On Friday, I decided to head down to Ohio in order to catch some covered bridges that were in the Dayton area. Before heading out, I decided to check Marine Traffic and I saw that the Saginaw would be passing through Toledo. So I decided to stop at the Great Lakes Museum.
I ended up getting a new membership because I would like to tour the ship and tugboat they have. While I was there, I thought I would wander through the museum. There's not alot to see in the museum itself but they have some pretty nice models. This is a model of the Ann Arbor No. 3. She was built in 1898 in Cleveland at the Globe Iron Works. She served as a car ferry for the Ann Arbor Railroad until 1965 when she served as a cross straits ferry under the name Manistee. In 1974 she was sold to be a dock face in Peoria, Illinois.
This is a model of the Huron Lightship. One of these years, I'll have to tour the real one.
A nice scale model of the James R. Barker.
I can't quite make out what ship this is.
I will go back to the museum one of these days.
2 comments:
Ann Arbor No 3 Still exists as a dockface in New Orleans.
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