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SS Norisle is a museum ship berthed permanently at the Manitowaning Heritage Complex. It is one of three surviving ships, the others being Norgoma and Normac. It was built in 1946, the first ship built in post-World War II Canada using engines intended for a Royal Canadian destroyer. Norisle ran until 1974, when it was replaced by MS Chi-Cheemaun.
SS Ohio was an iron passenger-cargo steamship built by William Cramp & Sons in 1872. The second of a series of four Pennsylvania-class vessels, Ohio and her three sister ships—Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois—were the largest iron ships ever built in the United States at the time of their construction, and amongst the first to be fitted with compound steam engines.
SS. Ohio. (1940) SS Ohio was an oil tanker built for The Texas Company (later Texaco ). The ship was launched on 20 April 1940 at the Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. in Chester, Pennsylvania. The United Kingdom requisitioned it to re-supply the island fortress of Malta during the Second World War.
The 18th century. As British colonists before 1776, American merchant vessels had enjoyed the protection of the Royal Navy. Major ports in the Northeast began to specialize in merchant shipping. The main cargoes included tobacco, as well as rice, indigo and naval stores from the Southern colonies.
Merchant ship. A merchant ship, merchant vessel, trading vessel, or merchantman is a watercraft that transports cargo or carries passengers for hire. This is in contrast to pleasure craft, which are used for personal recreation, and naval ships, which are used for military purposes. They come in myriad sizes and shapes, from six-metre (20 ft ...
Subcategories. This category has the following 30 subcategories, out of 30 total. World War I merchant ships of the United States (1 C, 45 P) World War II merchant ships of the United States (1 C, 293 P) Vietnam War merchant ships of the United States (2 P)
This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. Ships built in Ashtabula, Ohio (4 P) Ships built in Cincinnati (38 P) Ships built in Cleveland (1 C, 94 P) Ships built in Lorain, Ohio (80 P) Ships built in Port Clinton, Ohio (18 P) Ships built in Toledo, Ohio (1 C, 18 P)
SS Merchant was an American iron–hulled passenger and package freighter in service between 1862 and 1875. The first iron–hulled merchant ship built on the Great Lakes, she was built in 1862 in Buffalo, New York, by the David Bell shipyard, out of components manufactured in Black Rock, New York, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.