May 3, 2017
Duluth, Minnesota; Passenger Steamer SS Noronic under Aerial Lift Bridge leaving Superior Harbor
SS Noronic was launched June 2, 1913 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada.[4] She was built by the Western Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company for the Northern Navigation Company, an operating division of Canada Steamship Lines (CSL), to perform passenger and package freight service on the Great Lakes.
She had five decks, was 362 feet (110 m) in length, and measured 6,095 gross register tons. At maximum capacity, she could hold 600 passengers and 200 crew. One of the largest and most beautiful passenger ships in Canada at the time, she was nicknamed “The Queen of the Lakes."
Destroyed by fire, September 17, 1949 with the loss of at least 118 lives. more