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The SS Badger makes daily trips across Lake Michigan in the summer months. Crew members discovered an electrical problem July 6.
Lake Michigan Carferry, Inc., said work to repair the SS Badger's ramping system could start as early as this week.
The problem was identified quickly, and the ship could continue its cross-lake operation that day. ... SS Badger Lake Michigan Carferry 2024 season nears end, prices lower. Show comments.
SS Badger is a passenger and vehicle ferry in the United States that has been in service on Lake Michigan since 1953. Currently, the ship shuttles between Ludington, Michigan , and Manitowoc, Wisconsin , a distance of 62 miles (100 km), connecting U.S. Highway 10 (US 10) between those two cities.
SS Ann Arbor No. 6 (1917), renamed Arthur K. Atkinson in 1959, served a route from Frankfort, Michigan to Manitowoc, Wisconsin from 1980-1982; SS Ann Arbor No. 7 (1925), rebuilt as Viking and in service until 1982; Maitland No. 1, chartered for part of 1915; SS Wabash (1927) SS City of Milwaukee, a Grand Trunk Western vessel was leased in 1978.
Many car ferries on the Great Lakes were so equipped, one of which is still operating, SS Badger of 1952. The Casablanca-class escort carrier, the most prolific aircraft carrier design in history, used two 5-cylinder Skinner Unaflow engines, but these were not steeple compounds.
The S.S. Badger's daily crossings between Ludington, Michigan, and Manitowoc, Wisconsin, were suspended indefinitely by operator Lake Michigan Carferry after the ramp system failed July 21.
First designated SS Badger Mariner, she was originally built as a freighter in 1953. [1] However, her career as a cargo vessel was relatively short. In 1958, she was rebuilt as a passenger liner. Renamed SS Atlantic, this ship became familiar to many American tourists during the 1960s, making cruises to the Caribbean and Mediterranean.