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Initially still focused on racing, Wood set a new water speed record of 75 miles per hour (121 km/h) in 1920 on the Detroit River, using a new twin Liberty V-12 powered boat called Miss America. In the following twelve years, Wood built nine more Miss Americas and broke the record five times, raising it to 125 miles per hour (201 km/h) in 1932 ...
The Detroit River is an international river in North America.The river, which forms part of the border between the U.S. state of Michigan and the Canadian province of Ontario, flows west and south for 24 nautical miles (44 km; 28 mi) from Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie as a strait in the Great Lakes system.
The US postal zip code 48222 is exclusive to the floating post office and its ship addressees; as of 2016, the boat has a contract with the US Postal Service through 2021. [2] The mail is delivered to the appropriate ships (mainly lake freighters) as they transit the Detroit River, utilizing ropes and buckets. [2]
A 617-foot freighter ran aground in the St. Clair River Tuesday morning, the U.S. Coast Guard Detroit Sector announced. The cargo ship, named American Courage, was carrying 20,000 tons of stone ...
Willis B. Boyer (now Col. James M Schoonmaker) and Buckeye in the Maumee River, Toledo; Buckeye currently sails as the barge Lewis J. Kuber. William A. Irvin was named for the president of U.S. Steel at the time of its launching. It was the first laker with a welded design, and served as the flagship of US Steel's Great Lakes fleet from her ...
Cargo ship American Courage was freed Tuesday evening with the help of some tug boats, about 12 hours after the freighter ran aground in the St. Clair River.. The 617-foot freighter was refloated ...
The first race held on the Detroit River was the Gold Cup, in 1916. The community-owned Miss Detroit won the Gold Cup in 1915 on Manhasset Bay, outside of New York City, and earned the right to defend it the following year on home waters.
The front entrance to Detroit's Belle Isle Boat House on Belle Isle in Detroit on Wednesday, October 18, 2023. The state is asking for input about the boat house's future.