Sld Ship Type: Ferry

Union (watertown – Lake Ontario Ferry Shipwreck (1902)

Explore the history of the Union, a wooden ferry lost in the Niagara River, representing the transition from wooden to steel vessels.

Sld Ship Type: Ferry

  • Union (watertown – Lake Ontario Ferry Shipwreck (1902)

    Explore the history of the Union, a wooden ferry lost in the Niagara River, representing the transition from wooden to steel vessels.

  • Free Trade US 120588

    Explore the remains of the Free Trade, a late 19th-century wooden sidewheel ferry that served the Duluth-Superior route before its tragic loss in 1890.

  • Transit (1872)

    Explore the history of the wooden propeller car ferry Transit, lost to fire in 1889 while laid up in Windsor, Ontario.

  • Beaver

    Explore the history of the Beaver, a wooden paddlewheel steamboat that played a vital role in 19th-century transportation before its destruction by fire in…

  • G.W. Clinton

    Explore the mysterious loss of the G.W. Clinton, a steam ferry that sank in Lake Erie during a storm in 1843, with no confirmed…