Great Lakes freighter

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• Great Lakes Engineering Works — The Great Lakes Engineering Works is a shipbuilding company with a shipyard in Ecorse, Michigan. It is most notable for its construction of the Edmund Fitzgerald.HistoryIn 1902, the Riverside Iron Works was taken over by the Great Lakes… …   Wikipedia

• Great Lakes — This article is about the Great Lakes of North America. For the region, see Great Lakes region (North America). For other uses of this term, see Great Lakes (disambiguation). A rare cloudless satellite view of the entire Great Lakes region, April …   Wikipedia

• Great Lakes Storm of 1913 — The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, historically referred to as the Big Blow , the Freshwater Fury or the White Hurricane , was a blizzard with hurricane force winds that devastated the Great Lakes Basin in the Midwestern United States and the… …   Wikipedia

• Great Lakes Waterway — The Great Lakes Waterway is a system of channels and canals that makes all of the Great Lakes accessible to oceangoing vessels. Its principal civil engineering components are the Welland Canal, bypassing Niagara Falls between Lake Ontario and… …   Wikipedia

• Great Lakes Floating Maritime Museum — The Great Lakes Floating Maritime Museum is located in Duluth, Minnesota.The historic vessels USCG Buoy Tender Sundew , US Army Corps of Engineers tugboat Lake Superior ,and the lake freighter SS William A. Irvin are moored there, and open for… …   Wikipedia

• Museum and historic ships of the Great Lakes — This is a list of museum ships and boats of the Great Lakes, North America, including surviving hulls, museum and/or historic ships at risk, other surviving historic hulls and interesting partial ships of note, etc. Contents 1 Museum ships and… …   Wikipedia

• Lake freighter — Lake freighters, or Lakers, are cargo vessels that ply the Great Lakes. The most well known is the SS Edmund Fitzgerald , the latest major vessel to be wrecked on the Lakes. These vessels are traditionally called boats, not ships. In the mid 20th …   Wikipedia

• Columbia (Arrow Lakes sternwheeler) — Sternwheelers Lytton (in distance), Columbia (center vessel with high pilot house), and Kootenai (on right) at Robson, BC, sometime between 1890 and 1894 Career …   Wikipedia

• SS Edmund Fitzgerald — Edmund Fitzgerald redirects here. For other uses, see Edmund Fitzgerald (disambiguation) …   Wikipedia

• Defoe Shipbuilding Company — Type Privately held company Industry Shipbuilding and repair Founded 1905 Headquarters Bay City, Michigan, USA Key people Harry J …   Wikipedia

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