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Ticonderoga is a museum ship and one of just two [a] remaining sidewheel passenger steamers with an intact walking beam engine of the type that powered countless thousands of American freight and passenger vessels on America's bays, lakes and rivers for more than a century.
Infamous among these are Lady Elgin which sank in 1861 with 300 lives lost, Eastland, which capsized in the Chicago River in 1915 with the loss of 844 lives, and Noronic, which burned at the wharf in Toronto, Ontario in September 1949 with the loss of 119 lives. While the ship had been known as the "Queen of the Great Lakes" it is now also a ...
The Liberal steamship was built by Murdoch & Murray at yard number 199 of Port Glasgow in October 1904. It was commissioned by J.C Arana y Hermanos, a rubber firm with offices in the cities of Manaus and Iquitos, located along the Amazon River. Liberal first arrived in Iquitos in December 1904. [3]
She sailed from 1900, to 1962 when she was sunk as a breakwater at Cleveland, Ohio where she was buried under 39 feet of dredgings from the Cuyahoga River. SS Howard L. Shaw was a 451 ft (137 m) long Lake freighter that was built in 1900 by the Detroit Shipbuilding Company of Wyandotte, Michigan , for the Eddy-Shaw Transit Company of Bay City ...
Her four oil-fired steam engines gave her a top speed of 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h; 16.7 mph). [2] She was the Peruvian Corporation's most luxurious steamer on the lake [ 2 ] and the culmination of nearly 70 years' development of Titicaca steamers since the building of Yavari started in 1862.
SS Eastland was a passenger ship based in Chicago and used for tours. On 24 July 1915, the ship rolled over onto its side while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. [1] In total, 844 passengers and crew were killed in what was the largest loss of life from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
Pages in category "Steamships of Peru" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. < Yavari (ship) C.
Yavari is a British-built iron steamship commissioned (along with her sister ship Yapura) by the Peruvian government in 1861 for use on Lake Titicaca by the Peruvian Navy.. She is named after the Javary River in the Loreto Region of Peru, bordering the Amazonas State (), and was the first steamship to cross the highest navigable waters in the world.