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This ship served as USS Great Northern in 1917–1919. The ship was reacquired by the Navy from the War Department 3 August 1921 and commissioned 11 August as Great Northern (AG-9). On 19 November 1921, Great Northern ' s name was changed by Presidential order to Columbia to honor a name long famous in Navy annals
The ship was built by the American Ship Building Company of Cleveland, Ohio, and launched on December 6, 1902.Initially owned by the Manistique-Marquette & Northern Railroad Company of Manistique, Michigan, she was operated under the name Manistique-Marquette & Northern No. 1 until 1909, when she was bought by the Grand Trunk Milwaukee Car Ferry Company and renamed Milwaukee.
The Great Northern Railway is considered to have inspired (in broad outline, not in specific details) the Taggart Transcontinental railroad in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. [26] The song Great Northern by the Western band Riders In The Sky featured on their 2002 album Ridin' The Tweetsie Railroad describes a journey along the Great Northern ...
The original ship, the Grand Haven, was sold, by its receivers, to the Grand Trunk Milwaukee Car Ferry Company in 1905. In 1908 the car ferry company bought the ferry Manistique, Marquette & Northern No. 1 and renamed it SS Milwaukee. In the mid-1920s, the two ships were augmented by chartering ferries from
Great Northern Railway: Appleton and New London Railway: CNW: 1866 1875 Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Railroad, Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Railway: Ashland Railway: CNW: 1882 1885 Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway: Ashland, Odanah and Marengo Railway: AO&M 1902 1921 N/A Baraboo Air Line Railroad: CNW: 1870 1871
Grand Trunk Milwaukee Car Ferry Company ran rail ferries from Grand Haven, Michigan to Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1903 to 1933. From 1933 to 1978 the route was Muskegon to Milwaukee. SS Milwaukee (built 1902) formerly Manistique, Marquette & Northern 1, sank near Milwaukee in 1929, with 52 dead; SS Grand Haven (built 1903) SS Grand Rapids (1926)
The Viking Octantis will dock at Port Milwaukee on May 6. The last time passenger cruises arrived in Milwaukee was 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ship travels at a top speed of 34 knots (39 mph; 63 km/h) [1] and makes the 68-nautical-mile (78 mi; 126 km) trip three times daily from each side of the lake during the peak of its operational schedule. Lake Express is able to cross the lake in two and a half hours.