The Shipbuilders

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The Shipbuilders
By Daniela
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Table of Contents

• Watercraft..3
• Steamship..4
• Interesting facts.5
• Above..6
• First steamer..7
• The Movie...8

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Watercraft
Detroit has always been a
good place for watercraft. The French settlers
built canoes and sailboats, but was not until
1760 that the first shipyard was established by
the British to produce armed naval vessels along
with commercial sailing craft.
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The first Detroit built steamship, the Argo, was
built in 1827, and since that time hundreds of
wooden and steel steamships were launched from
Detroit shipyards through the 1950s. The largest
freighter on the Great Lakes at the time, the
Edmund Fitzgerald was launched in 1958. She
carried iron ore for the steel industry until
November 10, 1975 when she was lost with all
hands on Lake Superior.
Steamship
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Detroit industries devoted to
supplying and maintaining the busy water traffic
grew and prospered. It was no accident that by
1900, Detroit was a major center for the
production of paint and varnish, steam fitting
and gasoline engines, metal pipe and parts, and
over 100 other marine products.
Interesting facts
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Above The worlds first outboard motor, patented
in 1907 by C.B. Waterman and produced in Detroit
by Waterman Marine Motor Co. The steamer
Seeandbee, of the Cleveland to Buffalo Line, was
built in 1913 in Wyandotte, Michigan. It was
converted into an aircraft carrier in 1942 and
was used to train pilots during WWII.
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First Steamer The first
steamer with above-deck passenger cabins was The
Michigan, a side-wheel steamer built in Detroit
in 1833
First Steamer
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Pictures Detroit Historical Society