built in 1881 for service on the Great Lakes, which was wrecked early on 28 October 1919 when it struck a pier at Muskegon, Michigan, at 0430 hrs., [2] in a 60 miles per hour (97 km/h) gale, sinking in a period estimated between four and ten minutes.
SS City of Milwaukee is a Great Lakes railroad car ferry that once plied Lake Michigan, often between Muskegon, Michigan and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.She was built in 1931 for the Grand Trunk Milwaukee Car Ferry Company and is the only pre-1940s ship of this type to survive.
The tug Prentiss Brown had been built in 1967 at the Gulfport Shipyard in Port Arthur, Texas and worked in Florida, South Carolina, and New York before coming to the Great Lakes in 2008. [4] The two-element vessel combination resumed the dedicated transport of powdered cement on the Great Lakes. [1]
The Muskegon Rail & Navigation Co. would build and operate the rail terminal operations in Muskegon. The Grand Haven dock slip would be reserved for auxiliary or emergency use. In 1903 Grand Trunk Western was the last of the three Michigan railroads to start Lake Michigan ferry operations, the Ann Arbor Railroad and Pere Marquette Railway began ...
It was constructed by Austal USA in Mobile, Alabama, [1] and began service on June 1, 2004. [2] It was one of the first high-speed catamaran -style auto/passenger ferries built in the United States. It was also the first high-speed auto ferry to see service on the Great Lakes , beating out the Spirit of Ontario I , which was beset by a series ...
Christened Juniata when she was launched, she was built for the Anchor Line, the Great Lakes marine division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Her sister ships were the SS ''Tionesta'' of 1902 and SS Octorara of 1910. The ship is 361 feet (110 m) in length, 45 feet (14 m) in beam, a depth of 22 feet (6.7 m), with a gross tonnage of 4333 tons.
Mohawk, built about 1844 for British Revenue Service, ferry at Detroit mid-1850s, one of the first iron boats on the Great Lakes, later used on Great Lakes as passenger steamer, sank Lake Huron; Gem (1858-?), sidewheeler (ran Detroit to Amherstburg its first season) Essex (built 1859 - in use until 1877), sold for use as ferry from Port Huron ...
SS Badger is a passenger and vehicle ferry in the United States that has been in service on Lake Michigan since 1953. Currently, the ship shuttles between Ludington, Michigan, and Manitowoc, Wisconsin, a distance of 62 miles (100 km), connecting U.S. Highway 10 (US 10) between those two cities.