This is a list of Great Lakes museum and historic ships, including surviving hulls, museum or historic ships at risk, other surviving historic hulls and notable partial ships. MV Maumee, used to be one of the oldest active bulk freighters on the Lakes, until she was scrapped in 2012. Here she is, unloading in Holland, Michigan.

A set of archival records related to 19th to 20th-century NE Michigan and Great Lakes shipping, including schooners, steamboats, shipwrecks, owners, and cargos housed at the Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library as part of the Thunder Bay Research Collection.

A set of archival records related to 19th to 20th-century NE Michigan and Great Lakes shipping, including schooners, steamboats, shipwrecks, owners, and cargos housed at the Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library as part of the Thunder Bay Research Collection.

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2021年5月17日 · Over the years there have been many kinds of ships that have sailed the Great Lakes. All of them served a valued purpose in their day, though some had some uniquely strange looks. Of course many of these at some point would wind up at the bottom of the lakes, casualties of unexpected storms.

I have pictures from my father’s days working on ships around the Great Lakes. Not sure of dates but guessing it’s late 40’s or early 50’s. One ship was George W. Perkins as the name is displayed in one of the pics.

A set of archival records related to 19th to 20th-century NE Michigan and Great Lakes shipping, including schooners, steamboats, shipwrecks, owners, and cargos housed at the Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library as part of the Thunder Bay Research Collection.

Large-scale shipping on the Great Lakes did not begin until iron and copper were discovered on the shores of Lake Superior in the 1840s. Prior to that time, shipping and commerce on the lakes was small, taking place on sailing vessels or paddlewheel-propelled boats.

2021年7月17日 · Welcome to the digital home port of the the history of the Ships of the Great Lakes, past and present. Hon. James L. Oberstar, dusk arrival at Muskegon, MI, 7/17/2021. Brendan Falkowski

The Milwaukee Public Library houses the Great Lakes Marine Collection. This collection contains over 7,000 files on ships that sailed since 1679 and some that sail on the Great Lakes today. Vessels included are diesel-powered, sailing ships, barges, cargo vessels, passenger boats, military vessels, and pleasure craft.