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SS ''Keewatin'' is a passenger liner that once sailed between Port Arthur / Fort William (now Thunder Bay) on Lake Superior and Port McNicoll on Georgian Bay (Lake Huron) in Ontario, Canada. She carried passengers between these ports for the Canadian Pacific Railway's Great Lakes Steamship Service. The ''Keewatin'' also carried packaged freight goods for the railway at these ports.〔S.S. Keewatin - last of the Great Lakes steamships; Frederick Karst; The Times, Saturday, 16 August 2008; pg c5〕 Built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Scotland as Hull No. 453, the ''Keewatin'' was launched 6 July 1907 and entered service in the following year. She ran continuously for almost 60 seasons, being retired in 1966. Soon after, she was acquired for historic preservation and was later listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States. Her sister ship, the ''Assiniboia'', was also set to be preserved as an attraction, but burned in 1971 and was scrapped. In the last twenty years of her working life, like many passenger ships of that era on the Great Lakes, the ''Keewatin'' and sister ship SS ''Assiniboia'' operated under stringent regulations imposed for wooden cabin steamships following the disaster in 1949. Doomed by their wooden cabins and superstructure, these overnight cruisers lasted through the decline of the passenger trade on the lakes in the post-war years. As passengers opted for more reliable and faster modes of travel, the ''Keewatin'' and her sister ship were withdrawn from the passenger trade in 1965, continuing in freight–only service until September 1967. Along with the and the ''Milwaukee Clipper'', the ''Keewatin'' was among the last of the turn-of-the-century style overnight passenger ships of the Great Lakes. The ''Keewatin'' was eventually moved to Douglas, Michigan, in 1967, where she was a museum ship across the river from the summer retreat Saugatuck, Michigan. The ship had also become a floating set for a number of maritime-related documentaries and television docudramas, including subjects involving the torpedoed ocean liner , the burned-out Bahamas cruise ship , Canadian Pacific's ''Empress of Ireland'', as well as the . She was also used extensively in the opening episode of Season Seven, "Murdoch Ahoy," of Murdoch Mysteries. ==Amenities== SS ''Keewatin'' is said to be the last true Edwardian era steamer left in the world. She is in a class with the ''Titanic'', the ''Lusitania'' and the , among many other similar vessels long since retired and scrapped or lost to war. The ship has thus become a time capsule of those days, along with a few other ships lucky enough to survive, such as the . She is also noted as part of the evolution of the Great Lakes as a strong maritime center, and her long service record is attributed to her popularity and solid engineering. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SS Keewatin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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