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02-04-2018, 11:07 PM | #1 | ||
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Feb 5th, 2018 : Great Lakes Carriers
Before the Big One, WW II, there were two steam powered, coal fired, side wheeled excursion ships on the Great Lakes,
the See&Bee and the Greater Buffalo. When the war came to us, the Navy grabbed them both, to become the USS Wolverine and USS Sable. Both were stripped of everything above the hull, and flight decks added to become aircraft carriers. Of course these were not warships, they stayed on the Great Lakes training Naval aviators landings and takeoffs from a flight deck. Every pilot had to complete eight landings and eight takeoffs... successfully, to qualify. Quote:
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02-05-2018, 11:09 AM | #2 |
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See&Bee = Cleveland and Buffalo
400 bathrooms before conversion. Neat story and pics. |
02-05-2018, 11:33 AM | #3 |
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02-06-2018, 11:28 AM | #6 |
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Doesn't look like it.
http://grandlinerlounge.com/products...-30s-brochure/ There it says "the great lakes only 4 funnel passenger ship" without the side-wheel designation. Also found that the 3-funnel Greater Buffalo was bigger that the See&Bee; Funny that both apparently lost their funnels on conversion. Also funny that the See&Bee doesn't make the Wikipedia list of four-funnelers: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/C...with_4_funnels |
02-06-2018, 12:54 PM | #7 |
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The Wolverine still has four just moved to the side. The Sable looks like they converted the three to two bigger ones, also at the side.
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