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Manitou is a 62-foot-long (18.9 m) performance cruising yacht designed and built for racing on the Great Lakes [2] [6] and specifically to win the Chicago-Mackinac Race. [7] It notably served as a presidential yacht for United States president John F. Kennedy [8] [9] and was known as the "Floating White House."
SS William Clay Ford was a bulk freighter built for hauling material on the Great Lakes.She was named for William Clay Ford Sr., grandson of Henry Ford.Her keel was laid in 1952 at River Rouge, Michigan by the Great Lakes Engineering Works, and she was launched in 1953.
After a 107-year-long working career as a self-propelled boat, she was converted into a barge and paired with the tug Prentiss Brown as an articulated tug-barge. [1] Before conversion, she was the oldest operating self-propelled lake freighter on the Great Lakes, as well as being one of the last freight-carrying vessels on the Great Lakes to be ...
She was the largest sailing vessel on the Great Lakes up to that time. La Salle and Father Louis Hennepin set out on Le Griffon ' s maiden voyage on 7 August 1679 with a crew of 32, sailing across Lake Erie , Lake Huron and Lake Michigan through uncharted waters that only canoes had previously explored.
SS Chief Wawatam: A historic icebreaker and the last hand-fired coal steamer on the Great Lakes, Chief Wawatam was cut down to a barge and finally scrapped by its owner (Purvis Marine of Sault Ste Marie, Ontario). Three-masted schooner J.T. Wing: Last commercial sailing ship on the Great Lakes, she was used briefly in the lumber trade. She ...
Lost on Lake Huron during the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. Its wreck was discovered in July 2015. [13] Ironton: 26 September 1894 A schooner that sank in a collision with the wooden freighter Ohio. Isaac M. Scott United States: 9 November 1913 A lake freighter that sank in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913
Capt John on his Great Loop boat. John C. Wright is an American author and pioneer of America's Great Loop. Best known in the trades as Capt. John. His first documented voyage around the Loop was completed in 1971. He is best known for his books, articles and public speaking engagements about living aboard and cruising America's Great Loop.
Both vessels advertised weeklong cruises through the upper Great Lakes, with the South American traditionally visiting Lake Superior and the North American taking the Lake Michigan run. Mackinac Island, in the Straits of Mackinac, was the division point where the Y-shaped arms of the Georgian Bay Line's service territory came together.