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As a museum ship, Valley Camp is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Visitors are able to explore the ship as well as view exhibits in the cargo hold, which houses hundreds of artifacts, paintings, shipwreck items, models, two lifeboats from the wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, and exhibits of objects related to maritime history.
The SS Valley Camp is a freighter boat that was launched in Lorain, Ohio, in 1917. The Valley Camp stretches 550 feet (170 m) overall with a 525-foot (160 m) keel. It served on the Great Lakes for almost 50 years, and in 1968 was turned into a museum ship. 25
Valley Camp was a typical oreboat, who served the National Steel Corporation, Republic Steel Corporation and Wilson Transit Co. during her 1917–1966 working life. In 1968, she became a museum ship on the waterfront of Sault Ste. Marie, downstream of the Soo Locks.
The Museum Ship Valley Camp is over 100 years old, and has a long history both as a shipping freighter and as a museum in the city. Great Lakes history up close: Inside the Museum Ship Valley Camp ...
SS Anna C. Minch, built in 1903 in Cleveland; SS Milwaukee Clipper, built in 1904 in Cleveland, originally as the Juniata, for the Anchor Line; USS Wolverine (IX-64), originally built in 1913 as the Seeandbee in Lorain; SS Valley Camp, originally built in 1917 as Louis W. Hill in Lorain
SS Valley Camp [120] 1917. United States Bulk freighter: Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan Wilhelm Baum: 1923. United States ... Museum of Missouri River History, Nebraska
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SS Columbia is the last remaining excursion steamship from the turn of the 20th century in existence, the second to last being her running mate and sister ship SS Ste. Claire which burned in 2018. Both were designed by Frank E. Kirby and Louis O. Keil, interior designer.