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The Pearl Mist sails the Great Lakes each summer season, as well as the Canadian and New England coastlines, including the St. Lawrence Seaway, in spring and fall. The ship is the only fully stabilized 100% private balcony cruise ship sailing the Great Lakes.
USS Wolverine (IX-64) was a training ship used by the United States Navy during World War II.She was originally named Seeandbee and was built as a Great Lakes luxury side-wheel steamer cruise ship for the Cleveland and Buffalo Transit Company.
The Canadiana was built at the Buffalo Dry Dock on Ganson Street in 1910 and was the last passenger vessel to be built in Buffalo. [4] She was designed by marine architect Frank E. Kirby, who later designed the largest side wheel overnight steamers built for the Great Lakes, the Greater Buffalo and the Greater Detroit.
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.
The ship returned to New Orleans on 27 March and spent from March through June in restricted availability. On 21 June, the destroyer, in company with Davis and Robert A. Owens, departed her home port; and, after off-loading ammunition at the Naval Weapons Station, Charleston, South Carolina, she set sail for a cruise of the Great Lakes. During ...
The S/V Denis Sullivan is a three-masted, wooden, gaff rigged schooner originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.She was a flagship of both the state of Wisconsin and of the United Nations Environment Programme [1] until she was sold to the World Ocean School and moved to Boston, Massachusetts in late 2022.
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Each ship was painted with a black hull and white superstructure and white lettering. By 1949, the ships wore all-white paint with blue lettering. The popular line operated from 1868 to 1951 and is often referred to as the owner of many of the Great Lakes' best "floating palaces" and "honeymoon ships".