Shorpy for all the boat fans: The City of Detroit 1912

[EastsideAl]

http://www.shorpy.com/node/8413

As always, click on the picture to enlarge it to a huge beautifully detailed size. Love the sailboat off in the distance.

[Stosh]

Same boat from the inside. Wow.

http://www.shorpy.com/node/8394

[EastsideAl]

More information on the ship, actually The City of Detroit III here: http://www.mhsd.org/publications/glswr/citdet3.htm and here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Detroit_III

The Shorpy picture is a view of this enormous side wheeler when it was brand new [[and I believe you can glance the shipyards in the background). Perhaps my grand-parents sailed on this ship on their honeymoon cruise to Cleveland in 1922. The beautiful Gothic Room from this ship is a centerpiece of the Dossin Great Lakes Museum on Belle Isle.

[Magnatomicflux]

eff...my work is blocking the site.i can't see what you see so I hope i'm not regurgitating anything

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[Magnatomicflux]

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and inevitably, they're always burned into a scow........

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I think City of Cleavland burned here in Windsor where Aquarama used to sit.

Thanks for bringing her to our attention EastsideAl!

[gnome]

the bride's grandfather was a first mate for the D&C line. Finished his career on the Aquarama. According to family lore, there was not a lot of love in his heart for the Aquarama.

[Magnatomicflux]

i hear she was a beast to steer or dock. Having only one prop made her a bitch in those cases and with a stiff wind from the side. She's cut up in Turkey now.

The SEE&BEE was turned into the first sidewheeling aircraft carrier!

[Sstashmoo]

Quote: "Same boat from the inside."

Whattayu call an alligator? A lizard? It's a ship, not a boat.

[gnome]

It is my understanding that the Aquarama was a brute who left a massive wake. i don't know enough about boats to describe the reason, but i think it might have something to do with being designed to handle the north Atlantic as a WWII cruiser.

[gnome]

sstash ... i think, a vessle on the Great Lakes it is called a boat. Not sure why this is, but it is what it is.

[Magnatomicflux]

an alligator is a ship usually a paddle boat that can portage itself and winch logs up in the muskokas at the turn of the century

[Sstashmoo]

Quote: "an alligator is a ship usually a paddle boat that can portage itself and winch logs up in the muskokas at the turn of the century"

Wow I'm amazed someone caught that. "Northern steamboats" is one of my favorite reads.

[Sstashmoo]

Quote: "It is my understanding that the Aquarama was a brute who left a massive wake."

It did, I remember it vividly.

[Lowell]

Great pics Magnatomicflux. These narrow balconies are interesting. They make me wonder what stories those walls could tell. What a pity that Great Lake passenger shipping was lost to 'progress'.

[Stosh]

Quote: "Same boat from the inside."

Whattayu call an alligator? A lizard? It's a ship, not a boat.

Yeah right. ever hear of the Bob-lo BOAT?

Read this, also classified as boats:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_freighter

[Sstashmoo]

http://www.maritimehistoryofthegreat.../shiplists.asp

Here is the definitive authority on Great lakes maritime history. The book "Around the lakes / History of the Detroit Drydock Company" They billed themselves as "SHIP and engine builders" People that worked there were "SHIPwrights"

While you're at that site, notice the lists of Great lakes "ships".

The folks that built these vessels and the folks that operated them did not refer to them as "boats". That was obviously started by people on land that did not know any better.

http://www.maritimehistoryofthegreat...b.asp?PubID=35

Incidentally, if you have a copy of that book, it's worth around 600 dollars.

Stosh, your wiki article starts out with the "SS Edmund Fitzgerald" "SS" stands for Steamship.

[Zacha341]

I love the photos on Shorpy. What a nice boat deck shot!

http://www.shorpy.com/node/8413

As always, click on the picture to enlarge it to a huge beautifully detailed size. Love the sailboat off in the distance.

[Magnatomicflux]

Quote: "an alligator is a ship usually a paddle boat that can portage itself and winch logs up in the muskokas at the turn of the century"

Wow I'm amazed someone caught that. "Northern steamboats" is one of my favorite reads.

sorry for coming back to this after so long, but I wanted to mention something to Sstashmoo and anyone else interested in Steamboating.........and I suppose to maybe bring some greenbacks Canada way

Sstashmoo.......if you like that book [[which I've never read) you should pick up a a 2 volume book called "the steamboat era in the muskokas". It gives a beautiful account of life in northern Canada in the sheild. The writter transports you back to that time, really puts you in the story...on the decks, and in the wharfs. It's picture intensive which is just my style.
Last year I took my wife to Gravenhurst on Lake Muskoka, and we went for two cruises. One was on a steamer replica named Wanonah 2, built in 2003....beautiful ship. A little boxy on the outside but....meh. The following day I took her for a sunset dinner cruise aboard the oldest operating steamship in North America, named Segwun. Built in 1887 as a sidewheeler named Nippising, by 1925 she was rebuilt into a twin screw. I can't tell you the feeling I had knowing how many people had walked her decks over the past 123 years! Hell.....Windsor had barely become a town and she was plying the lakes!
She also has another running mate, a steam yacht named Wanda 3. She was built for the Eaton family, of Toronto fame around 1915....I think.

I was going to post some pics from the trip....but for now I can't since there's some problem with "security tokens missing" I don't know what that means, but if the admins can fix it up I'll post'em later if anyone is interested in seeing them