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Launched in 1911, the SS Col. James M. Schoonmaker became the new Queen of the Lakes, the longest ship on the Lakes at 617 feet. She was distinguished by her width of 64 feet, designed to fill the Soo Locks. She sailed the Lakes for nearly 70 years, the last 11 of them as the Willis B. Boyer. She was saved from scrapping through a 25-year campaign to raise the funds needed to restore her as a museum ship.
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