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The Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal is a ship canal connecting Sturgeon Bay with Lake Michigan across the Door Peninsula in Door County, Wisconsin. [1] [2] A dredged channel continues through Sturgeon Bay to Green Bay. This combined waterway allows ships to sail between Lake Michigan and Green Bay without traversing the dangerous Porte des Morts strait.
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The Sturgeon Bay Canal North Pierhead Light is a lighthouse located on Sturgeon Bay in Door County, Wisconsin. Painted red, the light is situated on the north pier of the southern entrance to the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal. There are two lighthouses at this location, the other being the Sturgeon Bay Canal Lighthouse.
But it was carrying a load of coal bound for Milwaukee when early on May 13, 1881, it developed a catastrophic leak after passing through the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal.
In the afternoon of June 5, 1895, while helping the steam barge I.W. Stephenson enter the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal, the John Evenson got too close while attaching a line and was struck by the ...
Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal Light [1] ; Location: Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin: Coordinates: 1] [2]: Tower; Constructed: 1899 : Foundation: Concrete: Construction: Steel / Iron: Height: 98 feet (30 m): Shape: Cylindrical: Heritage: National Register of Historic Places listed place : Light; First lit: 1899: Focal height: 32 m (105 ft) : Lens: Second order Fresnel lens: Range: 17 nautical miles (31 km ...
Progress, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunker barge built by Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay, is the largest such ship even built in the U.S. to comply with the Jones Act. Bay Ship ...
Sturgeon Bay is an arm of Green Bay extending southeastward approximately 10 miles into the Door Peninsula at the city of Sturgeon Bay, located approximately halfway up the Door Peninsula. [1] The bay is connected to Lake Michigan by the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal. The Potawatomi name for Sturgeon Bay is "Na-ma-we-qui-tong". [2]