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A lake freighter that sank in a collision with Dalwarnic off Somerset. Noronic Canada: 17 September 1949 A Great Lakes cruise ship that burned and sank at Toronto dock, with over 100 passengers killed. North Star: 26 November 1886 The schooner sank with a load of coal off Stony Island. Ocean Wave: 1853 Paddlewheeler. Old Steamer
SS Carl D. Bradley was an American self-unloading Great Lakes freighter that sank in a Lake Michigan storm on November 18, 1958. Of the 35 crew members, 33 died in the sinking. Twenty-three were from the port town of Rogers City, Michigan, United States.
When first launched, the ship's wide cross-section and long midships hold was an unconventional design, but the design's relative advantages in moving cargo through the inland lakes spawned many imitators. The Hackett is recognized as the very first Great Lakes freighter, a vessel type that has dominated Great Lakes shipping for over 100 years.
SS Senator was a steel-hulled Great Lakes freighter that sank on Lake Michigan with the loss of nine lives and 268 Nash automobiles, [2] on Halloween of 1929 after she was rammed in heavy fog by the bulk carrier Marquette. [3] She lies in 450 feet (140 m) of water 16 miles northeast of Port Washington, Wisconsin.
Cedarville was built in 1927 by the Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge, Michigan. The ship was launched as SS A.F. Harvey, and entered service for the Pittsburgh Steamship Company division of US Steel. The following year, she received slight damage when she collided with the whaleback steamer John Ericsson in heavy fog. [3]
She was one of the first propeller-driven steel lakers that hauled iron and coal on the Great Lakes. [5] She was built for the Chapin Iron Mining Company, and ran between the company's docks in Escanaba, Michigan and Cleveland, Ohio. [3] On May 30, 1895, [4] the Norman was loaded with coal and headed to Escanaba.
The SS Muskegon was a wooden hulled American passenger and package freight vessel that burned down on October 6, 1910 off the coast of Michigan City, Indiana in LaPorte County, Indiana, United States while unloading a cargo of sand. [3]
Her homeport was Marquette, Michigan. In 1896 the Pillsbury was renamed Henry Cort [4] On December 17, 1917, the Cort was breaking ice near Colchester Reef on Lake Erie when she was rammed by the larger steel freighter Midvale. She sank into thirty feet of water approximately 4½ miles from Colchester Reef.