• Thumbnail for Great Lakes Engineering Works
    The Great Lakes Engineering Works (GLEW) was a leading shipbuilding company with a shipyard in Ecorse, Michigan, that operated between 1902 and 1960....
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    200 DWT, 2,351 GRT steam-powered "Laker" type bulk carrier ships built for the USSB by the Great Lakes Engineering Works (GLEW), River Rouge Yard, Ecorse...
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    SS Arthur B. Homer (category Great Lakes freighters)
    Arthur B. Homer was a 730-foot (220 m) Great Lakes freighter that was built in 1960 by Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge, Michigan for the Bethlehem...
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    SS William Clay Ford (category Great Lakes freighters)
    Great Lakes. She was named for William Clay Ford Sr., grandson of Henry Ford. Her keel was laid in 1952 at River Rouge, Michigan by the Great Lakes Engineering...
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    SS William G. Mather (1925) (category Great Lakes freighters)
    mills were a frequent destination. It was built in 1925 by Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Michigan, as the flagship for Cleveland-Cliffs and...
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    Vacationland was an American double-ended automobile ferry, built by Great Lakes Engineering Works for the Michigan State Highway Department. She was built to...
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    the North American Great Lakes. Although all of the lakes are naturally connected as a chain, water travel between the lakes was impeded for centuries...
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    Type L6 ship (category Great Lakes freighters)
    models, of which 6 were built; and Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ashtabula, Ohio/ Great Lakes Engineering Works, River Rouge, Michigan, in the case...
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    SS South American (category Great Lakes ships)
    Steamer South American was a Great Lakes steamer built by the Great Lakes Engineering Works at Ecorse, Michigan. It was built in 1913/14 for the Chicago...
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    Mississagi (ship) (category Great Lakes freighters)
    a design from the United States Maritime Commission by the Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge, Michigan. She had fifteen sister ships, also...
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    Ashtabula (ferry) (category Great Lakes articles missing geocoordinate data)
    south shore of Lake Erie, to Port Burwell, Ontario, on the north shore. Ashtabula was built in 1906, at the Great Lakes Engineering Works in St. Clair,...
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  • J. L. Mauthe (category Great Lakes freighters)
    straight-deck bulk carrier steamship, hull #298, built in 1952 by the Great Lakes Engineering Works on the River Rogue, Michigan site and delivered to its owner...
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    Bethlehem Transportation Corporation (category Great Lakes shipping companies)
    built 1943 by Great Lakes Engineering, a type L6-S-B1, other name: Frank Purnell, Robert C. Norton Lehigh, built 1943 by Great Lakes Engineering, a L6-S-B1...
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    SS J.H. Sheadle (category Great Lakes freighters)
    Sheadle was an American Great Lakes freighter built in 1906. She was built in Ecorse, Michigan, by the Great Lakes Engineering Works. She was owned by the...
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    Benson Ford (1924 ship) (category Great Lakes freighters)
    late Henry Ford. MV Benson Ford was constructed in 1924 at Great Lakes Engineering Works in Ecorse, Michigan, for the Ford Motor Company/Rouge Steel...
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    SS North American (category Great Lakes ships)
    North American was a Great Lakes steamship built by the Great Lakes Engineering Works at Ecorse, Michigan, in 1913 for the Chicago, Duluth & Georgian Bay...
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    SS St. Marys Challenger (category Great Lakes freighters)
    1906, by Great Lakes Engineering Works in Ecorse, Michigan. The shipyard had received an order to construct a 551-foot (168 m) Great Lakes bulk carrier...
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    SS Alpena (1942) (category Great Lakes freighters)
    Alpena (formerly SS Leon Fraser) is a lake freighter. She was built in 1942 by the Great Lakes Engineering Works in Ecorse, Michigan, to carry iron ore...
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    SS William G. Mather (1905) (category Great Lakes freighters)
    Mather was a 533-foot (162 m) long Great Lakes freighter that was built in 1905, by the Great Lakes Engineering Works (GLEW) of Ecorse, Michigan, for the...
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  • Rochester (1907), a cargo ship built by the Great Lakes Engineering Works for service on the Great Lakes Rochester (1910), a passenger ship built by the...
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    Calumet (1929 ship) (category Great Lakes freighters)
    was the second lake freighter of that name. The vessel was built in Detroit, Michigan, in 1929, by the Great Lakes Engineering Works. For her first 71...
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    SS Thomas F. Cole (category Great Lakes freighters)
    6 ft (184.6 m) long Great Lakes freighter built in 1907 for the Pittsburgh Steamship Company by the Great Lakes Engineering Works of Ecorse, Michigan...
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  • sailors. The ship began life as Crabtree, constructed by the Great Lakes Engineering Works of Ashtabula, Ohio for the United States Shipping Board, hull...
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    Oglebay Norton Company. It was built in 1953 as Reserve at Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge, Michigan. It was one of eight loosely similar...
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    SS Edmund Fitzgerald (category Great Lakes freighters)
    SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire...
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    Station Great Lakes (NAVSTA Great Lakes) is the home of the United States Navy's only current boot camp, located near North Chicago, in Lake County, Illinois...
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    SS Willis L. King (category Great Lakes freighters)
    steel-hulled, propeller-driven American Great Lakes freighter built in 1911 by the Great Lakes Engineering Works of Ecorse, Michigan. She was scrapped in...
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    ship was constructed in 1958 at the Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge and was the largest ship on the lakes at the time. The city had its peak...
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    SS Frank C. Ball (category Great Lakes freighters)
    C. Ball was an American Bulk carrier that was built by the Great Lakes Engineering Works of Ecorse, Michigan, for the Globe Steamship Company (managed...
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    confirms his whereabouts. Lakes portal List of lakes by area Mono Lake Neopluvial Pyramid Lake Salar de Uyuni Great Salt Lake. Encyclopædia Britannica...
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