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History. America (Official No. 107367) [2] was a steel-hulled ship, built by the Detroit Dry Dock Company and launched on April 2, 1898. [3] The ship was 184 feet long, 31 feet wide, and 11 feet in depth. [3] She had a gross tonnage of 486 tons and a net of 283 tons. [3] She was powered by a triple expansion steam engine and two Scotch boilers ...
American Ship Building Company
894,832. Website. www.iipd.com. The Port of Chicago consists of several major port facilities within the city of Chicago, Illinois, operated by the Illinois International Port District (formerly known as the Chicago Regional Port District). It is a multimodal facility featuring Senator Dan Dougherty Harbor (Lake Calumet), the Iroquois Landing ...
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 ...
Lake freighter - Wikipedia ... Lake freighter
Wyandotte, Michigan
Charlevoix was home to Michigan's first nuclear power plant, Big Rock Point, which operated from 1962 to 1997. On January 7, 1971, an unarmed USAF B-52C-45-BO, 54-2666, of the 9th BW, Westover AFB, Massachusetts, crashed into Lake Michigan near Charlevoix during a practice bomb run, exploding on impact. [51]
The Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company operated the world's largest limestone quarry (Michigan Limestone; a/k/a the "Calcite Quarry"; "Calcite Plant and Mill"; and "Carmeuse Lime and Stone"), which is located near Rogers City in Presque Isle County, Michigan. It was formed and organized in 1910; however, production did not begin until 1912.