- Allen
- Auglaize
- Crawford
- Darke
- Defiance
- Erie
- Fulton
- Hancock
- Hardin
- Henry
- Huron
- Logan
- Lorain
- Lucas
- Mercer
- Morrow
- Ottawa
- Paulding
- Putnam
- Richland
- Sandusky
- Seneca
- Shelby
- Van Wert
- Williams
- Wood
- Wyandot
When she was launched in 1911, the S.S. Willis B. Boyer was actually called the Col. James. M. Schoonmaker, and believed to be the largest bulk freighter in the world. Over the next 3 years, the Queen of the Lakes she broke multiple record cargo records.
The ship is over 600' long and 64' wide and has a bulk cargo capacity of 15,000 tons. She served on the Great Lakes until 1980. At that time the common fate of retired ships was demolition and a trip to the scrap yard for recycling. However, that final trip was avoided thanks to the efforts of the Toledo-A-Float non-profit organization that brought the retired ship to the Maumee River where she took up residence at Toledo's International Park. Over the next several years the ship was converted from hauling freight to documenting Great Lakes shipping in the form of a floating museum.
International Park was at one time the main coal handling facility for the Port of Toledo. Afrter the Col. James. M. Schoonmaker was outfitted, her first commercial trip was to that coal field to pick up a load of coal headed for Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Over the years the large ship would be purchased and ownership would be transferred. In 1969, the Schoonmaker was purchased by the Interlake Steamship Company, where she was chartered to the Republic Steel Corporation and renamed the Willis B. Boyer in honor of the company's president.
The S. S. Willis B. Boyer that first anchored at International Park in 1986 is now part of The Great Lakes Historical Society Museum and with the restoration of its original name the Col. James M. Schoonmaker. The ship is part of the main museum, but it does require a seperate ticket to gain access to the historical frieghter.
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