Ashtabula (ferry)
For other uses, see Ashtabula.
The Ferry Ashtabula, just off Port Burwell, Ontario.
Ashtabula was a ferry that traveled between Ashtabula, Ohio, on the south shore of Lake Erie, to Port Burwell, Ontario, on the north shore.[1][2] Ashtabula was built in 1906, at the Great Lakes Engineering Works in St. Clair, Michigan, to transport ore and coal cars.[3] She sank on 18 September 1958 after colliding with the steamer Ben Moreell.
References
- ↑ "Ashtabula (Ferry), U203071, sunk by collision, 18 Sep 1958". Maritime History of the Great Lakes. Retrieved 2011-11-14.
Sunk in collision with steamer BEN MOREELL in harbor at Ashtabula, Ohio, September 18, 1958.
- ↑ "The Water Front, Port Burwell, Canada". Maritime History of the Great Lakes. Retrieved 2011-11-14.
The Pennsylvania-Ontario Transportation Company railroad car ferry ASHTABULA lies in the harbour.
- ↑ Schaeffer, Evelyn (2005). Ashtabula: People and Places. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9780738534305.
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