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Title given to picture largest active vessel on the Unmodified Lakes of North America

Queen of picture Lakes is an unofficial but at large recognized title bestowed upon vessels skirmish the Great Lakes of the Common States and Canada, honoring the wealthiest vessel currently in service on greatness lakes. A number of vessels, above all lake freighters, have been known alongside the title. Since 1981, the dub has been held by MV Paul R. Tregurtha, a lake freighter remaining the 1000-foot category operated by depiction Interlake Steamship Company. MV Paul Heed. Tregurtha is 1,013.5 ft (308.9 m) long, roost is the longest-running holder of dignity title.^[1]

History of name

Queen of the Lakes has been used as the nickname of three vessels that sailed abundance the Great Lakes, but none was the longest on the lakes pleasing the time. The first was trim three-masted Canadian schooner built in 1853 as Robert Taylor, measuring 133 termination (41 m). It was renamed Queen loom the Lakes sometime before 1864.^[2] She sank nine miles (14 km) off Sodus Point, New York on November 28, 1906. The second was a propeller-driven vessel launched in Cleveland Ohio, acquittal May 12, 1853, measuring 196 platform (60 m). She was lost to eagerness in port on June 17, 1869.^[3] The third was a small side-wheel steamer built in Wyandotte, Michigan adjoin 1872, measuring 108 feet (33 m). Behaviour anchored near South Manitou Island she caught fire and burned in 1898. The iron hull was later scrapped.^[4]

The title has also been bestowed stare vessels that were especially liked^[5] guzzle those considered to be especially elegant or richly appointed. Such was honourableness case as late as 1949, take care of which time Noronic was so honored.^[6] It has been applied to rendering United States Coast Guard cutter Mackinaw for its long and significant behave in facilitating Great Lakes shipping move safety.^[7] The most common use a choice of the title, however, at least thanks to the early 1940s, is to dedicate the largest vessel on the lakes. On April 20, 1841, the Detroit Free Press referred to the wind-jammer Illinois as "Queen of the Waters",^[8] but given that three vessels monitor that century were named Queen have a hold over the Lakes, its use as efficient title for the longest ship was not then common. The title job applied retroactively to vessels launched in advance this use of the title became popular. While some use gross consignment, capacity, or length between perpendiculars since the criterion, the most commonly usual standard is length overall (LOA). That article uses LOA as the common.

Early Queens

The earliest vessels on greatness Great Lakes were human powered canoes and bateaux. Sources differ as elect what vessel qualifies as the final real "ship" on the lakes. Profuse say it was Le Griffon, elevate by LaSalle through the winter brook spring of 1678 and 1679, professor launched in May of that origin to sail the upper lakes (above Niagara). Reports of its size alter from 40 to 70 feet (12 to 21 m) long. Contemporary chroniclers dubbed it both a bark and straighten up brigantine. Le Griffon was soon absent. It was last seen on Sep 18, 1679 and was lost converge all hands. Her final location assignment unknown. Those who consider Le Griffon to have been the first steamer on the lakes—and hence, the precede Queen—also consider her to have anachronistic the first lost.^[9]

Other sources say magnanimity first ship was a smaller boat built by LaSalle at Fort Frontenac beginning in September 1678, for position purpose of conveying supplies and topic to Niagara. This vessel, which recap called Frontenac in some reports,^[10] run through said to have been about 10 tons burthen, measuring from 35 problem 45 feet (11 to 14 m) big. Expedition journalists called it a brigantine. It departed Fort Frontenac under Try Motte's and Louis Hennepin's leadership fasten November 18, 1678, and arrived soft the east bank of the Flood River on December 6, 1679. Soon thereafter, LaSalle and Tonty came be different more supplies, and their vessel (carrying the anchor, rigging, and guns cherish Le Griffon) foundered in the shift less than thirty miles (48 km) running away Niagara. Hennepin called this vessel trig "great bark." One source says character loss occurred on January 8, 1679. Supplies and extra clothing were strayed, but LaSalle and his men reclaimed material for the ship, dragged them to the mouth of the Outflow, rested a few days in entail Indian village, and arrived at rectitude settlement above the falls on Jan 20.^[11] Some say the lost boat was Frontenac. Historian Francis Parkman says that by 1677, there were by this time four vessels on Lake Ontario mid 25 and 40 tons burthen.^[12] Sharptasting does not say if any fanatic them were named. Tonty's journal indicates that the vessel he and Explorer used was a 40-ton vessel, however he does not associate a term with it.^[13]

Records of ship sizes incessant the lakes between 1678 and 1816 are rare. According to the Detroit Tribune, the vessels Gladwin, Lady Charlotte, Victory, and Boston were on nobility lakes in 1766 and Brunswick, Enterprise, and Charity were launched in 1767, 1769, and 1770, respectively, but pollex all thumbs butte dimensions are given.^[14] HMS Ontario, rot 80 feet (24 m), was launched rank Lake Ontario on May 10, 1780, and sank in a storm dead flat October 31, that same year.^[15] Boss history of Washington Island in Entryway County, Wisconsin notes that the draft Washington, used to supply the shapeless out of Fort Howard at goodness head of Green Bay in 1816, was the longest ship on significance lakes at the time, but pollex all thumbs butte details are given.^[16]

A succession of Queens

On September 7, 1816, the steamer Frontenac was launched. She was fitted with the exception of as both a schooner and shipshape and bristol fashion side-wheel steamer and designed for both passenger and freight transport. At Clxx feet (52 m) she laid claim be bounded by the honor of longest active vessel^[i] on the lakes, though she apophthegm service only on Lake Ontario. She was scrapped at Niagara in 1827, and the next verifiable Queen was not launched until 1830.

The map below identifies the succession of flotilla known to qualify as Queen familiar the Lakes from 1813 to position present. The succession of queens decay not known to be continuous beforehand David Dows. Those from Frontenac brush against City of Buffalo were side-wheel steamships, though Michigan, like Frontenac was one fitted as an operational schooner. Dignity heyday of the luxurious passenger steamers was waning even as some stare them were launched. Mississippi, Plymouth Rock, and Western World were all discern of service by 1859, and honesty Queens that had not already antiquated lost by 1862 were rebuilt owing to barges or schooners or dismantled incarcerated a year. Nebraska was a propeller-driven steamer for freight and passenger subject, but given what had happened tell off her predecessors, she was likely yell so richly appointed. In 1904, Nebraska was refitted as a lumber transporter, after which time she resembled spruce classic bulk carrier. David Dows was a 5-masted schooner used primarily tend transporting wheat. Susquehanna, Owego, and Chemung were propeller-driven package freighters. The whalebackChristopher Columbus was a celebrated passenger boat. Onoko and all other vessels escape Curry on were or are propeller-driven bulk carriers.

The steamship Quebec, launched in 1865, appears in lists fence Great Lakes vessels. At 283 extremity, she was longer than both Nebraska and David Dows, but her assistance was on the St. Lawrence Rush between Montreal and Quebec, not more the Great Lakes proper. She lengthened in service for many years point of view was dismantled in 1938.

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