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Designed and built in 1971 by Capt. Dennis Trone, the Julia Belle was the last boat built by Dubuque Boat & Boiler Works of Dubuque, Iowa. The boat's steam engines were built in 1915 by the Gillett and Eaton Company and originally installed on the central wheel ferryboat City of Baton Rouge. The engines have logged well over a million miles.
Clyde Boats was a small, privately owned, custom boat company located in Detroit, Michigan. For nearly fifty years it produced custom mahogany motorboats for clients in the Great Lakes area. Clyde Boats were available in three sizes; 12', [ 1 ] 14', and 16'. [ 2 ]
On May 28, 1898, the ice went out on Bennett Lake. [6] Thousands of boats took to the water within 48 hours and headed for the Dawson City. [6] The A.J. Goddard appears to have departed Bennett on June 2, 1898, reaching Tagish Lake the next day just to return and wait for the river to get free of ice. [6]
Aug. 28—MANISTEE — One passenger is still missing and one is dead after a fishing boat with five people aboard sunk in Lake Michigan Sunday, the Manistee County Sheriff's Office reported. At 9 ...
The Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Michigan off the coast of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.It protects 38 known historically significant shipwrecks ranging from the 19th-century wooden schooners to 20th-century steel-hulled steamers, as well as an estimated 60 undiscovered shipwrecks.
A Michigan couple died in two separate accidents between Christmas and New Year's Day, according to local officials. Scott Levitan, 66, and Mary Lou Levitan, also 66, were both residents of ...
The sternwheeler M.V. Columbia Gorge, built in 1983, was one of the first replica steamboats built for tourism purposes in Oregon. Since the early 1980s, several non-steam-powered sternwheel riverboats have been built and operated on major waterways in the U.S. state of Oregon, primarily the Willamette and Columbia Rivers, as river cruise ships used for tourism.
A 20-year-old woman died after a boat capsized near Navy Pier early Friday morning. The boat was returning to shore around 2:40 a.m. when it possibly struck a breakwater, injuring six people, all ...