List of Great Lakes museum and historic ships
In an ambitious restoration, Col James M. Schoonmaker was re-christened with its original name July 1, 2011, on the 100th anniversary of the ship's launching in Toledo, Ohio.
It was the first laker with a welded design, and served as the flagship of US Steel's Great Lakes fleet from her launch in 1938 until 1975.
Built in Scotland in 1907, the boat steamed between Fort William and Port McNicoll for over 50 years until she was sold for scrap in 1967.
A June 24, 2007 Toronto Star article documented a Canadian effort to see the steamer returned to Dominion waters as a museum ship at Port McNicoll.
The effort to repatriate "The Kee" bore fruit on June 23, 2012 (100 years to the day after she first entered Port McNicoll), when the ship returned to her former berth before a crowd of thousands.
The SD Milwaukee Clipper was built in 1904 as the SS Juniata, She carried 350 passengers and cargo between Buffalo, NY, and Duluth, MN from 1905 through 1936, when she was tied up with an uncertain future.
She sailed for the company for 40 years (and another five for the Ann Arbor Railroad) before laying up in Frankfort in 1982, where she remained until being sold as a museum.
Later moved to her present berth in Manistee, she is open for tours as the last unmodified, classic railroad ferry.
Built in 1896, it was one of the last operating steam tugboats on the Great Lakes and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
The steam tug Ned Hanlan has been preserved ashore as a static display on the grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition.
The former World War II United States Army tugboat Major Elisha K. Henson, built in 1943, participated in the Normandy landings.
[2] A United States Army Corps of Engineers tugboat, Bayfield, serves as a popular photo shoot at Duluth's Canal Park, Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center.
During World War II, the boat was taken into government service as the USAT Butterfield, LT-145, serving in the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea.
The Roen Steamship Company acquired the tug, renaming it John Purves (after the firm's general manager) and using it as a salvage vessel.
The Small warping tug Ancaster was built in 1951 operating under 3 owners and sinking once in 1979 but was raised in 1982 serving until 1991 when she became a permanent display at the Owen Sound Marine & Rail Museum she is famous in Canada for appearing on the back of the 1 dollar bill.
The Great Lakes are home to a large number of naval craft serving as museums (including five submarines, two destroyers and a cruiser).
[5] USS Cod (SS-224) is a World War II Gato-class submarine which was brought to Cleveland, Ohio in 1959 as a training platform for Navy Reservists.
[7] USS Edson (DD-946) is a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer and currently a museum ship in Bay City, Michigan.
LST-393, a World War II tank landing ship launched in 1943, is available for tours at West Michigan Dock and Market in Muskegon.
It was purchased by Canada in 1962 and commissioned into the Canadian navy in 1965, served primarily in the Maritime Forces Atlantic until its decommissioning in 1998.
The World War II Fletcher-class destroyer USS The Sullivans was named for five brothers killed in the line of duty.
USCGC Acacia is a retired buoy tender with icebreaking capabilities serving as a museum ship moored near the railroad car ferry, SS City of Milwaukee.
The World War II-vintage vessel is a tribute to the black-painted workhorses of the United States Coast Guard.
[10] Former Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker CCGS Alexander Henry resides at the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes as a display and a bed-and-breakfast.
Launched in 1958, she and the former USCGC Mackinaw serve as the Great Lakes' two surviving large red-hulled icebreakers.
The following historic museum ship did face an uncertain future: MS Norgoma, berthed in the Sault Ste.
