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Background
The ship travels at a top speed of Script error: No such module "convert".[1] and makes the Script error: No such module "convert". trip three times daily from each side of the lake during the peak of its operational schedule. Lake Express is able to cross the lake in two and a half hours. It was constructed by Austal USA in Mobile, Alabama,[1] and began service on June 1, 2004.[2] It was one of the first high-speed catamaran-style auto/passenger ferries built in the United States. It was also the first high-speed auto ferry to see service on the Great Lakes, beating out the Spirit of Ontario I, which was beset by a series of last-minute delays, by one month.
On August 21, 2005, the ferry rescued a man whose boat had capsized in the middle of Lake Michigan.[3]
Gallery
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Terminal in Milwaukee Harbor
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En route to Muskegon, Milwaukee fades away at the horizon
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Lake express visible from airplane
See also
- SS Milwaukee Clipper, an earlier ferry that sailed the same Milwaukee-to-Muskegon route
- SS Badger, another ferry on a more northern route across Lake Michigan
References
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- Ferries of Michigan
- Ferries of Wisconsin
- Transportation in Milwaukee
- Transportation in Michigan
- Transportation in Muskegon County, Michigan
- 2004 ships
- Passenger ships of the Great Lakes
- Ships built in Mobile, Alabama