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USS Wolverine (IX-64) was a training ship used by the United States Navy during World War II.She was originally named Seeandbee and was built as a Great Lakes luxury side-wheel steamer cruise ship for the Cleveland and Buffalo Transit Company.
The Type L6 ship is a United States Maritime Administration (MARAD) designation for World War II as a Great Lakes dry break bulk cargo ship.The L-Type Great Lakes Dry Bulk Cargo Ships were built in 1943 to carry much-needed iron ore from the upper Great Lakes to the steel and iron production facilities on Lakes Erie and Ontario in support of the war effort.
The USCGC Escanaba (WPG-77) was a 165 ft (50 m) "A" type United States Coast Guard cutter stationed on the Great Lakes from her commissioning in 1932 until the start of U.S. military involvement in World War II in 1941.
USS Sable (IX-81) was a United States Navy training ship during World War II, [5] originally built as the passenger ship Greater Buffalo, a sidewheel excursion steamboat. She was purchased by the Navy in 1942 and converted to a training aircraft carrier to be used on the Great Lakes.
During World War II, it built submarines, tank landing craft (LCTs), and self-propelled fuel barges called "YOs". [1] Employment peaked during the military years at 7000. The shipyard closed in 1968, when Manitowoc Company bought Bay Shipbuilding Company and moved their shipbuilding operation to Sturgeon Bay .
During World War II it served out of Ketchikan, Alaska and is credited with sinking the Japanese submarine RO-32. [11] A Chicago-based Sea Scout troop acquired McLane after it was decommissioned in 1969, and the Great Lakes Naval Memorial and Museum acquired the cutter in 1993.
The USCGC Mackinaw (WAGB-83) as seen from her permanent berth at the SS Chief Wawatam dock at Mackinaw City, Michigan, 2019. USCGC Mackinaw (WAGB-83) is a decommissioned United States Coast Guard icebreaker which operated on the Great Lakes for 62 years.
SS Leon Fraser in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1979. The Leon Fraser was launched on February 28, 1942. [1] [2] She was built by the Great Lakes Engineering Works at their River Rouge yards in Ecorse, Michigan [1] [3] and named for Leon Fraser, president of the First National Bank of New York and a director of United States Steel.