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SS Keewatin is a former Canadian Pacific passenger liner. Built in Scotland in 1907, the boat steamed between Fort William and Port McNicoll for over 50 years until she was sold for scrap in 1967. Saved from the wrecker's torch, Keewatin was towed to Saugatuck, Michigan for use as a museum in 1968.
List of Great Lakes museum and historic ships; A. USRC Active (1843) SS Alabama; SS Algoma; ... Nancy (1789 ship) USS Neshanic; USS New Orleans (1815) USS Niagara (1813)
Lake freighter. SS Arthur M. Anderson, with pilothouse forward and engine room astern, also equipped with a self-unloading boom. Lake freighters, or lakers, are bulk carriers operating on the Great Lakes of North America. These vessels are traditionally called boats, although classified as ships. [1][2] Freighters typically have a long, narrow ...
The American Ship Building Company was the dominant shipbuilder on the Great Lakes before the Second World War. It started as Cleveland Shipbuilding in Cleveland, Ohio [1] in 1888 and opened the yard in Lorain, Ohio in 1898. It changed its name to the American Ship Building Company in 1900, when it acquired Superior Shipbuilding, in Superior ...
48°05′06″N 88°45′53″W / 48.085°N 88.764722°W / 48.085; -88.764722 (Kamloops) Isle Royale National Park. The SS Kamloops was a lake freighter that was part of the fleet of Canada Steamship Lines from its launching in 1924 until it sank with all hands off Isle Royale in Lake Superior on or about 7 December 1927.
Great Lakes passenger steamers. The history of commercial passenger shipping on the Great Lakes is long but uneven. It reached its zenith between the mid-19th century and the 1950s. As early as 1844, palace steamers carried passengers and cargo around the Great Lakes. By 1900, fleets of relatively luxurious passenger steamers plied the waters ...
Pages in category "Passenger ships of the Great Lakes" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Lake freighter. 22 May 1913. Foundered on Lake Huron, in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. The James C. Carruthers was a 550-foot-long (170 m) Canadian freighter that foundered in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. 44°48′04″N 82°23′49″W / 44.801°N 82.397°W / 44.801; -82.397 (SS James Carruthers) SS Henry B. Smith. 1906.