Car Ferry - Pere Marquette 15 (aka SS Pere Marquette) - (1896-1935)

Railroad: Fllilnt & Pere Marquette railroad

Built/Acquired: 1896 at the F. W. Wheeler Shipyards in Bay City, MI. In service from 1900-1935 by Pere Marquette Ry.)

Crossing: Lake Michigan

End of Service: 1935

Disposition: Scrapped at Manitowoc in 1935.

Length: 350' long, 56' wide. 2,443 tons. Two twelve foot propellers. Two 2,500 hp compound engines.

Type:

Ref: [LMCF} + others

Cost to build was $300,000. 30 freight car capacity. Sped 14 knots.

Had split cabins, one in front of the smoke stacks and one behind them. They provided sleeping berths for officers and 10 passengers.

Designed by Robert Logan, a naval architect who designed six car ferries for the F&PM between 1895 and 1910.