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Below is a list of ports in the Great Lakes region, which includes Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, and Lake Superior, as well as the smaller Lake St. Clair. Lake Superior [ edit ]
The U.S.-built Ontario (110 feet, 34 m), launched in the spring of 1817 at Sacketts Harbor, New York, began its regular service in April 1817 before Frontenac made its first trip to the head of the lake on June 5. [1] The first steamboat on the upper Great Lakes was the passenger-carrying Walk-in-the-water, built in 1818 to navigate Lake Erie ...
SS Ridgetown was partially sunk as a breakwater (with stack and cabins intact) near Toronto, at Port Credit. Built in 1905 as SS William E. Corey, it is one of the oldest surviving hulls on the lake. There are only few ships older, such as the J. B. Ford. Its silhouette is an example of the appearance of early-1900s bulk carriers.
Other events to track for milestone commemorations include events tied to the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie; the 1832 discovery of bog iron at Presque Isle; the 1843 launch of USS Michigan, the U.S ...
The U.S. and Canadian coast guards collaborated to free a large freighter that had been trapped in ice in the midst of Lake Erie for days. It took several icebreaking ships two days to Free the ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. – A Canadian freighter became icebound in Lake Erie outside the Buffalo River breakwall while departing Buffalo, New York, requiring help from a U.S. Coast Guard cutter. The Coast ...
The Goodtime III is the third generation of sightseeing boats that cruise and tour Lake Erie and the Cuyahoga River. The boat can hold 1,000 passengers, has four decks and indoor and outdoor seating. Tours of the Cleveland area waterways are narrated and include local and natural history. The boats and the cruise tours have been owned and ...
The ships are used as dry-bulk lake freighters (two gearless bulk freighter and three self-unloading vessel). [29] The first in the series, Algoma Equinox, was launched in 2013. Trillium class – a new class of lake freighter delivered for Canada Steamship Lines in 2012 (Baie St. Paul) and 2013 (Whitefish Bay, Thunder Bay and Baie Comeau).