Listed below are ships that sailed the Great Lakes that were originally built as railroad ferries. They are organized by year built and their original name. Name changes are listed following with the year of name change.
Ship names in boldface still exist today.
1884
Lansdowne
1888
Pere Marquette 8
St. Ignace
1892
Sainte Marie
Ann Arbor No.1
Ann Arbor No.2
1895
Shenango 1
Shenango 2 [Muskegon, 1897; Pere Marquette 16, 1902; Harriet B., 1918;]
1896
Pere Marquette 15
1898
Ann Arbor No.3
1901
Pere Marquette 17 [City of Petoskey, 1940;]
1902
Manistique, Marquette & Northern No. 1 [Milwaukee, 1908;]
Pere Marquette 18
1903
Grand Haven
Pere Marquette 19
Pere Marquette 20 [City of Munising, 1938;]
1904
Marquette & Bessemer No. 1 [Carrollton, 1937;]
Pere Marquette 14
1905
Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 {1}
1906
Ann Arbor No.4
Ashtabula
1907
Ontario No. 1
1910
Ann Arbor No.5
Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 {2} [Lillian, 1948;]
1911
Chief Wawatam
Pere Marquette 18 {2}
1913
Ste. Marie
1915
Ontario No. 2
1916
Maitland No. 1
1917
Ann Arbor No. 6 [Arthur K. Atkinson, 1959;]
1924
Pere Marquette 21
Pere Marquette 22
1925
Ann Arbor No. 7 [Viking, 1964;]
1926
Grand Rapids
1927
Madison
Pere Marquette 12
Wabash [City of Green Bay, 1963;]
1929
City of Saginaw 31
1930
City of Flint 32
1931
City of Milwaukee
1941
City of Midland 41 [Pere Marquette 41, 1997;]
1945
Pere Marquette 10
1952
Spartan
1953
Badger
