SS City of Milwaukee

The City of Milwaukee

The combined passenger and train ferry City of Milwaukee is the last ship received her series on the Great Lakes.

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The serene water on November 25, 1930 Ferry was the final one in 1923, built at Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company series of six sister ships. The first two units created for the railway company Pere Marquette Railroad, it was followed by a single ship for the Ann Arbor Railroad, which was joined the three ships of the Grand Trunk Western Railroad. The City of Milwaukee was intended as a replacement for the 1929 decline in a storm Milwaukee.

Most of his time was spent using the ferry on his first cruise line, the Grand Trunk Milwaukee Car Ferry Company on Lake Michigan. Nevertheless, the ship was chartered from time to time. 1979 was acquired by the State of Michigan, the boat and sat there for another two years in the service of the Ann Arbor Railroad, before it was placed in 1981 in the task of ferries that cross the lakes out of service.

At the behest of the Northwest Michigan Maritime Museum and the inhabitants of the place in Frankfort Michigan was the City of Milwaukee in 1983 saved from scrapping. Two years later, the Society for the Preservation of the SS City of Milwaukee established as advocacy. After the ship in 1990, first received the title of a National Historic Landmark, you took it later due to the participation in World War II in the Historic Naval Ships Association list of on. After had terminal in the port of Frankfort destroy the possibility of a permanent mooring in the historic Ann Arbor Railroad Navy, the ship was to be spent in 2004 to Manistee. Since May 18, 2004 has the City of Milwaukee at the marina of the Moonlite Motel on Lake Manistee.