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Built in Cleveland, Ohio in 1905, the SS Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 was a train ferry built to transport railway cars across Lake Erie from Conneaut, Ohio, to Port Stanley, Ontario. She had a length of 338 feet (103 meters) and a beam of 54 feet (16 meters), and her gross register tonnage was 2,514.
SS: Marquette & Bessemer No. 2: 1909: American or Canadian waters of Lake Erie: USS: Nereus: 1941: somewhere around the Virgin Islands. [25] USS: Pickering: 1800: somewhere between Newcastle, Delaware and Guadeloupe [26] USS: Proteus: 1941: somewhere in Caribbean Sea [27] SS: R.G. Coburn: 1871: Lake freighter lost in heavy weather in Lake Huron ...
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 ...
SS Manistee (1920) HMS Maria (1805) SS Marine Sulphur Queen; Marlborough (1876 ship) SS Marquette & Bessemer No. 2; SS Mary Luckenbach (1918) Mary Somerville (1834 ship) RNLB Mary Stanford (ON 661) Memphis (1805 ship) SS Meriwether Lewis; Mildred (1797 ship) SS Milwaukee (1902) Miztec (schooner barge)
Sinking of the SS Marquette and Bessemer No. 2 [43] Railway Art Forms & Events Local The rail car ferry SS Marquette and Bessemer No. 2 ran between Conneaut, Ohio and Port Stanley, Ontario. It left Conneaut December 9, 1909 and never to reach its destination. Robert Bandeen [44] Railway Workers & Builders National
March 11, 2010: Marquette 80, (10) Villanova 76. In the Big East tournament, Lazar Hayward hit two free throws with 3.2 seconds left with his team up two points to seal a win at Madison Square Garden.
Tyler Kolek had 21 points and 11 assists, and David Joplin made two free throws with 7.4 seconds left to help Marquette finally put away Colorado 81-77 on Sunday in the second round of the NCAA ...
Several train ferries, including SS Milwaukee, SS Pere Marquette 18, and SS Marquette & Bessemer No. 2, have been lost on the Great Lakes. These losses, though causes remain unconfirmed, were attributed to seas boarding the unprotected stern of the ship and swamping it in a severe storm.